A Shredder's VST? STL Andy James
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
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I'm Glenn Fricker, engineer here at Spectre Sound Studios. I love making records, and after doing it for sixteen years, I want to pass on what I've learned. On my channel you can find tutorials on how to record guitar, bass, real drums and vocals. There's reviews and demos of tube amps, amp sims, drums, mics, preamps, outboard gear, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, and plugin effects.
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Waiting for Andy James's video of "Who is Glenn Fricker?" :-)
These VST sounds are getting SO fucking good, it's amazing really. I feel like we've reached a watershed moment in the last few years with amp modelling.
Also the noise floor on it is very low! Did you have to do any post processing for it?
This honestly sounds perfect for me, just what I've been looking for. Cheers Glen!
Will you review the Archetype: Nolly?
Tangalang22 I'm just getting that ad after watching the video, right when I was reading your comment d(￣ ￣)
@@awertyuiop8711 poggers
I am just gonna be here like "Early" and feel proud for three seconds.
"Who is Andy James?" Dude... only one of the best shredders around! He is amazing!
Andy Fucking James, that's who!
Mark Fritsche haha that’s right!
He also creates some very nice melodies! Not just noodling around with licks, his Melodic soloing tutor is great! 👌🏻👌🏻👍
Both of those guitarist made the amp sim sound great. Great job Glen.
Nice work Christian! Great vid Glen.
I should also pretend to have a meltdown and scream about this not being Viewers Comments. In saying that, these sims are getting good. I just tried the Fortin NTS plugin and was impressed. Still going to stick with my Kemper for my recordings. These however are a great option for someone who cannot afford real amps or modellers.
@Eternal Rambler They don't know haha. You could play a Line 6 Spider live and people won't know. The plugins are great for recording these days.
Sounds awesome Glenn! Can you do a Demo of the Archetype: Nolly Plugin from Neural DSP?
when they pay him....
That Revenant pedal is incredible. I saw Ignite (who did the pedal sim for STL I believe--don't quote me on that!) tease it on Facebook and one of the top comments was someone asking about a plugin version. This is it!
The funny thing about this brand is that i think that the old Emissary sounds way better than all the newer stuff and also counts the new STL Emissary.
I need to hear more of the STL Will Putney tho.
And yes, Neural is killing it with their stuff.
Nice review showing the different aspects and tonal possibilities! I’m demoing the plugin and being an older metal player I was sticking with OD pedal as that was how I ran with my JCM 800, but I’ll have give the Revenant a chance. I have a few different guitar plugins already but finding STL Tones really sound pretty natural and responsive right off the mark, they respond like real amps with more articulations which you covered and explained nicely in your video. There’s much tone to explore with these amps and cabs. The AC amp actually has a few different flavors so even someone that may not enjoy high gain can really dial up some nice clean or blues tones! Thanks for another review as I enjoy your videos! 🎸😎✌️👍
Glenn, have you done a video on how guitar tuning affects dialing in a tone? Example, comparing the exact same guitar tone with 3 different common guitar tunings and seeing how that changes the EQing of a guitar tone. Hope that makes sense.
I'm definitely going to check this out... it sounds stellar!
Good choice of going with drop z tuning plugged into a bowl of pudding to showcase the metal tone preset.
well, this is for djent and modern metal players. so drop ZZzzzzZZzzzZz is totally accurate lol.
Shout out to jackson. He recorded some great sounding drums for one of my tracks. Awesome
Excited to hear your mix! It was a pleasure working with you! - Jackson
The Ignite Emissary 2.0 is on STL, too. That updated version also has the different tube options. Also comes with a new cab IR loader with some new options, and both let you save presets like they were modeling amps, but actually NICE to listen to.
The STL version sounds quite a bit better than it did, and it sounded pretty good before.
@@TheSouldead1 Yeah I'll be honest, I didn't really care much for the first Emissary. It was fine, but not really the sound I was looking for. But now with that EL34 setting in the 2.0, I'm really enjoying it. I can't believe they're giving both that AND an IR loader with a vintage 30 impulse set for free. It's a great time to be a broke musician.
Been using the STL Will P for a couple months now and absolutely love it. I have the Neural stuff, Waves, ENGL, PRS, Slate, etc. and the STL stuff is by far my favorite. Glenn, if I'm hearing you correctly on the dual cabs, why not just run it in Dual Amp mode, pick the same amp (for both options), and then select different cabs? That would give you the 2 different cabs you are looking for with just the one amp, no? If this Andy James gear is anything like the Will Putney, its going to be killer!!
archetype nolly is what you should be reviewing !
