Making The Most Wanted Types of Metal Tones with BIAS FX 2

[@NikNocturnal]

*Boom, Tone*

[@gabrielfestini]

Dude how come did you edit a post that simple ? 😂

[@GeeZish]

Wich version do you use for this video? (standard, pro or elite?)

[@Knosferatu]

I

[@gabrielaestevezfrias1319]

Is that the standard version ?

[@dodychris4099]

Nik Nocturnal where u locking nut guitar?

[@unothodoxparadox2246]

Nik should make a mini-series of messing around with the effects and finding tones but instead of genre, the fans should suggest bands

[@christophergarcia4900]

I second this

[@CT-5576]

Yes.

[@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303]

I third this

[@SuperKillerman101]

Yes

[@marioivanmartinez1745]

I fourth this

[@WalmartTom]

Step 1 - All the gain Step 2 - No mids Step 3 - Treble at 11 Step 4 - Volume at 13 Step 5 - More gain Enjoy your Slayer tone.

[@sundigest1121]

You forgot gain

[@donnythei]

You forgot the metalzone going through clean channel in front of the amp

[@OEpistimon]

But you won't be haired that way

[@I3tr-i8b]

Any noise gate?

[@felixstuemke4164]

SLLLLLLAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! NO MIDS!! METALZONE!!

[@inadistantland6578]

Tones: 0:42 metalcore 6:03 djont 9:24 metal lead 12:15 clean chorus 14:48 ambient clean

[@MrMassmahem]

In A Distant Land thanks bruv

[@thebigwithu126]

I LOVE DJONT!!! XD

[@takank3544]

Not sure if I should trust this bias review.

[@NikNocturnal]

I see what u did there

[@sephiroth7818]

Oh for FX sake

[@NicDunn]

Don’t let that FX your opinion

[@off-meta-michael]

You hurt me when you boosted 4k

[@awaitingchaosband]

It physically hurt me :'(

[@NikNocturnal]

It hurt me too my friend

[@F1stBr34k3r]

I'm not an EQ expert. But after testing tones for so long, and seeing him suddenly raise that one mid-right screeching frequency that I dread, I suddenly yell "WHAT".

[@bobbysleek]

That Ambient Clean is amazing it’s the whole reason I just started learning guitar. Those tones I could sit and play for hours. 👌

[@annymus4502]

OMGGGG SAMEE

[@brute633]

Loved this one, the 21min flew by. I can't believe you didn't do the THALL tone, and the iconic ambient/clean delay tone that Tesseract, Fellsilent, and Vildhjarta use. Please do make a 2hr video on this, I'm about sold on bias fx2!

[@twisstedriffs]

Nik's knowledge of different styles and just being able to smash out a riff in seconds is impressive!

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you!

[@glenncooper3524]

Im also a low amount of mids guy. And I immediately liked how you put a eq at the end. Someone showed me to leave the mids around 5 on your amp and scoop them w EQ in the effects loop basically the idea is that in the amps preamp you want those mids cause they effect how the rest of the frequencies get boosted and make for a more dynamic and huge sound. Not sure if that works in the computer world , but seems like they would. I definitely suggest trying it it blew my mind how much it changed the sound.

[@xPowerShotx]

Your on the right track there, I think. Still on my investigation for the EQ world. Got this from a friend about this, and its for the Katana. But I think this might be worth testing for sims to. I'll just pass the dialog :) "I know you have always insisted on adding a 5Khz high cut for a better tube tone and to remove some digital harshness. So my question is, do you do that for every patch you make? and if so would you recommend just adding this cut to the system global EQ section after the amp. Hi! I don't do it for every Patch. I never use the global EQ. Some tones like Fender, Marshall and Boutique Amps have a cut around 6Khz. They need to breed a bit more on the high end. What I do is check the position of the eq, amp in or out because it makes a huge difference. Then if there's too much fizziness I remove it with the slide eq around 16K or 8K."

