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    $1 🎶 Ardour 7.0 released

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    Guitar VI suggestions for chugging/sustained power chords?

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    31 minutes ago, mettelus said:

    Honestly, I would try transposing to start with and not worry for a new VSTi (I think you can do everything that one is doing with what you have now). You really have two hurdles... one being able to make the sounds (however clunky), and then streamlining your work flow to make it easier each time. My guy feel as you go, you are going to settle into a workflow focus. If the low end is going to be important down the road (I suspect it will be), getting a VSTi with samples of lower strings that you find easy to use will be your sweet spot. I would hold off on the "VSTi focus" and try what transposing will do for you for the time being. It is worth waiting, focusing on how you work, and then making one purchase you will use for years.... especially if that one VSTi can "do everything" for you.

    You know what, you're right.

    Transposing two-note guitar DI signal by one step is no biggie. There are even pedals doing that in real time.

    And I don't even know I'd need to reach to that D note in every song.

    I also got the JBass from AcousticSamples that plays nicely with their other guitar VIs in UVI Workstation.

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    Guitar VI suggestions for chugging/sustained power chords?

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    2 minutes ago, mettelus said:

    Gotcha, someone did a Melodyne recording a while ago... riffing one string, then used Melodyne to change all of the notes. It worked. That is an option to get lower registers, but is quite clunky and not fast (especially when you want to edit). Inside a DAW you can record power chords and split them into clips and transpose to get the same effect on a full chord. When not straying too far from the original samples, they are not too bad. Going that route, you could work with chords (as clips of the proper length) and copy/paste those around as needed during composition.

    That's an idea. Even DAW's own transposing (usually uses zplane's Élastique algorithms) would work.

    How does this one sound to your ears? https://www.iamlamprey.com/products/achromic-aggressive-rhythm-guitars

    Guitar VI suggestions for chugging/sustained power chords?

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    1 minute ago, mettelus said:

    They would both be overkill for chugging for sure! What you have now I bet would be sufficient, so it may be more work flow. Is there something you want to do that you feel you cannot achieve with what you own now?

    I have Tele and Strat VIs from AcousticSamples, and they sound just great combined with a decent hi-gain ampsim.

    But they're limited to E Standard tuning.

    I should either find a rhythm guitar VI that goes down to Drop D, at least; or I should just adapt to the E Standard, which works for many metal bands.

     

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    Guitar VI suggestions for chugging/sustained power chords?

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    3 minutes ago, mettelus said:

    How are you planning to build tracks? Are you working in a DAW? Because of the FX you can add inside a DAW, I am not sure if the VSTi would be as critical. In stand alone mode, VSTis have different FX included. For chugging, you could use a free VSTi and put a better FX chain on it and it might suit your needs.

    When focused inside a DAW, you can make your own FX chain regardless of VSTi. As long as the output from the VSTi is clean, you will get the same tone. A couple ways to think about what you want... if VSTi focused, you can save presets and be DAW-independent; conversely, FX chains would make you more VSTi-independent, so could focus on work flow, MIDI routing, etc.

    That said, for metal (which often wants the meaty low end), Ample Sound's Hellraiser (9-string), and Three-Body Tech's Heavier7Strings would be my two choices for metal work. The Hellraiser only has the bridge pickup sampled, but if I were to choose only one VSTi, I would use that, since it can be fed clean into any FX chain you want and has the most notes available. Heavier7Strings is built for metal work, so the interface and sound engine actually have switches right on the UI to play 5th/octaves (i.e., one-fingered power chords). The FX chains internal to both are very usable even from the presets alone. Both of those go on sale during the holidays.

    I have Waves GTR, few ampsims (with pedals) from Audio Assault, and several freeware ones. I can get the tone I want with my guitar.

    Heavier7Strings and Hellraiser would be overkill, don't you think? They sound great, but they also went over all the frets with many articulations needed for lead guitar work.

    Something smaller (and cheaper) with only power chords would work for metal rhythm guitar, I guess.

     

    In Praise of Companies That Celebrate Black Friday All Year Round (Not a Deal)

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    20 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

    Those would be at the top of my list of regrets.

    Only one I have I don't regret is the background noise removal for vocals that came out not long ago.  All others are no longer used and take up scanning time and are worthless to resell as I'd have to pay WUP and then get someone else to pay more than that for them which is impossible. 

    Which Waves plugins you got, and what new plugins you replace them with?

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