anthony43000
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I have seen a lot of posts that show a studio comp first in line. Is this usually required in a metal set up? if so any rec settings?
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I'd generally recommend staying away from broadband compression on distorted guitars in metal.I have seen a lot of posts that show a studio comp first in line. Is this usually required in a metal set up? if so any rec settings?
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I'd generally recommend staying away from broadband compression on distorted guitars in metal.
I personally use multi-band compression in my DAW as plugin. If you want to use it in the Axe-Fx, I'd recommend that it be towards the end of your chain.
Regarding my multi-band compressor settings, I have it set up to only affect roughly from the 60Hz to 250Hz range. I lower the threshold to taste. Attack and release are set fairly quick.
I don't completely agree with this..
a compressor after the amp and a compressor before the amp are doing different jobs..
Did I mention anywhere in my post about putting a compressor before the amp? The answer is, "No."
I was specifically giving advice on using compression towards the end of the signal chain.
So, what is it exactly that you don't agree with about my post? Your comment is a straw-man argument.
the OP was asking about the compressor being 'first in line'
If I understood the OP's question correctly, I took it to mean compressor being placed before the amp
so it looked to me like he ask a question and you answered about something different
of course I may have not understood his question correctly.. which happens from time to time..
So, let me make a post dedicated to using compression BEFORE the amp in a metal production.
I personally don't use it because high-gain amps are naturally very compressed as it is because of the amount of distortion being used. High-gain amps possess a natural harmonic compression on their own.
In metal production, if you're looking to tighten up an amp or add some more definition and low-end, I reach for a overdrive pedal. I set the "overdrive" to almost none and max out the "volume" on the overdrive pedal. I'd much prefer this to a compressor pedal in front of an amp in a metal context.
Now, if you want to talk about clean guitars in metal, then yeah, I'd totally recommend a compressor pedal before or after the amp.
*EDIT* I forgot to mention that I have used a compressor pedal before the amp on lead guitars.
in all my presets you'll see a comp in front of the amp, but it's not used all the time..
I do this tone morphing thing so an XP morphs dirty tones to clean.. when the XP is heel down the comp mix = 100%, as to XP moves to toe down the mix control moves to 0%. so the dirty tone has the compressor out and as the tone cleans the compressor gradually strengthens..
Cool idea about the expression pedal morphing thing. That's a nifty trick.
Hey Clark, could you possibly do a quick Tut on this. I just got a mission pedal. My guitar teacher does this with his EB expression and goes between 2 amps seamlessly clean and dirty. Would love to pull this off with my axe