[@williamsundbaum6652]

Really chill video, loved grabbing a snack and just watching through it all, you got a really natural live commentary. Only thing I wish was different (and this goes for most of your non-cover vids c;) is to not have the Labyrinth backing track playing in the background at all times when you're doing something. Was a bit distracting to hear that song in the background while trying to listen to the clean and ambient tones edit: grammar stuff

[@ilokikoval]

I agree. Maybe he forgot to remove it?

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you! I'll turn them down next time :)

[@MojoWitwicky]

This dude plays better testing out amps than I do as a whole.

[@ilokikoval]

Samee.

[@nickkduhh]

Saaaaame

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you!

[@nutyeet4016]

Keep practicing and you’ll get there, I’m sure Nik has thousands of hours under his belt

[@dev4965]

"A bunch of different gates here" *4 gates*

[@dev4965]

@Auom 120 Swnasiqubulotosife If I wanted a bunch of gates I would have hundreds of gates not 4...

[@levin2880]

but no synyster gates

[@garbygarb31]

I see your starcraft joke

[@philippeazevedomusic]

@@levin2880 ba dum tss

[@mowtownmowbreaker1399]

Guess nik was at the gates

[@scottyecora]

I discovered your channel yesterday with a video in which you have that strong Slavic accent. I indeed thought that it was your normal way of speaking. Interesting stuff anyway.

[@FairyCRat]

I can already see Colin Scott lecturing you on that metalcore tone.

[@rocesboyanthony5343]

Fairy C Rat don’t scoop the meds

[@nilswegner2881]

@@rocesboyanthony5343 whats the defference?

[@DriFD3S]

1:34 "forther"

[@davidmace4353]

The EQ10 improved my tone alot, thanks for the tips bro. Still learning the ins and outs of tone adjustment and this helped.

[@chumandarlami]

I sweat like hell when I record myself playing guitar and here is a guy that plays guitar without breaking a sweat for an entire video

[@Cranetechofficial]

i fell asleep by that ambient clean tone man that was sick !

[@nazimzaim143]

My boi back at it again with the amazing content.

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you! :)

[@EnvisionedBlindness]

Thoroughly enjoy the music tutorials. I hope you enjoy educating as much as you do the other kinds of creative videos you do cuz this could be the entire channel from now on and I wouldnt mind tbh

[@dei3106]

Dude dial a day to remember's tone! Love it!

[@Lmolina90]

My how far this type of product has come. I can remember buying a didgitech multi effect pedal, maybe an early RP50 or so. Back then the number of LEDs on it were used as a selling point. Software was around that was just starting to try and offer what BIAS FX and similar stuff does but I never knew anyone who used it. Even recording artists and bands I knew would rather lug peddle boards the size of a car from gig to studio and back than even use my digitech or any "computer" to record. Now Nik and can sound like 10 different bands in less than 3 minutes with a few clicks of a mouse.

[@johnreeves6621]

"mids get outta here!" Da fuq you doin man

[@NikNocturnal]

The worst thing possible

[@noahodum9737]

Esp on a 5153 model.... that amp is god damn bass heavy it makes my Legacy sound like a JCM 800..

[@coleG112]

The final Ambient clean gave me so many Of Mice and Men's "The Calm" vibes in all the best ways. Also, I just want to appreciate that Delude Reissue they did. Adding those four songs defined Of Mice & Men as a band, imo. It had heavy, ambient, emotional, angry, all of it. In four songs. And they all flowed perfectly and all lyrically were the same story... It was absolutely fantastic.

[@friskyfella1199]

I was thinking that too lol

[@cyntdestroyer69xd]

Idk,Nick, personally for me, my favourite tone is yours - so smooth,yet massive and brutal at the same time

[@adamwissman93]

This sounds so great! You sound great man! Wonderful demo!

[@NikNocturnal]

Thanks Adam!

[@adamwissman93]

My pleasure!

