Dial in a GREAT Lead Tone on ANY Modeler or Plugin
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
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Here are some tips that I hope you can use to get great singing sustaining lead tones from any modeler or plugin - I hope they help?
Have you got other tips for getting decent tones and results from plugins?
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If you want these tones - for Pod Go it's "JCLonLead" - for Fractal FM9 (buymeacoffee) it's "Lonestar Gig" - and for Neural DSP Plini it's "JCLeadThinner" (again buymeacoffee for Neural DSP archetype presets)
That was glorious. I help out as a volunteer at a place for people with advanced dementia, folk clinging on to torn fragments of their reality. If I noodle whilst using your Line 6 settings I may spark a synapse, jolt a memory. Bless you for that, dude. Peace on Earth, good will to all [wo]men.
Please try to do a chorus/choral preset :)
Great video. I've realized over the last few years how crucial a hi-pass - or shaving 8k - 16k - is to tame the fizz...not to mention to protect your hearing.
A few years ago, I visited a new doctor. She looked in my ears and said "you're a musician aren't you?" She could see the effects of years of gigging. She told me that hearing loss affects the higher frequencies first. I've got tinnitus from years of standing near bright amps, punishing snare drums and crash cymbals. All the old farts used to tell me to protect my hearing - but I was young and invincible and couldn't be bothered. Constant ringing in your ears is not cool. Now I'm the old fart saying "protect your hearing". I digress. Another well done video, John.
Tinnitus is psychological. Nothing to do with being exposed to loud sounds.
@@Stringprodigy Perhaps, but hearing loss is real.
@@jakollee not perhaps, it’s a fact. and where did i say hearing loss wasn’t real?
@@Stringprodigy I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. I understand there can be a psychological component to chronic tinnitus, and that it can be treated by cognitive behavioral therapy. But I check 3 websites: Cleveland Clinic, WebMD, and Wikipedia, and the first two state that tinnitus can be caused by exposure to loud noise/music, and wikipedia says teh most common cause is hearing loss. So maybe the original post is not so wrong? I didn't mean to be argumentative in my post, just to give a little support to the original poster.
@@jakollee there’s no way to make that kind of claim logically since tinnitus cannot be measured or studied in any way beyond someone’s personal experience.
Not sure exactly how you're doing it...but these videos keep getting better and better. Great discussion, and points to getting some usable tones from our devices. Thanks John!
Cheers Wadey thanks for putting up with me!!
That was glorious. I help out as a volunteer at a place for people with advanced dementia, folk clinging on to torn fragments of their reality. If I noodle whilst using your Line 6 settings I may spark a synapse, jolt a memory. Bless you for that, dude.
Goal -- Smooth lead tone with a lot of gain without fizz and not thin.
For anyone watching with a Boss Katana, I’d highly recommend also using a liberal hi cut, makes it usable at higher gain settings.
100% - in my Katana Air video I used the High Cut for my lead!
Great advice. Thanks John!
Great insightful video! Cheers, Jon
Thanks Dave!!
Finally a video about TONE. Your tone! That’s very much appreciated and very well explained. Always wanted to know more about how you dial in your tone. Thanks!
"...shield yourself from the sound". Joe Bonamassa demonstrates this concept quite well, in a live context. His wall of sound is almost always sitting behind amp cabinet shields.
Great advice John. I use high cuts, and reduce amp presence for higher gain tones, and use scenes to get the treble back for cleaner tones. I also find stacking overdrive pedals into a clean amp works well because the tone controls are often simple high cuts and are out of the circuit when the pedal is off, retaining treble for clean tones.
Just got Boss GT1K modeller & started applying the low & high cuts in my patches. I learned this when I was mixing songs before. I realised that modellers tend to have some fizziness & properly using EQ is one of the keys in using amp sims.
exactly just cut anything below 80 hz and you are good to go!
Great tips John. I'm a noob and I don't have experience with real amps/effects. So I always feel very unsure with the amount of Low and High Cuts. I find it very helpful when you talk about LC/HC that you've applied in your different tones for lead and cruch and your reasoning behind it.
I can just agree 100% on all the line. I love chocolate Petrucci'esq tones and, on top of your suggestions and as far as it can help, even if using hot passive humbuckers (even if kept far away from the strings :) ) on the Helix, I found good results boosting a Cali IV Lead by a TS808 in any case (very low gain, no more than 1.3, and quite high level, as usual) and reducing the gain/drive and the mids on the amp. it cuts-off "unwanted" low frequencies while enhancing the "right mids", and every single note sounds well defined while liquid, even with power chords
Good advice, and interesting information about the difference in dB cut per octave. People often talk about using a Compressor to increase sustain on Lead tones, but I've never liked the way they sound.
