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Post by Guitar on Aug 28, 2019 16:04:01 GMT -6
I use an AC30HW head as one of my main tracking amps. It has a 15/30W switch. When you switch to 15W it basically sucks out all the bass mojo like popmann said. I leave it on 30W pretty much all the time. It has a master volume, tone cut, and a very usable tone stack, so it's easy to control the high end and output volume. I use a 2x12 with Eminence Red Fang speakers, which as far as I can tell aren't manufactured any longer. They match very well with the amp. I love Brian May's playing and I equally love his tones and sounds. I don't even try to sound like that though, no way, not going to happen.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Aug 28, 2019 20:23:27 GMT -6
Is there even a place that kind of tone would apply to today's music, or are we just enjoying the idea of recreating Brian May's tone. I would never use that tone, but it fit Queen perfectly and I feel it was the sonic signature of the band.
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Post by Guitar on Aug 28, 2019 20:31:41 GMT -6
There's always a place for visionary players in any time or era, along with their unique tones.
Whether those same sounds work for anyone else I think is a bit of a moot point.
I'm not really sure about gear like this though. It seems more like a fun toy than anything else.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Aug 28, 2019 21:18:40 GMT -6
I'm not really sure about gear like this though. It seems more like a fun toy than anything else. That's kinda what I was tying to say.
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Post by WKG on Aug 28, 2019 21:36:34 GMT -6
I would never use his presets verbatim but I think they are an interesting insight into his tonal universe.
The amps themselves sound pretty good though, if you are an amplitube user it brings some useful tools.
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Post by chessparov on Aug 29, 2019 1:03:25 GMT -6
Buying this will not make me sound like Brian May Buying this will not make me sound like Brian May Buying this will not make me sound like Brian May Nope, buying that will not make you sound like Brian May. But if we get the wig to match, we may all look LIKE Brian May! Sorry, no stories (yet) 100+ people at his party. But for Baby Boomers... Music was A+. Chris
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 29, 2019 9:00:51 GMT -6
Scholz didn't use the Rockman stuff until later, at least not for the first 2. Really? I thought the whole thing was Rockman
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 29, 2019 9:01:41 GMT -6
Is there even a place that kind of tone would apply to today's music, or are we just enjoying the idea of recreating Brian May's tone. I would never use that tone, but it fit Queen perfectly and I feel it was the sonic signature of the band. Well, considering there’s basically no rock and roll, no.
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 29, 2019 9:03:29 GMT -6
For whatever reason, I can’t even get into my account. I’ve owned IK products since about 2000. Tried to reset PW and never get the email. Sent an email to IK and nothing.
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 29, 2019 9:04:09 GMT -6
Anyone have Peter at IK’s email?
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Post by Martin John Butler on Aug 29, 2019 12:34:02 GMT -6
IK took 4-5 days to get back to me four years ago. Seems like “same as it ever was”. 🤔
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Post by popmann on Aug 29, 2019 12:56:38 GMT -6
Scholz didn't use the Rockman stuff until later, at least not for the first 2. Really? I thought the whole thing was Rockman FWIW...no....not until like Second Stage....maybe a little earlier with the prototype-I am certainly no expert on Boston, ehm--but, the reason you "hear" that--is because he IS using a Plexi with a custom attenuator and tone stack mods to basically just push SHIT tons of midrange into the tone stack (like a 400-500hz band pass with boost) --and then some power soak to bring it back to some super low "I'm recording in my basement" level. ....so, that actually why the Rockman sounds that way--because Scholtz WANTS to sound like a Rockman ended up sounding. Not the inverse. He spent the first handful of albums trying to make THAT tone with Marshalls....and ultimately found it easier to build his own box.
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Post by hio on Aug 29, 2019 17:01:07 GMT -6
I *used* multiple Rockmans and I had the Rockman rack mount as my front end to my amp along with a very old Morley volume/wah mostly sitting in a fixed position with a very over-powered power supply which I still use today.
I must have ripped my poor Rockmans apart well over a dozen times live with the guitar cable connected along with Morley and all, and it taught me the art and science of soldering. Velcro and redundant backups were my best friends.
