Dude, much respect for just going straight with the testing, it's nice to hear a few errors, shows that you're legit just enjoying what you're doing and not re recording a million times to get the "perfect test".
I Saw that switch, what's an IR? edit: impulse response... mhmm edit2: that made things considerably worse with that cab sim O_o edit3: ok it's been like 2 hours, things sound better now. Need to finely tweak a few things and just keep listening for the MUD
I'm looking at moving to Japan within a year from now, and I was crying that I was going to have to leave behind my EVH 5150 50 Watt. This give me some hope. Now if I can get a guitar across the ocean, I might just be okay.
Aaron Archual There are power converters available . When I was stationed in Europe I just replaced the power supply in my Rhodes stack with a British standard one .
Pretty good amp - I tried the free version only. It's main strength imo is that it works really well on the low end - it keeps both its clarity and "chunk", even at very fast palm mute picking, which is where most amp sims turn to mud. The high end sounds kinda thin, but the general gain of this amp tends to the dry side, so that was expected. Pairing it with another sim like a TSE X50 helps to fill that in.
Gave it a shot and At first glance it seems to sound better than my regular full priced metal amp sim. Incredible move by Fluff to release it for free, much respect
Damn... I've been looking for a decent amp sim for weeks! This video came out at a perfect time!
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Glen, thanks for the amazing tips. I was wondering if you'd eventually give us some tips on later stages of mixing and also a bit of mastering. Your videos are an amazing resource to achieve great sounding instrument tracks, but getting everything together in harmony, punch and clarity would make an amazing tutorial.
I have recorded a ton of demos with it and absolutely love it. I have 5 or 6 of the neural plugins and honestly prefer this one more often than not. It handles third party IR amazing and I will even run my Savage Drive from Airis into my interface to tighten it more. Big fan of this plugin and the price, thank you ML!
Thanks for the tip, brother! Works like a charm. :) If anyone has issues with setting the whole thing up in the program, make sure that your microphone settings in Windows are set to 48kHz, otherwise you'll keep getting an error message from the program.
I bought the full licence for this beast about a month ago. I can still remember how shocked I was at how hefty and brutal the 5034 sounded straight upon install without any extenal IR's or surgical EQ. I've pretty much disregarded all of my other software amp sims at this point (at least for demoing purposes).
Nevermind, I got it to work. That's pretty awesome. I have every guitar i have ever wanted and don't plan to buy anymore. And I've been collecting pedals for years, i love finding and playing with cool little pedals and that'll never change. Amps on the other hand are insanely expensive and take up a lot of space. These amp emulators are just awesome. Thanks.
I was looking for a free amp sim to write a little album and this did not let me down at all. its kind of on the metal side but thats not necessarily a bad thing. i think im actually glad i unlocked this tone after using it for so long
I've been using this paired with my lelead preamp pedal so that I have 2 pretty different tracks on each side left and right, which is resulting in a really cool quad tracked sound and it was a free way to upgrade my tone. So grateful for this thing!!!!
To answer the title of your video Glenn, yes; this is without a doubt the world's best free amp simulator. I have a close friend aspiring to record some good metal and I have been helping him along the way. With this simulator things like training your ear to listen for quality IR's, worrying about mic placement and stacking a great tone won't hinder him to begin with. Yes, these are incredibly important skills to learn, but this amp sim gives his ear a "goal" to work toward when building tones - instead of spending years going through trial and error to finally realise what you should be listening for. 10/10, would recommend and fuck you Glenn, from Australia
Sounds awesome in the mix double tracked. I stumbled on double tracking before I even knew it was a thing. I thought if I play the same thing twice and pan one track left and one right, I'm unlikely to make a little mistake in the same place twice like a missed note and it will sound fuller as well. Then I discovered double tracking is common practice and you can make each side a little different on purpose. Very cool sounding that way. I love recording music.
