I've done this with the UAD Pultec on my guitars and bass for the past decade or more. I agree, it rules. I also had a pair of Warm Audio EQP clones but found the plugins to get the job done way faster with mostly the same result. Good video, dude!
I've was taught this by an assistant engineer at the time who worked with Eddie Kramer when he was working I believe on Hendrix's Electric Ladyland!! He also told me one miking process for a cabinet by using an Shure SM57 paired with an Electrovoice RE20!!!! Great guitar sound paired with a Neuman U47 as a room mic!!!
I like the bottom and mid, but the high frequency noise from crashing overtones I don't. Few recordings are in control up there, probably because few people can hear any high frequencies after a few decades of beating eardrums..
A little tip for comparing plugins more effectively: When opening the plugin chain window you can control-select the plugins in the list you want to compare and then toggle them via CTRL+B. CTRL+B inverts the bypass state so inactive effects become active and vice-versa. This way you can compare them directly, without having the dry sound in between. Really helps picking up very small differences.
Dude! That just changed everything for me. I'm going to do this on my mixes from now on. It really thickens the guitars but also cleans them up. I'm blown away. Thanks Glenn!
I like the angry character you do sometimes, but I much prefer this genuine way of talking. It's clear you love doing this stuff and it's a pleasure getting great advice!
Been going through your backlog rewatching many of these vids and goddamn is it handy to find episodes like this. I didn't have the tools to make use of this trick, but now I'm absolutely in need of little gems like this. Hope your wife recovers with zero complications.
This was the trick for kick drums for years, and I feel the old slipperman forum threads had a bunch of this stuff in it about this. I believe It creates a resonance peak at twice the frequency selected. The Waves HLS will do it by selecting the low end at 60 and leaving it flat and my hardware neve style preamp highpass has a great resonance peak too for this. Try the same settings with 60 and 100hz for snare drums and toms.
So, if you didn't have a Pultec clone, you could fake one up with a shelf at 30hz +6dB and a peak at 60hz -6dB? I'll have to try it a bit later. To my ears, the cut seems like it's more in the low mids than the bass, maybe an octave higher around 120hz? I'll experiment and see.
@@Mikey__R it seems that the hardware creates a phase related shift I am not sure you would get if you copy the stated frequency settings with a digital eq. The Manley store has a nice little graph of the boost/cuts at the same time. www.milkaudiostore.com/en/shop/manley-stereo-pultec-eq/
I’ve heard this song a few times recently on this channel. I didn’t see the original video when they tracked it though. I’ll have to go back and find that video and see if they mention Metallica at all.
Thanks for your knowledge Glenn! I've been playing guitar for 25 years but I'm still a novice when it comes to production and this tutorial has been a huge help in improving my guitar tones
I just tried this with the Puig Tec and got immediate results. Its so subtle and huge at the same time. I have friends who have recorded with Andy and I never knew about this. Glad I watched this vid.
In a whole mix, the combo of bass picking sound, bass natural low end, and with the chunky guitar together has a great relationship. That mix sounded cool because of the two balancing good tones together for that BIG sound. Awesome work Glenn!
Wait!?, What!?, so let me get this right, @30hz you turn the boost up to 6, you turn the attenuate op to 6 and then you turn 16khz up to 6, so the the settings are 666 and your guitars will immediately sound more evil? That is the most metal thing ever!!!! \m/ \m/ Love the show Glenn keep up the good work :-)
2 years in and I still put that shit on EVERYTHING!!!! Seriously, I love this trick. I've been placing 1 on the guitar bus for all of my heavy guitars but I recently started putting it on the DI before the amp sims, too. SOOOOO gooooooood!
Its fun to see you get actually genuinely excited about working, engineering and tech. I like this side of you it seems like you were having fun making this vid
Tried this last night, and DUUUUUUUUDE!!! I ended up going back through some of my other projects and doing this to all the guitars! Thanks for this tip!
My band mates and I have been watching your videos every week and I love the enthusiasm and energy you bring to everything while still maintaining a commitment to educating your audience. I’m relatively new to your channel but I have officially subscribed! Please keep on keeping on.
The problem with doing these kinds of videos is that the algorithm that youtube uses to compress these videos trashes the fidelity. I'm sitting here with Neumann monitors and the difference is subtle at best. I'm sure there are people watching who cannot detect a difference on their listening systems. When I do this trick on my physical Pultek style eqs the effect is pretty profound. What I'm saying is that even if you can't hear it, try it because Glenn is spot on with this one. It just makes guitar sit where you want it, yet cut through really nicely.
