The Amp Sim ML Sound Lab Recommends for a Pop Punk Tone and How To Dial It In

[@DadRockAndGuitars]

I use this all the time for pop punk tones. I pair it with a Dual Rectifier (double track) pan hard left and right and sounds awesome!

[@TerryBeckleyRecording]

Nice one! That’s the other amp that ML sound lab say is for pop punk too I believe! What flavour of pop punk do you play??

[@DadRockAndGuitars]

@@TerryBeckleyRecording I'm very much in the early 2000's camp - New Found Glory, etc.

[@pajo777]

@@DadRockAndGuitars same here, just the old stuff

[@drewprezmusic]

This channel rules!!

[@TerryBeckleyRecording]

That’s amazing! Thank you!

[@lildrummerboy80]

Love it!! Would love to know what drums are going on here! Sound killer

[@TerryBeckleyRecording]

Thanks again my friend! The drums are almost exactly the same as in these videos: kzbin.info/aero/PLpRfaymsxWat0I-x-K_nVJSWmiSs1KHtI&si=Iz4Jxlgr8BdNS9sX Which is why I didn’t do a separate drum video when walking through that song. But I probably should have! That’s my bad!

[@KaiDown]

Oh man, you need to try out V2.0!

[@TerryBeckleyRecording]

I didn’t even know there was a version 2! I will check it out now bud, thank you

[@pajo777]

great stuff! drum and bass vst?

[@TerryBeckleyRecording]

Thank you! The bass vst is punkbass from submission audio and the bass tone is parallax from Neural DSP. Although if get the free BOD plugin you’ll get a similar tone! The drums are Modern & Massive from GGD with a couple of samples layered in.

[@pajo777]

@@TerryBeckleyRecording tnx!!

[@hellaslayin7175]

I've tried so many amp simps. I think there's no more left I've not tried. I can't quite explain it, but to me, the amp simps just don't have the power no matter how I mix it. The top end always muddy where left with no choice but to slam some soothe2 on it in the end. Even the axe fx sounds bigger to me. I've slowly gotten away from real amps over the years and now at a point where there's always something missing in the mix where I just really get the feeling of "Just screw this and pull out real Marshall or Mesa head on 2x12, stick a sm57, and just forget this frustration for once and for all. It just lacks the metallic like saturation beef, punch and clarity. Just something I can't put a finger on but it's something that cannot be eq'd in or out. Maybe I'm just tripping, maybe not. Maybe if it doesn't sound big underneath your fingers straight up, then maybe it's just not big. Often it keeps me up at night where I'm just lying down thinking "f*ck these amp simps for real dude, like really f*ck them". The next day I'm whipping out some neural dsp in the box again, feeling right on suicidal.

[@TerryBeckleyRecording]

You know what, they might just not be for you man. I’ve always felt people fall into 2 camps: those you can accept that the magic of real amps is a little lost in favour of ease of use, or the people who will work so much harder because they can’t reconcile the practicalities of amp sims when they loose the feel of a real amp. If that’s you, then you may as well lean all in and be a ‘real amps’ guy. People will definitely love you for it and best of all, you’ll get some sleep again!!

[@hellaslayin7175]

@@TerryBeckleyRecordingYeah, I definitely tend to get better result on gainy lower tuning stuff with amp simps than on rock/punk tones. Have you checked out the tone x pedal? I'm getting better results profiling with it than I do with Kemper. I wish it was out earlier cuz hiring out bunch of amps and make profiles for the tone x would definitely add up way less cost wise than buying off every single amp simp there is, just like I did lol. And the results are definitely better!

[@lildrummerboy80]

But what are those drums lol

[@TerryBeckleyRecording]

Lol! I’ll open the project and get back to you!

[@lildrummerboy80]

Sounds good thank you??