I can't cut it as a metal player, but I love your channel - straight talking good sense that crosses any supposed genre boundaries! 👍I'll definitely take advantage of this! I just bought ML's new VX30 plugin and it's awesome - so what's not to love about some free high gain tones (which I'm sure I'll find useful)! 😎
I've been playing around with the free model since it came out (it didn't have reverb on it back then!) and I've made a few observations, but other people's mileage may vary. 1) A lot of gain. Like seriously a LOT. Even when pulled down to 1 it can be too much gain for what I want. As a consequence, I find it hard to get the detail of what I'm playing to come through. It won't be helping that I'm playing a HSS strat, though, so that one is partially on me. I can't really get it to chug in the way other people can, but again, I'm playing a strat in standard tuning. 2) The EQ controls aren't quite as influential over the sound as I would have expected. 3) The built in cabinet sim works better for this amp than any cab sim I've got (e.g. Glenn's Revv v30 and some stuff I bought from Ugritone recently) 4) It sounds great when combined with the emissary. 5) The noise gate is a great feature. The room I'm in has all sorts of sources of electrical interference, and my guitar doesn't have those new noiseless Fender single coil pickups. Overall, I prefer the emissary and I use it on pretty much every track somewhere, but I do still try out this amp often as it's worth putting it on a track and seeing how it fits. So, I'd still definitely recommend people at least download it. It's not exactly going to waste your money given that it's free!
I've never used this one but I may have to do a shootout with the free module vs emissary. I myself am not a shred heavy/metal player but have gotten use out of emissary and feel like I can work my way around these gain heavy issues. If I can't, then I won't bother you know?
I like it more than Emissary. There's way too many knobs and switches on Emissary which I never touch, but this amp sim has just enough to get the job done. Kudos for the vid Glenn!
This is really amazing for free , what I don't like is that lately every amp sim starts to sound the same or trying to get the same guitar tone. The only one that started to sound different was the freeman and then after a few "necessary" tweeks ended up very similar tone
most of the covers that I make use this amp sim. I used a shitty Yamaha guitar for a while but this amp sim still worked like a charm. W my new guitar it's an absolute beast and sounds super wide and heavy in the mix
It is INSANE to see the difference between year 2000 and 2021 amp sims. The cost is cheaper, the quality is better and its all instantly delivered when you download it. DAMN.
Cool! I love it. I think I'll combine this tone with one that I use in Guitar Rig, for my next cover. Four rhythm guitars (two left & right with this free tone and two left & right with the other). Should sound absolutely killer! Thanks, Glenn!
Honestly I can't even use any of the free amps anymore after finding Vadim Taranov's 5150 and Amplex by NaLex. Combining those two with the Airis Effects IR pack and honestly that's all I'll ever need. I tried Amped Roots but honestly everything they have is really fuzzy on the high end, I prefer much tighter sounds than what ML Sound Labs can get me.
Same here dude , I only use the Amplex now . It saves so much time and sounds amazing . The Airis IRs are amazing too . You might want to try out the Zeta IR pack , it’s free and great .
@@AravKrishnan I have the Fortin NTS as well, but the Amplex keeps up with it for pretty much everything except lower tunings for stuff like deathcore. I really like the jcm800 and the engl savage for the amplex, but most of the amps it comes with are super great.
@@themightymcb7310 Yeah dude, I love the Engl Savage, it is soo good, and it does lead and rhythm very well. Have you tried the Diezel VH4 [ Its called Four - IV , I think ] ? That sounds great too.
Thanks! I'm a keyboard player with very minimal guitar abilities. I bought Guitar Rig 3 back when I started guitar but that's no longer compatible or upgradable without buying the latest full Guitar Rig. This is a good alternative for my very occasional guitar tracks.
For all the beginner guitarists out there who say " *but Glenn, I downloaded it and I still sounds crap!* "... and you're positive that it's not your playing that messes everything up? Then you might need to look at your guitar. If it sounds thin and unpronounced, which also might happen with active pickups, you might need to RAISE them so the strings distort closer to the magnetic flux field, giving you a stronger signal. If you use passive pickups, it could be you have "weak sauce" pickups, and they've been degaussed over time or never had the proper field strength to begin with. This can be fixed by remagnetizing the pickup when you remove them to gain access to the magnet at the bottom. If you have too much bass all over the place, it can be a combination of lowering the pickup height (aka moving the pickups further into the body, away from the strings) and remagnetizing. Picks are also always important. If you're playing your 0.60 dunlops... you might want to go a little thicker than that. Picks that are too thin cannot produce enough string displacement, producing weak signals. Pick material also plays a role. Some picks are stiffer at .60 than others at .72
Nothing that can't be fixed with EQ. I don't own a high end guitar but I manage to get a decent sound from amp sims cause the trick is EQ. EQ tricks can make a 200$ guitar sound like a 2000$ one.
