Originally Posted By: PROJECT M
Hello Dave and Marty
Very nice collaboration from both of you
A really very good mix
The sound is very good
Just like the matching vocals
Marty does his thing as usual sovereign and very good
Your guitar solos are extremely good
the guitar sound is absolutely top class
What technique do you use to get the Guitarsound
like this, if I may ask ?
Great work guys
Many greetings
Andi ;-)


Hi Andi,

Thanks so much for the positive comments!

Ok, you asked about my guitar sound. Many people will tell you that the only way to get a good sound is to mic a tube amp. I'm not one of those people wink

I plug my guitar directly into my interface (Focusrite Scarlett 2I4) and process the sound using a software amp simulator. There are many amp simulator programs out there these days, some are really good and some are bloody awful.

The one I use was recommended to be by Tom Adams, an excellent guitarist/songwriter/producer that posts on this forum sometimes, and is the Scuffham S-Gear 2 (https://www.scuffhamamps.com/). They don't try and offer 50 different amp simulations, instead they chose 5 and concentrate on doing them very well. Out of the 5, there are 2 that I use for the music I do, depending on the song.

In addition to using the amp sim, I almost always use an additional plugin to add some more processing, mostly reverb and delay, and most of the time the one I use is CLA Guitars from Waves. This goes after the output of the amp sim.

Sometimes I will also use a software emulation of a tube screamer before the amp sim, the one I use is a free one from a company called mercuriall (https://mercuriall.com/cms/details_freestuff), however most of the time I find the distortion provided from the amp sim is all I need to get the sound I want.

The advantage of using the sim is that I can change my mind after I have done the recording, because the sound I have recorded is the direct output of the guitar, not the output of a guitar amp. Also of course it's totally quiet, I can record using my headphones without bothering my wife, very important! wink

Hope this helps!

Dave

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