what's up guys got here today I'm gonna
show you how it's possible to create a
great guitar sound using completely free
plugins across the board now there are
tons of free plug-ins and impulse
response packs and yada yada yada and
it's easy to get lost with all the pre
options that you have however in this
video I'm gonna show you exactly how you
can get this sound
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alright let's get started so first thing
you need to do is you're going to need
to download all the files now I've gone
through the trouble and I've congregated
all the files together in one archive so
you can download them so the folder is
right here is you're seeing on my screen
and you're gonna get the included files
for Windows or Mac and you're gonna get
basically an installation package for
the newest version of the real plugs
you're gonna get the egg 9 amps ts-990 9
the emissary and NAND IR which are also
from MIG 9 amps you're gonna get the W 1
limiter and the guitar impulse so I've
got the session open here in Sona with
the plug-in chain that we're gonna use
and again I've opted to use completely
free plugins to make this guitar down so
anyone with any DAW it's not going to
matter
first up in line here we have the TS 9 9
9 this is basically igniting amps answer
to the ts808 I use the TSE 808 for years
but you know after a while I just wanted
to try something different I found on TS
999 it worked really well for me if
you'd like to experiment obviously use
the TSE 808 or whatever else you want to
use because also try using the TSB one
which is also from nick 9 amps on the
site the drive is set to 0 Toland
straight down the middle and levels also
straight down the middle bat and a sim
are turned off also one thing remember
that when you bounce your stems out for
example you're done recording your
guitar thing you're bouncing out you
want to click this double arrow down
here and set the over sampling to 8 X
for the best quality but when you're
tracking keep it on 2 X keep latency low
after that we have reappear now RIA fear
is an amazing tool from the reaper depth
from the reaper depth team it has a lot
of purposes but we're actually going to
be using it specifically for noise
reduction by using the subtract function
of reappear we're able to actually
minimize some of this nonsense that
comes sooo that our tone when we input
the TS nine nine nine
the digital gunk stuff happens because
in my case I probably have some bad
shielding in my guitar you can alleviate
a lot of these problems that you're
having with a good good cables be
shielding in a DI box with a ground lips
which I have all of the above except my
guitars not shielded so I still have a
little bit of noise so the reason we put
this after the overdrive pedal is
because it's at the point where the
digital noise is going to be amplified
because of the over the TS 999 okay if
you've got perfect electricity and
everything's grounding your guitar is
properly shielded you probably won't
even need this after that is the real
game primarily just to keep my sanity so
that when I'm not playing I don't hear
the little bit of noise hiss going into
my headphones I just set mine here to
minus 55 DB with the release of 15
milliseconds I'll actually remove this
when I bounce out stems and I'll
manually slice silence if there is any I
don't know I just use the gate when I'm
tracking
after that is our emissary so another
one from ignite amps actually this has
become my go to high gain amp over the
past year so prior to this I was an avid
fan of the le 4 5 6 anyway all we have
to do here is just activate the red
channel and nothing else I decided to
leave everything at noon and we'll do
our shaping with the EQ instead again
when you're done tracking remember to
set the over sampling down here to 8 X
for the final balance for the best
quality after that the NAG ir this is
our impulse response loader again from
ignite amps if you're still using the
cab I would really really suggest that
you start using NAND IR look have will
get the job done but I just prefer NAT
IR again here up on the right when
you're done tracking and you're bouncing
set their quality to extreme and finally
we're going to use the RIA EQ so so
second plug-in from the Reaper dudes
excellent EQ to use and being that it's
free it's going to be super excellent
and it's going to be our EQ of choice
we're going to talk more specifically
about the EQ moves in a second
now talking about the recording change
specifically my guitar a very important
part of this gets lost in the mix on
YouTube and it's actually you know what
kind of guitar are using what kind of
gear are you using if you have a $5,000
guitar but you take a cheap cable and
you plug it directly into the back of
your computer you know with the line in
out port you're gonna have a bad time no
matter what conversely if you take I
don't know an average guitar like what I