Does it include a plugin for severe guitar face syndrome?
Spunky Brewster use a butt plugin and that should change your facial expressions
The Nolly gonna crush it all
Why does your -BASS- _hair_ have 6 strings ? Weird.
Noah Boucard oh shit... here we go again
Davie504 is taking over the intertubes
And Davie never once complained about the t-shirt.
Its worth it for the solo tone....smooth, balanced and easy to shred through.
im glad to see your son joining in on the vid, great job guys!
Andy James is one of if not the most criminally underrated players around now
everyinchtheanimal debatable if underrated. For how good he is compared to more hyped guitarists - yes. But he surely scratched his name in the stone already. I mean he even has a course on DVD and stuff.
that new "demo" player, lovely clean chords and sweet fingerstyle , love it! and that there is a space for this style on this channel is cool!.
I think my phone speaker just melted from that mix. Holy fuck that sounds amazing!
> phone speaker
> sounds amazing
Well wait till you connect to your headphones.
Heard it in the car...I thought the sun was gonna melt me today, nope this did the trick. That is just one killer ass tone!
Not a huge fan of the rhythm tone, but that lead = holy shit! :o the dynamics and just everything so clean and cutting.
I know this video is about the guitar plugin but you outdid yourself with the drum sound. Pretty amazing
Thank you very much!
Damn haven't seen ya bring Christian Vey in a while. Dudes insane!
Love the bass tone in the mix. I can hear it rumbling quite nicely :)
soad11dude nice profile pic
The stand alone rhythm tone reminded me of early Megadeth - nice. I guess you would expect that from a shred guitarist though.
wtf you don´t know who Andy James is???
I like the new video format
In 2023, this is still my GO TO amp plug in. It sounds awesome immediately and sounds even better with some other IRs loaded.
those drums sound killer!, new tutorial oh these tracking/mixing please!
For me having a good "old fashioned" preamp handles any dynamic issue with any emu I've ever tried. Unless I'm missing something.
sounded great, just downloaded the trial.
These plugins are prob my GO TO now (and I have pretty much all of them including have owned Kempsr and do Own Helix floor and software and all the other top plugs (perhaps Helix, TH-U Bias FX, Revalver are the only others on par still need to demo the Neural stuff) STL Sound amazing and feel amazing ... haven’t decided which of the 3 I love most. They all KiLL!
William Edward's since... I think ReValver has become my favorite !!
Same for me still in 2023. My GO TO guitar plugin!
Ayeee liking the shirt!! Sons Of Shinigami 🤣🤣🤣
Just bought it, Seems like a great tool to have, for the price.
Honestly, the only way that Revenant pedal could be more awesome were if it had rocket launchers and a jet pack.
6:37 sounds great.
Andy James is a god of guitar.
No Comments of the Week today, Glenn?! :O
UNHOLY FUCK that sounds fucking fantastic in a full mix!!!!
Thanks Glen 👍
Sounds very cool, pretty realistic
I own Neural DSP Plini, Abasi, Soldano, Nolly.......ditched them all for this amp sim. Lead and Rythum tones are unmatched for me with 3rd party IR's.
I've only tried a few amp plugins. I can't make em sound good. You made this amp sound awesome tho.
I didn’t have to do much!
with a lot of amp vsts, especially free ones you've got to do little to heavy post processing to make them sound the way you want (make sure you start from good sounding impulses though). And keep in mind that tones that work in mono don't necessarily sound good when panned left/right, so one thing to do when preparing a digital tone for a full mix (and not to play along) is to start the tone shaping already on a single channel (left or right is your choice), that way if it sounds good on one speaker by itself, it will almost surely sound good when the same tone is panned left/right
I think the Problem Sits behind the guitar...
@@AmplifyChris thanks for your valuable input douch bag.
@@davidemeryleigh6652 No offense. It was a Joke. Sorry.
Amp sim tip:
What I do is I load up Emissary VST. Then that goes to Varietyofspound ThrillseekerVBL. Crank the VBL amp knob a bit. Then that goes to the cabinet IR thingy. Something sexy happens. That VBL plugin between the ampsim and the cabsim is the shits, surprisingly.