My tastes have changed and the last Rockman was destroyed because I took the blown fuse out of it and hot wired it up in an emergency and left it that way until one day it just fried; now I know what fuses are for.
I swear at shows it was the engineers and other guitarists that always wanted to know how I got my tone though and just saying to all of you Rockman snobs 😘
No more RM and nobody asks me how I get my tone anymore so whatever.
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Post by stratboy on Aug 29, 2019 18:43:31 GMT -6
The best AC-30 sim I have ever heard... ...is my AC-15. sorry, I'm in a fey mood. Yeah, for some reason I hate the AC15. Always sounds too ice pick high end. Love AC30s, but I frequently can not track a full band in my space without detrimental bleed in the drum mics. Just trying to avoid that with a sim that inspires the same feeling. It can be overdubbed or reamped if necessary later. I’m running my AC30CCH through a Two-Notes Torpedo Captor and really like the results for recording. It has a (to me) really transparent —20dB attenuator output plus a DI out for recording the head directly. The speaker cab IRs are pretty good. It’s made my Vox my go-to recording rig, where before, it was just too crushingly loud.
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 29, 2019 20:45:49 GMT -6
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 29, 2019 20:47:26 GMT -6
And...
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Post by Guitar on Sept 7, 2019 18:40:42 GMT -6
That was excellent.... really well done.
I have some real feadback about Amplitube and Brian May now, now that I am an Amplitube owner. You can get started in Amplitude for $29 - 49 buccos by buying the right products (Saturator X, Fender Collection 1) at JRR shop on discount. Then you get 8 free plugins PER purchase. I bought both. So I have 20 IK plugins and packages now for a total paid of $78. There's still a few weeks left on the promotion. Check out the details on the IK website, it's a group buy thing is what they call it.
The Brian May package is not on special or giveaway right now.
Anyway, Amplitube is fully modular. What I mean is the Brian May pedals and amps are all completely separate and can be combined with anything else in Amplitube. So what you're really getting is a Vox AC30, the little Deacy thing, and some cool pedals. This is the only VOX amp in Amplitube available as far as I can tell.
So yes, the Brian May package is absolutely usable to any modern guitar player or producer. Anyone that would want a Vox AC30 will be happy. It might be the only Treble booster in Amplitube as well, I don't know. And there's a cool phaser, a wah, and so on. You don't have to go into it trying to sound like Queen. You have the option of being yourself.
Anyway if anyone's interested in bargain hunting the IK stuff is stupidly cheap right now. My first 9 plugins were $3 each, and worth up to $79. My second 9 were $5 each and worth up to $99 full price.
I haven't tried the tape machines yet but I got all four. As I have heard people talking about them.
I got the EQual equalizer which is sort of a poor-man's Pro Q2. And a bunch of other stuff. The Echoplex tape echo is actually quite good.
I got a ton of Amplitude stuff including all the Ampegs which I need to test against the UAD / Plugin Alliance versions. The Orange amps are very good. The OCD pedal is great. The Jimi Hendrix and Dimebag Darrel packs include some real gems of amps and pedals. As well as some darn good Marshalls. Which I "might" rank above the UAD versions. Haven't shot them out.
The Fender selection greatly exceeds what you get from UAD or a lot of other brands. I was looking for a good ITB Fender I guess these ought to do now. I didn't get the extra Tweed amps (pack 2).
There's a free synthesizer you can grab too, I haven't tried it yet.
If you buy a "big" plugin you can cherry pick the "expensive" stuff. I didn't want to spend any extra money though. All the qualified plugins for the pick-8 are listed on the IK website.
This has been a real trip, as well as a cheap thrill.
I'm using OwnHammer IR files inside of the free Ignite Amps Pulse loader rather than using any inbuilt speaker/mic modeling. I like a good IR for speaker/mic choice. Even with real amps recorded directly.
Also want to mention the United Plugins Front DAW plugin is free right now too. If you want a console plugin, this will do it. It's roughly similar to a Waves NLS or something like that. Maybe a Slate VCC. I don't know never tried the Slate.
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