have and you have decent to good gear
for your single thing you're gonna get a
very usable sound in my case as I said
my guitar is a 7 string Ibanez Gio grg
72 21 this is just a budget level 7
string I have made no changes to it
since I bought it it's got stock pickup
stock everything the only thing I do is
I change the strings which actually did
a buddy about a week ago I'm and the
crevice and the type of strings I use
I'm a lifelong Ernie Ball user and
because it's a bit hard to find seven
string sets here actually just buy an
eight string set they're called eight
string slinky Ernie ball and I just keep
the 74 gauge for I don't know I just
keep it honest to be like throwing away
but essentially I'm playing tens with
the low B being a 64 gauge and I'm tuned
for this particular check that we're
gonna look at I'm tuned east angered
with the beat from my guitar I have a
monster cable M rock that plugs into my
behringer di 100 alter di with minus 20
DB attenuation and then the grounding is
activated from there just just angle
standard XLR cable into my focusrite
scarlett 2i2 audio interface the first
generation with the line selector since
we're coming from the VI box now my
levels into the dollar just when you're
looking at it just at the top of the
green bottom with the orange you know
and you do this when you're slamming the
strings as hard as you can
so this particular change fixes a lot of
the audio problems I was having earlier
I was picking up the radio with my
guitar which obviously you know it's bad
shielding I'm looking for a guitar tech
who can fix that
but I also had a lot of other digital
gunk because I'm in an old Soviet
apartment building built in the 1960s
and so the electricity situation here is
not the best but
the really good cables in the DI box I
have minimized a lot of my noise so now
I just have to fix my actual guitar so
I'm sure you're sitting there judging me
harshly because I haven't yet told you
which impulse are going to use I just
called it the guitar impulse well relax
there matey because I'm gonna tell you
what it is now so the impulse actually
comes from an ultimate metal user by the
name of reg Lang for he posted it back
in July of 2012 this specific one we
were using in the video is the Telos RV
SEF IR because it has the SP 70 and the
MD 421 combination and this is basically
like the mainstay for metal guitars it's
a combination used everywhere all the
time you can follow the link in the
description to download it directly from
this post if you want but you don't need
to because you're gonna get it with the
archive file that you download from my
archive so now that we've addressed I'll
see the recording chain the plugging
chain how gear effects quality and the
impulse let's talk about exactly how
we're going to do this with the EQ
so you remember that we didn't touch any
of the knobs on the emissary in that I
told you we were gonna shape our song
with EQ only you also noticed that I
clogged tracked guitars and I don't do
this all the time but because the song
is so bare there's no other instruments
going on I just had the quad track for
to make it sound bigger and also share
with you guys a cool EQ trick or
technique that I've seen on YouTube by
other youtubers and I've just sort of
refined it from my guitar and my tastes
so we're just gonna make very basic EQ
moves now as I show you these settings
again I didn't just pick these out of
thin air or copy what somebody else on
YouTube did I have a whole video talking
about EQ sweeping and how I found out
what frequencies I want to cut or where
I want to low-pass and such so please
check out the EQ sweeping tutorial after
this or before this whatever you want to
do I talked in detail how I found these
frequencies okay first our hard left and
hard right guitars we're gonna be making
standard cuts and in the case of my
guitar I did the following I've got a
high-pass filter at 100 Hertz with a Q
of 2 or bandwidth of two whatever I have
a 1 DB cut at 200 I have a pretty decent
mid sweep around the 789 range with
again it's again on the Q of two just 6
DB cut and finally I have a low pass at
12 ok now you're gonna want to copy this
executive you setting for the other
guitar that is hard pan so the best EQ
setting is only for the hard pan guitars
okay now for the tracks that we paying
70% nothing right we're gonna approach
the EQ bit differently now the last
thing we want to do is start overloading
the highs ok when you start quad
tracking like this and even double
tracking you're gonna overload some
frequency ranges that are just gonna
kill your ears lows and highs
specifically and mids so this time
around we're going to take out more of
the high frequencies and cut at a
different spot in the mids this kind of
EQ technique will create separation from
each guitar so you have 4 guitar parts
that are played but you have to separate
eq's on both sides of your ears right
