Brock
Experienced
It seems quite a few of us are interested in replicating Petrucci’s tone. Multiple refrigerator-sized housings with thousands of dollars of gear, accurately replicated by this comparably tiny, affordable, reliable, and un-needy black box. Dig!
I thought it’d be fun to have a contest. People have posted their renditions along the way, but usually without the context of supporting tracks (AKA a mix), or too much context (e.g., playing along with the original record making it difficult to discern your tone versus that on the recording). Let’s level the playing field! Like this:
Here’s a link to a higher fidelity file of my contribution.
The Axe-Fx II (FW 13.02) patches I used :
The nitty-gritty of what I did for those interested: I found a MIDI file of “Pull Me Under”, imported it into Cubase, assigned the drums to Superior Drummer and the bass to Kontakt 8’s Scarbee library. I did minor re-mapping and editing to the drums. I didn’t use most of the MIDI tracks, and you’ll generally find most of the keyboards are undermixed - this was on purpose so the guitar tones are more prominent.
I thought it’d be fun to have a contest. People have posted their renditions along the way, but usually without the context of supporting tracks (AKA a mix), or too much context (e.g., playing along with the original record making it difficult to discern your tone versus that on the recording). Let’s level the playing field! Like this:
- Download the backing track here.
- Record your guitar parts on top of the backing track
- Click here for transcriptions of the guitar parts (in .pdf format), taken from Ultimate Guitar - I checked enough to make sure the parts are there, and that’s it. I chose ones that got good user reviews.
- Post your mix in this thread
- Please, no post-Fractal effects (e.g. EQing, compressing, or whatever else in the DAW)
- Post your Fractal patches in this thread (along with notes where applicable, see below)
Here’s a link to a higher fidelity file of my contribution.
The Axe-Fx II (FW 13.02) patches I used :
- Solo! - Scene 1 (Extern1 input volume, Extern2 reverb/delay levels); Scene 2 add Drive in front of amp, Extern1 Wah; Scene 3 same 2 but Extern1 Whammy
- Crunch Time - Scene 1 General sound; Scene 2 add chorus; Scene 3 Scooped for low notes; same as 3 add chorus
- Spark Lee - Scene 1 General choro-clean; Scene 2 add echoes and huge reverb; Scene 3 add “crystals”
The nitty-gritty of what I did for those interested: I found a MIDI file of “Pull Me Under”, imported it into Cubase, assigned the drums to Superior Drummer and the bass to Kontakt 8’s Scarbee library. I did minor re-mapping and editing to the drums. I didn’t use most of the MIDI tracks, and you’ll generally find most of the keyboards are undermixed - this was on purpose so the guitar tones are more prominent.
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first sounds very dry sterile and a bit wimpy, the playing is great nonetheless, and since I cant play DT well, I might throw some sounds up with maybe even backing tracks (though I suck at recording too) but I have lotsa tweeked dt type sounds. thanks for the thread, and VITOR you better, youve been promising , baiting and switching, and teasing for weeks 