Using Amp Sims?? Do This BEFORE Mixing Metal Guitars!

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Amp sim workflow is extremely important in studio.
​As a matter of fact, I'd argue that workflow is even MORE important when working in a simple home studio.
​I've been collaborating with home studio owners for almost two decades and there's one thing that I know for 100% certain:
​As amazing and convenient as amp sims are...
​They hold a whoooooole lot of home studio owners back from getting stuff done in the mixing phase.
​In this tutorial, I share where so many of us go wrong when it comes to amp sims and exactly what to do about it.
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[@Aleksisguitar]

Server down?

[@Aleksisguitar]

nvm, works. My bad! :D

[@MRVIDEOMASTER-yw1qw]

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[@MrNoHopeDoomcore]

That's why I like your channel so much...helpful guidelines no one else is talking about much, but they are very important. For home recorders like me, it's really interesting, all together with your free pdf files...perfect. Thanks a lot Bobby!

[@puppyy780]

This is why I keep coming back to your channel. Simple things like this, I would never really think to do. I knew about the MIDI drum prints, but never thought to do it with amp sim guitar tracks. Thanks a TON!

[@FrightboxRecording]

So stoked to hear that and my pleasure!

[@mikef.1891]

Yep, I do this every time, also print down any MIDI drums and bass to audio. Mainly out of necessity, my PC is getting on a bit so anything to save resources!

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

Me too! 👍

[@MRVIDEOMASTER-yw1qw]

God loves you all! The Father sent the Son to die for you and your sins so that you could experience freedom to the fullest! Believe in Christ's death and resurrection (which sealed the work done on the cross) for your salvation and the forgiveness of sins! Amen! God bless you! I will keep you in my prayers!

[@antonflystrup932]

@@MRVIDEOMASTER-yw1qw who asked?

[@eddiebosnoyan6015]

Great tip Bobby!! I have been struggling with Logic lagging and crashing because I might have 5-10 amp sims running together along with EZ drummer, EZ bass and synths. With your advice I will now work on my commitment issues and print :) Thx!

[@leearmitage]

Great advice, I've been doing this for a while now with both Amp sims and midi drums before I go into the mixing phase

[@bdemagall]

Great tip on the eq;s.. Gonna do this moving forward. I always print stems for all sims and midi but eq them before printing. I usually throw a final eq on the bus and go from there. Good stuff.

[@BrianBower]

Great advice! Will keep this in mind when I use an amp sim.

[@heathd6199]

I never have thought of this! My projects cpu wasn't terrible usually around 20-25% but I just took a project that I have & did exactly what u said & it dropped my cpu down to 1.5%. Thanks a ton Bobby!!

[@FrightboxRecording]

Stoked to hear that, Heath!

[@sterickoy6951]

Very useful. I just never even thought of this (I actually spent a fair amount on a new laptop due to cpu usage). I do render midi however! Only been recording properly for 2years so these tips are great. Keep up the good work man!

[@mikeyisdead]

You've really helped me strip down my bloated mixing templates.. and as a result i think my mixes sound so much better... it is so easy to get caught up in the new plugin game when you really do not need any of them.. so tnx :)

[@1bluegrassbass]

Thanks this makes so much sense, I will definitely being doing this on my next project.

[@SinfulSoulBand]

This was honestly the only thing holding back my mixes. When I used my amp aims in ny mixes, my CPU overloaded and my frustration started to grow from lag and crashes and i wpuld give up on projects as a whole. Thank you for being the nudge i needed to just print my tracks.

[@EtherealDawnOfficial]

Great video! You showcased my issues often so I can correct them haha. Learning alot! Just took up music again so this is helpful!

[@klisher]

Brilliant. I do commit my sim to audio files before mixing because of cpu but thought nobody else was doing it.

[@ixadvenom]

your mixes are just excelent.

[@jackforsyte3351]

Never considered this, will utilize for sure. Thanks for the tip, man!

[@FrightboxRecording]

My pleasure, Jack!

[@metalthrashingnerdpodcast9864]

I actually don't do this but I don't have lag or CPU issues with my stuff. I also don't tweak a lot after I find my tone but definitely valuable info for sending tracks to a mixing engineer

[@tonepursuit7110]

I need to learn some discipline because for me as I’m sure with many others I love the instant gratification of having even a few seconds of what sounds like a polished mix to share with friends and to jam with. That keeps me from printing any midi instruments as well and hogs resources. Just need to complete all recordings and the song and print those things! This helps a lot thank you!

[@marccormier266]

Some of the best advice on KZbin coming out of your channel. Who is this band? That riff is a killah.

[@BrantleyAllen]

I've been leaving the amp sim in place when mixing, but I don't constantly retweak, either. I'm going to try committing to audio and see how it goes. It will certainly help my 'idea' sessions when have tons of tracks and associated sims.