@@AgathiusMusic Let us stick to the topic in the context of metal, just to make sure we're on the same page. EQ *cannot* add a sharper attack. If you boost the highs with the intent to make the attack snappier, then you are also increasing all the distortion noise and all the other harshness while you are still trying to fix a weak signal. this is clearly not the same result. Only removing mud doesn't equate to a CLEAR signal. If you want the attack to be more pronounced and actually increase the clarity (not just riding a compression trick to fake the transient to be louder by squishing everything else past it more silent), you'd need a transient designer. Good luck trying to teach the transient designer of a heavily distorted guitar where the impact actually starts and where it ends, especially when you have a weak signal. A cheap guitar is not a BAD guitar. Especially when you buy new. However, if you buy used, and has been played a lot, there is de-gaussing. This is what causes "vintage" pickups to sound warm. Because they're degaussing over time and with increased playtime due to magnetic field distortion of the strings acting upon the charge. A substantial amount of beginners buy used. Next up; a thicker/stiffer pick is going to translate more force onto the string. More force on the string means more movement. More movement means a stronger signal. Stronger signal means you need less gain. Less gain means less noise. Less noise means more clarity. In addition to that you can strike the strings a bit harder too, and if you think they go out of tune as you hit the string, then aim for a step thicker gauge to amplify the principle of acting force. Oh and what I forgot to mention; picking hand position. If you try to pull in your fingers towards the palm a little and experiment with the placement of hte hand on the bridge, you can pick closer to the bridge, making the sound brighter due to more harmonic content. You cannot add harmonic content with an EQ without sounding artificial, and just throwing a saturation plugin on an already distorted metal guitar will amplify the noise just as hard, unless you really know how to work with saturation plugins. And when you do, then you don't have problems with a weak signal to begin with :) EQs are not the magic bullet to everything. Just like you cannot fake a real cabinet by "EQ curving the impulse response". There is more to the cabinet sound than just that. If you can fix your stuff in Ampsims with a bit of EQ, then it means your signal is not weak. Ampsims still have their own problems, but they are a great tool for beginners to get a satisfactory sound of their stuff :)
Just got a damn near perfect Cannibal Corpse tone out of the 'Freeman Fluff'; then output it through a Marshall 100w DSL and 1960A cab... DEAR LORD WHAT CRUNCH!!! Insta-buy, thank you Glen!
I went to download this immediately! Im all for free plugins to try different things out before dropping cash left and right. And this amp sim sounds incredible!
Ya pretty easy to get everything plugged into daw. I play drums and have no clue about daw type stuff and figured out how to use IR's and amp sims pretty quick. Just dont know how to make them sound good haha
Great content as always Glenn thanks. You did an amp sim shoot out a while back, the Waves PRS came out on top. There has been lots of amp sims come out since. What is currently your personal favourite simulator? Ta from the UK
This is an awesome sim. Also to all of my peeps who depend on free stuff there is also Overlouds Th3 that comes for free with the Cakewalk (ex sonar) DAW which is also free.
This is a really awesome amp! I already have the free version, I am putting my eyes on the paid version cause I really dig the Marshall sound! Thanks for your review!
Wow. I live on a boat so space is premium gave up my entire rig but was missing a really good distorted amp sound I could play though my Mac. Wow you delivered and it’s brilliant !!!
Idk the EQ section of the ML Labs products reacts so different from the real amps - but it's an easy plugin to use. You might want to give Amplex - Multiamp a try, it's really awesome and free.
I've been using Boogex a lot lately. It sounds like crap at first, but if you find some solid impulses and do some tweaking, it sounds better than many of the paid virtual amps I've used.
Hands down the BEST free amp sim I have a cheap 150 dollar guitar tuning in drop B and I use this with the lancaster pulse and some free bogner inpulse responses and IT SOUNDS AMAZING
Gordon Beck it’s a little fuzzy, but it mixes easier than the usual amp sim “fizz”. Also, don’t use the noise gate on the pedalboard. It works like a charm, but it steals your tone also. Just a hair of the Reverb pedal smooths out the fuzziness. 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
Almost everyone talks about Emissary exclusively when it comes to Ignite but they do have other great stuff, e.g. proFET preamp which I currently like even more, anyway Emissary sounds better to me than Amped Roots, everything Gordon Beck said
Dude! Sold! I love Emissary too but I have had a hell of a time finding the right IR's to go with it (yes I tried Lancaster too) also trying to pull down the harsh frequencies was a bit of a pain, but I did get it there. But this thing sounds pretty killer.