Agree about compressors for lead tones, not a fan. Chicken-pickin' yes, hi-gain lead sounds, no!
I half agree. I can’t get anywhere near a passable high gain lead tone out of a dynacomp style compressor. Aaaand it just so happens like half of pedal compressors are based on the dynacomp and perform in a very similar way.
But more transparent compressor types I think can get along with a high gain lead tone quite well.
I use a model of the Boss CP-1X in front of the amp block and I’m very happy with those results.
Sound advice, backed up by great tones and playing to match.
Thank You
Love this..i have so much to learn
Great advice and well explained
This was petfect.
This was a really great video. I have been doing what you recommended for a while, with regard to the low pass filter. I do need to try boosting the mids as you suggest. I am using an AXE-FX III and I run it direct. Great video!!!
Thanks I'm finding with the Helix that it's worth being very first principles.Adding things block by block.To explore everything yourself.That way, your advice and guidance really resonates and is directly relatable.
Thank you, as always.
Even low gain settings benefit from a high cut. I have a global hard cut at 10KHz on my Kemper and depending on the profile I will start cutting at 7KHz.
the problem for me was always the fizz, especially on rythm medium/high gain tones, also how to keep the sound when goes from clean to distortion to be consistent.
0:53 - Loves a bit of Jessie J I does!
I Have noticed that chorus effects seem to have a dampening affect on the sustain in the Helix....and can affect the tone as well.
1:14 …ready, aim, fire!
sorry I just heard the end of it. Thanks Ill try it
Great video, but it would have really been helpful give some examples of the buzz/fizz noise and how to use filters to work arournd these. I actually struggled with this digital fizz in the early days of digital modelers. Things have come a long way since then using cab modeling, but it can be better with the techniqres you have mentioned.
I think I also noticed in one of your early patches where you used a Tube Screamer with a high gain amp such as Soldano. What was the reasoning behind it?
John, you’ve become my favorite follow for guitar modelers, and ideas. Really appreciate your content. Besides the price difference, FM3 vs HX Stomp?
ampero 2
Real cool!
Let's have a video on modeler tones using Humbuckers.
I like to rest my palm on the bridge and I cant get past the volume knob interfering. Anyone have advice.
On a quad cortex do you find it best to hi cut in the global eq (where you can't control the dB/Oct slope)? Or to use an eq block? If you're using an eq block do you do it at the end of the chain, after the cab, or between the amp and cab?
Fractal FM9 for AX FX? Do I forego all my pedals and invest in one of these two?
While I do have Mooer GE300, fully updated, I cannot achieve the tones demonstrated here, even though the Mooer uses the same sharc processors.
Where in my signal chain do I put my EQ-Filters best?
Silly question: why not just roll off the guitar tone knob?
Hi how would you create these sounds with actual analog pedals and you might not have the luxury of using the same amp every night on a live gig
Try using an expression pedal to dial in your high/low cuts
Hey John, your Sound and video is really great. I tried to copy it immediatly, and it sounds great on my pod too. But with your described Plugins and Settings the Sound of my podgo crashes everytime. I can play for about 5 to 10 minutes before the pod go crahses an creates an ultra loud noise. I have this problem with no other sound. This is curious. Does anyone have an Idea. I use an IR of an soldano.
What's this style of lead called and what resource for learning it would you recommend? It's so lush!
I have a question you might be able to address in a video. I have found that in the Helix lead tones that are dialed in and sounds good in the bridge position tend to sound a bit muddy in the neck position. The examples you play in this video with the other modelers doesn’t do that. But the Helix examples does that to some extent. Is that a matter of dialing it in differently or is the Helix lacking something in this regard? The examples with the other modelers sound more present or clear when you use the neck position.
But I do understand that it is a matter of taste and I have seen from many of your other videos that you have a that kind of tone. But I am wondering how you can dial that presence in using the neck position without it being to harsh in the bridge position.
Cheers!
Are you still still using the LP/HC with the new cabs in Helix 3.5?
Take me down like Im a domino 😩😩
What would you suggest with emg 81s powered hum buckers. Im looking to change them but for now any insight would be awesome
That a new Springfield?
Had it a little while but Jake has been using it!
@@johnnathancordy Where does it rank then?
Haha yeah. Put an AC15 on your desk where your monitors sit and then tell me modellers are harsh and fizzy.
wait, you just don't 'giv'er moar lowd???'
If Paul Gilbert is a bit 'mutton Jeff' he could always turn it up a bit. (Sorry, couldn't resist).