[@mondragon9282]

I literally just got my first amp sim last week. Did not even know this was a thing lol. Thanks for the helpful info!!!

[@FrightboxRecording]

My pleasure!

[@cilafr]

Thank you for the video ! Big relief. This just confirms i have been working the right way. Actually I always think like I m working with real gear even it s a plugin. But I was wondering whether I was not adding unnessary work to my workflow. Question: i usually work with IR to sim cabs & mics. Is this mean I always should use raw IR and not mixed ones ?

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

I was forced to do this due to an unpowered laptop. Once you get around 10 plugins on an Edit, it starts breaking up during playback, so I just started setting the output as an input on a different track, and recording it as audio. There probably is a simple way to do that in Waveform, but I just use it like an analogue studio really, if it works, it works! I do the same with midi drums, record each drum as audio, and then treat them as if I'd recorded them myself. It definitely helps get through the mixing process. I then record my submixes as stereo audio tracks, and just keep bumping tracks down until I have one stereo drum track, one stereo music track, a stereo backing vocal track, and a stereo lead vocal track. You still have the raw audio, I don't leave them in my Edit, if I want them, they'll be in the project folder, but it's great to finalise each step as you go. You really feel like you're getting somewhere when the number of tracks reduce each session.

[@nebojsabuhac1442]

I learned it the hard way 😂 thanks for the tips though. Amazing content as always!

[@vincentemerald2574]

Cool track! Great video Bobby

[@FrightboxRecording]

Thanks, Vincent!

[@stahlmandesign]

I like the advice "so you will stop tweaking the settings in production". I do that all the time, and it makes mixing take longer and you get ear fatigue. It often leads to resetting all the faders and starting over. But if you have the audio committed, you free yourself to just work with that. Another benefit of committing amp sims is for songs you may open up in 5, 10 or 20 years and realize the plugins are missing. I have Logic files going back to 1997 and this has happened. If I had the audio and still wanted to work with it (say, an unfinished song) I could try to use a new sim or recreate the tone.

[@FrightboxRecording]

Yes EXACTLY!!!! So happy to hear that you get this.

[@MRVIDEOMASTER-yw1qw]

God loves you all! The Father sent the Son to die for you and your sins so that you could experience freedom to the fullest! Believe in Christ's death and resurrection (which sealed the work done on the cross) for your salvation and the forgiveness of sins!God loves you all! The Father sent the Son to die for you and your sins so that you could experience freedom to the fullest! Believe in Christ's death and resurrection (which sealed the work done on the cross) for your salvation and the forgiveness of sins! Amen!

[@Fiveash-Art]

@@MRVIDEOMASTER-yw1qw I farted

[@cultshakere]

personally i have my ampsim in my InputFX in reaper, and i record another track that works as the DI for the tone. this makes me totally not worry about the tone, because yeah i could propably ad 0.3 more on the presence knob and audition ALL my IRs again. but i have done that enough. i like the "standard" tone i have sculpted over the years.

[@FrightboxRecording]

Do you capture the clean DI simultaneously?

[@chadpreslar7152]

Should the DI tone be recorded simultaneously? I have actually been wondering this very question.

[@masitraproductions977]

You have no idea how helpful this has been. Coming from someone who only today ruined his entire mix by re amping and in turn starting the endless loop of changing things. Re amp guitar, suddenly bass isn’t hitting right, change the bass now the synths don’t work. Its a never ending rabbit hole. I learn’t the hard way. This is such a simple solution and so obvious now I’ve heard it. Very grateful

[@rtsthebe5054]

can you please try simplify this for me i dont really understand what he means by committing and what the effect is? is it just so he's mixing all guitar tracks the same way?

[@masitraproductions977]

@@rtsthebe5054 It means once you have found an amp sim you like export the guitar track isolated with the amp settings on it. Re import into your mix afterwards. This way your effects are on the guitar track itself and no longer being made by the amp sim in your DAW.

[@rtsthebe5054]

@@masitraproductions977 AAAAHHH i see now thankyou so much

[@NeZversSounds]

Reaper allows to freezing tracks with FX, if needed you can unfreeze and tweak if necessary. I find it useful when I find a spot to fix on DI.

[@ninkichan7209]

Very helpful. Probably explains why even I have more than 50 % of free hard drive space, my DAW crashes as soon as I Try to load projests with lots of guitars with active amp SIMs.

[@Iesous27]

damn, i had no idea of this. I'm fairly new to recording as a bedroom guitarist using the free version of pro tools. I've been using at most 6 different guitar tracks with my amp sim live in each session. I like the tone I have set in my amp sim; especially for rhythm guitars, so I will start to "commit" them and save my CPU lol. Thanks alot dude! Also, I think it would have been helpful if you went through the commit options. Apparently the "automate pan" makes the track as a stereo track. Helpful tip for noobs like me!

