The Impulse FAQ/Tutorial Thread

[ViolaceousVerdance]

I dislike the back and forth of recording listening with no cab and then listening to the (relative) awesomeness of the IR. I want that DAR preamp!

[EtherealEntity]

^ Why are you unable to record while monitoring the IR?

[Handbanana]

What are some of the best IR programs out there?

[Handbanana]

My bad, nm i found em in the thread. There I go again, being lazy.

[schecter4life]

can you not open an impulse in the standalone versions and jam with it? i have no interests right now in using them for recording, I just want a better tone with revalver for practicing as i dont own a real amp anymore

[EtherealEntity]

Revalver has an impulse loader - it's the standard cab section I think

[rgaRyan]

Quick question guys:

I downloaded the LE456 amp sim from Le Pou, and I also downloaded LeCab v2.

I am downloading a free RedWirez cabinet impulse.
Let me know if this is the right way to do this:

I go into Reaper, I load the amp sim and LeCab. I then choose a cabinet impulse to load into LeCab. I plug in my pocket pod, turn off cabinet emulation, and record my track. It will sound terrible at first. Then once I'm done recording, I hit play and it should sound like a real mic'd cabinet?

Is that the right order of doing things?

Also, when I record with my pod with cab emulation off, do I just record on a clean channel (no distortion of any kind, thats for the amp sim to do, right?)

Thanks in advance!

[EtherealEntity]

^ If you are using an amp sim you want the POD completely bypassed, acting as an interface only. I.e. sounding the same as if you plugged the guitar straight into a recording interface. DI guitar.

[rgaRyan]

Originally Posted by EtherealEntity

^ If you are using an amp sim you want the POD completely bypassed, acting as an interface only. I.e. sounding the same as if you plugged the guitar straight into a recording interface. DI guitar.

Ok, I'll have to fiddle around with it to see if I can bypass everything, amp and cab included.

Noob question, what does DI stand for? Direct input?

Finally, these impulses, how do I know which ones to use? There are 44.1khz, 48, 88.2, 96, and they are either 16 bit or 24 bit.

[EtherealEntity]

That's right

Just match it to the settings of your project Generally 48 24 but if you don't know what these are maybe you didn't mess with your DAW settings yet - set it to 48 24 also

[rgaRyan]

Thanks man! Hopefully I can get a nice, crunchy, massive sound with this set up. I was using Amplitube and it sounded like garbage, and my Pocket Pod is only good for clean stuff. I hope to use the Pod as an interface, bypass it completely, and use amp sims and impulses in my future recordings.

I also hope that I can do this on my laptop. The latency is horrendous on there, but apparently ASIO4All fixes that.

[MatthewLeisher]

So you can only hear the impulse in the recorded track?

[feki]

I've found my best VST amp. It Poulin, I tried many impulses, but really Poulincab is one of the best, but you can take: (Index of /impuls)

My boat for Poulin's "catharsis.zip" Marshall impulse I put in a GSP1101 and very good. Some have too much and my XXXbit C63 - GSP1101 midi totally freeze.
Track Poulin setup imig "mono L + Mono R" Poulin01 by Feki on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

[Deathbykidd]

I've just discovered these and had a few questions.

I load up everything but seem to get this hissing noise. It doesn't seem as noticeable on the clean channel. ( I'm using the lepou Engl AU) Is there any way to get rid of this? I've tried a noise gate before the head and the cab and it got rid of it, but also limited my guitar way too much.

Next question is, how do you bypass the the POD or Tone Port? I have a Tone Port UX1 and i think it may be better running through that than a input jack to USB cable that was really cheap.

And finally. Any tips for reducing latency? I can't get it to sync up correctly and it sounds choppy when I'm playing through them..

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Anyone know where to find a 5150 that is audio units? I only find ones for pc...

Double edit: disreguard all of this. Minus the 5150 question. I figured out how to bypass the tone port and now the extra unwanted noise as well as latency is gone. It sounds amazing now!

[chrisharbin]

Ok, so forgive.......