Dude, when you’re at the board working you have a totally rad vibe of happiness compared to the sitting and talking head agro. I actually love it and love seeing you in your element.
The contradictory hi-pass/bass boost a cool trick I've been doing for a few years courtesy of Andy Schepps. It works on a bunch of sources (toms, vocals and shakers) but it works amazingly well on heavy electric guitars. You can move that frequency up much higher than 30hz with different style EQ's besides the Pultec and get some great results depending on the mix. Personally, I dig it around 100hz to get the guitars and bass to gel together in those overlapping frequencies, with the bass having more low end poop around 50-75hz. LOVE YA, GLENN!
Best demonstration of the Pultec trick I've seen- I think I get the idea. The Puigtec definitely has something magic in the low end, but you motivated me to dig out my PTEq-X! Thanks! And yeah, that is one *MONSTER* metal anthem guitar tone. Monster.
Hi, very interesting tip. Can you please clarify one thing for me? Your first EQ on your guitar bus is that EQ with High and Low Pass filters. So you cut everything below let's say 100Hz and above let's say 10kHz and then you put Pultec style EQ after and do that trick? Thank you
Thanks for sharing! I have the PuigTec sitting around for some time now and mainly used it to enhance the highs, because it gives a really nice sheen with its character. But that low frequ trick is really neat. I tried it on some synthesizers, as lead or low mid bass sounds made with those also occupy roughly the same range as distorted guitar does and it works pretty well! So, even if you're not a metal producer, but watch the channel for the mixing technique tips. This one also applies well in electronic music! It's so worth to look beyond your own genres to learn some awesome stuff, that also works with your music, even if it's a completely different genre.
That soft tube is clean af! Surprised you didn’t throw in the uad pultec into the mix! The waves felt super meh. Maybe a bit too aggressive. Then again I like “clean” and accurate models. Super cool trick Glenn I’ll try it out soon :)
Had the ignite PTEq-X for a long time and never quite understood it but gave this a go and it definetly made a difference! Need to dive a bit more into the plugin but it's an interesting concept I had never thought about and I can see it has some helpful uses. Thanks for the advice!
I just used this technique on the rhythm guitars of a heavy post-punk chorus using the Ignite Amps emulation and... OMG, so perfect! Thanks for the tip, Glen!
I did this eq move to pink noise and analyzed it. I found that it boosts the lows while scooping the low mids, which totally makes sense. The free bx_subfilter may do similar things to a guitar signal without adding subs.
Dude, you're f*ckin' AWESOME! I've been a musician for 15+ years now, I took college theory classes, classical guitar master class (with a GREAT! guitar instructor!), sang/performed in one of the college choirs (with two amazing conductors/teachers) -- as well as -- ProTools 101 and 110 certification courses from my personal guitar instructor (who is an adjunct professor at the university, and just an aweosome, skilled, talented guy who really taught me a lot. Really, can never thank him enough for teaching me all that he did). Anyway, even with all my practice, knowledge, great teachers, great experience, band mates (who have taught me SO! much, as well), a lot of this stuff is STILL like understanding Chinese to me. Haha So, thanks man! For bringing FREE courses/ edutainment to the masses! Love the channel so far, and I know where to go to figure out this "Chinese" studio stuff. Haha So, thanks for helping all of us understand the "chinese" technical talk! Lol Will definitely be watching/referring to your videos because: You're f*ckin' Awesome!
Had a similar revelation today with the lack of powerful, yet controlled resonant frequencies that are missing from amp sim/IR tones. Tried an analog harmonic bass enhancer (Analog Obsession 'Lovend') and figured out that around 160 hz things get a bit castrated. All of a sudden, all the chunk was there. Palm mutes felt like palm mutes, big chord hits now moved air. Hallelujah
With a lot of tones I have made removing a bit of frequencies a little to the left of the treble side actually worked for me cleaning up stuff even with clean tones. Compression can also effect tone and might make me eq some things differently.
That was actually super helpful, I was just having some trouble with one strange rock-ish mix. Very useful trick, thanks! And I do actually use PTEq-X. Killer freeware, if you ask me. Love using it for more heavy EQ tweaks.
likely one Andy Sneap has nicked from Colin Richardson, it definitely adds some bigness, handy to have up your sleeve if you're working with recordings of thin guitars.
Great Video Glenn! Grabbed your course and Scott's Guitar Tone Mastery....Going thru them now...Loads of useful info...Thanks again and Love Tutorial Tuesday!
