HELP achieve a good reggae guitar sound

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i currently dont have an amp so I am plugging directly into my maudio dmp2 pre amp and using the built in effects in Adobe audition and FL Studio. Just looking for tips on what will help get me get the full reggae sound. What effects do should I use? Should I buy anything? Does micing an amp the only way to get a full sounding guitar? any help ius appreciated.
Looking for guitar sounding similar to: http://www.myspace.com/stickfiguremusic

Thank you
 
The best way with your set up for a cracking bass is to record in at a good level, and use plugings. A good neve comp emulation and a neve eq (waves ones are good) and a decent tape saturation/emulation (magneto is good) drive the neve quite hard roll off tops duck a little treble (u need it to cut through still) boost the bass and shave off at 30hz with a high pass filter. This will enable it to be blasted loud on the soundsystem and still sound warm on a hi fi, mix it high in the mix it must be the focal point of the mix along with the vox themselves! To separate a kick from a deep reggae bass , simple high pass filter to shave off thump and mix in a midrange kick or use the eq for the same effect! Balancing is crucial here , create space away from the bass freq by the tuning of the kick. Hope this helps, drop me any questions www.myspace.com/rollinglionstudio
 
Rolling lion said:
The best way with your set up for a cracking bass is to record in at a good level, and use plugings. A good neve comp emulation and a neve eq (waves ones are good) and a decent tape saturation/emulation (magneto is good) drive the neve quite hard roll off tops duck a little treble (u need it to cut through still) boost the bass and shave off at 30hz with a high pass filter. This will enable it to be blasted loud on the soundsystem and still sound warm on a hi fi, mix it high in the mix it must be the focal point of the mix along with the vox themselves! To separate a kick from a deep reggae bass , simple high pass filter to shave off thump and mix in a midrange kick or use the eq for the same effect! Balancing is crucial here , create space away from the bass freq by the tuning of the kick. Hope this helps, drop me any questions www.myspace.com/rollinglionstudio
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That's nice....but he's asking about guitar.:)
 
Do you mean the percussive muted sound on so many Peter Tosh recordings? r more of the liquidy Alex Liefson kind of rock/reggae sound?
Definitely in the technique of muting with the hands with quite a lot of treble roll off on the guitar. Recording direct dry and then adding some reverb seems like a good approach. Watch some Bob Marley video for how he does it.
 
Rolling lion said:
The best way with your set up for a cracking bass is to record in at a good level, and use plugings. A good neve comp emulation and a neve eq (waves ones are good) and a decent tape saturation/emulation (magneto is good) drive the neve quite hard roll off tops duck a little treble (u need it to cut through still) boost the bass and shave off at 30hz with a high pass filter. This will enable it to be blasted loud on the soundsystem and still sound warm on a hi fi, mix it high in the mix it must be the focal point of the mix along with the vox themselves! To separate a kick from a deep reggae bass , simple high pass filter to shave off thump and mix in a midrange kick or use the eq for the same effect! Balancing is crucial here , create space away from the bass freq by the tuning of the kick. Hope this helps, drop me any questions www.myspace.com/rollinglionstudio
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Lol @ this massive pile of steaming fail.
 
chrisp200 said:
i currently dont have an amp so I am plugging directly into my maudio dmp2 pre amp and using the built in effects in Adobe audition and FL Studio. Just looking for tips on what will help get me get the full reggae sound. What effects do should I use? Should I buy anything? Does micing an amp the only way to get a full sounding guitar? any help ius appreciated.
Looking for guitar sounding similar to: http://www.myspace.com/stickfiguremusic

Thank you
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wtfbbq are you serious?

Yes. You need an amp. You need to buy an amp. First. Then you need to practice reggae. It's helpful when choosing gear to pick somebody you'd like to sound like. Duplicate his setup (amp/guitar/effects/strings/tuning) as closely as you can. When your guitar starts to sound like the guitar of the reggae guy you like, you're ready.
 
My favorite reggae group was the Police...but people dont realize that.
 
Greg_L said:
Furthermore, why would we care? :confused:
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I think he was waiting for someone to point out that they weren't a reggae band then give us one of those long misguided rants that happen round here.

It would probably end with people saying that The Police did some tunes with a reggae influence but none that could truly be regarded as deriving from rock steady or skank and definitely not ska. All that after quite a few people had had hissy fits and derailed the thread entirely.

I'm not going to turn this lovely thread into a train wreck and so consequently I shan't mention any of that.
 
Greg_L said:
Oh okay then. In that case, The Clash are my favorite reggae band.
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Mine too, I also like The Specials, Madness, Selector, even The Damned could be OK. There were a bunch of other really good reggae bands here in the UK when I was younger and gigging in London in the late seventies and early eighties. Us UK white boys were big on reggae back then practically invented it.;)

I do love the Clash though seriously. I was lucky enough to see them quite a few times years back. They were in a class of their own.
 
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