[@corvodraken3049]

Hey man love your videos. I just found you recently while I was off school for about 4 weeks with severe anxiety issues but I started watching you that helped me get through the day and I really loved your stuff and now want to learn guitar. Also as a suggestion the song Erebus by Aversions Crown has some wicked guitar sound and I think you’d cover it really well. Keep up the good work.

[@godlikemusic3762]

I would love to see more of these types of videos!

[@NikNocturnal]

Will do!

[@GuitarGirl4ever]

I've never actually heard you talk til now. You've got one of those voices man...could just listen to you talk 🤣

[@NikNocturnal]

Thanks Hilary!

[@jchd9286]

These vids are really fun to watch and I don’t know why

[@KaedenHoisington]

okay but wow that ambient clean was so beautiful

[@Totone56]

The ambient clean part was sick af

[@danielsay9842]

this is actually just a good tutorial on how to build a decent computer based guitar tone! kudos!

[@rippermalone]

I could listen to you all day dude

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you!

[@danielskrivan6921]

Your English is getting much better...your accent is really clearing up.

[@nicholasharral6128]

This was super helpful! Thanks Nik!

[@romyerushalmy]

Great video as always, but i suggest switching and puttinf yourself playing in a small window, and putting the software on the full screen

[@RenzoBse]

Damn! I was looking for this kind of programs! thank you Nik, I'm definitely getting this

[@squalor5515]

was hoping youd cover more metal genres.. you should make a video covering how to get -thrash metal -black metal -old school death metal -hardcore punk -etc tones

[@hectorsoulless]

Love this video man. More videos like this would be rad!

[@NikNocturnal]

Thanks Hector!

[@marounso]

I love your videos and this one was really refreshing. Just one suggestion. If you try the tones, you can maybe mute the music in the background so we can hear more of the tone. Keep on going bro!

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you, will do!

[@bootlegcaesar7481]

Could Listen to him shred for hours😍😍🤩

[@NikNocturnal]

Thanks Julian!

[@justinbutler7169]

Keep making videos like these Nik 👌

[@kylelawrence1333]

But dude what about the best tone of them all, that true kvlt tone 😂

[@sundigest1121]

Yeah where the hell is it

[@noahodum9737]

All gain, no EQ, recorded on a laptop mic using a Blackstar amp 3 rooms away on max volume. BHoom, solved

[@jolene_simz]

Gain on 20 No mids No Bass No Eq Treble on 11 and make sure to use the neck pickup and a single coil

[@Deft1-007]

I have Bias fx 2 and it's awesome!! Great vid here also!! Thanx for the info!!

[@zvkryblkhrt8915]

that clean chorus tone reminded me of BFMV the poison style guitar. I can't be the only one who noticed!

[@ozkanevin5114]

He also turned his voice into Shroud's voice with BIAS FX 2

[@trainspicsebersberg]

Nice Video Nik

[@christianchatman9299]

Noticed he didn’t use the noise gate at the bottom of bias Fx. A lot of people don’t but I find that it cuts out a lot of noise and sometimes do not need an additional noise gate in my chain. Also, some of the metal amps cause the output to clip. If you turn it down, the signal becomes clearer and less broken up.

[@ryzorzen]

So many more options this time around, that can sometimes be my downfall with over tinkering. However the more I mess around the easier it always gets with digital modelers, nothing will ever be as tedious as tone crafting on an old line 6 pod lol. The latency seems amazing! edit: A lot of people will go to download tones, and find that they sound terrible compared to the sound the creator got. This is where I think the guitar matching feature will shine, being able to match to the guitar the tone was crafted on should clear a lot of that up. "Why doesn't my single coil strat sound like a chunky emg solid body?" Well here ya go kids.

[@kenxinhxc1635]

its been 4 years still using your metalcore preset hahha

[@ItzzNoxygen]

8:11 Sounds sick, and familiar, can't name it

[@edant92]

I'm getting a bit of an Oh, Sleeper vibe from it - check out the first 30secs or so of Endseekers

[@mrbaluga6525]

wth was that synth like sound effect on ambient clean????? I love it!

