Joe Bfstplk
Axe-Master
Ok, so I was going through my new MacBook looking for why the HDD was 3/4 full, got distracted, and dallied in the "Recordings" folder a bit. Added some AI drums to a demo I had thrown together a few years ago with just the metronome instead of MIDI drums, and I found a bunch of odd-meter accented stuff going on, which gave "Aidan" a bit of "thinking" to do, but ended up with a really good sounding demo. Going to have to start recording more with just the metronome, in case more cool odd-meter stuff pops out....
Anyhoo, after that, I dug up a session I'd put together a few years ago, of a song I originally wrote in the early '90s sometime, but never got around to recording with the band. It was recorded using S-Gear. I then remembered that it recorded dry guitar and pumped it through the plug-in. I replaced the MIDI programmed drums with "Kyle", who "played" exactly what I needed to hear once directed to listen to the rhythm guitar, then I dumped the mix to a file.
Finally, I set about re-amping the guitar through the AxeFX3. I used my new favorite bass preset (the SVT2 and Ampeg 4x10), and had to drop the dry level on the bass track quite a bit, due to having recorded it a bit hot. Once I got that dialed in, fat, warm, slightly furry bass emerged. I landed on the perfect guitar sounds in an existing preset made for one of my other songs, so it didn't take long to replace them all. Rhythm guitar went through the 6G4 Super, with Rotary, a couple riff guitars also through the 6G4, but without the Rotary, and finally, the superb Friedman Small Box for the solo. The track went from sounding like a pretty good demo of the song with the guitars through the S-Gear to sounding 100% radio-ready with the Axe-FX3 re-amping them.
Now I have to dig out the lyric sheet and sing the silly thing....
Bravo, Fractal FolksI
Anyhoo, after that, I dug up a session I'd put together a few years ago, of a song I originally wrote in the early '90s sometime, but never got around to recording with the band. It was recorded using S-Gear. I then remembered that it recorded dry guitar and pumped it through the plug-in. I replaced the MIDI programmed drums with "Kyle", who "played" exactly what I needed to hear once directed to listen to the rhythm guitar, then I dumped the mix to a file.
Finally, I set about re-amping the guitar through the AxeFX3. I used my new favorite bass preset (the SVT2 and Ampeg 4x10), and had to drop the dry level on the bass track quite a bit, due to having recorded it a bit hot. Once I got that dialed in, fat, warm, slightly furry bass emerged. I landed on the perfect guitar sounds in an existing preset made for one of my other songs, so it didn't take long to replace them all. Rhythm guitar went through the 6G4 Super, with Rotary, a couple riff guitars also through the 6G4, but without the Rotary, and finally, the superb Friedman Small Box for the solo. The track went from sounding like a pretty good demo of the song with the guitars through the S-Gear to sounding 100% radio-ready with the Axe-FX3 re-amping them.
Now I have to dig out the lyric sheet and sing the silly thing....
Bravo, Fractal FolksI