Linkin Park Fractal Audio Tone Tour

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Outstanding video. The tones are great, and Ben Young deserves major mention .... incredibly knowledgeable and articulate.
I speak directly to Cooper here: it is also a real pleasure to see an interviewer whose subtext is driven from a position of interest rather than ego.

 
Gonna check it out for anything related to live Hybrid Theory tones, even though I wasn't trying to dial in a guitar tone like Brad at the time haha.

Edit: watched it, Linkin Park PRS may be some of the coolest looking PRS in existence to this day. The "lofi to regular" thing sounded massive and awesome.

Great work to all involved! Time to send it my friend who lent me his copy of Hybrid Theory for a 3-week vacation haha.
 
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Pretty interesting Instagram comments from Ben:

We’re actually not using any stereo enhancing blocks on the main heavy sound, but one amp is dialed hard left and the other heard right, so the slight differences in amp feel give it that wide spread.
I’m pretty sure the phase is aligned. It’s just the magic of using two amps. Even though they are high gain amps, they are not cranked super hard so that gives the amps a tiny amount of dynamics separation also, but it’s more about the timbre differences of the amps.

Lo-Fi Filter: Use a filter block and dial in some high pass and low pass to taste. Added bonus: if you're doing things in stereo, throw a volume block at the end to make things mono, either by taking one side and putting it up the middle, or summing L and R. Use scenes to turn on and off the filter and volume block to go from big to small. You may also want to make the "LoFi" stuff about 3dB lower.

As for the amp EQ, it's honestly more about finding the right cab and then dialing the EQ around it to taste. I can’t remember what our cab/mic combos are right now.
 
G66.eu said:
Pretty interesting Instagram comments from Ben:

We’re actually not using any stereo enhancing blocks on the main heavy sound, but one amp is dialed hard left and the other heard right, so the slight differences in amp feel give it that wide spread.
I’m pretty sure the phase is aligned. It’s just the magic of using two amps. Even though they are high gain amps, they are not cranked super hard so that gives the amps a tiny amount of dynamics separation also, but it’s more about the timbre differences of the amps.

Lo-Fi Filter: Use a filter block and dial in some high pass and low pass to taste. Added bonus: if you're doing things in stereo, throw a volume block at the end to make things mono, either by taking one side and putting it up the middle, or summing L and R. Use scenes to turn on and off the filter and volume block to go from big to small. You may also want to make the "LoFi" stuff about 3dB lower.

As for the amp EQ, it's honestly more about finding the right cab and then dialing the EQ around it to taste. I can’t remember what our cab/mic combos are right now.
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I need know what cab/IR they are using!
 
Admin M@ said:
I never STOPPED using that technique... and a number of my stereo effects are in front of the amps.
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The vid inspired me to experiment with dual amps again yesterday. Definitely interesting with Terrier on one side and my beloved Archean Bright on the other with gain roughly matched. Going further, to see what I could get from a bit subtler L/R difference, I stumbled upon the following: Dial in identical hard panned L/R amps then push the input dynamics knob up to about 3 on one of them = more gloriouser!

And stereo pre fx!, yaa - this is not good for me lol! cuz it leads to my wanting to have hard panned L/R drives also, which leads to gassing to trade my Ax3-mk1 for an Ax3T with more CPU o_O 🤣
 
I am wondering:
This band plays huge venues, isn't their FOH mix mono? Love the width of the amp too, but isn't that summed to mono for the audience?
Surely nice sounding in their IEMs though...
 
This was an awesome video! I don't listen to LP but I appreciate their artistry and sound. I'm also curious about their cabs which raises some questions for me about dynacabs. In the video for the Orange Tiny Terror and Soldano section, they mention the cab IRs they use were captured with additional EQ/saturation/compression (?). I'm aware that some special IRs actually have some post production built into them. The mighty Jens Bogren offered some free IRs a while back with analog preamp + EQ baked in which is awesome.

Questions:
  • Do the onboard dynacabs have any saturation + EQ + etc baked into them? Or are they basically a pure speaker + mic IR?
  • So we can simulate the preamp saturation with the Preamp section in the cab block. Is this preamp simulation similar to what LP is doing with their special IRs? I understand we don't know what LP did, but is it safe to assume that the Cab Block preamp simulation can replicate what they did?
 
That bit crushed tone on Stained is awesome. Is it just the bit crusher drive block? Sounds like the cab is tuned off on that one
 
Admin M@ said:
Outstanding video. The tones are great, and Ben Young deserves major mention .... incredibly knowledgeable and articulate.
I speak directly to Cooper here: it is also a real pleasure to see an interviewer whose subtext is driven from a position of interest rather than ego.

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This is cool because these guys are great!
 
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