Nolly Mix Breakdown - Archetype: Nolly Launch Video

[@SubhajitPandit1]

"the bass control on an amp is really just a high pass filter". thanks man, that changes everything.

[@jessegolden23]

For real tho, nolly could run a channel just giving tips like that, huge demand for that kind of information

[@vheissumusic]

Depends on whether it is an active or passive tone stack

[@silvashreds4561]

thats why EVH literally had everything dimed, one of greatest sounds recorded IMO

[@molomono9795]

@@vheissumusic I guess those are terms used in the amp world so i don't quite understand. But from the electronics perspective you can create active and passive low pass filters and I think what you are eluding to, and please correct me if i'm wrong, is that the active tone stack is a low pass filter with a variable output level, presumably mixed back together with the other channels in an additive fashion. This would imply you could control both the output dBs as well as the gain crossover frequency. (however they hardly ever give you control over crossover frequency, would be cool to have an actual parametric eq on my amp though, but everyone does that in their DAWs now days) Passive filtering is subtractive control, so the only control they provide is shifting the gain crossover frequency on a high pass filter.

[@zac3126]

Blew my mind when I learned that

[@PorscheJon]

Imagine this guy in Periphery

[@samueljeffreylukman2758]

imagine he played bass in periphery

[@Dan-vb7lz]

@@samueljeffreylukman2758 imagine making the same joke as the guy before you but worse

[@prashuryagoswami6122]

@@Dan-vb7lz Imagine imagining

[@majesticpbjcat7707]

Imagine Dragons Nvmd. Don't do that.

[@baltarellieczarl.2691]

Imagine all the people Nvmd I'll fnd smwone lk u

[@FacundoTupac]

Please, please, Nolly, do this kind of full mix breakdown more often, I'd totally be down to that content

[@josuastangl7140]

Yeah like once a month for a few bucks, I'd be down. Kinda like NTM with only Nolly haha

[@samguaiana2027]

Nolly The Mix

[@kadenstevens8213]

A guitar tone course from Nolly would be excellent.

[@StarWarsRumors]

Yes!

[@arinozdemir]

Imagine being this talented.

[@kronosecw]

This plugin really gave me the "yep... This is what I need". Liquid Shred and Articulate Lead are sooooo sexy

[@erikhernandez2990]

What's really cool is that the presets he used on the song are included in the plugin. Huge thanks!!!!!

[@BhargavaMan]

Awesome, I can witness Nolly's beard in 4K, just like I always dreamed

[@benstanfill363]

I got the trial of this and immediately loved it. Such an awesome plugin.

[@giffinpoopoo]

same here, its amazing!!!

[@fondfarewell2]

that solo blows my mind. it makes me feel a certain way I can't describe it's just beautiful.

[@dannyamit6000]

19:21 good Christ above, the best solo tone I have heard in my life holy crap

[@majesticpbjcat7707]

It's literally perfect. Holy shit

[@recipoldinasty]

danny amit sounds like a clearer marty friedman

[@jerbear97]

that smirk when the solo ended though

[@samguaiana2027]

Would LOVE to see the drum mix breakdown in this. Super smooth programmed kit that sounds great.

[@jasonstallworth]

You can get some really spacey ambient tones using that 2nd amp and the delay and reverb effects.

[@markmcgibbon2101]

Had the 2 week trial and purchased. The tones are huge and the flexibility is amazing. I’ve got amp sims from presonus ampire, bias fx and universal audio and neural dsp are just leaving them in the dust. Amazing job.👍🏻

[@DudeWheresMyTom]

19:20 good lord

[@HiredGoonage]

that solo...just beautiful!

[@caseygroves3046]

It's crazy how actually quite difficult and rare it is to get great tones.

[@mazetoeden9334]

F*ck yeah, I'm a drummer and composer and am trying to find great tones... Just got this plugin during blackfriday sales. I have to say I got much closer to my desired sound through this plugin, it's a great help

[@elguaripolo686]

everything this man says makes sense, i fucking appreciate this so much, IT IS UNBELIEVABLE what we have access to nowadays...

[@bzzrt]

Thanks Nolly! When checking out the different plugins, yours stood out instantly as I was looking for a great crunch sound. I'm not surprised to see you use it throughout the composition here. I think the pre effects are really useful and versatile too. Love it!

