JJunkie
Power User
Hey guys,
Just to start off, I don't actually use an axe-fx II, but I have used tone matching in my DAW and occasionally its useful, but mostly its just lots of fun. Anyway, I do own a meagre collection of guitars, and at times there has been struggles to get a good matched tone, for example, of an artist that uses a tele. All my guitars are humbucking and I can only get closer to strat or tele sounds with one of my guitars, which has a coil tap, but probably isn't quite enough to get me to a good base guitar tone happening before the amp sim. Without a good dry guitar tone, the tone match will probably not be 100%. For example, try to match a "woman tone" with your guitar tone pot at 10.
I have been using TM for over a year now. To do it well, you need a good representative dry guitar tone and input level appropriate for the instrument (i.e. theres no point going for that tele sound with a humbucking guitar at full volume. It will drive the amp sim too much).
Studio tones often have considerable compression applied during and/or after recording, and trying to account for this can make a good TM not as simple as it seems. That aside, the purpose of this post is to discuss getting the dry guitar tone right. From my experience, this doesn't matter much for high gain stuff. Its really the "clean" and low and medium gain tones that I find are most dependant on / sensitive to the guitar signal feeding them.
Now to the point: I think it would be great to start up a collection of dry guitar tones (e.g. wav audio clips of a guitar running through the axe-fx on bypass), especially for classic types. I'm having a real hard time finding clips like this on the net (because it sounds boring).
the guitar should have reasonably new strings for the clips, and all pickup positions should be recorded. Information on the guitar, pickups, action, string guage, pick type should be provided with the clips. Also, for consistency sake, a standard tempo and riff should be adopted in all samples. Another thing: Very important to set a consistent reference volume level, so that relatively speaking, single coil and humbucking signals are well represented in the archive
I don't believe this can make an LP sound like a tele or strat, but I do believe that between guitars of the same string gauge and pickup type, that different pickup models can probably be tone matched.
What do you guys think? Something like this should be pretty easy to get set up with soundcloud??
I think we would just have to agree on some requirements before running with it (e.g. how to achieve a reference volume level? Axe-fx input and output at noon?... what should the standard riff be???)
Just to start off, I don't actually use an axe-fx II, but I have used tone matching in my DAW and occasionally its useful, but mostly its just lots of fun. Anyway, I do own a meagre collection of guitars, and at times there has been struggles to get a good matched tone, for example, of an artist that uses a tele. All my guitars are humbucking and I can only get closer to strat or tele sounds with one of my guitars, which has a coil tap, but probably isn't quite enough to get me to a good base guitar tone happening before the amp sim. Without a good dry guitar tone, the tone match will probably not be 100%. For example, try to match a "woman tone" with your guitar tone pot at 10.
I have been using TM for over a year now. To do it well, you need a good representative dry guitar tone and input level appropriate for the instrument (i.e. theres no point going for that tele sound with a humbucking guitar at full volume. It will drive the amp sim too much).
Studio tones often have considerable compression applied during and/or after recording, and trying to account for this can make a good TM not as simple as it seems. That aside, the purpose of this post is to discuss getting the dry guitar tone right. From my experience, this doesn't matter much for high gain stuff. Its really the "clean" and low and medium gain tones that I find are most dependant on / sensitive to the guitar signal feeding them.
Now to the point: I think it would be great to start up a collection of dry guitar tones (e.g. wav audio clips of a guitar running through the axe-fx on bypass), especially for classic types. I'm having a real hard time finding clips like this on the net (because it sounds boring).
the guitar should have reasonably new strings for the clips, and all pickup positions should be recorded. Information on the guitar, pickups, action, string guage, pick type should be provided with the clips. Also, for consistency sake, a standard tempo and riff should be adopted in all samples. Another thing: Very important to set a consistent reference volume level, so that relatively speaking, single coil and humbucking signals are well represented in the archive
I don't believe this can make an LP sound like a tele or strat, but I do believe that between guitars of the same string gauge and pickup type, that different pickup models can probably be tone matched.
What do you guys think? Something like this should be pretty easy to get set up with soundcloud??
I think we would just have to agree on some requirements before running with it (e.g. how to achieve a reference volume level? Axe-fx input and output at noon?... what should the standard riff be???)
