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Date: April 22nd, 2025 4:39 PM Author: '"''"''''""" fire away (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48871755) |
Date: April 22nd, 2025 11:15 PM Author: '"''"''''""" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872707) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 11:22 PM Author: scholarship What’s your favorite plugin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872718) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 11:36 PM Author: '"''"''''""" Right now it's the IK Multimedia One. I am not a mixing and mastering MFE. I usually pay someone else to do that. But I try and mix a little as I go so I can hear what the hell I'm doing. In today's home producer economy it's essential to mix as you go, so layering in sounds should always slip right into something that's on its way to becoming its final version. The One makes everything extremely loud and it only has a couple of buttons. It's good for demos. Better to be overly loud and work on the shittiest of phone speakers than be too quiet for anyone to understand what you're trying to accomplish.
I am such a control freak that even though I don't really know how to mix I send mixing engineers a sample mix to go off of. My #1 complaint is when other people have their own ideas. I am expressly against anyone else having any sort of personal opinion or creative control of any kind so when I collaborate I refer session players and engineers to my examples so they don't start thinking for themselves. The biggest thing that will ruin a project is a lack of vision. In essence, having taste and a concrete vision of any kind is the most essential production skill. I may not exactly know how to cut together 4 different guitar tones with unique individual EQs into a single composite but I can at least point to a track that already exists and tell a producer or an engineer, hey, this is the sound I'm going for. Essential skill. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 11:45 PM Author: scholarship Nice I’ll check that out. I’ve been using the mastering assistant in logic pro that came out like a year ago.
Yeah I’m controlling too. Control over the vision is what makes being in a band hard. Lots of artists painting on the same canvas. |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 11:49 PM Author: '"''"''''""" Bands stopped existing a long time ago and it begs the question were there ever really bands? Kurt Cobain just showed up and presented the songs to the other guys. One was his best friend who had minimal talent and was along for the ride, and the other guy was a drummer who was hired cash money from the record label after the group was already famous. Plus he was generationally talented and impressionable and easygoing. So yeah there were hardly ever any bands even back in the day. If you find 4 other guys who just happen to have the same vision as you, you're from another planet and not dealing in reality. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872764) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:16 AM Author: scholarship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872813) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 11:39 PM Author: donald j. fag If I learn guitar will I get more pussy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872746) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 11:43 PM Author: '"''"''''""" Almost certainly not. According to Wikipedia rock music died in 2010. People don't listen to new rock music anymore. You might have luck in a subgenre like active rock, metal, or country. You would have to become really famous and it's better if you're a singer with a pretty face. Someone like Morgan Wallen "plays guitar" but he's more of a singer and a heartthrob. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872752) |
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Date: April 22nd, 2025 11:53 PM Author: michael doodikoff 1. Thoughts on Superior Drummer 3? 2. I'm toying with the idea of getting this 90s multi effects processor for $200 that was a monster in its day https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/digitech-2120 - I own another old multieffects processor from the 90s and they are so fun |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:02 AM Author: '"''"''''""" I prefer AddictiveDrums. Easier to use, more variation. Ironically both companies are Swedish for some unknown reason.
From what I can recall 90s effects processors were not good. I already have a computer I don't know why I'd get a decades old computer.
I'll tell you which way the industry is going though. Everyone is gonna go to plugins. Every pedal and effect company is going to make a plugin version of their effects. Everything is going digital. Every pedal that exists will become a plugin if it hasn't already. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:05 AM Author: michael doodikoff They aren't good but that's part of the charm.
Also the old delays and chorus and shit sounded a bit different and 90s ish
Like it's really hard to get these same shitty sounds on my Helix |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:08 AM Author: '"''"''''""" I just listened to a demo. My first thought was woah, that sounds incredibly close to Joe Satriani. Then I fast forward a bunch to the other sounds. They all sound like Joe Satriani. I give this unit the Joe Satriani tone of approval but fairly limited use case. Fact I can really only think of one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872795) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 11:14 AM Author: michael doodikoff TBF these units strong suits are Joe Satriani style tones.