Dude go check out the zeta ir pack. It’s totally free. There’s a download link in their video for it. The bogner 2x12 pairs really well with the ignite sim
I downloaded it a month ago, blew my mind. It is great to have an awesome sound right out the box and the gate works great. If you want to enhance the lead tone for solos, the built-in reverb does the trick. Nice to be able to plugin a guitar and star chugging away. No more excuses for not practicing 🤣
It does sound great. Use the dad rock preset with the build in OD in it. It sounds just perfect. Not an uncontrolled amount of gain and tight. I was really impressed with the built in gate on this thing as well. It's not choppy at all and has such a smooth cut off from the sound
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Dude, much respect for just going straight with the testing, it's nice to hear a few errors, shows that you're legit just enjoying what you're doing and not re recording a million times to get the "perfect test".
Also if it wasn't clear, this amp sim plays damned nice with alllllll sorts of IRs, Pulse from Lancaster makes it crazy easy.
Best comment. It also responds well with using your actual drive pedals
I Saw that switch, what's an IR?
edit: impulse response... mhmm
edit2: that made things considerably worse with that cab sim O_o
edit3: ok it's been like 2 hours, things sound better now. Need to finely tweak a few things and just keep listening for the MUD
@@blgdinger3 mf just didn't know how to use an ir
I'm looking at moving to Japan within a year from now, and I was crying that I was going to have to leave behind my EVH 5150 50 Watt. This give me some hope. Now if I can get a guitar across the ocean, I might just be okay.
You can buy some awesome guitars over there I bet!
Aaron Archual There are power converters available . When I was stationed in Europe I just replaced the power supply in my Rhodes stack with a British standard one .
@@gilbertspader7974 My issue and question is how on earth do you get a guitar amp across the ocean? *If you're flying
Can i go with you? hahaha
@@Aaron-zh4kj Ask a moving or shipping company.
At 4:43...wow! 😳 That is ONE of the best guitar tones I have ever heard on any of your productions...if not THE best. Killer tone.
Amazing tone for sure. It reminds me of Carcass Heartwork.
Nothing fills my soul with joy more than the sound of a pinch harmonics
Amen, its like getting fisted by Zeus himself
Pretty good amp - I tried the free version only. It's main strength imo is that it works really well on the low end - it keeps both its clarity and "chunk", even at very fast palm mute picking, which is where most amp sims turn to mud. The high end sounds kinda thin, but the general gain of this amp tends to the dry side, so that was expected. Pairing it with another sim like a TSE X50 helps to fill that in.
Great seeing you've improved your guitar chops Glenn, greetings from Mexico
2:51 he did the thing
Ze hair flip 4:09
Maybe he's born with, maybe it's SMG.
Easy, breezy, beautiful metal guy
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@@No-sr5fb Live (metal-)head first
Gave it a shot and At first glance it seems to sound better than my regular full priced metal amp sim. Incredible move by Fluff to release it for free, much respect
Damn... I've been looking for a decent amp sim for weeks! This video came out at a perfect time!
Glen, thanks for the amazing tips. I was wondering if you'd eventually give us some tips on later stages of mixing and also a bit of mastering. Your videos are an amazing resource to achieve great sounding instrument tracks, but getting everything together in harmony, punch and clarity would make an amazing tutorial.
It's official! Glen's a better guitarist than me XD
Ouch, sorry man.
@@vladv5126 yeah I would need to survive a plane crash or severe car accident to be as good as Glen
@@Shredwizard445 one can dream
@@vladv5126 Jason Becker can still play better lead than Glen
uhhh.... thanks?
I have recorded a ton of demos with it and absolutely love it. I have 5 or 6 of the neural plugins and honestly prefer this one more often than not. It handles third party IR amazing and I will even run my Savage Drive from Airis into my interface to tighten it more. Big fan of this plugin and the price, thank you ML!
Tried this amp sim today, all I can say, they nailed it.
Hi David, is this like a VST that you use in like Cubase or Logic? Or is it standalone?
@@lorencing I used it as a VST but it also comes as standalone.
Thanks for the tip, brother! Works like a charm. :)
If anyone has issues with setting the whole thing up in the program, make sure that your microphone settings in Windows are set to 48kHz, otherwise you'll keep getting an error message from the program.