[@perfectmachine6167]

I bought this last week after trying out the trail. It was worth the 150 quid I spent.. BEST VST out there. It was this track that sold it originally to me, so nice to see how you put it together

[@exelibaide123]

Useful af. Thanks Nolly. I've been trying out the plugins and they sound awesome. I think your archetype will be the first one I purchase.

[@gitarmats]

This man is a guitar tone scientist.

[@asdrofllmao]

Adam, how do we pay you to make more song breakdown videos like this? My brain doubles in size every time I see you talk about your workflow and creative decisions.

[@josuastangl7140]

for real I'm on board.

[@leeegerton2012]

I feel like that’s because it’s swelling due to the length of detail he goes into to get tones

[@oscaralejandro5990]

My boy got me all in love with all these new plug ins, you fucking rule Nolly

[@marcpeiron_studio]

Absolutely amazing. All that cutting-treble stuff is really interesting. What a great fat in-your-face sound!

[@Jewoc]

Amazin tastes in guitars as well. Those PRS are amazing.

[@evanmaultsby9762]

The Blood Eagle preset is my favorite to base my tones off of. Amazing sim that’s pretty much mix ready with little tweaking.

[@randomselect645]

Mine too it's almost mixed ready except you gotta notch down some frequencies between 2 to 5 k , and don't forget about 3200 to 3500 you really gotta notch that down anyhow

[@District0fMisery]

Nolly the LEGEND! 🔥 🤘, amazing video dude

[@LukeBass1000]

This was ridiculously useful. Turns out I'm too dumb to get great tones on my own!

[@yourbore]

But smart enough to search out for help to get sweet tones! Don't say stuff like that about yourself, mayn. You're a smart dude!

[@arthurmarques3598]

@@yourbore That was so sweet that im crying ;-;

[@Xperize666]

I play 20 years Guitar and have a lot of Equipment, BUT this Plug in is a COMPLETE Gamechanger to me. The first Plug which realy Sound fantastic. Buy it! it is so good, that a real Amp is a pain in the Ass to get "Nolly" fantastic Vision of a guitar Tone. I love my Engl Powerball, my Focusrite Isa and my E906, but this plug is my next Love. Well, done Guys

[@perfectmachine6167]

This plugin will become your second loved after your guitar TRUST.

[@jordanhorras374]

Man, thank you for this. I'm a huge fan of your work and this glance into your workflow is insightful and inspiring!

[@jeff.gt.46918]

Just purchased the full license. Inspirational to say the least!

[@lunernova69]

A thousand proverbial light bulbs came on in my head one by one as I listened to this gentleman speak. I followed them as they led me from the darkness

[@joseeliasluiseberbenjunior9099]

The final product is complex and tastefull. But when you look the parts separated it has some simplicity. Changed my mind in a lot of aspects. (guitar parts i mean, the drum section i still need to understand how they create that monster)

[@MaksymBubyriev]

Excellnt Sound!! Perfect Archetype: Nolly!

[@ladakhodyssey9207]

It works perfectly with virtual guitars too. Amazing!!

[@RafaelOliveiraBR]

This EQ sounds so good to my ears.

[@mortega76]

The preset "Jam Your Heart Out" indeed sounds much darker than what we are hearing in this video. I copied the same settings using FabFilter ProQ3 and FabFilter MB at around 130 hz same as is shown here. The most important part is what he briefly mentions after he talks about the two additional plugins. "And that's all the processing that's going on APART FROM MY MASTERING SETTINGS ON THE TRACK". This is where (in my opinion) is the slight deception... buy this plugin so you can sound like this but you have to have these two additional plugins along with (possibly more than one) mastering plugin. Mastering can play a huge part in your overall tone, especially if you use something like a Maximizer.

[@pubertbucefalus1795]

If you look on the bottom left you can see he has processing on his instrument buss too. Theres a good chance that some eq is going on here as well, as he is using Slates Virtual Mix Rack and then Slates FG-Grey Buss Compressor. Unfortunately theres no settings etc and these plugins have so many options to them I doubt you can recreate it

[@prometheusfallen]

Good grief, the riffing @13:36 is fantastic!

[@maxepta5666]

Checked the demo. Absolutely masterpiece. Best guitar sounds ive heard in my life from ampsims(i have kemper and ax8)

[@MrHardrocker98]

haha lol you mean better than kemper and ax8?