Like, my Helix can't make some of these sounds, mostly because the sounds are dated and shitty in a good way |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:19 AM Author: mountain cat What’s your fav bass guitar? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872817) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:21 AM Author: '"''"''''""" P bass for tone. Equally as good is the J bass. I also like Stingrays for extra punch. They're pretty much all good. There's not a big difference between models. I probably like the thinner neck of the J bass with the tone of the P bass. For certain styles you need a Stingray though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872822) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:03 AM Author: mountain cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872860) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:57 AM Author: bloomington (🦬) Thoughts on Jazzmasters? I don't play but if I did I think I'd cop a Jazzmaster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872855) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:17 AM Author: '"''"''''""" Nothin against it. It's a damn fine guitar. Damn fine. The tone is bright and sparkly. Use case is going to be clean tones, indie rock, surf rock, and vintage applications. Not that you can't turn the gain up to 11 and rock out. You can. You can pretty much do anything on any guitar. It's got a cool vibrato bar that adds character. I probably wouldn't get one for metal. If I had one I would get one with the rhythm circuit just for the novelty aspect, and then I would tell people who had Jazzmasters that don't have a rhythm circuit that they aren't real Jazzmaster players for maximum snobbery. If I'm gonna get a funky guitar I want all the quirks and novelties. Get one with binding and a headstock that matches the body. Go all in and tell everyone you're in a surf band called The Magnetoes. I don't know. Do whatever you want this is guitar advice not life advice. Poor one out for grandma. Or don't. Tell em I sent you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872863) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 10:23 AM Author: bloomington (🦬) Ty
If I did cop one I'd prolly get a Squier J Mascis one. I really like shoegaze. No idea what amp or pedals to get. At a minimum I'd probably get a Fender Shields Blender cuz Kevin Shields is my favorite guitarist |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 11:24 AM Author: michael doodikoff for shoegaze you will want a guitar with humbuckers.
A lot of those shoegaze guys used a Roland JC 120 and a fuck ton of effect pedals (example - this is Neil Halstead of Slowdive's current pedalboard that he largely uses with a JC 120 - https://spaceecho.chromewaves.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/slowdive-pedalboard-1-1024x1024.jpeg )
A JC 120 is huge and more amp than you need.
I have been very very happy with my Line 6 Helix modeler - it has endless effects and even models obscure pedals and amps and shit. People really like the Axe FX, Quad Cortex, etc even the Headrush. You could even get a Line 6 Stomp XL that is far smaller than a regular Helix but has all of the same effects and amps etc. Not much you can't do with one of these.
Then get a PA speaker to play it through. I got a specialized Fender modeling amp made specifically to play modelers through and it rocks (and looks like a fender amp) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:57 AM Author: .,,.,.,,.,..,.,.,.. t/f - rock as a genre died in april 1994 in a greenhouse; the following 15 years were the convulsions of its corpse and it was fully buried by 2010 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48872878) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:31 PM Author: '"''"''''""" Disagree. There was a major renaissance between 1997 and 2005. Some of the greatest rock albums ever made came out during this time. But they are not widely recognized as great. I think for rock to remain strong you need a large fanbase of well off middle class white youths. As Millennials aged out of their peak creative years and were replaced by Zoomers, the appetite for complex, depressing music faded. If you are in any way drawn to music that's focused on negative emotions such as anger, rage, sadness, hopelessness etc then I think the peak period was probably around 2002. I predict that in a hundred years some future society will rediscover this era. To wit the main reason classic rock has hung on for so long as the most popular rock genre is that it's peppy and eternally upbeat. In a sense, it's just glorified pop music. Alternative on the other hand is rock in its true form, expressing emotions that cannot be adequately expressed by other genres. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48873843) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 9:08 AM Author: michael doodikoff Thoughts on the EVH Frankenstein series guitars?