I downloaded this today and tried it out and this thing rules! Thank you!
Those drums sound so f***ing kick ass!!
I bought the full licence for this beast about a month ago. I can still remember how shocked I was at how hefty and brutal the 5034 sounded straight upon install without any extenal IR's or surgical EQ. I've pretty much disregarded all of my other software amp sims at this point (at least for demoing purposes).
this is truly amazing with the pulse ir thanks glen this helped me sooooo much
for anyone who’s interested putting the cab knob off and putting on some rev gets an amazing burzum filosofen tone
This was the first plugin I got and I absolutely love. I still use it alot when I want something really chunky
Nevermind, I got it to work. That's pretty awesome. I have every guitar i have ever wanted and don't plan to buy anymore. And I've been collecting pedals for years, i love finding and playing with cool little pedals and that'll never change. Amps on the other hand are insanely expensive and take up a lot of space. These amp emulators are just awesome. Thanks.
I like that the noise gate comes with it!
A must have for playing metal!
I was looking for a free amp sim to write a little album and this did not let me down at all. its kind of on the metal side but thats not necessarily a bad thing. i think im actually glad i unlocked this tone after using it for so long
Dam Is no one going talk about how much better Glenn is getting with his guitar playing! :) love you man you Rock!!
@Matt G dude, no.
thanks Glenn, tried this with a Warlock in drop C with a set of ZW EMGs and every preset sounds killer right out of the box. very cool
I've been using this paired with my lelead preamp pedal so that I have 2 pretty different tracks on each side left and right, which is resulting in a really cool quad tracked sound and it was a free way to upgrade my tone. So grateful for this thing!!!!
Recently got into doing some home recording and I can't praise this enough. Downloaded shortly after launch and I was not disappointed.
To answer the title of your video Glenn, yes; this is without a doubt the world's best free amp simulator. I have a close friend aspiring to record some good metal and I have been helping him along the way. With this simulator things like training your ear to listen for quality IR's, worrying about mic placement and stacking a great tone won't hinder him to begin with. Yes, these are incredibly important skills to learn, but this amp sim gives his ear a "goal" to work toward when building tones - instead of spending years going through trial and error to finally realise what you should be listening for. 10/10, would recommend and fuck you Glenn, from Australia
I've been using the free version since it came out. Such a massive tone for the low low price of free
What audio interface would you recommend to use with to plug in with?
Dude!!! thank you so much for recommending this!
I just downloaded this sim. Insane. Thanks for the info Glenn!
Sounds awesome in the mix double tracked. I stumbled on double tracking before I even knew it was a thing. I thought if I play the same thing twice and pan one track left and one right, I'm unlikely to make a little mistake in the same place twice like a missed note and it will sound fuller as well. Then I discovered double tracking is common practice and you can make each side a little different on purpose. Very cool sounding that way. I love recording music.
Thank you so much Glenn! You always promote and show the best stuff!
Been using the free amp sim for a few months now and I love it. It’s my go to for heavy tones currently.
I can't cut it as a metal player, but I love your channel - straight talking good sense that crosses any supposed genre boundaries! 👍I'll definitely take advantage of this! I just bought ML's new VX30 plugin and it's awesome - so what's not to love about some free high gain tones (which I'm sure I'll find useful)! 😎
Hell yeah, been using this free version for a few months, seriously kicks ass
Fluffy like marshmallows waiting to get roasted! Cheers Glenn!!
@3:17 - A little Joan Jett & the Blackhearts there by accident.. it's not exact, but the song sounds like Do You Wanna Touch Me. Cool song.
I've been using this for a few months now and it's seriously the best sim I've ever played through, I love it
Thanks so much for the tip. Love and learn so much from your videos
I've been playing around with the free model since it came out (it didn't have reverb on it back then!) and I've made a few observations, but other people's mileage may vary.
1) A lot of gain. Like seriously a LOT. Even when pulled down to 1 it can be too much gain for what I want. As a consequence, I find it hard to get the detail of what I'm playing to come through. It won't be helping that I'm playing a HSS strat, though, so that one is partially on me. I can't really get it to chug in the way other people can, but again, I'm playing a strat in standard tuning.
2) The EQ controls aren't quite as influential over the sound as I would have expected.