I am checking this out as soon as I get my ass out of bed
@@Davy_vrvn if you are still in bed you can put your headphones on and watch my latest video. If you like the guitar sound then you should try it.
@@Davy_vrvn Rust in Peace sounds good cool tips . Thanks for posting !!
I request an ultimate amp sim shootout: STL vs Amplitube vs Bias vs whatever the Hell else you wanna throw in there.
BTW what happened to viewers comments? Or do we get two videos today?
Tomorrow!
Saturday viewers comments? But won't that cause the planet to spin out of its orbit and hurtle towards the sun?
@@adamfox9651 Cats and dogs living together MASS HYSTERIA!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!
@@gilbertspader7974 Happens all the time in real life. It just never happens in cartoons.
Now, excuse me while I enjoy some Stay Puft marshmallows.
What's your view on the Positive Grid amp sims and Bias FX?
This and Bogren IDRX 👌
You should check out one of the bands he is/was in (Not sure if they're going to do anything more) called Wearing Scars!!! They're incredible
Sounds damn fine to me!
Hey Glen, interesting fact for ya: Andy James produces his own stuff, he is also a mixer himself and even won one of the earlier Nail The Mix monthly competitions
The fact the term “minimal dicking around” isn’t a company slogan is just fucking criminal.
Hmmm, maybe an SMG t shirt design? 🤔
I have never heard distortion from software that doesn't sound digital. And the feel of playing is not remotely the same. The clean AC-30 here doesn't sound terrible, but the heavy stuff does.
Alright, Glen. Can we do a roundup of guitar amp sims with someone cool like Ola, Trey, or Hunter (Agufish)? I have amplitube 4 and it's alright. It seems pretty pricey for what it is. They nickle and dime the crap out of you.
Can we get a run down of the big players in this area and get reviews for them as programs? I'd also like some tutorials on getting some good metal tones. I bought the metal pack and a Rectifier/5150 combo is what I'm using the most.
What do you think?
what kind of studio monitors do you use? Cheers.
damn good mix
dope review, even doper shirt
Hi whats your recording setup?
I've been saying for years if one of these companies would build a portable workstation with built in preamps, direct out and a place for some breakouts along with some software for guitarist... man. Modern hardware is actually overpowered for this application.
The problem with Amp Sims getting better is now there's just even more gear to chuck money at!
Great video. Just out curiosity how come you didnt do a video on the will putney plug in from STL?
The dude who does the clean guitar for you reminds me of the spaghetti in the bathtub kid from Gummo
Z Pa ya 😂🤣
Wow Glenn, pretty disappointed you didn't know who Andy James is.
Pretty sure Glenn doesn't give a fuck
Hey, “learn something new everyday” is what I live by!
@@SpectreSoundStudios No offense Glenn, Andy deserves serious respect for everything he's achieved. He's not "just a shredder". The guy is talented beyond belief. Here's another suggestion if you haven't already heard of him. Rick Graham. ruclips.net/video/UXkLokXsK28/видео.html
This guy could make a Line 6 sound great 😄
I don't think anyone is that talented..
Ah! Really nice lead tone! I struggle to get a good leadtone myself. But was the leadtone that guy alone played, about the same as in the mix? the tone was so awesome in the mix, but Played alone it sounded a bit weak. Same as my tone:P so maybe I just need to create a better mix?! Damn I suck!
GODDDD DAMMM can that dude BEND or what?
Hey Glen what would you recommend for budget bass cabs and heads
And a big fuck you from Tennessee
The guy in the full mix has been listening to HTTK a little it seems.
I have yet to find a VST or any plug in that sounds as good as the real thing, some come close and sound similar but just don't quite nail it. for example i have an axe fx 2. it sounds great and there are a few things that i will only use it for, but when i lay metal guitar tracks i stick to my triaxis - tc g force - simul 2:90 into a marshall 1960 A setup just for the simple reason that no modeling amp comes close to real tube warmth and dynamics. its the same with plug ins in my humble opinion (i only mean this about amp sims, not killer stuff like waves plugs and such).
whos andy james???? lol
First thing I thought of ,were have you been .
W H OMEGALUL
Check his track called 85.
@@kadourimdou43 great track
What's the background track playing in the beginning?
As a bassist whenever I get depressed at how expensive the strings are . I look up the price of double bass strings and feel better . It helps seriously .
