On 03/25/2011 05:27 PM, Q wrote: > Cedric Roux wrote: >> ----- "Q" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Presumably you mean the lead guitar rather than the rhythm? I can't >> >> yes, the solo. Sorry. >> >>> But that said, you've omitted a crucial bit of information -- what >>> type >>> of guitar are you using? I'd be very surprised if you'd get near that >> >> "jackson fusion std" is written on it. There are 3 "mikes" (pickups?). >> One is near the attach of the string (sorry, english vocabulary >> missing) and is doubled and 2 are closer to the middle of the strings. >> There is a switch to select which mike to use, one button for volume >> and one button for "presence" or whatever, it seems to do some EQ, >> like removing treble. There are pictures on the internet. > > Okay, so it's HSS Strat-style guitar -- that's humbucker (the double > size pickup, at the bridge), single coil (middle), single coil (neck). I > can't find any info on the body material, but as I said before, I can't > see that sort of body style/material having the weight needed to get > that sort of tone, but someone will no doubt prove me wrong. > It's basswood, so it will sound muddier than Brian May's guitar. > I couldn't see for certain which pickups May meant by "one and two" in > that video, I suspect the bridge and middle. Having a humbucker will > give a bit of extra body to the sound, but try for yourself which sounds > closer bridge and middle or neck and middle. > The pick-up of the Jackson Fusion Std (a Jackson J-85) seems to be quite an ok pick-up. No way you could split the humbucker pick-up? that would give you a single coil in bridge position and that might enable you to get closer to May's sound. May also uses treble boosters. >> >>> doing a solo like that. I'd say you don't want too much distortion -- >>> plenty of gain, but not much drive -- and probably a fair amount of >>> compression going into the amp. (I do wonder though just how close >>> it's >>> possible to get with modelling software rather than hardware.) >> >> okay, I'll dig in that direction. >> I usually put input gain to max, drive to max, bass&treble to max >> and medium to min. I don't know how to use a compressor, so I don't. >> I get a nice sound for extreme metal stuff, but for those solos it >> does not seem to work. Something does not fit, too much treble when >> I attack the string I would say but I don't know... > > Hmm, you turn the treble to max (and no mids) and then wonder why it > sounds too trebly?! Queen were not, to the best of my knowledge, an > extreme metal band, so the settings that work well for that are not > likely to work well for Queen, so fiddle with the settings. For a start, > I don't think scooping out the mids is going to help at all, especially > with those gain settings. > > I'm into prog rock/classic rock sort of style of playing and I have my > Marshall set with the mids to max (10, not 11!), treble at about 8 and > bass at about 6. My compressor pedals have tone controls and I often > turn the treble up a bit on those as well, when they are in use. > > I've spent countless hours trying to get my three-channel amp set up to > my liking. For a metal sound (not something I do often) I might turn > both the channel drive and level up quite high, but for other styles you > don't need that amount of distortion -- it's a balancing act between the > drive and volume for each channel, plus also the master volume. > > I don't actually use Guitarix or GX_head, but having found a screen > shot, it has the same three controls. You can have high gain, low volume > and have the master volume high to drive the power amp (assuming the > models are this intricately modelled), or low gain/high volume and > master volume to taste -- as I say, it's a question of getting the right > balance. > > I used to crank the amp up to get those searing lead sounds, but they > always ended up too distorted, until I discovered stompbox compressors > -- instead of using (distorted) gain for the sustain, use a compressor. > Stompbox (pedal) comps are usually really simple to use -- for a solo, > turn the attack right down and the sustain level right up :-) > > Also, are you using an appropriate amp model? For May, you want a Vox > AC30. I don't know anything about amps and tubes, but I don't think > GX_head has the right models for the AC30's valves. > Guitarix/gx_head has an AC-30 gain stage. Best, Jeremy >> >> Maybe I just should put an example of raw input sound for people >> to play with it. >> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmbTA9CAr30&feature=related >> >> the sound is different, no? Is it just my ears (I mean brain)? >> >> thanks for your suggestions. >> > > I've seen your other post about this whilst I was typing, but don't > forget that one is a mixed and mastered recording that has since been > trashed into a very low quality MP3 and the other looks like a video > recording of a TV broadcast, recorded some time after the original > studio recording, that will have been trashed by YouTube's compression. :-) > > If I were a better player, I might try learning it and installing > GX_head myself, but sadly I'm not very good and not a very experience > guitarist, so take everything I say with a lethal dose of salt ;-) > > Hope this perhaps helps a bit. > > Q > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