3) The built in cabinet sim works better for this amp than any cab sim I've got (e.g. Glenn's Revv v30 and some stuff I bought from Ugritone recently)
4) It sounds great when combined with the emissary.
5) The noise gate is a great feature. The room I'm in has all sorts of sources of electrical interference, and my guitar doesn't have those new noiseless Fender single coil pickups.
Overall, I prefer the emissary and I use it on pretty much every track somewhere, but I do still try out this amp often as it's worth putting it on a track and seeing how it fits. So, I'd still definitely recommend people at least download it. It's not exactly going to waste your money given that it's free!
I've never used this one but I may have to do a shootout with the free module vs emissary. I myself am not a shred heavy/metal player but have gotten use out of emissary and feel like I can work my way around these gain heavy issues. If I can't, then I won't bother you know?
I like it more than Emissary. There's way too many knobs and switches on Emissary which I never touch, but this amp sim has just enough to get the job done. Kudos for the vid Glenn!
This is really amazing for free , what I don't like is that lately every amp sim starts to sound the same or trying to get the same guitar tone. The only one that started to sound different was the freeman and then after a few "necessary" tweeks ended up very similar tone
Thank you for the video. What a great plug in!
most of the covers that I make use this amp sim. I used a shitty Yamaha guitar for a while but this amp sim still worked like a charm. W my new guitar it's an absolute beast and sounds super wide and heavy in the mix
It is INSANE to see the difference between year 2000 and 2021 amp sims. The cost is cheaper, the quality is better and its all instantly delivered when you download it. DAMN.
This is the only free amp sim I use right now. High Noon and Metalcore presets blend beautifully with minimal adjustments. 10/10
And there is also an IR loader IN this plugin. Just press on the "IR" on the right of the cab on/off switch and you can load own IRs :)
Cool! I love it. I think I'll combine this tone with one that I use in Guitar Rig, for my next cover. Four rhythm guitars (two left & right with this free tone and two left & right with the other). Should sound absolutely killer! Thanks, Glenn!
Honestly I can't even use any of the free amps anymore after finding Vadim Taranov's 5150 and Amplex by NaLex. Combining those two with the Airis Effects IR pack and honestly that's all I'll ever need.
I tried Amped Roots but honestly everything they have is really fuzzy on the high end, I prefer much tighter sounds than what ML Sound Labs can get me.
Good call on the Airis IRs. They're free right now and sound amazing.
@@SoloSabbath I actually like them even better than Glenn's Mesa oversize 4x12 by Lancaster
Same here dude , I only use the Amplex now . It saves so much time and sounds amazing . The Airis IRs are amazing too . You might want to try out the Zeta IR pack , it’s free and great .
@@AravKrishnan I have the Fortin NTS as well, but the Amplex keeps up with it for pretty much everything except lower tunings for stuff like deathcore. I really like the jcm800 and the engl savage for the amplex, but most of the amps it comes with are super great.
@@themightymcb7310 Yeah dude, I love the Engl Savage, it is soo good, and it does lead and rhythm very well. Have you tried the Diezel VH4 [ Its called Four - IV , I think ] ? That sounds great too.
Thanks! I'm a keyboard player with very minimal guitar abilities. I bought Guitar Rig 3 back when I started guitar but that's no longer compatible or upgradable without buying the latest full Guitar Rig. This is a good alternative for my very occasional guitar tracks.
I just downloaded this and thanks!!! this amp sim is fantastic!
For all the beginner guitarists out there who say " *but Glenn, I downloaded it and I still sounds crap!* "... and you're positive that it's not your playing that messes everything up? Then you might need to look at your guitar.
If it sounds thin and unpronounced, which also might happen with active pickups, you might need to RAISE them so the strings distort closer to the magnetic flux field, giving you a stronger signal. If you use passive pickups, it could be you have "weak sauce" pickups, and they've been degaussed over time or never had the proper field strength to begin with. This can be fixed by remagnetizing the pickup when you remove them to gain access to the magnet at the bottom. If you have too much bass all over the place, it can be a combination of lowering the pickup height (aka moving the pickups further into the body, away from the strings) and remagnetizing.
Picks are also always important. If you're playing your 0.60 dunlops... you might want to go a little thicker than that. Picks that are too thin cannot produce enough string displacement, producing weak signals. Pick material also plays a role. Some picks are stiffer at .60 than others at .72
Nothing that can't be fixed with EQ. I don't own a high end guitar but I manage to get a decent sound from amp sims cause the trick is EQ. EQ tricks can make a 200$ guitar sound like a 2000$ one.