Very old but still cool EQ curve tweaking technique. The nice thing happens because the dip and the boost are not on the exact same frequency, even if both are set to 30hz. I wouldn't per se recommend to do it all the time on 30hz, often another frequencies fits certain audio mich better. Boost up the boost frequency at max and switch the frequency knob until you find what you like best. Cheers
Interesting. I have seen the pultec trick used on kicks and bass alot and never got around to trying it on guitars. Glad to find yet another use for one plugin :D
Thank you Sir! This has brought my muddy crap noob recordings out of the dark! invaluable! 666 30 even on a stock logic X vintage tube EQ makes all the difference!
Loving these tutorial tuesdays. Still trying to get my head around how this boosting and cutting at the same frequency works haha. Are you highpassing your guitars?
umrasangus The attenuation frequency will differ, depending on the unit, but that is how they used to be built back in the day. So all the modern equivalents follow a similar path. The x10 is a thing I read in a psp NobleQ manual, so that’s what they did there, although the expanded version of the plug allows you to control the attenuation a little bit more. But they all do it. I have some Lindell gear, same story. UAD, waves, softube, sknote, nomad factory... Here is a good article on the Pultec eq: www.bendingbus.com/bendingblog/2019/6/8/pultec-low-end-trick Edit: Correction. I double checked myself with the nobleq manual, and the X10 thing is not there. I no longer remember where I learned that.
@@tiadiad You're correct though, as long as you BOOST and CUT at the same time. If you just cut it, the cut will be lower in the frequency range, but if you'll boost by the same amount as you cut, it will be roughly 10x. So by boosting and cutting at 30hz you pretty much get a very broad shelve boost at 100hz and below as well as bell cut thingy at aroung 300hz. I think you learned that from some tutorial youtube video, and i don't remember wich one it was either. But it's 100% correct because i checked every Pultec plugin i have with Q-Clone and it shows exactly that.
@@alexeytereshonok I learned that by creating over 600 pieces of original material. I’ve been involved with music production for about 20 years of my life. I also have an audio engineering degree.
Glenn, Very timely video as for a fun project I'm working on a few old school hard rock - metal style original guitar tunes (they not so relaxing but I used to love cranking up my JCM 800 50 watt with 1960 4x12 cab, lol), I have the Waves JP version so I grabbed a screenshot and going to test out with BE100 plugin! Ciao, ALDO
Hey Glenn, loving the tutorials . Quick question : I have just entered a school - wide music competition with a band I put together , and I’m mixing our entry . Our drummer ( we arent exactly spoilt for choice ) is recording his parts from an electric drum kit directly into his laptop through an amplifier . How do I go about mixing these drums without having to add samples ? Thanks , and cheers from India !
WTF? Electronic drums don't have a sound of their own, it's all samples and it triggers MIDI notes, have some common sense for fuck's sake. Are you the bass player?
Sorry bro I’m a beginner lol I’m 14 . Just started getting into this stuff 3 months back , and I can mix pretty ok , but stuff like this I really have no clue lol
i stumbled on this trick one day recently by accident when I dragged over the Pultec from my Drum Bus to Guitar Bus by accident.. I thought I was practically the only one in the world that knew about it when I searched the internet nobody really talks about it except very few.
I'm guessing with an aggressive high pass filter, you want to bring back some of that chunkiness you'd normally hear from say the resonance of a 4x12. Dig it.
Haha tried this thing out immediately once you spotted it out, before this actual tutorial came out and it worked like magic. That 666 setting seems the greatest; however I tried that high boost on 8k first, I had levels set at 7-7-4 and a little bit of high attenuation @ 20k (for which I have never found any use before, but on this occasion not that bad). Sounds pretty good on leads. I'm using VST called Rare by Analog Obsession, and it's free as well.
That’s flat out remarkable! +30/-30. Or, is there any difference if you pull down 1st, than add, Opposed to Add 1st, then pull down 2nd? Hella physics, Chief, THX for sharing that!
Dude 🎸🎶⚡️🎵 That is *one sick tone!* I’m having trouble making my own mixes not muddy or sludgy but currently experimenting with the high and low pass filters as well as different guitar and bass EQ settings.
What a fantastically interesting technique, and what a great effect!! Thanks for sharing Glen. And can I just say to those who keep saying "stop shilling, stop promoting you course and pro mix academy courses all the time." I bought a couple courses when they were on sale (before Glen had even announced his course), and they have been quite possibly the best purchases I've made for improving my mixes. Seriously do yourself a favour and check out the courses, see what grabs you, and take the plunge, you'll thank yourself later, and you will notice a huge difference!
