we started this video in Poland and now
we are somehow in the Sahara finishing it do
you know this guy ? Who is this guy ?
Yo whats up, Ady the Sound Guy here from hit the road music
studio, a mobile record studio we are
traveling the world and record bands
from everywhere .. does it make sense ? anyway I
will guide you today through the process
how I rerecord some guitars for my own
track called "Aggressive authority"
I rewrote the lyrics, made them more
fitting into this times and the track
was recorded last year it - was the first
time I ever recorded drums with all
kinds of mics that I found so I will
guide you through the guitar recording
process this time, first time in my life
I will use virtual amps the PRS models
from waves so I don't know how it will
work out but I just can't wait to go to
Berlin and play my Marshall - we will use
this time virtual amps [Uaaaah]
alright here we are and please have a
listen how it sounds now
we have a lot of work to do here -
definitely a lot of work to do
Out of Rhythm - this is one of the guitars I like to rerecord - yeah basically
I think I will redo all the guitars with
virtual amps so let's check it out how
it works
[Intro Riff is playing]
some cable [paff] audio interface and the
guitar the first thing in the manual is
that you need to di box you have to
bring your guitar level to a good signal
to really drive the virtual amp so keep
this in mind
[Click]
[Dynamite Explosion]
[Concrete Exlposion]
[Stupid explosion noise from Ady]
[Intro Riff Playing]
I think we have to do all guitars new
and we will do it with the PRS modeling
today and you will .. I will just stop
talking and you can follow the process
in the video what I'm doing now and how
to dial in the amps and it's the first
time for me so let's see what happens
[Heavy metal guitar is playing - checking riffs on all strings and all register as well as heavy chords]
so thanks for tuning in let's dive into
the mixing process I will show you the
different setups basically I double
tracked the intro riff - it's a little bit more
sloppy and more like punk metal guitar
player more this Dimebag style and not
super clean classic metal on the point
it's a little bit boring for me and
rhythm guitars a tracked four times in
different size then we have the guitar
solo - I tried the Joe Perry
method to put like more solos in
different times but it was too much here
I wanted a very punchy one, then I
will show you a little bit the reverbs
how I placed them and the extra parallel
compression and why I like it so much. so
let's have a listen - here I have the same
settings for the guitars because I used
different pickups, one the bridge, once the
neck pickup, to differentiate the sound
So the knobs stay as they are, I really like it
Plus I got the API560 there to get the Bass out
don't be scared to cut the bass
automatically you have more presence so
let's check out the Rhythm Guitars
first this two here, they are panned a bit to the left and to the right - the other ones
are a bit mooore to the left and to the right
And heeere I use the same bridge pickup and make
the changes with the equalizer it's this typical early 90s Metallica bathtub
setting - push the bass, cut the middle, put the treble and here also, lot of
bass
and we are more in this high mids
This Tight Crunchiness
- Now we have 4 tracks
and check what is happening here
and here again, I used once the
bridge pickup, once the neck pickup
And spread also more in the field, so we have a big wall of .. of guitars
two of them together .. you can hear reverse reverb (in the back)
so .. that the solo can shine
I put some unusual ranges, littl bit low's
well
this low mids are helping for the presence of the solo
and the 7 K
here I push a lot of treble & middle
to shine through this wall of ..
wall of guitars ! Let's checked the reverb
how I place them, you hear it's a very
delicate reverb and basically I put
guitars to play on the right and push
them then on the left reverb channel for
the Reverb here I used the H-Reverb but any reverb will do with a little pre Delay
I always damp the lows otherwise you
will have a lot of muddiness in there and
here I took out the best frequency for
guitars - the 1k because I felt the 1k is
already super present
when I push it up it will take the
punchiness of the guitars out
yeah I like to spread reverbs a little
bit don't use exactly the same on both
sides to give a better view a better
idea of space a unique space to make it
sound a bit more real - lets give it back
so listen to it without reverb - pretty
dry
let's give it a space back here - and at the
end I put the
Parallel compression
I put all guitar tracks there, in general Guitars are
anyway compressed
so I just add it a little bit just to smooth
it out and make it even more punchy and
more to the point -Clearer - sometimes I
sidechain this Channel, let's say with the
voice so the voice will shine and when
the voice disappear even more guitars
will come into your face - I talk about
1 dB 2 dB just a little bit just
something extra and that's it
I hope you will lose your fear of
virtual apps and will try it at home
please let me know what you think
So what do you think? Will you start to use
virtual guitar amps ? leave a comment and
let me know ... [Laughing] [camera lady also laughing] (We still can't believe that we are in the Sahara :D alive long dream came true)