both sides of the painting 0 and it'll
blend together and you'll create a
bigger sound this way so the first thing
that I did was I did a high pass again
and a hunger hurts just works well for
my guitar ok maybe you can high pass at
night near maybe you have two high pass
it you know 120 depends you know when
you're tuning in your guitar and
everything
then we're gonna be taking out some 200
again cuz my guitar really likes that
200 range it gets really muddy and boo
me there and this time around I'm gonna
take out mids at about the 570 range you
know a little bit more of a cut it's
around 7 DB the queue still stays at 2
now this time I'm not going to make a
low pass at 12 I Mexican to make a low
pass at 2 to 3 K in this case to case
under the best for me we didn't do a lot
to these guitars we just did some EQ
shaping here now there are still some
things that I'm that I was hearing that
I did not like so now we move on to the
EQ surgery aspect of this and we can do
this on the bus so take all four of your
guitar tracks and send them to a bus or
a group or whatever it is in your top
because now that we have a son that we
like we can start doing like the
surgical work we're like ooh this EQ I
don't like this frequency uh so I made
two small cuts the first cut was at 5:04
just you know a little 2 DB cut there
was just some extra mid-range and
resonance coming that I didn't like so I
cut out just a little bit of it
the next credit meg was in the
now-infamous 4k section I didn't take
address to cut here because if you
actually cut too much 4k or too much of
this range you will kill the excitement
of your tone so I just pulled out Justin
up here too you know it's so it's not
annoying for me now because we're making
all these cuts the side effect is that
we get a tone that sounds dark right you
know like under a pillow when one could
say to fix that we have to bring you in
another EQ and we do need to do a little
bit of a high shelf starting from around
two three or four K I know it's kind of
productive where it seems
counterproductive but raising a high
shelf just a little bit even like 1 dB
or in my case 2 and 1/2 DB it's night
and day difference
now here's a little nice tip to help you
bring some more wipe to your guitars so
when you do this and depending on how
hot you're recording to your doc maybe
your guitars are really low in the mix
right and you want to bring them up but
you don't want to use the fader here's a
little trick you can actually use the W
one limiter which is a clone an exact
clone of the waves l1 limiter and l1 is
very popular it's completely free and
part of the download that you're gonna
get actually so by bringing the
threshold down you're gonna increase the
volume but you're also going to decrease
the dynamic range in metal guitars it's
not really a big deal if there's no
dynamic range you're gonna you're gonna
bring down the threshold increase volume
and decrease dynamic range so this is
actually the extent of the guitar
processing that we're gonna do I bet
it's not nearly as much as you thought
would be doing now a few things to
remember the bass guitar is important
don't neglect it and don't try to make
your guitar a bass guitar you know
anything I can release get rid of
anything below in Hungary on guitars
because that's what bass guitars for
okay now always EQ in the context of the
song that you're working on you can find
a certain particular back frequency and
good in solo mode with a guitar if your
resonance hunting but if you're trying
to like do tone shaping you really want
to listen to the song as you're doing
this with a guitar you don't have to
quad track if you don't want to I
usually don't I just thought I would try
something new for this video and of
course the tighter and better you play
guitar parts the bigger it's gonna sound
so tighter equals bigger okay
tighter bigger and finally experiment
with your own EQ and different plugins
and what so on and so on
I've just shown you the technique if
your copy my settings and your guitar
it's not gonna work I've only shown you
the technique so take the technique and
apply it to your situation alright that
does it for this one guys I'm gonna go
ahead here in the end of the video I'm
gonna a be a lot of the different sounds
that you can get for example I'll have
the the song played just with mastered
audio unmastered audio guitars only
guitars with bass guitars without bass
all that will be in the time stamp below
so you can skip around and listen to
which file you want to hear first or you
can just listen to them alright and row
it's up to you but anyway
if you found this video useful consider
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from me thanks a lot guys the support is
awesome all the new subs I've been
getting lately it's really really
motivating for me so thanks a lot all
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