krispenhartung
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Just got on the forum...looks interesting and informative.
Anyway, I'll rattle off what I'm using but I have a question for our amp plugin users as well, which I ma post in a different section of the forum once I figure out where it goes.
Background
- Guitar playing for 35 years....yeah, I'm freakin old and was playing prog metal in the bars in the late 80s, when people were snorting cocaine in the open on bar tables, and women ambushed you when you walked out of the bathroom. Can't believe I survived. ;-)
- Played metal in the 80s, prog metal in the 90s, traditional jazz, fusion, and free jazz after that for 15 years...taught guitar, dabbled in EDM production, directed a festival for 7 years, etc, etc...now back to metal.
Live Setup
- Mesa Boogie Triaxis preamp
- Mesa Boogie Simul Class 2:90 power amp
- Lexicon PCM 81
- Boss VF1
- Samson line mixer
- Dbx 266xs compressor gate
- Two Mesa Boogie 4x12 rectifier (oversized) cabs
Virtual/Recording Setup
- Ableton Live (as DAW)
- Various amp plugins: Mercurriall Reaxis (Triaxis clone), Mercuriall U530 (Engle clone), Fortin Nameless suit
- Various effect VSTs
Guitars
- 7 string Schechter Hellraiser (drop B)
- 6 string Schecter Hellraiser (Drop D)
- 6 String PRS singlecut (standard)
Technical Question
I am working with an electronic music producer on an EDM/Djent fusion collaboration. He is telling me that I have a lot of white or brown noise in my recorded tracks. This isn't the sound when I am not playing (as I take care of that with a noise gate), but when I am playing...when the noise gate is not active. Upon listening to all of these amp plugins, they seem to generate A LOT of noise or hiss...a tremendous more noise than my live rig. If I turn off my gate, it's obvious, with my guitar volume to zero. Turning the guitar up adds just a bit more noise (from the active EMG pickups I presume), but most of it is the plugin. I'm listening to some other guys out there posting their guitar tracks using plugins and I am not hearing the same noise. What gives? Do I just have to deal with it? I'm not using a shit load of gain either, although increasing the gain certainly increases the volume of the hiss.
Thanks in advance!
K-
Anyway, I'll rattle off what I'm using but I have a question for our amp plugin users as well, which I ma post in a different section of the forum once I figure out where it goes.
Background
- Guitar playing for 35 years....yeah, I'm freakin old and was playing prog metal in the bars in the late 80s, when people were snorting cocaine in the open on bar tables, and women ambushed you when you walked out of the bathroom. Can't believe I survived. ;-)
- Played metal in the 80s, prog metal in the 90s, traditional jazz, fusion, and free jazz after that for 15 years...taught guitar, dabbled in EDM production, directed a festival for 7 years, etc, etc...now back to metal.
Live Setup
- Mesa Boogie Triaxis preamp
- Mesa Boogie Simul Class 2:90 power amp
- Lexicon PCM 81
- Boss VF1
- Samson line mixer
- Dbx 266xs compressor gate
- Two Mesa Boogie 4x12 rectifier (oversized) cabs
Virtual/Recording Setup
- Ableton Live (as DAW)
- Various amp plugins: Mercurriall Reaxis (Triaxis clone), Mercuriall U530 (Engle clone), Fortin Nameless suit
- Various effect VSTs
Guitars
- 7 string Schechter Hellraiser (drop B)
- 6 string Schecter Hellraiser (Drop D)
- 6 String PRS singlecut (standard)
Technical Question
I am working with an electronic music producer on an EDM/Djent fusion collaboration. He is telling me that I have a lot of white or brown noise in my recorded tracks. This isn't the sound when I am not playing (as I take care of that with a noise gate), but when I am playing...when the noise gate is not active. Upon listening to all of these amp plugins, they seem to generate A LOT of noise or hiss...a tremendous more noise than my live rig. If I turn off my gate, it's obvious, with my guitar volume to zero. Turning the guitar up adds just a bit more noise (from the active EMG pickups I presume), but most of it is the plugin. I'm listening to some other guys out there posting their guitar tracks using plugins and I am not hearing the same noise. What gives? Do I just have to deal with it? I'm not using a shit load of gain either, although increasing the gain certainly increases the volume of the hiss.
Thanks in advance!
K-