[@lukemadden4434]

I think that was the ambient reverb. Sounds amazing

[@josephconti9655]

This is reallly awesome! I think I may make the switch to bias because amplitube has been such a pain in the ass.

[@chaoticneutral1090]

Another youtuber with bias fx 2, showing off how great it is, after I bought bias fx for 100€ a week before bias fx 2 was announced, great :,) I'm not crying it's ninjas cutting onions

[@fizzlepoppy7098]

dang it! now I wanna upgrade from bias fx 1 to 2

[@xPowerShotx]

Your welcome to join our Bias Fx and Bias Amp facebook group tone, tips and sharing :) facebook.com/groups/biasfx/ Bias Fx '59 Tweed Lux Amp Blues Jam: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imKnn3RteLF8r5Y

[@skeletonrowdie1768]

tbh, this only sounds good because your hand tone is just so good

[@doomsayr_x]

I have used bias fx 2 elite and pedal since like day 1. It's one of my go to VST amps programs.

[@EnvisionedBlindness]

Would love to see some in depth scale and riffing tutorials.

[@shogunatebagel3262]

Woow amazing! I like this !

[@RavenWinterz]

Loving that Hellraiser. I just bought a ESP EC1000 which is super sweet and costs more than a Hellraiser, at least the non-floyd rose version, and I still want to get a Hellraiser.

[@chrisaustin4038]

All the djent chords were open notes but palm muted.....😢 That’s not djenty at all

[@MarcosThompson]

The first riff with that tone reminded me of Lamb of God

[@Thiago_Alves_Souza]

Sounded like Metalcore still.

[@jdizzleh3]

With a 6 string too, what a pleb

[@dansbigfanguitarist]

That ambient clean tone will sound so good with the storm by of mice and men

[@imwindex2033]

Well now i know my tones thanks man😉

[@NikNocturnal]

:D

[@iLuckySpark]

God damn... you playing at the Ambient Clean part is so ominous and serene. Fuckin loved that c: Great work dude!

[@UncleDeppy]

I could listen to ambient clean all day

[@paragonca9736]

I think Nik got lost in the sauce a little bit on the djent section lol. Just turned into a jam sesh for a bit there

[@NikNocturnal]

Just a bit

[@dntinpalevo]

I'm pretty happy with that

[@andycooper755]

Now i know how to dial a metalcore tone Thanks Nik

[@carlosjurado6579]

Please dont toast me for this. But can you make a video of making tones on the line 6 spider v. Please. You fkn rock by the way man

[@cartoune]

"welcome to my laboratory, where safety is number one priority".

[@Justjiggyjay]

lol me : What about that lead tone though? Nik : Nice, juicy, buttery lead!

[@beyondawarenessband]

Nice video, maby we can learn someting from this :)

[@jaredpelle]

Can you please make an in depth video on your bullet for my valentine sound 🙏🏻 also what do use speaker wise for sound, thanks for all ur greatness

[@theafflixworks2246]

My internal monologue literally 20 seconds before the "This is going to hurt so many people's souls to see this happen" statement: "YOU BETTER BE EQ'N OUT THOSE FUCKING MIDS, SON!"

[@bardiabahrampour4166]

axe fx tones for life! is using bias fx...

[@ConnorMcKelvey]

Bro, sooooo helpful. Totally take my shit to the next level.

[@CaughtInAMirror]

You're a god. Thanks ❤️

[@dylancabral3739]

You know it’s a good video when I can’t play at all and I want to buy it haha

[@chrisadams628]

Could you try getting doom/sludge/stoner type of sounds? For reference, bands like Sleep, Windhand, Or Pallbearer.

