Yeah, 3ms latency equals moving one meter back away from your speakers. Hell, I can't hear the latency on my interface when it's set to 96ms let alone 3ms.
Posts by nakedzen
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More Dual Rectifier profiles in the OP.
This time I used my Golden Age Pre-73 mic preamp instead of going straight into the KPA. I think this made quite a big difference. There's far more cut, presence and clarity on the profiles, imo.
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So, anyone tried the Mako F profiles? Quitty, you promised a review.
I can't make the profiles better with zero feedback.
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Take the gate out of the chain while profiling. Try multiple mic positions. Just stick the SM57 straight into the Kemper without anything in between. Do a profile, play it, tweak your settings and mic position, do another profile. Repeat until you're sick of it. Use band volume for the amp to get the speakers moving. You don't need to touch the eq on the kemper during profiling.
Here's a lot of info:
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Thanks for posting this. His lead lines are always so damn tasty.
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Very good!
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I change to a different profile that has been tweaked to have more midrange, less bass, slightly more volume and either the delay or loop turned on. Then again, I only use two profiles, crunch and lead, during a gig.
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Man, that was funny! Am I hearing some Arcturus influence at 1:40?
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Where's Sansamp PSA-1 and AMT?
(They're not digital, I know)
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I like it. Minor tweaks: kick needs more click to punch through, guitars could be a bit brighter, snare needs more body. Intro has woofy sub lows, put a high pass at 40-50 Hz to reduce this.
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...I hope this message finds you well.
AndyWhere's the "like" button?
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Well I do agree with you strongly that it's better to use your ears than eyes, since eyes will fool you. (Tweak an eq with your eyes for half an hour and then notice it's not even turned on the track is a good example. :D) "Mmm, what a great eq this is, so transparent."
Just a suggestion for him to get an idea how a parametric works so it's not complete hebrew+010110110011 to him.
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great tips, i really would like to get my head around eq. the para eq looks like the matrix to me
Get a free vst parametric eq that has a graphic display (paragraphic) and play around with it. Much easier to understand what you're doing with a visual aid.
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I uploaded my attempt at getting close to the Amon Amarth "Surtur Rising" album tone. Clip in op.
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A huge +1 to this.
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Here's my short list of eq for guitar (bear in mind I do metal/rock/punk):
<60Hz Cut everything, this is just noise
80-120 Hz depending on how you want your low end to sound, either cut here, or boost slightly. This is where the punch of the bass guitar and kick drum lives. So you could do it like bass guitar 80 Hz, kick 100 Hz, guitar 110 Hz or any other combination of those. Or you can use the same freq for all of them to create an illusion of a huge punchy low end for the guitars. (You'll probably need to compress the low end with a multiband comp if you do this).
250-320 Hz the mud/warmth region, cut here for more clarity, cut too much and you lose warmth. Add here to make sterile and cold sounding guitars more warm.
400-800 Hz, lower midrange, either cut or boost here depending on if you guitar mix needs more power/mass/body. Cutting at 750-850 Hz. will give room for the bass guitar to come through the mix clearly, and make it more powerful sounding for smaller speaker systems.
1kHz-2kHz More definition, up frontness. Too much, and it sounds like a cocked wah pedal.
4-6 kHz boost here for more "in your face" bite. Too much, and it becomes knife-in-ear. Very easy to go overboard here.
8-10 kHz for more "air".Those are just general regions on where to look for a specific frequency, don't use the whole area. Like boosting at 5.5 kHz with a high q-value (=narrow band) for about 2 dB for more bite. Less is more, and always rather cut than boost. (Boosting raises the noise). Want more cutting and bright tone? Cut below 80 Hz, at 280 Hz and at 750 Hz. Your mix now sounds brighter without any boosting.
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Well, there lies my problem with shelling out money blindly. Because to me that sounds you didn't tweak the duller sounding profiles, but went for the ones that sat in your particular mix the best without tweaking. Meaning TAF profiles have already been tweaked with an outboard eq to sit in a mix during tracking. Most (if not all) of the hobbyist free profiles do not have this.
I'm just extremely cynical about any claims of superior quality in audio in general, since it's entirely subjective what is "good". So much of it depends on what you have been listening to before you hear a particular sound, since that's what the brain will be comparing it to. Do an A/B/C comparison, first in order of A-B-C, then C-B-A, and you'll most likely change your preference on what was the best sounding. Then we also tend to prefer anything that is new, before we get accustomed with its sound, and start looking for the next "best thing ever".
Generally we tend to prefer brighter sounds with a scooped midrange to more warm and "dull" sounds, when doing simple A/B comparison. Then there's the whole thing about placebo too. (People paying for "fraqile harmonics", fridge magnets on power cords and cryo-treated tubes etc.)
So every time I hear the words "this is heads and tails above the rest" regarding audio quality I get pretty wary.