@@AgathiusMusic Let us stick to the topic in the context of metal, just to make sure we're on the same page.
EQ *cannot* add a sharper attack. If you boost the highs with the intent to make the attack snappier, then you are also increasing all the distortion noise and all the other harshness while you are still trying to fix a weak signal. this is clearly not the same result. Only removing mud doesn't equate to a CLEAR signal.
If you want the attack to be more pronounced and actually increase the clarity (not just riding a compression trick to fake the transient to be louder by squishing everything else past it more silent), you'd need a transient designer. Good luck trying to teach the transient designer of a heavily distorted guitar where the impact actually starts and where it ends, especially when you have a weak signal.
A cheap guitar is not a BAD guitar. Especially when you buy new. However, if you buy used, and has been played a lot, there is de-gaussing. This is what causes "vintage" pickups to sound warm. Because they're degaussing over time and with increased playtime due to magnetic field distortion of the strings acting upon the charge. A substantial amount of beginners buy used.
Next up; a thicker/stiffer pick is going to translate more force onto the string. More force on the string means more movement. More movement means a stronger signal. Stronger signal means you need less gain. Less gain means less noise. Less noise means more clarity. In addition to that you can strike the strings a bit harder too, and if you think they go out of tune as you hit the string, then aim for a step thicker gauge to amplify the principle of acting force.
Oh and what I forgot to mention; picking hand position. If you try to pull in your fingers towards the palm a little and experiment with the placement of hte hand on the bridge, you can pick closer to the bridge, making the sound brighter due to more harmonic content. You cannot add harmonic content with an EQ without sounding artificial, and just throwing a saturation plugin on an already distorted metal guitar will amplify the noise just as hard, unless you really know how to work with saturation plugins. And when you do, then you don't have problems with a weak signal to begin with :)
EQs are not the magic bullet to everything. Just like you cannot fake a real cabinet by "EQ curving the impulse response". There is more to the cabinet sound than just that.
If you can fix your stuff in Ampsims with a bit of EQ, then it means your signal is not weak. Ampsims still have their own problems, but they are a great tool for beginners to get a satisfactory sound of their stuff :)
Just got a damn near perfect Cannibal Corpse tone out of the 'Freeman Fluff'; then output it through a Marshall 100w DSL and 1960A cab... DEAR LORD WHAT CRUNCH!!! Insta-buy, thank you Glen!
This is killer! Thanks for sharing this with us Glen! Excited to give it a try :)
Thank you so much Glenn! I'm new to recording/mixing and this amp simulation sounds amazing!! :)
Happy to help!
I went to download this immediately! Im all for free plugins to try different things out before dropping cash left and right. And this amp sim sounds incredible!
Being the heavy EDM producer I am, I kinda love that direct out/no cabinet sound. I'd do my own post-EQ but that crunch is a sound I like
Wow!!! This really is one of the vst guitar plugs.
2:55 NGL Glenn, that was the weakest pinch-harmonic I've ever heard.
He had the noise gate too high, it's very aggressive and backing it off gives you sweet squealies. :)
Amp Sims will do that. It's not really the players fault most of the time
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As others have said, the gate cut off that harmonic. You can hear it choking it off.
The second one he did would make a cool vg sound effect tho
I don't know if my ears are tuned differently, but when playing the plugin on my own, I hear that the distortion has a very square character to it.
Same, I find it just sounding mushy honestly, not really what I'm after... I've had more luck with the Emissary
I have had this amp sim since the day he released the "free" 5034. I have Bias Amp 2 but find myself using the 5034 way more!! Awesome amp sim!!!
so is this like a plug in that you can record with in a DAW software? I'm brand new to this stuff and my first audio interface arrives tomorrow!
yes buddy! Super duper easy
Ya pretty easy to get everything plugged into daw. I play drums and have no clue about daw type stuff and figured out how to use IR's and amp sims pretty quick. Just dont know how to make them sound good haha
Great content as always Glenn thanks. You did an amp sim shoot out a while back, the Waves PRS came out on top. There has been lots of amp sims come out since. What is currently your personal favourite simulator? Ta from the UK
glad doing this at all, nice humility thou
This is an awesome sim. Also to all of my peeps who depend on free stuff there is also Overlouds Th3 that comes for free with the Cakewalk (ex sonar) DAW which is also free.