[@maxepta5666]

@@MrHardrocker98 haha lol kek rofl

[@MrHardrocker98]

@@maxepta5666 nice troll :p

[@maxepta5666]

@@MrHardrocker98 whats the troll? Kemper and axe is software too.

[@MrHardrocker98]

@@maxepta5666 they're hardware units running their own cpu and memories, but yea they're digital

[@XiyuYang]

GGD P4? Just take my money!

[@karolprzybyszewski6926]

Great tip about SM57 placement for rhythm guitars! Sounds fantastic during my tests!!! :-D

[@boblyle3930]

I have watched this video twice and would really just love to know. How much was the preamp your using cost prior to using this software. The Di signal is almost more important then the VST. If you don’t have the proper DI signal coming in prior to this VST you will not achieve what he is. Again if anyone or you Nolly could explain not just your guitar you use. But the preamp/DI prior to achieving this tone. That to would be great ;)

[@Hairyloft]

Great vid, sounds immense. Nolly such a legend.

[@anglawson9467]

thank you professor nolly

[@marcoshahahaha]

Thanks for sharing all that knowledge, its inspiring!

[@boblyle3930]

What Di Box is used please or preamp prior to going into the VST ???

[@Deadgenie]

All of the presets are awesome especially the clean and crunch . Overdrive-2 is soo good on every amp , I wonder what pedal it’s based on

[@AboutForget]

16:10 Yeah yeah yeah - Maps (? love you Nolly

[@Vancity-2000]

awesome video and tutorial, appreciate, would like to know your settings for the amp, that will be nice

[@Nhask666]

Thanks, Nolly! Really appreciate it! I just recently bought this plugin and I am really impressed with the sound and tones. But I am sucks at tweaking those settings. 😂

[@jcarh]

I admit I was unfamiliar with Nolly. I got turned on to the Archetypes series because Tim Henson developed one. My music is influenced heavily by Prince's tones and I thought Tim's plugin might lend to that funky rock fusion style. Then Rabea Massaad featured the Petrucci Archetype is an Artist in the presets and had to try it. Did the trial for both and I was impressed, but I still preferred my HeadRush. Not convinced enough to buy. Then I ran across Nolly's tune on the his promo. So I decided to try one more plugin. Nolly's plugin just blew me away. The cleans I found... I developed a funky crunchy tone so easily and then a saturated rhythm tone before I even found the presets. This is definitely going to be one I buy. Now I have to go and discover Nolly's music. Neural DSP knocks it out of the park. I think I identify with Nolly's sound design somehow. Great work man.

[@JCMJustin]

Great video and detail thanks nolly!!

[@josephsanchez4580]

Has a bit of around the fur tone to it. Very soothing gain

[@TheSeaUponUs]

I didn’t expect that he practically used the same amp for the whole song! Impressive as always, Nolly. Awesome plugin!

[@popollo22]

Nice, the modern eagle has the same pickups as my guitar came with stock

[@georger3228]

Still loving this plugin. Anyone know which delay the delay before the amp is modelled after? It sounds great

[@Polletross]

I always knew Nolly was my favorite Periphery.

[@mazetoeden9334]

😅

[@MadkeimMusic]

Awesome content! Thanks a lot Nolly

[@bvalderrama98]

So there is going to be GGD P4 drums???

[@mdhssounds]

Ggd invasion

[@22mingus]

yeah there is

[@omarsharif927]

By extra large amarican cab. Its a mesa cab the american amp or number 3 is a peavy dont know if its a 6506 or 5150

[@geniosquarepants8399]

what OD pedal in real life would be close to overdrive 2 on jam your heart out? open to everyones thoughts. love that tone

[@anglawson9467]

this man is a fucking genius oh ny lord

[@m4ssee]

Was it a conscious choice to leave the oversampling at "normal"? I can hear a lot of the high-end missing when using the plugin on the normal setting.

[@zachmanzano]

m4ssee I think it’s just for CPU saving purposes for the video

[@lukasgraesslin]

Could be also personal preference. I like the 5150 sim (the rhythm amp) more with the oversampling on normal because it sounds not that fizzy (even if that's what the real amp sounds).

[@V4RIAN]

16:46 reminds me of Alpha (Periphery)

[@gabrielpettit3989]

Loved this video!

