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Thanks, really cool noise effect with the multi-delay too
A few guys in the Ax8 forum brought up an old video I did on getting more gain out of your Axe-Fx using the compressor so I posted another video along the lines of the last compression video, but with a few more cool things. I didn't realize how similar it was to the other video I did on compression, so I'm sorry if some of it seems to repeat itself. Some cool stuff in there though if you have a spare 20+ minutes. Worst case scenario, you can have a laugh at my accent and silliness.
So, now the inevitable ... would you ever do another compression vid for "cleans"? Perhaps not your bag, but between your willingness to make a video, and it's on the AxeFX, I'd appreciate the lesson. You can see the demand here for your mad skilz ...
And, if not Danny, anyone who understand the FAS products to offer their experience, is always highly welcome to share.
Hey Danny. Dig the Haas vid so much. I love that wide sound, and am always playing around with my delays in this same way. I'm mostly a live player, and I'm in a single guitar band, so I'm always chasing the widest, fattest tone I get get live, since I'm in a 3 piece band.
Question: do you try to emulate that live? Most sound guys frown at this stuff, but I've found that if I use Haas delay live, it has no real negative consequence for people who stand on the side or in front of one PA main, but if you are standing in the middle of the room, and hear both sides, you get that wide stereo effect live and it sounds great. What is your live approach?
Great videos, Danny! I can't see me breaking that sound out at my church gig this weekend - but I *so* want to! Hope you do decide to do a similar video from a bluesy/single-coil perspective. I'm sure it would be incredible.
Peace, brother!
Thanks! A word of advice man.....no rock in church EVER! Quick story for you...
So I get asked to play some guitar in my church years ago because one of the guys went away for a while or something. I figured cool...this will be fun. I show up with my acoustic and really have a nice time. They were a great band and the singers were awesome. So the next week, I decide to go early so I could set up and wanted to record myself in church before anyone got there. The acoustics in my church are off the hook man!
So I go in, set up, start to warm up a bit and run my little recorder. I play back a little and love the sound of it. I play a bunch of little songs of my own and then decide to play Ozzy's Diary of a Madman. I absolutely love the acoustic guitar parts in that song! I'm playing it...and it sounds beautiful! My guitar is filling up the church and I'm getting chills from it....and then everything went black.
I didn't know what happened, but when I came to my senses, 4 people were looking down at me saying "you ok....you ok...here, let us help you". I sit up and say "what happened?" The leader of the band says "the cello must have fallen over and hit you pretty hard, you were out cold when we got here!" LOL!!
There was a beautiful cello next to where I was playing. I never in a million years thought it would have fallen on me. When I got home that day, I listened back to the little recording I made. In the middle of me playing Diary, you here this bang followed by UH and then you hear several thuds and my guitar playing an open chord. LOL! I guess God wasn't crazy about that song....but honest I was playing it good! I would have thought even He would have enjoyed that!
Yeah you know it's funny, I can use just about any amp with that cab IR that I used in the vid. I was asking guitarmike (I think it was him) what amp he was using that was making his fret noise come out more, but he never told me. I can just switch to the more blues oriented amps and they all sound great without me doing much of anything. The only things I usually touch are low cut, high boost or add a bit more drive. I don't touch anything else and the blues type amps sound killer to me. So I mean I could do a vid on that, but I'd not know what to show you other than "hey, listen to this amp...now listen to this one.." and just go through them to show you how the blues or light/hard rock type amps sound.
Peace to you too!
LOL! I'll wind up sharing the thing at some point....I guess I'm just embarrassed and sort of have a complex about turning over my naked tones.
Glad ya liked it, thanks! Answer to your question...
Wide can be the death of you live the same as it can be in a studio environment. The wider you go, the more disconnected from the mix you can be. And being live, if you play in stereo, only you can hear that. Your soundman is most likely running a mono rig. So that means....yep, your big wide sound is phased through the mains. Even if you had a stereo mains mix at the board, people on one side of the room will hear one side, the other people...the other. So running in stereo is really a waste of time unless you are really doing it right.
For example, when I tour overseas, we use major concert systems for our back line. They got like 97 trillion gigawats of power or some crap...lol...all the dudes running the monitors and mains wear headsets to communicate....it's sickness man! When I play those shows, yeah, I go stereo and even use a cool little rack by Behringer called Edison. When you put it last in line as your final effect, it makes all the stereo effects before it sound insane. It's like a stereo imager that just enhances anything you have going on in stereo. So in situations like that, yeah I'll use the HAAS effect or maybe a light chorus and then the Edison brings it to life. I usually have 4-25 way greenback cabs with me and a few cabs on each side as side fills or monitors or whatever. I'm easy with stuff like that. I wish I could use in-ear monitors...but they annoy me.
So we talked about live....in the studio, if you go for these super wide sounds, you are literally disconnecting your guitar from the mix. The same with drums that pan all over the place and have wideners on them. There's nothing worse than a freaking crash cymbal panned 100% left and toms that pan so hard, they walk over top of the wall of guitars. I just hate anything that sounds wide unless there is a reason or special effect purpose.
You will notice that if you don't use the wide stuff both live and in the studio, you will hit so much harder with your stuff. I'm serious man...try it. Ever hear something completely mono that just sounds great? One a mix of something coming out of one speaker that makes you shake your head? Chances are, that mix is not using super wide pans or any stereo enhancement type gizmos. If you have a nice spread that doesn't go crazy to the point of phasing and use effects sparingly, you will always have more impact in your sounds as well as in your mix for both live and the studio...I promise you.
See man, the problem with this stuff is...people confuse wide with "big". There is a difference. Something wide is just....something wide. The sound doesn't grow...it just spreads. AND....this sound really only makes us go crazy for it in headphones. In a real situation, it's just bad if you're not careful. Big has to do with eq and sound delivery. That's what makes a sound large. The sound size itself...not how wide it goes or how much cool chorus we can add...or how the delay may be set up to do the HAAS thing. We need the sound itself to stand tall on its own without anything.
A trebly tone is going to remain trebly even if we HAAS it or use a widener, ya know? We've done nothing to the actual sound to make it grow. We made it spread. Now, if you decrease that treble to where it doesn't sound like a little bee buzzing around, add some good mids, make sure the right low end is there and the bad low end is removed, you are literally growing the sound in both size and volume because now, you can literally make it louder when things are set as they should be. The same with a really loud mix in the studio. You have to mix for loud...and to do that, you have to have all the frequencies just right. The better things coexist together, the more fidelity you get so you can turn things up. Same with your guitar tone. When it's eq'd just right, it just gets better. Keep some of this in mind the next time you mess around. See if it helps any.
A few guys in the Ax8 forum brought up an old video I did on getting more gain out of your Axe-Fx using the compressor so I posted another video along the lines of the last compression video, but with a few more cool things. I didn't realize how similar it was to the other video I did on compression, so I'm sorry if some of it seems to repeat itself. Some cool stuff in there though if you have a spare 20+ minutes. Worst case scenario, you can have a laugh at my accent and silliness.
Thank for sharing D!!
If you wouldn't mind I'd love to check out how you set a few of your chorus, and reverb.
And let's hear some of those chops bro...I've heard you killing it a million times back in the day. Wanna hear if you still got it
Hi Danny, thanks again for one of the most informative videos I have ever seen on the AxeFx. I have a question for you about some of the tricks you show on your videos, I've watched all of them. Specifically, compression with gain (like on this video), and also the very subtle Reverb block that you use. Do you use these two techniques (tricks) on your live patches? I am very specially curious about that reverb block as set on your Cab Block settings video.