It seems to me that for someone who has ZERO PERCENT problems loading impulse user "a" this thread is tough to read.

What I want are the IR's. Many links are dead, and I don't want to pay 100+ bucks for redwirez (right now)

Is there a consolidated list of IR's somewhere that run in the free/donation/not terribly expensive range? (I'll be loading in TH2 for now)

[FourFour]

Originally Posted by Deathbykidd

Double edit: disreguard all of this. Minus the 5150 question. I figured out how to bypass the tone port and now the extra unwanted noise as well as latency is gone. It sounds amazing now!

I think Lecto by Lepou is the only MAC freeware amp sim that's good. But I've been kinda out of the loop recently though. Some new stuff might have popped up.



chrisharbin: check out God's Cab man. God’s Cab « Signals Audio

or you can scour the sneap forum.

[chrisharbin]

Thanks!

Yeah........sneap. There is a sneap IR in TH2 producer in sonar but I can't get it to show in either s gear or TH2 64. :?

Anyways, thanks!

[Deathbykidd]

Also, anyone able to find a bass sim??? Preferably in AU for mac? I havent come across one yet..

[EtherealEntity]

I don't know of any except those in Guitar Rig and Revalver, sorry.
But to be honest I haven't had good results with them. In the studio it's DI most of the time..I'm getting best results using just the DI, and 20% of that DI through a cab impulse (SVT 8x 10)for a little more low end

[Deathbykidd]

Originally Posted by EtherealEntity

I don't know of any except those in Guitar Rig and Revalver, sorry.
But to be honest I haven't had good results with them. In the studio it's DI most of the time..I'm getting best results using just the DI, and 20% of that DI through a cab impulse (SVT 8x 10)for a little more low end

So just run DI, then add some eq, distortion, and compression. and run it to a bus with just the cab impulse at around 20%? Im trying to go for this kind of tone for the bass:


for that i'd assume lots of filtering too.... correct?

[EtherealEntity]

Yes, 80% of bass tone is in the DI. Play carefully with the settings on the bass and get it as close as possible with no FX on it at all.
Generally boost treble and hi mids, cut low mids.
Send the DI to another channel and distort that, cut everything above 300hz on that channel and low pass the fizz away. Blend that in a little bit with the clean DI.
Output the whole lot to another bus with the cab sim blended as much as you feel necessary for a good low end.
Multiband compression heavily on the attack frequencies to tame the clicky peaks will bring out the huge tone and get it under control

[Deathbykidd]

Originally Posted by EtherealEntity

Yes, 80% of bass tone is in the DI. Play carefully with the settings on the bass and get it as close as possible with no FX on it at all.
Generally boost treble and hi mids, cut low mids.
Send the DI to another channel and distort that, cut everything above 300hz on that channel and low pass the fizz away. Blend that in a little bit with the clean DI.
Output the whole lot to another bus with the cab sim blended as much as you feel necessary for a good low end.
Multiband compression heavily on the attack frequencies to tame the clicky peaks will bring out the huge tone and get it under control

So have two tracks? A clean DI track and a copied take and run that through the distortion and the filters? then send those two tracks to a single bus with the cab?

Thanks so much, guitars I have no problem with, but my bass tone and recording skills lack so much.

[EtherealEntity]

Yep that's one way to do it
I tend to just have one audio track, Output that to a Clean bus. Send (creating a copied signal) to a distorted bus, and then output both of those busses to a main cab bus. But whatever works - also one method may be more logical than another depending what software you use

[Deathbykidd]

Originally Posted by EtherealEntity

Yep that's one way to do it
I tend to just have one audio track, Output that to a Clean bus. Send (creating a copied signal) to a distorted bus, and then output both of those busses to a main cab bus. But whatever works - also one method may be more logical than another depending what software you use

Cool! Thanks I'll definately try that once i can get a hold of a bass cab impulse. Every one of them i find, the links are dead or they are for windows..

[EtherealEntity]

For Windows?? They are just WAV audio files I have PM'd you something