[@LesonDeson]

Hey a little question for Nolly, what's the benefit you find using fabfilter proMB over the dynamic eq part of fabfilter proQ3 to clean up low-mids in guitars?

[@Tothelightcave]

Not sure if Nolly made this video to make us jealous by showcasing the software with his name on it or with his huge arsenal of guitars.

[@nichttuntun3364]

Finally amp plugins that sound non digital. For me as a sucker for saturation and distortion for sound experimentation with all kinds of material sources I finally arrived at a haven and ended searching. Neural DSP, thank you so much :) Maybe in the future you'll go away from that iLok security nonsense? That's really my only wish for improving your products for customers comfort sake. Maybe? Any chance for that?

[@bedlam46]

HI Adam thank you so much for this tutorial, i have bought dsp nolly on the back of this. ;-) would you say your PRS is still quite bright sounding even after tuninging down?..im not sure what tuning you are using in this vid. TIA

[@Stringz]

Pretty sure it’s just just drop d tuning

[@caseylockwood5512]

Nolly is the freaking coolest, prove me wrong.

[@pancake5146]

Given that we this plugin is mainly used for higher gain tones, how effective is the noise gate and noise suppression function in general?

[@cydrums3411]

Great video!

[@IanVase]

So good.

[@blue_mountains28]

Nooolllllyyyyy.... if your out there? Would there be any possibility of getting the pre mastered mix as a wav file as a reference track... this sounds so good I'd love to try to emulate your mix. I know this is ndsp's channel, could you pls pls relay my humble ask.

[@dailynewsntrends]

This sounds awesome, i have ibanez az2204n is it possible to get this tone with my guitar ?

[@Protonaut]

Weird. Whichever guitar I use, I have to crank the treble to max to get a sound even close to the video while using the same presets. Even with single coils. My DI tracks are okay, they work just fine with other amps and sims.

[@maurelius21]

Ever find out the cause?

[@platipuce8193]

@@maurelius21 I'm curious too

[@immsen-musik4220]

The same...No idea... Sounds not good (clean) in the high

[@platipuce8193]

@@immsen-musik4220 I even looked at the EQ graph and there is a huge problem in the high frequencies. Like there is a straight high cut at some point

[@immsen-musik4220]

mh...Do you use Line 6? I have the UX1

[@prckotrtic6253]

HOW THE HELL DOES THIS GUY KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT EVERYTHING. BASS, GUITAR, DRUMS; HOW

[@alfaalex101]

Would love a tab!

[@perfectmachine6167]

Watch him play it and learn that way :P

[@kaosaxe391]

Nolly what settings do you use in logic to combat latency when tracking live with the plugin ?

[@tedats]

Im really glad you said you used a multi-band compressor. I felt like I was cheating recently using one on my latest tone attempt. So happy with it though it really worked. I hated trying to cut out the low end too much just cos some frets resonated too much on the 6th string but prob solved.

[@jayl5941]

Do you have any general settings you use for guitar tones like these? I need to try using one myself soon.

[@tedats]

@@jayl5941 I dunno if I'm a good person to ask lol but here's some thoughts: When making the tone use new strings. World's best guitar tone will sound bad with like even 2 week old ones. Im not saying change ur strings everyday but just remember when ur tone chasing, it's night and day with new and old strings. I'm still working on anything after that haha. The impulse response for cabs to me is like guitar specific reverb. Picking a cab and adjusting early reflections on it to me is up there with important stuff. Great amp isn't doing much without a cab to make it sound right is all I mean. For the actual amp: the rest to me it's so infinite and annoying lol. I am always aiming for whatever amount of distortion stops it sounding weak but not much more. A bit more tho lol. Picking hard too. If you don't pick hard its like turning down the vol and the distortion won't react as much. Oh! New strings are so loud I shld also say! Another gd reason for new strings. Just realising this cld turn into a book so I'll stop 🤣 hope that helps somehow

[@tedats]

Crap I just realised u meant the multiband specifically. I stopped using it after a dif cab gave me better sound without the issues I was having at that time lol also, I just fk about tbh so I wldn't take my advice on compressors haha. I set the threshold just a couple dB below the highest peaks, low ratio like 1.2, fast attack maybe 1ms? Release at like 80. Every time I'm messing with compressors this is the settings I keep Ending up with. That cld be world worst advice ever

[@jayl5941]

@@tedats cool thanks for the response- and the other stuff was helpful!