[@leftofzeroofficial]

TSE x50 is AWESOME. Still use it all the damn time. This is great advice, we can get so caught up in tweaking that we never finish anything, I'm definitely guilty. I have been trying to get in this mindset. Cheers !

[@FrightboxRecording]

I've tried a million different high-end overpriced amp sims and the TSE x50 is still my favorite.

[@Guitarcay]

Hello Bobby thanks for teaching us so much Here is my question how can i commit up in cubase i couldnt find it

[@MikeMiranda777]

Awesome tips!

[@Linguae_Music]

Good video :D In reaper, after i get the guitars recorded the way i want i just render the tracks to new tracks inside the project and disengage the plugins in the old tracks before muting them and putting them in the backend of the mixer and hide them in a subgroup. So i dont see them... but then if i want to change them i can just reengage the plugins, fix what i want and rerender them to new tracks again and the DIs are always still there. :D Its effectively the same as freezing but its not actually a freeze and is more flexible. I recently been doing this with everything before the mix. So i have a full open CPU to work with.

[@camerojones]

Thanks for this tip!

[@shaihulud4515]

Hey, this is a great video, but maybe I have some food for thought on this topic. Indeed, I usually go with my plugins into the mixing phase, without rendering the files beforehand. Now, I used to do this initialy, but about four years ago, I changed this habbit, here is why: Back then, we already had great Amp sims, but it was kinda habit for me to render and treat the tracks like "real" guitar tracks. Than I learned to make use of the benefits the top tier Amps sims offer these days: you can tweak your tone where there's the most impact - by changing the cabs via IRs or some other means. Especially for metal tones this is these days my way to go. Now, back then, I would go for a tone I really like, and afterwards make corrections (if needed) with my EQ. Now, it may seem absurd at first, especially given that nothing has as much impact on tone as the cab, but for me it worked better, to make changes to my IR (or whatever the Amp sim has to offer), before I would reach over to an EQ. Sometimes I go through three or four different settings, just to end up with one that sits a lot better in my mix - no need to bother an EQ! It might - however - be greatly influenced by how I build up my mixes: I usually start with drums, then bass, then guitars. If I get the low frequencies right, I feel more comfortable to embed the mid and highs with other techniques. Just my two cents.

[@benjaminhernandez4433]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Elink321]

Subscribed. Great video

[@vhs_deathmetal]

Another great video! I normally do print my guitar tracks but I've been committing to the EQ as well so I'm gonna try and switch that up and EQ the printed tracks. What about leads that have delay? Would you add the delay to the printed track and just have the lead itself be printed of just the amp sim? Keep up the awesome work!

[@AlanDS89]

If the delay is part of the tone (as a pedal) I'd print it with the amp sim. If it's just for widening or thickening the tone, I'd add it after printing

[@FrightboxRecording]

Same exact process for me, too!

[@GGCC36712]

Since you had already utilized the eq before commuting within the context of the mix… could you then just move the eq over to the rendered audio track? Retaining the original eq values that worked initially within the context? Awesome video brother! Thanks!

[@FrightboxRecording]

Great question! I'm only rendering the amp sim. The EQ that was on the track is still live on the rendered version. I can then tweak or remove it in the real mix if necessary. In a sense, I'm just converting the amp sim to a "real" version of the raw tone.

[@mikalo05]

Great Tips!

[@jaredholton3145]

Awesome tips and as always appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us!! Question for you regarding DI guitar and amp sims. I find that I have a lot of “idle hiss” with my amp sims even with the guitar volume all the way down but plugged into my audio interface. If I use a real tube amp into my interface with the same IR I can get higher gain and better sounding distortion without the same amount of idle hiss. I’m assuming what I’m hearing is the audio converts being magnified in the DI signal because of the gain of the distortion. Is there a way to minimize this to get a better tone and less of the hiss? For reference I shoot to peak at -6dbfs and my audio interface is a focusrite scarlett 18i8 2nd gen.

[@butcher_0392]

If your tracking guitar DIs at -6dbfs peak in the Daw and you still have less distortion than your real amp, you can use a Maxon OD808 as a clean boost with gain at zero and volume at max tone to taste. Or you can also Tracking a - 3dbfs peak and thus you will have more distortion in your amp sim. * As for using the same IR it will not sound exactly like your real amp, because the sim will have a different response to playing and curve, you can use an analyzer to see the differences between your two tones, like the fabfilter pro q3 or similar, and there you will see the frequencies that you have to increase or remove from your tone, so that it does not have that fizz and sounds similar to what you want.

[@rvybarela7639]

when you mix for clients, do you prefer guitar tracks with fades in the intro and/or outro?

[@MadscientistRookie]

I tend to bounce out what I have as the raw tones that I capture when I record with IR's, although I have two different settings for my left and right ( essentially I have my Left and right guitars duplicated but dialed in with a tone to capture something underneath the ideal tone, not Idea why I do it but for some reason I like it).