This might just be the best guitar tone I've ever heard on your channel 🧐 Edit: Well, maybe that's because of the layered higher guitar.. Either way, sounds awesome!
Hearing it on my bluetooth mono speaker and, still on that little bugger Glenn makes magic audiable. Glenn you made a nice gate pedal. How about Glenns Signature speaker cab sim pedal? We already got mooer radar on the market, but I know you have some sick amp IRs and if you can squeeze some of the best in to that pedal, and make it also possible to upload your own IR, then I think your pedal will be THE Abosolute best thing in the world.
Just a couple of quick comments: The bandwidth on the ignite plugin is way larger than the one in softube plugin, likely accounting to a large part of the difference, and the lack of a gain control. Also Analog Obsession had a free plugin called "Rare" that does this process quite well.
I'm not astute as you on all of this, I just turn knobs until the shit sounds good haha. I'm learning and thanks for these kind of videos. I started using the UAD Pultec on guitars a few years back. Boost and cutting the same doesn't make sense to but it has a pleasing affect on my ears. I liked the Pultec so much I decide to get the Warm Audio hardware version (EQP-WA) which is equally as cool. Another thing that doesn't make whole lot of sense to me even running through the EQP hardware with the EQ disengaged has a pleases the ears as well or perhaps a placebo effect, I dunno but if it sounds good, it sounds good.
I've done this with the UAD Pultec on my guitars and bass for the past decade or more. I agree, it rules. I also had a pair of Warm Audio EQP clones but found the plugins to get the job done way faster with mostly the same result. Good video, dude!
Thanks for chiming in, Keith! Love your work!
Hell yeah! Getting closer to Keith's awesome tones 😏
I've was taught this by an assistant engineer at the time who worked with Eddie Kramer when he was working I believe on Hendrix's Electric Ladyland!! He also told me one miking process for a cabinet by using an Shure SM57 paired with an Electrovoice RE20!!!! Great guitar sound paired with a Neuman U47 as a room mic!!!
I like the bottom and mid, but the high frequency noise from crashing overtones I don't. Few recordings are in control up there, probably because few people can hear any high frequencies after a few decades of beating eardrums..
instablaster.
A little tip for comparing plugins more effectively: When opening the plugin chain window you can control-select the plugins in the list you want to compare and then toggle them via CTRL+B. CTRL+B inverts the bypass state so inactive effects become active and vice-versa. This way you can compare them directly, without having the dry sound in between. Really helps picking up very small differences.
Dude! That just changed everything for me. I'm going to do this on my mixes from now on. It really thickens the guitars but also cleans them up. I'm blown away. Thanks Glenn!
You’re welcome!
Just tried this on one of my mixes and, WOW, the improvement is incredible! Great tip, Glenn, thanks!
I like the angry character you do sometimes, but I much prefer this genuine way of talking. It's clear you love doing this stuff and it's a pleasure getting great advice!
Been going through your backlog rewatching many of these vids and goddamn is it handy to find episodes like this. I didn't have the tools to make use of this trick, but now I'm absolutely in need of little gems like this.
Hope your wife recovers with zero complications.
I love the fact that you constantly have your ear to the ground with all of these new tricks and plugins. Keep it up dude! :D
Glen is a mad genius
Lmao... yea... “new “ tricks
This was the trick for kick drums for years, and I feel the old slipperman forum threads had a bunch of this stuff in it about this. I believe It creates a resonance peak at twice the frequency selected. The Waves HLS will do it by selecting the low end at 60 and leaving it flat and my hardware neve style preamp highpass has a great resonance peak too for this.
Try the same settings with 60 and 100hz for snare drums and toms.
dale rican Cool?
So, if you didn't have a Pultec clone, you could fake one up with a shelf at 30hz +6dB and a peak at 60hz -6dB?
I'll have to try it a bit later. To my ears, the cut seems like it's more in the low mids than the bass, maybe an octave higher around 120hz? I'll experiment and see.
@@Mikey__R it seems that the hardware creates a phase related shift I am not sure you would get if you copy the stated frequency settings with a digital eq. The Manley store has a nice little graph of the boost/cuts at the same time.
www.milkaudiostore.com/en/shop/manley-stereo-pultec-eq/
Dude I don’t know how I haven’t found your channel before today. Instantly subbed. You’re great!
Great trick. Really like the gritty sound of the Puig Tec.
Has anyone ever mentioned how much this guitar part sounds like “Wherever I May Roam”?
I thought that too as soon as I’ve heard it!
I'm under the impression that it's a test file to dial in the Metallica sound considering the riff and reference to the snare on the Black Album.