[@tedats]

@@jayl5941 sweet no probs man!

[@kalmkaos1465]

So I've used the Jam Your Heart Out preset - and in my project it all sounds very muffled compared to Nolly's sound. So I'm guessing the difference is my guitar and interface (schecter into focusrite 18i8). I'm guessing the guitar is the biggest difference rather than the DAW interface....and most like the pickups? On the schecter (c1+) there are 'duncan designed' so ....

[@issacv.3035]

Dude, me and a few friends are having the same problem. Can't seem to find any info on it. Using a DI box helped but it still is not nearly as articulate as it is in this video. Have you tried using the instrument switch on the scarlett? I found out when I had one that if I turned it on it lets more highs in and sounds more articulate. I would be shocked if pickups made that big a difference but I guess it could be.

[@johannsoncrusoe5589]

I find that I need pretty high output pickups to be the best for tracking guitars. They do not need to be the super expensive ones. my gibson les paul studio is giving me great sounds for example. Compared to some other guitars it wins. But input and gain as well as master and output on ampsims do a lot on your tone as well. I find those parametres different in comparison to real amps. Try to use less gain maybe.

[@issacv.3035]

@@johannsoncrusoe5589 Thanks for your input! Since you mentioned hotter pickups I tried cranking the input a bit more on my MOTU M2 to near peaking levels. Much to my surprise it helped a good deal. I was running around -12db at the input and it was just sounding weak and muffled like that. Not quite like in the video but it sounded much better for sure!

[@johannsoncrusoe5589]

@@issacv.3035 coolio! Happy, if it helped out! Another good advice might be to have an okay DI box.

[@NiklasMeads]

Sorry this reply is like 2 years late, but the main reason it sounds different is because of the processing on his master bus. If you wanna see what he has going on there, watch his video from the Getgood Drums page where he goes over his exact settings. Hope this helps!

[@ExtremeFader]

Can we please get a tab ? I would fucking love to play this.

[@FlameDeathcrash]

Such a cool plugin . Maybe there will be a discount for blackfriday and buy this one + the Stl Andy James , to see what happens , haha!

[@josuastangl7140]

*ALL HAIL THE NOLLY!*

[@mrGood-84]

Anyone knows where I can find that bridge for PRS he’s talking about? I’ve been to the ANR website but I only see Gibson models?

[@Riffnugget]

What is the exact model of that ABM bell brass bridge? Does anybody know?

[@reiniervanzwieten7092]

As if the plugin wasn't enough awesome shit as result of neural and nolly collaborating.

[@dmytromats3690]

These tracks were recorded and edited so well, that actually any amp sim would sound great on it. But this plugin sound incredible anyway :)

[@zestymordent5098]

the prog metal rhythm preamp sounds so good, then when i run it on my setup on my really expensive guitar it sounds so crunchy and bad, i dont get it

[@Riffnugget]

yup, same here, same story with every 'preset'

[@zestymordent5098]

@@Riffnugget exactly man

[@StarWarsRumors]

I know what you mean. Recently I upgraded my audio interface and noticed a massive difference while using this plug in. Other people have also mentioned the eq plug in, and the mastering that makes a difference to the final sound. Also take into account that a lot of these guitars have been doubled.

[@TonRollgroup]

Where did you get the bass- and drumtrack from?

[@Viper-dz2kw]

Does anyone know if you can get those modern polyphia esc kinda clipping tones with this plugin cause if it can I’m buying it, I already really like the regular cleans and drive

[@brandonmurray3629]

Anyone know what desk this is?

[@LaurenLeon]

Should have said Les Paul to watch the comment section explode.

[@mattdotson7328]

awesomeness!

[@gingataff]

Any chance we can get this logic project as a download?

[@Kenwah88]

13:35 sounds like something BTBAM would do

[@narshadda]

This was super insightful and makes me really want to compare the plugin to my axefx. Can you share what Nolly used for bass? His bass adds so much to the mix so was wondering if it was parallaxe or his usual periphery based approach. Thanks!

[@jessegolden23]

I only see 1 bass track thats di, hed nornally have 3 i think so id say its safe to assume hes using the parallax

[@Chandler17447]

I just this plugin and it's way quieter than my other neural dsp plug ins. What's going on?