TESSERACT Guitar Chat - Progressive Metal Icons

[@Emm_R_Guitar]

As brit myself, James seems like the sort of guy you'd run into a music shop have an absolutely lovely chat about guitars, ...and you'd still have absolutely no idea hes in one of most influential british prog bands of the last decade and a half

[@Suremanblurking]

I was the one who asked for this vid on the livestream haha. I saw Tesseract last night and freakin loved every second Acle and james played, not forgetting Dan's killer vocal performance as well!

[@ZL1LoVeR]

I was so nervous Ackle was gonna bump the headstock into the wall 🫣

[@scottmh96]

I love that the tesseract guys stick with the same guitars. As I'm sure they could probably move around now but they stick with the old faithfuls, something very grounded about it

[@filterscape]

Questions are on point. Just one suggestion. You’re interrupting or talking over at times, filling empty spaces. That’s normal for a standard conversation but when you have viewers it’s best to let the guest take the lead and you guide the chat with the questions to keep it flowing with less the fillers eg “yeh, right cool, yep, mhmm, nice etc”. Just a thought. Appreciate the interviews you’re doing.

[@ItsShrimpy97]

back in like 2013 a friend of mine in high school showed me the singles for altered state and thats how tesseract was my introduction to modern metal, really cool to see them on here

[@Fuseek]

Saw Tesseract 2 days ago in Singapore. Mindblowing performance and from sound engineering perspective, tight & massive. Also, thx for the interview Keyan !

[@odjob77]

Tesseract "Of matter" remains among my favourites tracks ever. It's just incredible.

[@ibuiltthesky]

Acle and James are both such lovely dudes, they've always been super encouraging to me when i've bumped into them. Proper pioneers of the genre, 10/10 !!

[@ashanetrevin]

Thanks for this dude!huge fan of tesseract

[@andrewsutton2266]

Saw these guys play with the contortionist and erra years ago. They are still to this day the best band live I've ever heard

[@Drakeblood97]

Now that's a tour I'm sad to hear I missed

[@joshuamansfield6651]

Love this series keep em coming.

[@crock2434]

Love these guys.

[@ahmedcaballero3383]

Seeing them in Costa Rica this September! Can’t wait

[@Surrey_01]

Tesseract is the GOAT

[@markus_m4rk]

Nice chilled interview with cool guitarists.

[@butdoesitchug]

Relentless efforts Keyan. Keep at it buddy. Cheers.

[@FoiMal123]

6:27 Maple is absolutely superior. Smooth and snappy too. There's something to maple which after trying I can't do rosewood or similar fretboards.

[@osc4r_14th]

I don't know you guys, but I think Acle's voice sounds like mix and ready on every mic he touches

[@ibraby]

What a great gig it was

[@ellleigh1216]

Mad to see so many artists switching to silo’s. Bea must know his shit and rightly so!

[@andresaadsarquis199]

I really really REALLY would love it if you could interview III and IV from sleep token about their gear

[@flynnedwards]

Legendary!! Absolutely been hanging for this

[@athmaid]

Oh hell yes

[@Emm_R_Guitar]

does acle do you still have the second switch for neck splitting? Ive been trying to find a good way to split live and his way seemed cool

[@gabrielnyxl]

Ethan from Thornhill when? 👀

[@1904vinny]

Hey Keyan, i just got the Fortin Nameless Suite and tried to use your Preset „The Tone“ for some Recording. Turns out i somehow have problems with the noisegate setting you are using.. it seems like its gripping so fast, that playing single-note lead riffs is not possible without losing a big piece of the sound. Can you or somebody explain to me, what the reason for this could be? I am using the scarlet 2i2 dialed in just so, that the input does not turn green. My guitar is an LTD EC 1000 with emg 81 pickups. Thanks alot! Keep riffin🤘🏼

[@daniolus]

Hey dude, I'm not Keyan (obviously), but I might be able to explain! Sounds to me like the pickups you have in your guitar aren't as high output as the ones that were used when making the preset. Because your pickups don't output as loud a signal to the interface, you're losing large chunks of notes from the noise gate clamping down too early on your signal. The gate is tuned to a hotter signal, so it won't be reacting correctly if your pickups are less aggressive than the ones in Keyan's guitars. Thankfully, it'll be an easy fix. You've got three options, really: you could turn up the gain on your interface (which some people suggest isn't recommended, because it can introduce colour to your tone from the interface's preamp, although I'm not really sure how much that affects anything, if at all...), you could dial back the gate threshold to better suit your pickups' output, or you could run a compressor at the start of your signal chain to make notes a more uniform volume and increase the output a bit with the level knob on the compressor pedal. Secret option number 4 would be to switch out your pickups for something hotter, but that's an expensive thing to do, and not really beneficial to you if you already like the sound that you have with your existing setup. You could also try raising your existing pickup height to get them closer to the strings and increase the signal strength into the interface, but that will also alter the characteristics of the pickup set's response. EMG 81s apparently have a DC resistance of 10kΩ, whereas the Juggernauts I think Keyan normally uses are 13.3kΩ. More DC resistance doesn't always mean a pickup is hotter, but generally a higher DC resistance means there's more windings in the pickup, and more windings DOES mean it'll be a higher output pickup.

[@daniolus]

If I were you, I'd just decrease the gate threshold, as that's the option that'll affect your actual tone the least. Pull it back to somewhere where your single notes are coming through but it's still choking out the tail of the signal in the way that you're looking for!

[@1904vinny]

@@daniolus Hey dude, thank you very much for your detailed response! I think, as you mentioned it, it´ll be the best way to simply decrease the gate threshold. But i am really wondering, that the Pickups make that much of a difference. I thought that "hotness" of the pickup output gets evened out at the interface, where you dial in the signal just at the edge of clipping. Big shout out to you for taking you time with these detailed responses!

[@josuastangl7140]

@@1904vinny Kind of yes, but pickups do also have different compression characteristics, so it could be that his signal is already more compressed out of the guitar, even tho unlikely, as EMGs aren't the most dynamic pickups either. There is also a valid reason not to gain up the signal to the edge of clipping and rather leave the interface input gain at 0, as the amp (sim) is calibrated for the signal strength of a guitar output jack (without any additional gain like there wouldn't be if you plug your guitar straight into a physical amp in the real world). There's no right or wrong, but it will change the sound of the amp significantly, so experiment until it sounds best to you. This is effectively the same as adjusting the input gain in the plugin. I'd simply reduce the gate threshold. A compressor after the gate is not going to affect the behavior of the gate.

[@rowanb4395]

@@daniolus A really thoughtful response, nice work. I just have something to add to: "(which some people suggest isn't recommended, because it can introduce colour to your tone from the interface's preamp, although I'm not really sure how much that affects anything, if at all...)" Most of the time these days they are probably referring to the dbA of an interface/ input, in regards to running that into an amp sim plug-in, to get the intended response out of it. As the headroom of interfaces differ, as well as how hot your guitar runs.

[@rodrigomothe13]

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