Yeah it's pretty blatant
It must be on purpose
I’ve heard this song a few times recently on this channel. I didn’t see the original video when they tracked it though. I’ll have to go back and find that video and see if they mention Metallica at all.
B. Gregory Oh.. I missed that part! I was probably busy writing my comment. Lol.
Thanks for your knowledge Glenn! I've been playing guitar for 25 years but I'm still a novice when it comes to production and this tutorial has been a huge help in improving my guitar tones
I just tried this with the Puig Tec and got immediate results. Its so subtle and huge at the same time. I have friends who have recorded with Andy and I never knew about this. Glad I watched this vid.
This trick even works on midi guitar. It's so subtle but huge.
In a whole mix, the combo of bass picking sound, bass natural low end, and with the chunky guitar together has a great relationship. That mix sounded cool because of the two balancing good tones together for that BIG sound.
Awesome work Glenn!
Holy fuck, I paused the video and did this as soon as I knew what you were doing. This is like the answer to my prayers!!! What a tone saver!
neat trick Glenn. I need to give it a try
Wait!?, What!?, so let me get this right, @30hz you turn the boost up to 6, you turn the attenuate op to 6 and then you turn 16khz up to 6, so the the settings are 666 and your guitars will immediately sound more evil?
That is the most metal thing ever!!!! \m/ \m/
Love the show Glenn keep up the good work :-)
2 years in and I still put that shit on EVERYTHING!!!! Seriously, I love this trick. I've been placing 1 on the guitar bus for all of my heavy guitars but I recently started putting it on the DI before the amp sims, too. SOOOOO gooooooood!
Its fun to see you get actually genuinely excited about working, engineering and tech. I like this side of you it seems like you were having fun making this vid
this is a life changer , immediately tried it on a mix i'm working on and it's pure magic
thank you glenn
Tried this last night, and DUUUUUUUUDE!!! I ended up going back through some of my other projects and doing this to all the guitars! Thanks for this tip!
Glad I could help!
My band mates and I have been watching your videos every week and I love the enthusiasm and energy you bring to everything while still maintaining a commitment to educating your audience. I’m relatively new to your channel but I have officially subscribed! Please keep on keeping on.
Welcome aboard, Greg!
The problem with doing these kinds of videos is that the algorithm that youtube uses to compress these videos trashes the fidelity. I'm sitting here with Neumann monitors and the difference is subtle at best. I'm sure there are people watching who cannot detect a difference on their listening systems. When I do this trick on my physical Pultek style eqs the effect is pretty profound. What I'm saying is that even if you can't hear it, try it because Glenn is spot on with this one. It just makes guitar sit where you want it, yet cut through really nicely.
Dude, when you’re at the board working you have a totally rad vibe of happiness compared to the sitting and talking head agro. I actually love it and love seeing you in your element.
This is the best tip Ive seen in a while. Applied it to some home mixes with some minor adj to freq and it was amazing! Thanks Glen
wow - that is very cool, it really adds some nice bite/clarity to the guitar - cant wait to go try this this week
The contradictory hi-pass/bass boost a cool trick I've been doing for a few years courtesy of Andy Schepps. It works on a bunch of sources (toms, vocals and shakers) but it works amazingly well on heavy electric guitars. You can move that frequency up much higher than 30hz with different style EQ's besides the Pultec and get some great results depending on the mix. Personally, I dig it around 100hz to get the guitars and bass to gel together in those overlapping frequencies, with the bass having more low end poop around 50-75hz. LOVE YA, GLENN!
Best demonstration of the Pultec trick I've seen- I think I get the idea. The Puigtec definitely has something magic in the low end, but you motivated me to dig out my PTEq-X! Thanks! And yeah, that is one *MONSTER* metal anthem guitar tone. Monster.
Hi, very interesting tip. Can you please clarify one thing for me? Your first EQ on your guitar bus is that EQ with High and Low Pass filters. So you cut everything below let's say 100Hz and above let's say 10kHz and then you put Pultec style EQ after and do that trick? Thank you
Rock on, Glenn! This trick really works! Thanks!
Glenn.. just can't thank you enough! Used the PuigTec on a "mastodon" type tone/song and loved it! It's never going to leave my gtrs buss from now on!
What day did he say? I’m a bass player, what is 2s day? Someone help me my number knowledge goes up to 1.
Brb saw a red dot gotta go chase it
Silence The System I have a friend Lefty Tues , it’s his day .