I got one and it's the most fun guitar I ve ever held. Makes you want to just rip. A bunch of guitar player bros of mine said the same thing when they played it. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 9:30 AM Author: mountain cat Just imagine a room full of handsome tall men taking turns chugging ranch and ripping 80s hard rock riffs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48873366) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 11:14 AM Author: michael doodikoff that's about how it went down (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48873576) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:40 PM Author: scholarship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48873872) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 2:57 PM Author: mountain cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48874545) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:34 PM Author: '"''"''''""" Superstrats in general are cool. I don't know if I'd play one that looked exactly like Eddie's guitar. I'd probably get a Charvel. I wouldn't want to identify too heavily with someone else's guitar. I think it's lame to copy other people too much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48873849) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 10:45 AM Author: Brussels Sprout: Brussels,Helsinki,Stockholm,Kyiv do u live gig and what do u play? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48873513) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:35 PM Author: '"''"''''""" No I'm a studio rat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48873852) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:41 PM Author: scholarship Do you mic a live amp for guitar or use virtual stuff (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48873880) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 12:47 PM Author: '"''"''''""" Both. The trick now is to get composite tones. Virtually all hard rock tones consist of multiple layers of tones.
I have gotten great tones from micing an amp and I have gotten great tones from an amp simulator. I will say that with the simulator it's a lot faster to dial in something that works. With an amp you have to play around with it a lot. Amps are a lot like sorcery. It's more like casting a spell. You try stuff and just hope it works.
The one thing I can do better with sims is make guitars that sound really punchy in the mix. Real amps don't naturally sound punchy. They're ultra compressed and just sound very uniform, like someone with a monotonous voice. With amp sims you turn a few virtual knobs and you can get a really exciting punchy sound that cuts through your mix. So hopefully some day I figure out how to do this with a live amp. I have tried lots of production tricks to achieve this but I haven't cracked the code yet. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:26 PM Author: scholarship What kind of sims do you use? I mostly use the helix native plugin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48874058) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:38 PM Author: '"''"''''""" I use Guitar Rig. It's got a lot of variety. I'm sure they're all good at this point. Everything is high quality these days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48874111) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 1:59 PM Author: michael doodikoff guitar rig is a lot of fun. I have it too via Komplete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48874236) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 2:09 PM Author: scholarship Have you upgraded to komplete 15? I might do that on the next sale. Comes with guitar rig 7 pro. I’ve still got 6 pro from k14 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48874294) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 2:15 PM Author: michael doodikoff no I just didn't need anything it offered. Maybe I will one day. I have too much shit to ever fully dive into any of it (Komplete, Arturia V Collection, a bunch of Teletone Audio plugins, plus two IRL synths, etc)
I think that I did upgrade Kontakt though, like $50 or something on some deal. |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 2:41 PM Author: '"''"''''""" I actually deeply fear upgrading anything. When studio time matters stability is the most important thing. Upgrading shit normally comes with a big crash that can ruin your entire week. Everything is unstable and sucks. It can take an entire day just to get all of my plugins to work which randomly stop working all the time. So upgrading software is like pulling the pin in a grenade. Don't install anything new but once a year when you can afford to troubleshoot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48874489) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 3:20 PM Author: ceci n'est pas un avocat thoughts on the EHX double muff? (they are 180) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5714761&forum_id=2Elisa#48874627) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 3:27 PM Author: '"''"''''""" Never tried it. In my opinion if you're running into a high gain amplifier, most fuzz pedal sound exactly the same. I don't fret much about the type of fuzz pedal. They all do the job.
I think a lot of the classic tones people chase were just people using whatever they had around at the time and it wasn't super cerebral. Musicians write songs and make it records and decades later some people on the internet obsess over it. But they were just doing whatever sounded cool on that day. |