[@JirehAsis]

Thank you! well done!

[@FrightboxRecording]

Thanks for watching, Jireh!

[@ayeapprove]

I agree with your second point of endless adjusting but if an amp sim has more then 3% CPU load on my old Ryzen 3600 it goes in the bin.TSE X50 v1 has a CPU load of 0.50% in stereo and half that in mono. Neural DSP typically is at 1% in stereo. My whole stereo rhythm guitar bus with IRs and other fx typically is at 2% peak. I've had sessions with lots of Kontakt samples but I've never ran into CPU load problems but I've had issues with RAM size.

[@TheRobGuard]

I can make a wave form look fat or thin in Cubase, doesnt change the signal though... Though I really appreciate you helping ppl (like me) with their mixing using midi/vst/plugin tools. Thanks!

[@shornstar]

Thanks for this. Makes sense when you’re only running with 8g’s of ram

[@carlwhittle2877]

Great vid as always! Thank you! Would you edit the tracks after printing? Or edit the DI track so it's tight with the mix and then print the amp sim tone? Cheers!

[@pierre-claudemeriot6562]

He edits them before. Easier to see the transients (attack) with the DI

[@FrightboxRecording]

Exactly!

[@adrianwade3562]

Is printing like freezing or bumping or bouncing tracks? Where the track, volume or any plugins can not be altered unless unfrozen.

[@buddhabillypresents4006]

Thanks. Lol never even heard of this before. Gonna try it.

[@NoisieBastrdd]

this was eye opening, mate! sub

[@FrightboxRecording]

Happy to have been a help, Miguel!

[@matthewpritchard6109]

Dammit. I don't commit them, I leave them 'live'. Mind you, I don't generally mess about once I've decided on a good tone (too lazy)! But I also get the sense that leaving everything 'live' can introduce constant fluctuations in the sound, making it harder to mix. I will start committing to track from now on. Another great piece of advice!

[@mengeleto11]

Hi, do you use Drummer 3 in this session?

[@regdenee]

I usually render to save the CPU when mixing on my laptop. I find it easier to get into the mixing flow without going back into the production phase and changing the fundemental tones of guitars, bass or drum sounds.

[@FrightboxRecording]

YESSSS, that's the way to do it 🤘

[@epicmetalness]

im digging that song

[@FrightboxRecording]

Stoked to hear that man! The band is called Voidscape.

[@TheRealJayguar]

As a noob this actually makes total sense to me. I sent a friend my project which were all raw and he had issues with midi and GTR tones. I assumed he did not have the same plugins ins as me even though they were LP stock it got me thinking to bounce first removes these potential issues. What I do wonder is this...How should I adjust the volume of the tracks before bouncing? I noticed when I leave them in the mixed vol they sound quieter. Another question is does the master VCA plugins also get stamped (exciter, Master AI etc.) ? Should I turn all these off? I will go back and turn off the EQ like you suggest and run some tests myself but wanted to ask the question here in case someone had some advice....Thanks!

[@carismadesigns]

Cool i started doing that a while ago and man u save some cpu there.. i actually do that with midi drums and treat it like live drums..

[@FrightboxRecording]

You're. smart man!

[@spaceexpireaudio666]

I like tweaking the stuff I record a lot but I probably wouldn`t preach that approach when working with clients. I only run out of CPU when I add several x32 oversampled plugins plus to ampsims already. Of course the latency is set high at this stage.

[@sterickoy6951]

Good shout re latency, took me 12 months to realise that!

[@a1paradox19]

When I highlight multiple guitar tracks and click render up to this insert it only renders one track, it refuses to do all at once

[@liamfellows3905]

Are the ilouds decent to track with? Like the minimal set up , also got your dual irs today , tone is instantly better and gels in the mix better !!

[@FrightboxRecording]

I love tracking on the ilouds. I actually prefer tracking and mixing on them over bigger speakers.

[@hourglassmedia9949]

not sure how to do this in logic, any advice?

[@khelmeri]

I can see the latency got printed too. Anyway to print amp sims without the latency?

[@SlowCarToChina]

What about delay and reverb? Do you print those onto your audio tracks before mixing?

[@FrightboxRecording]

If they are in the pedal chain, yes. If it's a send effect, no.

[@d33y0]

hey man i know its not your genre, but any chance you can talk about mixing/tracking/panning guitars for indie music or even just basic alt rock? Do the same hard panning rules apply and should i still edit guitars on time to some degree? maybe not as specific as prog metal but yk…

[@user-zn9os2kk8d]

That was very usefull info, thanks

[@blue_mountains28]

I commit to nothing 😅... Should we be rendering drum and bass virtual instrument midi to audio before mixing as well, i get that is frees up cpu but if it is not an issue for your computer who cares right? