How to get a fat, vintage distortion/overdrive from a modeler (PodXT, Amplitube etc.)

[GuitarGoblin]

Dude that's friggin awsome!!! would you mind sharing those settings?

It really does. I listened to it a few times last night and I'm just floored at the quality.

The song is really good too.

 

[metalj]

Let's not forget the importance of a nice speaker in the signal chain, I'd argue thats 20% of your tone right there. And use a ribbon with a tube pre, that'd bring out the "fat" that you're looking for.

Good Point. In addition to that, one of the most important things you need for crunch is the right sounding guitar pickup to get what you want.

For me its all about the P90/Soapbar crunch. Those will get you a crunch even with modling. No, not as good as a real tube amp, but you will get crunch with P90's. Big, Bright, Fat tone.

 

[GOODLAND]

I'll post the settings once I get back from work. There are plenty where that came from too.

 

[GuitarGoblin]

Good Point. In addition to that, one of the most important things you need for crunch is the right sounding guitar pickup to get what you want.

For me its all about the P90/Soapbar crunch. Those will get you a crunch even with modling. No, not as good as a real tube amp, but you will get crunch with P90's. Big, Bright, Fat tone.

I wish I had a guitar loaded with some p90's.

I'll post the settings once I get back from work. There are plenty where that came from too.

Please post any more clips you have. Sounds really fantastic.

 

[GOODLAND]

Alright, sorry for the delay, here's the download link for the distortion preset used on that last tune I posted.

http://www.goletastudio.com/Other/Messa Boogie Dual Rec.at2p.zip

 

[GOODLAND]

Here's another little sound clip I whipped up. It's a more mellow song and has a clean guitar and an overdrive lead guitar. The lead guitar comes in about 30 seconds into the sound clip.
This isn't a very complicated song, I made it more for demonstration purposes.

Link to Song:

Link to Clean Guitar Preset: http://www.goletastudio.com/Other/Mellow Clean.zip


Link to Lead Guitar Preset: http://www.goletastudio.com/Other/Mellow Lead.zip

 

[Humbucker]

I record exlusively with modelers - a Vox AD30VT and Amplitube 2. For lead solos I usually mic up my AD30VT with a Studio Projects C1 and crank it to really push the 12AX7 in there For clean and crunchy sounds I usually use Amplitube 2 and am very pleased with the results - GOODLAND just proved to you what you can do with it. I've also had good results by using Voxengo Tube Amp(usually when I record with the AD30VT) as it warms whatever you have recorded up nicely. Whilst I agree there is no substitute for a mic'd amp, I think there are endless possibilities with modelers

 

[Polska_77]

Alright, sorry for the delay, here's the download link for the distortion preset used on that last tune I posted.

http://www.goletastudio.com/Other/Messa Boogie Dual Rec.at2p.zip

THANKS MAN you Just made my day!!!

 

[Armistice]

i've found modellers to be fun to play with, but they just don't have the "weight" or "heft" of tone that amps have.

I'd like to congratulate Mr Face on being the first person to use the word "heft" on this BBS...

Keep on fighting the good fight for literacy

Cheers

 

[GuitarGoblin]

Alright, sorry for the delay, here's the download link for the distortion preset used on that last tune I posted.

http://www.goletastudio.com/Other/Messa Boogie Dual Rec.at2p.zip

Thank you soooo much!

When I get home tonight, I will pull up these presets and see what results I can yield. Once again, Thank you!!

 

[GuitarGoblin]

I've also had good results by using Voxengo Tube Amp(usually when I record with the AD30VT) as it warms whatever you have recorded up nicely. Whilst I agree there is no substitute for a mic'd amp, I think there are endless possibilities with modelers

I'm also going to trying Voxengo's tube amp when I get home. Thanks for the advice.