Danny Danzi
Power User
Hi Danny
Thanks for taking the time to reply in such depth, the combination of the vid and what you wrote has lifted the mist a lot, just need to get back from work on wednesday and play with the FXII lol this thread has turned into such an amazing learning experience first the low and hi cuts then now the compression block.
it would have been nice to see what settings you have ( drive wise ) on the brit amp block and the drive block too in the vid but you might have given values previously will read back, off to work now TTFN
awesome dude
cheers
G \../
No problem. Yeah I would have gotten more into the whole tone thing as well, but like I said, that particular video was about the compression and how it adds sustain and stops us from dying out. Trust me waylander, it's hard as heck to not show you guys sounds and play stuff all over the place. LOL! But the one thing I never want people to think is that I'm here to show off or be an @sshole. Honest, what you see/hear is what you get from me. If I can help people out, it's a great feeling. But yeah, I'll do another for you. The drive block is actually running gain at about 7.0 something and the amp is at like 2.78 on the drive with no boost. I'm really not too fond of that amp model, but it's one of the only ones (there's one other one that I can't remember the name of right now) that gives me that pinch harm thing. All the other amp models sound digital/transistor when I crack those pinch harms through. But that mod amp is super close to my old 2101 starved plate sound as well as this old Peavey vacuum tube ultra that I have.
So I figured....if I could tweak some tone into the 800 mod, it may get me back to where I was before. I was completely happy with my 2101's. I was forced to give up on them due to them being too old and me spending hundreds on Ebay buying up old ones and modding them. So that's why I bought my AxeFx. Right after I buy it, don't I meet a guy that rebuilds 2101's from the ground up and reconstructs them? LOL!! He's done 3 for me already....but when I compare them to my AxeFx...the Ax has won me over. So now I either have to buy a few more Axe Fx boxes....or try to get an endorsement with Fractal. LOL!
Cool video Danny, thanks for taking the time to do that. Compression is something I struggle with sometimes, I like what it does but I get confused about the various settings so this has been really useful for me. Plus I love your playing and tones :encouragement:
Maybe you could drop another video when you have some time which explains how you set the other blocks to get that nice chewy tone?
You're welcome Coldsummer...my pleasure. Yeah I could do another vid on that if you want. I think the thing that you're hearing that's making it "chewy" is either my tuning or the cab block I'm using. I tone matched a few of my own creations and I believe the cab you're hearing there (if I'm not mistaken) is a tone match cop of my 2101 where I saved it as a cab. It's funny man, people laughed at me for years when I told them I used a 2101. They sound like crap actually....until you really get in and work them like the AxeFx. But I came up with a few things that made the 2101 really come to life so when I stole a few of those things and brought them to my AxeFx, it's like I just picked up where I left off and have an even tighter sound now than I had before. I know it's not a sound for everyone, but for those that are into that...it's pretty cool and it can work pretty well. Anyway, I'll see what I can do. Thanks guys!
A note on compression....the way we're using it in this example isn't how you'd use it in a recording situation. We're adding sustain here....in a recording situation, you'd want the compressor to literally be AFTER everything but you'd use it lightly so that it gives you a signal that isn't running all over the place. We're using the compressor for sound enhancement, not actual "compression" the way we would if we were recording. I know most people know this, but I just wanted to make sure no one was misled. The stuff we've talked about in this thread can be applied to recording compression, but we'd definitely take a slightly different approach.