So that's where all of our bass players went
I'm still wondering why they call it a forklift when it clearly only has two forks... Yes I too play bass sometimes. :)
@@gilbertspader7974 hey lefty here, yeah it'll be june 18th bud, yall missed it by a month
Ghiman the guy Damm I thought it was August ????? This is June ??????
I always smile when I watch your videos. Thank you Glen! Love from Australia
Thanks for sharing!
I have the PuigTec sitting around for some time now and mainly used it to enhance the highs, because it gives a really nice sheen with its character.
But that low frequ trick is really neat. I tried it on some synthesizers, as lead or low mid bass sounds made with those also occupy roughly the same range as distorted guitar does and it works pretty well!
So, even if you're not a metal producer, but watch the channel for the mixing technique tips. This one also applies well in electronic music! It's so worth to look beyond your own genres to learn some awesome stuff, that also works with your music, even if it's a completely different genre.
Love, love, LOVE the riff at 15:17. Very cool. Great stuff here Glenn.
That soft tube is clean af! Surprised you didn’t throw in the uad pultec into the mix!
The waves felt super meh. Maybe a bit too aggressive. Then again I like “clean” and accurate models. Super cool trick Glenn I’ll try it out soon :)
Interesting. Tried it with Ignite Amps' free pultec style EQ. And what if we put the 30Hz boost/cut on the DI tracks before reamping? Hmmm...
OMG!!! Just tried this and WOW!!! What a difference.
Man!! That makes a huge difference!! Thanks for the tip!!
Had the ignite PTEq-X for a long time and never quite understood it but gave this a go and it definetly made a difference! Need to dive a bit more into the plugin but it's an interesting concept I had never thought about and I can see it has some helpful uses. Thanks for the advice!
One of the best guitar tones I've ever heard next to the HM2 Chainsaw. Bravo!
Ty!
I just used this technique on the rhythm guitars of a heavy post-punk chorus using the Ignite Amps emulation and... OMG, so perfect! Thanks for the tip, Glen!
I did this eq move to pink noise and analyzed it. I found that it boosts the lows while scooping the low mids, which totally makes sense. The free bx_subfilter may do similar things to a guitar signal without adding subs.
Dude, you're f*ckin' AWESOME! I've been a musician for 15+ years now, I took college theory classes, classical guitar master class (with a GREAT! guitar instructor!), sang/performed in one of the college choirs (with two amazing conductors/teachers) -- as well as -- ProTools 101 and 110 certification courses from my personal guitar instructor (who is an adjunct professor at the university, and just an aweosome, skilled, talented guy who really taught me a lot. Really, can never thank him enough for teaching me all that he did). Anyway, even with all my practice, knowledge, great teachers, great experience, band mates (who have taught me SO! much, as well), a lot of this stuff is STILL like understanding Chinese to me. Haha So, thanks man! For bringing FREE courses/ edutainment to the masses! Love the channel so far, and I know where to go to figure out this "Chinese" studio stuff. Haha So, thanks for helping all of us understand the "chinese" technical talk! Lol Will definitely be watching/referring to your videos because: You're f*ckin' Awesome!
Cool info, Glenn! I was digging that snare tone as well!!!
Glad I could help!
Had a similar revelation today with the lack of powerful, yet controlled resonant frequencies that are missing from amp sim/IR tones. Tried an analog harmonic bass enhancer (Analog Obsession 'Lovend') and figured out that around 160 hz things get a bit castrated. All of a sudden, all the chunk was there. Palm mutes felt like palm mutes, big chord hits now moved air. Hallelujah
please keep the tutorial tuesdays coming!
That looks totally sick, but it f*cking wicked! Those harmonics make tighter and punchy sound, without enhancing the low end, killer trick!
With a lot of tones I have made removing a bit of frequencies a little to the left of the treble side actually worked for me cleaning up stuff even with clean tones. Compression can also effect tone and might make me eq some things differently.
Analog Obsession has a Pultec clone...and so much more. And they recently made all of their plugins free!
And he's back. New plugin in 3 weeks!
@@SoloSabbath Right on, man! Thanks for the info.
Yup, good stuff but no AAX support so PT users are exempt from the party unless using a wrapper.
Thanks for the tip, I installed a few and put the Pultec on with Glenns settings and it really makes the IR cabs come alive. Cheers!
@@chrisbingham5665 You bet! Pretty great plugins for free.
That was actually super helpful, I was just having some trouble with one strange rock-ish mix. Very useful trick, thanks!
And I do actually use PTEq-X. Killer freeware, if you ask me. Love using it for more heavy EQ tweaks.
I love them straight from the mic, even. That capture sounds great.
