Brian Greco
Inspired
Hey everyone,
So, I’ve been in the process of tone matching some of my presets so that I can post them on Axe-Change. I have to do this because I often use third-party impulse responses, and as you all know this is a no no.
I recently posted a thread somewhere, but there were no responses.
Here is the issue: I noticed that 10 out of 10 times after my tone match is complete, it sounds more dull, as if it’s lost some import tonal characteristics in the original preset. It’s pretty interesting when you A/B The original preset with the tone match preset.
So, basically, I want to know if there is a way to bring back some of that “grit” and fullness-basically tonal characteristics-that you lose with distorted tones, post tone matching. I have of course been trying my best with EQ’ing and, to some extent, the exciter block.
Unfortunately, I would imagine that once the tone matching process takes place, you can’t get back what you lost in your tone, whether it’s due to some EQ curve issue, compression or even a loss of information during the TM process.
Why is this really important to me? Well, I’ve come up with some nice tones, which I want to share. However, they just don’t sound as good.
I know that I can attempt to find a stock IR to take the place of a third-party one that I am using, but then it won’t be the same tone, even after read tweaking.
As always, any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Brian
So, I’ve been in the process of tone matching some of my presets so that I can post them on Axe-Change. I have to do this because I often use third-party impulse responses, and as you all know this is a no no.
I recently posted a thread somewhere, but there were no responses.
Here is the issue: I noticed that 10 out of 10 times after my tone match is complete, it sounds more dull, as if it’s lost some import tonal characteristics in the original preset. It’s pretty interesting when you A/B The original preset with the tone match preset.
So, basically, I want to know if there is a way to bring back some of that “grit” and fullness-basically tonal characteristics-that you lose with distorted tones, post tone matching. I have of course been trying my best with EQ’ing and, to some extent, the exciter block.
Unfortunately, I would imagine that once the tone matching process takes place, you can’t get back what you lost in your tone, whether it’s due to some EQ curve issue, compression or even a loss of information during the TM process.
Why is this really important to me? Well, I’ve come up with some nice tones, which I want to share. However, they just don’t sound as good.
I know that I can attempt to find a stock IR to take the place of a third-party one that I am using, but then it won’t be the same tone, even after read tweaking.
As always, any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Brian