[@NikNocturnal]

I don't know much about tones in that style of music to be honest

[@chrisadams628]

@@NikNocturnal No worries, dude! It's kind of a tonal anomaly anyways. Tune low, play slow, play loud, I guess is a "motto" of sorts lol.

[@Janky-fn1hb]

something Orange + something fuzz + bong rip + sllllooooooowwwww

[@Raleighkleeb1]

Good video but it was weird to have background music playing while you were demonstrating sounds

[@kid_ryu]

Loved it

[@kurtshirvinski836]

My tone for a TDF kinda tone is 6 bass, 5 mids, 6 treble, slight boost with cut gain, echo delay, chorus, and my neck pickup split into single

[@oscartaylordrums]

we all know Nik loves his ambience

[@stephensummers1958]

I thought your djent tone was better for metalcore. I thought your metalcore lacked punch and needed those mids. Cool video. Thank you.

[@the72u7h4]

Bias fx is great. Amplitube is great. I'm sticking with Bias fx 1 for a while as it does what I want so yay.

[@iancarter1973]

Nik, great overall demo of Bias FX2. Your playing is awesome man. where did you learn to play ?

[@vj-nikkolax8008]

Man can you make a tutorial ábout how to use effects ?... When a see a pedal I don't understand how to use it and I don't know how to mix all the effects correctly and I don't know the order..so...can you make á beginner tutorial ? A see a lot of buttons but I don't know what I am doing I only try to find the tone by hear but some times is frustrating...!!! 😔

[@thedraugr5069]

Simple quick and good sounding tone start with the green overdrive pedal tone maxed to 100, drive to zero. Put through your favorite sounding head. Thatll fix your low end.

[@adalbertusignatius4967]

There are so much videos explaining this. I begun with this reading a lot. When you understand this and train your ear with eq practice you can reproduce any guitar tone you want

[@xPowerShotx]

Your welcome to join our Bias Fx and Bias Amp facebook group tone, tips and sharing :) facebook.com/groups/biasfx/ Bias Fx '59 Tweed Lux Amp Blues Jam: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imKnn3RteLF8r5Y

[@njscooter307]

Looks awesome! Gotta save up now lol

[@daniela.9898]

I really enjoyed this. Any chance of future videos with more bias fx?

[@NikNocturnal]

Will try :)

[@connorham8]

I'd watch you if you started streaming on Twitch. Love your videos man.

[@NikNocturnal]

Thanks Connor!

[@kyleshapiro8900]

What interface / hardware are you using to get this tone? I use Bias FX2 as well and it sounds like complete shit when I match your settings. I am using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 for an interface with no additional hardware. Monitors are an M-audio bx5a with a BX10 sub.

[@matteofraca6839]

Try to add a DI box to your setup bro. I bet it's something about the input signal distortion. I had the same trouble with the scarlett

[@codywicks2436]

I found the cabs that come in Bias fx2 are also horrible for high gain settings I now run LePou cab as an IR loader and some free IR’s and turn the Bias FX cabs off. I’m getting some great tones now.

[@alexisguardado6546]

This is great! I am a huge fan and thanks for putting this together. I am now more convinced to get this Bias FX 2!! Btw, any recommendations for audio interface?

[@faeriepools]

thank u!!! this helped me :)

[@toemasmeems]

Okay wait you don’t have a Russian accent?

[@blasteffect19]

Well he is from Toronto so meh

[@Ewer_]

Шифруется :-)

[@sadcookie7401]

I also thought he has a Russian accent before watching this after a long break and turns out he doesn’t. Idfk why lol :D

[@keineideefureinennamen1780]

8:06 = KoRn I love this plugin

[@akyo_zynk]

1:34 "let's take it a step F O R T H E R"

[@felixhumanum4676]

I need tabs for that first riff. Very nice practice riff.

[@NikNocturnal]

Thank you!

[@snoopdog6972]

Am I the only one who dreams about having this??? Like I feel like I would be up for days playing with tones

[@adalbertusignatius4967]

Yes you are. THU is much better