Just trierd the trick that you described and OMG the guitars now sound just awesome!
Terrific sound, I would like to say that the bass sound really contributes in creating that huge guitar tone. Great work !!!
likely one Andy Sneap has nicked from Colin Richardson, it definitely adds some bigness, handy to have up your sleeve if you're working with recordings of thin guitars.
Great Video Glenn! Grabbed your course and Scott's Guitar Tone Mastery....Going thru them now...Loads of useful info...Thanks again and Love Tutorial Tuesday!
Glad it’s working out, Gary!
Nice! 🤘🏼 watching and paying attention 😬
Really glad this came up in my search results.
Very old but still cool EQ curve tweaking technique. The nice thing happens because the dip and the boost are not on the exact same frequency, even if both are set to 30hz. I wouldn't per se recommend to do it all the time on 30hz, often another frequencies fits certain audio mich better. Boost up the boost frequency at max and switch the frequency knob until you find what you like best. Cheers
This is an awesome trick. I can't wait to try it
Interesting. I have seen the pultec trick used on kicks and bass alot and never got around to trying it on guitars. Glad to find yet another use for one plugin :D
F*"%$# Yeah! Killer tone and variability. Great job Glenn. 🤘
Thx much Glenn. You have good tutorial delivery.
I fucking LOVE the Puigtec...and now I love it even more...
Thank you Sir! This has brought my muddy crap noob recordings out of the dark! invaluable! 666 30 even on a stock logic X vintage tube EQ makes all the difference!
Loving these tutorial tuesdays. Still trying to get my head around how this boosting and cutting at the same frequency works haha. Are you highpassing your guitars?
Thanks a lot for the multi-tracks by the way! Been practicing the whole week with the last one, nowhere near you fat snare tone haha
Little known fact: The attenuation frequency is usually x10 the boost frequency. So if you’re boosting at 30, the attenuation frequency is around 300.
Source for that?
umrasangus
The attenuation frequency will differ, depending on the unit, but that is how they used to be built back in the day. So all the modern equivalents follow a similar path. The x10 is a thing I read in a psp NobleQ manual, so that’s what they did there, although the expanded version of the plug allows you to control the attenuation a little bit more. But they all do it. I have some Lindell gear, same story. UAD, waves, softube, sknote, nomad factory...
Here is a good article on the Pultec eq:
www.bendingbus.com/bendingblog/2019/6/8/pultec-low-end-trick
Edit: Correction. I double checked myself with the nobleq manual, and the X10 thing is not there. I no longer remember where I learned that.
@@umrasangus Your mom
@@tiadiad You're correct though, as long as you BOOST and CUT at the same time. If you just cut it, the cut will be lower in the frequency range, but if you'll boost by the same amount as you cut, it will be roughly 10x. So by boosting and cutting at 30hz you pretty much get a very broad shelve boost at 100hz and below as well as bell cut thingy at aroung 300hz.
I think you learned that from some tutorial youtube video, and i don't remember wich one it was either. But it's 100% correct because i checked every Pultec plugin i have with Q-Clone and it shows exactly that.
@@alexeytereshonok I learned that by creating over 600 pieces of original material. I’ve been involved with music production for about 20 years of my life. I also have an audio engineering degree.
Glenn, Very timely video as for a fun project I'm working on a few old school hard rock - metal style original guitar tunes (they not so relaxing but I used to love cranking up my JCM 800 50 watt with 1960 4x12 cab, lol), I have the Waves JP version so I grabbed a screenshot and going to test out with BE100 plugin! Ciao, ALDO
Amazing and very useful tutorial! Many thanks
Wow! That 30hz trick is amazing!
Also, analog obsession Rare is a great Free P - Tech EQ as well
Thanks for the tip! I’ll check it out
Cool. Thanks.
@@SpectreSoundStudios PTEq-X By Ignite Amps is another one!
Autoriff in used it in this video!!!
@@SpectreSoundStudios got to that part 1 minute after I commented LOL
Thanks for the trick. Useful as always
Hey Glenn, loving the tutorials . Quick question : I have just entered a school - wide music competition with a band I put together , and I’m mixing our entry . Our drummer ( we arent exactly spoilt for choice ) is recording his parts from an electric drum kit directly into his laptop through an amplifier . How do I go about mixing these drums without having to add samples ? Thanks , and cheers from India !
WTF? Electronic drums don't have a sound of their own, it's all samples and it triggers MIDI notes, have some common sense for fuck's sake. Are you the bass player?
Idk anything abt electric drums lol. I’m the guitarist and vocalist
Sorry forgot to mention he was using an amplifier to record it lol
@@AravKrishnan and you were miking it?