This is a really awesome amp! I already have the free version, I am putting my eyes on the paid version cause I really dig the Marshall sound! Thanks for your review!
Those tones sound great. What pickups are you using?
Wow. I live on a boat so space is premium gave up my entire rig but was missing a really good distorted amp sound I could play though my Mac. Wow you delivered and it’s brilliant !!!
Idk the EQ section of the ML Labs products reacts so different from the real amps - but it's an easy plugin to use. You might want to give Amplex - Multiamp a try, it's really awesome and free.
I've been using Boogex a lot lately. It sounds like crap at first, but if you find some solid impulses and do some tweaking, it sounds better than many of the paid virtual amps I've used.
Hands down the BEST free amp sim I have a cheap 150 dollar guitar tuning in drop B and I use this with the lancaster pulse and some free bogner inpulse responses and IT SOUNDS AMAZING
this amp sim with your free rev cab ir... fucking fire!! Been killing it with that setup for a few weeks!!
Been watching for years thanks for this gem
How'd I miss this video. Been using the Emissary for years but now I've gotta try this out.
THANKS DUDEEEEEEEEE
Love the drum sounds!
This plug-in sounds great with Airis Effects IRs which are also free
Fluff's Amp Sim vs. Emissary by Ignite Amps? What are your thoughts?
Amped Roots is way too fuzzy and flubby sounding imho. I'm not Glenn but that's my 2ct
Yes, that's a video worth doing
Gordon Beck it’s a little fuzzy, but it mixes easier than the usual amp sim “fizz”. Also, don’t use the noise gate on the pedalboard. It works like a charm, but it steals your tone also. Just a hair of the Reverb pedal smooths out the fuzziness. 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
Almost everyone talks about Emissary exclusively when it comes to Ignite but they do have other great stuff, e.g. proFET preamp which I currently like even more, anyway Emissary sounds better to me than Amped Roots, everything Gordon Beck said
I think: Differents sounds, differents styles... emisary for djent, prog... Fluff modern metal, thrash, black metal...
thank you very much , i've downloaded just now
Thanks man appreciate it!
Dude! Sold! I love Emissary too but I have had a hell of a time finding the right IR's to go with it (yes I tried Lancaster too) also trying to pull down the harsh frequencies was a bit of a pain, but I did get it there. But this thing sounds pretty killer.
Dude go check out the zeta ir pack. It’s totally free. There’s a download link in their video for it. The bogner 2x12 pairs really well with the ignite sim
I downloaded it a month ago, blew my mind. It is great to have an awesome sound right out the box and the gate works great.
If you want to enhance the lead tone for solos, the built-in reverb does the trick.
Nice to be able to plugin a guitar and star chugging away. No more excuses for not practicing 🤣
the free version is a total steal, it´s my go to when doing demos, almost no setup needed!
WOW, It sounds amazing!
I've been using Nalex and the TH-U Sim with impulses from Devils Lab which sounds awsome but I'm definitely going to check this one out! Sounds Great.
Downloaded this a few months ago. It has more gain at 2 than I’ll ever use LOL!
Just like a real 5150. lolol
I wonder how many people on this comment board knows what a Totoro is ??????
Now you understand, why Fluff has no clean tone.
Clean tone, :)
Amazing SIM, one of the best out there.
Glenn, you can hit the IR font and load an Impuls in it, its basicly a Impuls Loader. Greetings
ooooh I was waiting for you to do this one Glenn, nice.
glenn, honest opinion on this and the Nalex all in one amp? i have both and dont seem to get as nice of a tone out of Fluffs as you have here.
Great Stuff! Thank you!
Version 1.3.0 announced today with even more stuff (for free!). Excellent plugin.
I made a Jingle using it already. Amazing tone! Great for Home Studio!!
It does sound great. Use the dad rock preset with the build in OD in it. It sounds just perfect. Not an uncontrolled amount of gain and tight. I was really impressed with the built in gate on this thing as well. It's not choppy at all and has such a smooth cut off from the sound
I'll check it out!
If it's for free it's for me. Thanks for keeping us informed on the free loot frontier! You're a good man, Theon.
Damn! Thanks for sharing that... Loved it!
I have this plugin in my pc, the sound and feeling is awsome!!!!! It's really killer and smasher amp sim