Here’s a great trick for reverb… rather than going straight through and adjusting wet/dry, go parallel and 100% wet. Next, put the reverb output into a compressor and feed the dry signal into the side chain. Set the attack as fast as possible and use a moderate release time. 4:1 or higher ratio works well, then adjust the threshold to taste. You can now use huge, long tails, add long delays, etc. The result is that when you play loud, the attacks are relatively dry and clear. You don’t end up sounding muddy, but when the notes end, the reverb gets louder and you hear the wonderful, long tails. This solves the problem of long tails sounding muddy and short tails not giving a noticeable effect. Gig Performer is perfect for these mixing tips! Also, with parallel reverb, you can EQ the guitar and reverb separately, so the guitar can have mass, but by high passing the reverb/delays, it doesn’t get boomy.
Hello and thank you for this video. Really well made and to the point. I still have a question though: Let's say you play a more improvization based music and you want to switch through the different patches and sounds without a specific plan or order. Have you found a way to do that and trigger the changes with you midi controller? Thank you in advance.
Hey, really interesting stuff from you. I'm curios about your buffer settings. Can you pleas tell me what is you buffer setting? At some point you may face at list little latency. Is it cause any playing issue? i hope it make sense to you. Please help me to build a setup. Thanks man and take care.
Great video, man! Are you guys running click/backing tracks off another laptop? Asking, because if you switched to doing it all with one laptop, you could have MIDI automations synced with the click track, switching your tones for you. I think DMM talks about this kind of setup in his "backpack guitar rig" video
Yep, we haven't tried putting phil's stuff onto it yet but it's the ideal setup for me. Issue is just balancing cpu as I'm running all the soft synth patches out of it too plus a ton of synth fx, PLUS currently using this as the recording tool to guarantee we always have proper audio to look over afterwards. Latency isn't too much of an issue for my stuff I've found but the guys really struggle with any kind of latency on the plugins for the buffer I run at to keep everything going so it's a weird balance rn Phil and Rob haven't been huge fans of having patch changes automated though in the past, but I'd love to have it all tied together
I tried gig performer running bias fx 2. The latency was too much compared to Overloud Th-U. I had the buffer at 64 and given that there was no issue with TH-U, it was really sad because I found the sound of Bias fx2 better.
Hey man. Looks cool. Considering doing something similar with my 1010 controller. I assume to get the seamless switching, you have multiple instances of the plugin running and Gig Performer is essentially re-routing things on the fly, right?
@@progfoxmusic I ended up getting the trial and figured it out. It loads instances as rack spaces and you can use PC messages to jump between them so it works really well. Thanks!
Interesting video. Can you tell me why you insist on using a laptop instead of getting a hardware modeler like the Helix, AxeFx...? You are working around problems that comes from using a laptop and that software while you could be getting that sound without any of those problems. I hope I'm not sounding like a dick I'm just super curious :)
Phil may have a different reply but as the band techie, while I agree with you that having a dedicated modeller would be great, I also see Phil's POV in wanting to really strongly use tools and sounds that he knows and is familiar with. We run a lot of the show from my own laptop and if we could, I would actually love to have his gigperformer rig running directly from there because it would eliminate the need for either his laptop or additional modeller! Also idk if he wants to shell out tons of cash for a hardware unit cus that shit's expensive hahaha I'm sure the rig will continue to change over the years too haha
I spent a lot of time looking for an independent review of Gig Performer, and this was just what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing!
Glad it could help man!
Here’s a great trick for reverb… rather than going straight through and adjusting wet/dry, go parallel and 100% wet.
Next, put the reverb output into a compressor and feed the dry signal into the side chain. Set the attack as fast as possible and use a moderate release time. 4:1 or higher ratio works well, then adjust the threshold to taste. You can now use huge, long tails, add long delays, etc.
The result is that when you play loud, the attacks are relatively dry and clear. You don’t end up sounding muddy, but when the notes end, the reverb gets louder and you hear the wonderful, long tails.
This solves the problem of long tails sounding muddy and short tails not giving a noticeable effect.
Gig Performer is perfect for these mixing tips!
Also, with parallel reverb, you can EQ the guitar and reverb separately, so the guitar can have mass, but by high passing the reverb/delays, it doesn’t get boomy.
Great video!
Hello and thank you for this video. Really well made and to the point. I still have a question though: Let's say you play a more improvization based music and you want to switch through the different patches and sounds without a specific plan or order. Have you found a way to do that and trigger the changes with you midi controller? Thank you in advance.
Hey! Phil says that you can just "play your show in 'Variation Mode' rather than 'Setlist Mode'". Hope that helps!
@Ihlo And is there a way to switch through variations which are not next to each other with the midi controller?
Hey, really interesting stuff from you. I'm curios about your buffer settings. Can you pleas tell me what is you buffer setting? At some point you may face at list little latency. Is it cause any playing issue? i hope it make sense to you. Please help me to build a setup. Thanks man and take care.
Very interesting 👌
I use bias 2 aswell, need to play about with it a lot more though. A lot of it goes over my head haha
So cool! Had no idea this software existed. Seems like endless possibilities!!! ✌️
did you try amplitube 5?
Great video, man! Are you guys running click/backing tracks off another laptop? Asking, because if you switched to doing it all with one laptop, you could have MIDI automations synced with the click track, switching your tones for you. I think DMM talks about this kind of setup in his "backpack guitar rig" video
Yep, we haven't tried putting phil's stuff onto it yet but it's the ideal setup for me. Issue is just balancing cpu as I'm running all the soft synth patches out of it too plus a ton of synth fx, PLUS currently using this as the recording tool to guarantee we always have proper audio to look over afterwards. Latency isn't too much of an issue for my stuff I've found but the guys really struggle with any kind of latency on the plugins for the buffer I run at to keep everything going so it's a weird balance rn
Phil and Rob haven't been huge fans of having patch changes automated though in the past, but I'd love to have it all tied together
I tried gig performer running bias fx 2. The latency was too much compared to Overloud Th-U. I had the buffer at 64 and given that there was no issue with TH-U, it was really sad because I found the sound of Bias fx2 better.
Hey man. Looks cool. Considering doing something similar with my 1010 controller. I assume to get the seamless switching, you have multiple instances of the plugin running and Gig Performer is essentially re-routing things on the fly, right?
I'm not Phil, but I showed him this comment when we were on tour and I'm pretty sure he said yes 🙏🏻
@@progfoxmusic I ended up getting the trial and figured it out. It loads instances as rack spaces and you can use PC messages to jump between them so it works really well. Thanks!
Interesting video. Can you tell me why you insist on using a laptop instead of getting a hardware modeler like the Helix, AxeFx...? You are working around problems that comes from using a laptop and that software while you could be getting that sound without any of those problems. I hope I'm not sounding like a dick I'm just super curious :)
Phil may have a different reply but as the band techie, while I agree with you that having a dedicated modeller would be great, I also see Phil's POV in wanting to really strongly use tools and sounds that he knows and is familiar with. We run a lot of the show from my own laptop and if we could, I would actually love to have his gigperformer rig running directly from there because it would eliminate the need for either his laptop or additional modeller!
Also idk if he wants to shell out tons of cash for a hardware unit cus that shit's expensive hahaha
I'm sure the rig will continue to change over the years too haha
@@Ihlo Ok, I can understand and respect that. As long as it sounds good and works reliably, right :)
@@Kroschkolowfor sure! I will say I massively love hearing the change in his tones from this now compared to the Bias stuff.