Holy shit this is getting worse and worse hahahaha
Sorry bro I’m a beginner lol I’m 14 . Just started getting into this stuff 3 months back , and I can mix pretty ok , but stuff like this I really have no clue lol
i stumbled on this trick one day recently by accident when I dragged over the Pultec from my Drum Bus to Guitar Bus by accident.. I thought I was practically the only one in the world that knew about it when I searched the internet nobody really talks about it except very few.
5:12 is my favorite part. Nice tips.
Dam changing my perception of how to mix guitars since I’ve always been a fan of a gentle roll off at 100 hz for most guitars !
Funny that you mention the Black album because I was trying to figure out what song that main guitar riff reminded me of... Wherever I May Roam!!
I'm guessing with an aggressive high pass filter, you want to bring back some of that chunkiness you'd normally hear from say the resonance of a 4x12. Dig it.
Haha tried this thing out immediately once you spotted it out, before this actual tutorial came out and it worked like magic. That 666 setting seems the greatest; however I tried that high boost on 8k first, I had levels set at 7-7-4 and a little bit of high attenuation @ 20k (for which I have never found any use before, but on this occasion not that bad). Sounds pretty good on leads. I'm using VST called Rare by Analog Obsession, and it's free as well.
I liked the Waves version way more. Sounds sick!
That’s flat out remarkable!
+30/-30.
Or, is there any difference if you pull down 1st, than add,
Opposed to Add 1st, then pull down 2nd?
Hella physics, Chief, THX for sharing that!
Dude 🎸🎶⚡️🎵 That is *one sick tone!* I’m having trouble making my own mixes not muddy or sludgy but currently experimenting with the high and low pass filters as well as different guitar and bass EQ settings.
What a fantastically interesting technique, and what a great effect!! Thanks for sharing Glen. And can I just say to those who keep saying "stop shilling, stop promoting you course and pro mix academy courses all the time." I bought a couple courses when they were on sale (before Glen had even announced his course), and they have been quite possibly the best purchases I've made for improving my mixes. Seriously do yourself a favour and check out the courses, see what grabs you, and take the plunge, you'll thank yourself later, and you will notice a huge difference!
Nice job, man! I have a line6 pocket pod and there's a sound like that in there. Keeping up with the pros! Nice!
I can imagine this trick would work wonders on fast, palm-mute intensive death metal guitars. Gonna give it a try
This might just be the best guitar tone I've ever heard on your channel 🧐
Edit: Well, maybe that's because of the layered higher guitar.. Either way, sounds awesome!
Monster bass guitar sound is what gets my attention here the most.
Awesome video! You should go over the Andy Sneap PCM42 trick!
There are quite a few good FREE pultec style EQ's on vst4free. This is an awesome trick though. Thanks for sharing.
Cool trick, I didn't know about that. Thanks! Another free Pultec style EQ alternative is "AnalogObsession RareSE".
"Wherever The Unforgiven May Roam"
I bet that rear element did do something amazing Glen. You kinda walked into that.
Hearing it on my bluetooth mono speaker and, still on that little bugger Glenn makes magic audiable.
Glenn you made a nice gate pedal. How about Glenns Signature speaker cab sim pedal? We already got mooer radar on the market, but I know you have some sick amp IRs and if you can squeeze some of the best in to that pedal, and make it also possible to upload your own IR, then I think your pedal will be THE Abosolute best thing in the world.
Just a couple of quick comments: The bandwidth on the ignite plugin is way larger than the one in softube plugin, likely accounting to a large part of the difference, and the lack of a gain control. Also Analog Obsession had a free plugin called "Rare" that does this process quite well.
really an awesome trick! sounds huge!
It's just the tiniest bit more compressed and is beefier. That bass tone is killer, by the way.
Glen its punchin this yamahaha reciever in the livin room goldwood 1558's just perfect
I'm not astute as you on all of this, I just turn knobs until the shit sounds good haha. I'm learning and thanks for these kind of videos. I started using the UAD Pultec on guitars a few years back. Boost and cutting the same doesn't make sense to but it has a pleasing affect on my ears. I liked the Pultec
so much I decide to get the Warm Audio hardware version (EQP-WA) which is equally as cool. Another thing that doesn't make whole lot of sense to me even running through the EQP hardware with the EQ disengaged has a pleases the ears as well or perhaps a placebo effect, I dunno but if it sounds good, it sounds good.
Makes sense that the snare is based on the black album, the guitar riff sounds like wherever i may roam