Bias amp 2 standard
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Add to this Logic’s own pedal board, and the ridiculously cheap Kuassa Wah pedal (with my home made Midi Wah Pedal), I sometimes sit in my studio and just have to stare at my setup to believe that I can get the sounds I get with just my guitar plugged into an interface.With the Positive Grid BIAS AMP 2 Standard you can create authentic and mind-blowing tones that can be tweaked and fully customized. Having owned this pedal, I’m still in awe of how good this pedal is. I absolutely adore the Mercurial TSC (Ibanez TS-808) pedal. Whereas I used to look at a Bias Amp type modeller to do the A-Z of my guitar signal, I now favour the smaller CPU hogging Kuassa or the Waves PRS amps, with a number of guitar (virtual) pedals in front of the amps. On a related note, I’ve started treating plugin Amps much differently to what I used even a few months ago. I haven’t tried it yet, but based on their pedigree its almost a sure bet I’ll be buying it! They have a demo available and a low price for the introduction.
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It might make you happy that Kuassa’s new amp, Amplifikatkion Matchlock was released today to model the Fender Amps faithfully. Thanks for the info, it gives me a new perspective to consider. Ugh, I saw the Kuassa sale and almost got Caliburn, then I let it slide. I find myself using Bias less and less these days. The clean tones in Spark are gorgeous, and the distortions in Caliburn are simply stunning. Sound wise, I love the crunchy Guns and Roses type tones, but recently I got my hands on Mercurial’s Spark and Kuassa’s Caliburn amps. Because doing that on the fly will cost you an evening of your life. If you need a tone quick and easy, then you better have a library of them already worked out and saved. If you like the techie side of amps, it’s heaven.
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If you delve into the plugin itself, you can get lost in changing the tubes in your amp, the transformers in your preamp, and every other setting that it offers you. Because Bias Amp basically run 3 versions of the same plugin, you will come across presets that only work in in Pro or Elite versions of Bias Amp which is infuriating. But the download system is utterly awful in my experience. You can just go and download presets and work that way. A thing to note about Bias Amp is its complexity. I also demoed v2 for a while, and didn’t really get anything more out of it than I could out of v1. The other thing I try not to do is get bogged down with the limitless options available, which is always an issue with the kerjillions of settings, sims, presets…Īnybody had experiences with version 2 (not sure how long it’s been out)? Izotope Alloy, or one of the Waves “named producer” things. Depending on which sim I’m using, I’ll then feed that into a channel strip, e.g. First cycle through some until I come across something that sounds OK (typically while playing over a looped section of the tune so that it’s in some kind of context), then ditch whatever reverb it may have in favor of the reverb send(s) I’m using, and adjust the distortion. Apart from that I would keep the signal chain simple and add your effects in the channel stripĪwesome, I must be doing something right- I take all these steps as SOP when using a preset. You can sweeten a guitar beautifully with some subtle phase or delay. It’s amazing how little distortion you need on normal pop / rock / blues guitars. Pull those levels down (unless you’re making a metal album). Secondly, look carefully at the distortion / OD levels of everything. As a rule reverb is put on in the channel using reverb plugins in my tracks. I’ve been enjoying the sounds i can get from the TH3 plugin in the free Cakewalk by Bandlab package so it should hold me for a while.įirstly, take off the reverb from the presets.
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I’m leaning towards just sticking with what I have for now and saving the $50. I don’t mind twiddling knobs but sometimes I’m not even sure how to get the sound I’m looking for, so the idea of being able to find something close to what I think I want, seeing how it is created and then modifying it is appealing. That being said, as a ‘bedroom guitarist’ who doesn’t have real experience with a decent amp or a variety of pedals, I do rely on presets to give me a push in the right direction. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard a guitar track soloed out that sounds lousy on its own, but that sounds terrific in the mix. In particular, the so-called ‘Factory Presets’ seem to be designed to sound good on their own… giving you that “Hey this sounds great!” That will seldom translate well in the context of a mix.