The human ear adapts very quickly to what it hears – in this example, the intro guitar has a step rolloff (low-pass filter) above 4Khz, and also a rolloff (high-pass filter) at 100hz. When you first hear this, you don’t notice the rolloff – until the drums come in with the full frequency range and provide a strong contrast to the intro guitar.
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The distorted guitars are recorded through a Line6 POD 2.0 amp simulator.
This is from a project back in my studio days – it’s from a blues/pop song and features a Line6 POD 2.0 simulator on the electric guitar. The acoustic guitar is an old Maton through a Neumann U87 mic. Continue reading…
Here’s a demo of the original Behringer V-AMP modelling box. Considering its very low price, the sound is pretty good but is nowhere near as natural sounding as the more recent amp sims. Continue reading…
Here’s an old jam I found lying around on the hard disk – I can’t find the original multitrack session, but I know it was recorded using the Line6 PodFarm 1 plugin. Continue reading…
In the previous post, I used the Overloud TH2 amp simulator to try to create a slightly distorted Fender amp sound. Let’s see how good the IK Multimedia Amplitube Fender plugin sounds using the same raw guitar track. Continue reading…
Here’s a demo of the Overloud TH2 amp modelling plugin doing its best to create a slightly distorted Fender amplifier sound. The amp model I used is the “Lynch Box” set to the BlackFace model. Continue reading…
I took an 18 month break from guitar. I spent some time travelling in the UK and progressed my current career in IT – I’ve never taken such a long break away from guitar but it was a great chance to spend time purely as a listener and not a player.
My interest eventually returned and it was driven by my love of electric guitar sounds. For an instrument with only six strings, there’s an amazing variety of tones that can be extracted by a skilled player.
Being an analytical thinker, I decided to break down some of the classic tones. Continue reading…
This exercise is based on dominant seventh argeggios (1 3 5 b7) in an ascending and descending 8 note pattern.
I’ve notated two different picking approaches, one using strict alternate picking and the other using legato technique where possible. The legato patterns should require more left hand finger strength to achieve even volume between the picked notes and the legato notes. As a variation, attempt the alternate picking pattern starting with an up-stroke rather than a down-stroke.
I like songs in minor keys. So much more room for expressive playing, or maybe I just don’t have any major key chops.
As with the song ‘Escape Plans’, this piece is built around a minor 9th chord. Think Gmaj7 ideas over an E root note to get the rhythm guitar idea.
The melody guitar is straight to the desk via a TC Electronics preamp and a DBX valve compressor. I did the trick of turning the volume pot down just slightly to allow the top end of the single coils to project through.
Many of the ideas here are built around superimposing a D major triad against the Em9 chord resulting in the chord tones (b7, 9, 11). Continue reading…
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