Good double bass string sets for a 4/4 will run you 350$ or more.
Back when I played I would only be able to change them once a year
Not to mention, how difficult it is to change strings on one, something I would pay a luthier to do.
Feels good not to be a bassist.
Sorry guys.
Has a very "glassy cheese" sound about it. It would be good in very specific uses, like you want to recreate Transformers the Movie soundtrack. VSTs are clearly the future as live club music with amps is dead.
“Who’s Andy James?” ?! Shame on you, sir!
Because everybody has to know everybody or else they're fake.
Can you ask the cat on the PRS to pls use both the neck and the treble pick up when demo'ing the dynamic playing part? Great vid otherwise
Don't know. I can't get my vst plugins to sound any half way decent compared to any of the amps you've done videos on. Probably cause I'm using 32bit plugins with a 64bit PC :/
But theres plini and triaxis
Second amp is a 6505
When did Glenn start Mac OS?
Curly's got the chops!
Having those long spidery fingers probably helps, I'd think.
Nevermind. I thought you were talking about the other guy.
Andy James be like "Who's Glenn Fricker?"
You didn't know who Andy James was?!
GLENNNN!!!!! Please help. I purchased a Focusrite 2i2 3rd Gen and I plugged it in and I’m using the Ignite Emissary. It sounds great, but the latency is enough to fuck me up every time. I tried messing around with the buffering settings in Reaper but nothing seems to be working. I wonder if it has to do with my headphones being plugged in to my computer. I find if I mute the track I’m recording it helps, but I’d like to hear how it sounds. I’m just a beginner so this is all new to me. Do you have any tips that might help?
You plug the headphones into the interface and then adjust latency.
Poul Winther Knudsen yeah I forgot I even posted this. I’ve since picked up the adapter I needed and hooked up some shitty desktop speakers. Not as good as an actually decent amp, but it does the trick for now
So I’m _Doin’ the Dale_
Mixing a funk band. Everyone is on the dance floor, so I guess it’s a good night.
Annandale Hotel. An iconic Sydney venue relegated to funk cover bands and overpriced undercooked burgers served on a slab of wood stabbed with a carving knife banned in London....and rough cut wedges in a @nicktherat size deep fry basket
I’ll have to -watch- listen on the drive home
Cheers
Wait, no Viewer's Comments this week?
Tomorrow
Glen, what should I do? My brand new Asus Vivobook with Win 10 and my Roland Quad capture ua 55 are not pretty much compatible - the sound is interrupting and it's even missing the click of metronome. I've tried different drivers - ssme issue. I collected money to buy this stuff fir a long time with blood and sweat, but those issues are so much pain in the arse, that sometimes I'm about to give up. What are words of wise, any advice? Should I get into the Hackintosh stuff? It's so much demotivating(
Cheers from Kiev and thank you, Glen.
I honestly hate Apple shit, but I'd be lying if I told you I didn't depend on my MacBook to make music. OS X just handles music production better and everything is native to the system so you never really run into issues. That being said, hackintosh might not be the answer because you might run into the same driver issues. A hackintosh fakes a Mac product by emulating what product of theirs your computer is close to specs wise. I'm not saying it won't work, you might just have issues.
@@Daddyfly_FPV Yes, but Roland has issues with Win10 and has a huge variety of drivers for iMac. If Hackintosh use iMac drivers, it could work.
Can I sell the Axe Fx II now?
Don't know about this one. It sound great and I love Andy James, but I feel the Will Putney version offer way more amps, more presets, etc. But that is just my opinion.
It also costs a lot more
@@kill3r_b75 Yeah, at the moment it cost $150. But when it was introduced it was $99. It has actually drop to the $99 a couple of times on offer days. Like I said is only my opinion. I will recommend to download but trials and compare.
I pulled the trigger and got it. I really like it. Glen only touched the surface of this plug in. I also own the Will Putney and I love it, but I can see where I can use them both. I really like the "mid" of the 6505 and STL really did a good capture of it.
Fricker's a mac guy? (clutches pearls)
That kid is great
Andy James was here, just too lazy to comment his presence.
Wooww....Badaassss..!!
I really wish developers would stop making amp sims as all-in-ones. I would love to be able to just buy a Marshall or Peavey amp sim as a stand alone software and then chain on pedal and impulse software separately. As it stands now free amp sims give you more options for tone since you can change impulse responses and pedals with no strings attached.