FWIW Ample Sound guitars are on my list to try next, as soon as I'm done messing with drums. I'm pretty certain I'm going to get the tone I'm looking for. Whether I'll be able to play it or sequence it convincingly is to be determined.
There are two tones I'm after..
1. Punk guitar.
Distorted, but the tone is distinct and even smooth-ish. Importantly, guitar needs to be front-and-center for lead. It can be a bigger, wider sound for rhythm, but lead needs to be mixed like vocals. In fact, pop punk tends to alternate guitar and vocals, because they occupy the same space sonically and melodically.
Excluding the play styles and amp settings that I don't like in the ujam guitars, there is almost nothing that is front-and-center. Even when you narrow these sounds, they tend to be scooped, and somehow evasive of that front-and-center place in the mix.
I tried coming at the punk guitar sound in Iron by leaning on the clean end of the amp settings, and Iron still sounded metallic and gritty. It sounds like its interface looks. The perfect presentation for the product. It's a great sound, but not what I'm looking for.
I also tried to come at it from the distorted end of Sparkle. The Sparkle amps sound great on the edge of breakup, but not beyond. And this plugin also evaded that front-and-center sound. And like Iron, it also had whole groups of setting I didn't like because the "realistic guitar noises" were too uniform and didn't get out of the way, ever.
2. heavy metal
There's a guy named Ola Englund who gets the same tone out of all the gear he plays. It's a deep, smooth roar. That's the metal tone I'm after. All the vst guitars I've tried, and definitely the amp sims, achieve a gritty, heavy tone, and not a deep, smooth roar. Not what I'm after.
There are two tones I'm after..
1. Punk guitar.
Distorted, but the tone is distinct and even smooth-ish. Importantly, guitar needs to be front-and-center for lead. It can be a bigger, wider sound for rhythm, but lead needs to be mixed like vocals. In fact, pop punk tends to alternate guitar and vocals, because they occupy the same space sonically and melodically.
Excluding the play styles and amp settings that I don't like in the ujam guitars, there is almost nothing that is front-and-center. Even when you narrow these sounds, they tend to be scooped, and somehow evasive of that front-and-center place in the mix.
I tried coming at the punk guitar sound in Iron by leaning on the clean end of the amp settings, and Iron still sounded metallic and gritty. It sounds like its interface looks. The perfect presentation for the product. It's a great sound, but not what I'm looking for.
I also tried to come at it from the distorted end of Sparkle. The Sparkle amps sound great on the edge of breakup, but not beyond. And this plugin also evaded that front-and-center sound. And like Iron, it also had whole groups of setting I didn't like because the "realistic guitar noises" were too uniform and didn't get out of the way, ever.
2. heavy metal
There's a guy named Ola Englund who gets the same tone out of all the gear he plays. It's a deep, smooth roar. That's the metal tone I'm after. All the vst guitars I've tried, and definitely the amp sims, achieve a gritty, heavy tone, and not a deep, smooth roar. Not what I'm after.
Statistics: Posted by Liz Gupton — Mon Oct 28, 2024 1:35 am