Direct recording trick of the day
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:59 pm
So here's a little trick I came up with that's a lot of fun to play around with. It basically lets you run the high end of your guitar through one amp sim and the low end through another. First, you need this free plugin:
http://www.araldfx.com/downloads.php
Get the one called AraldFX Toolbox. It contains a plugin called AXV5, which is basically a crossover. It will split a signal at the frequency points you specify. It has 5 separate outputs, so you basically apply it to your track that has the direct guitar recording and only the signal below the first cutoff point (which I usually set to 250hz) will come through that channel. Apply an amp sim for your low end after the crossover plugin. Then make another audio channel with the plugin's second output routed to it. Everything ABOVE the cutoff point will come through that channel. Apply another amp sim to that channel that will handle your high end. Then recombine the signals by routing both channels to a bus with LePou Lecab for your cab sim with an impulse loaded.
I like to apply LePou Le456 to the highs and Lecto to the lows, but try whatever you want. You can do weird things like having your highs going through a clean amp and your lows through a dirty amp. You can even use all of the crossover outputs and have different amps for all frequency ranges - like Lecto for 0-80hz, Le456 for 80-600hz, HyBrit for 600-1200 and so on. Or try only applying effects to certain frequency ranges, like reverb only on the highs. The things you can do with this are endless. It really does have practical use in the fact that you can apply different amounts of gain to the highs and lows to make things as tight or as loose as you want.
http://www.araldfx.com/downloads.php
Get the one called AraldFX Toolbox. It contains a plugin called AXV5, which is basically a crossover. It will split a signal at the frequency points you specify. It has 5 separate outputs, so you basically apply it to your track that has the direct guitar recording and only the signal below the first cutoff point (which I usually set to 250hz) will come through that channel. Apply an amp sim for your low end after the crossover plugin. Then make another audio channel with the plugin's second output routed to it. Everything ABOVE the cutoff point will come through that channel. Apply another amp sim to that channel that will handle your high end. Then recombine the signals by routing both channels to a bus with LePou Lecab for your cab sim with an impulse loaded.
I like to apply LePou Le456 to the highs and Lecto to the lows, but try whatever you want. You can do weird things like having your highs going through a clean amp and your lows through a dirty amp. You can even use all of the crossover outputs and have different amps for all frequency ranges - like Lecto for 0-80hz, Le456 for 80-600hz, HyBrit for 600-1200 and so on. Or try only applying effects to certain frequency ranges, like reverb only on the highs. The things you can do with this are endless. It really does have practical use in the fact that you can apply different amounts of gain to the highs and lows to make things as tight or as loose as you want.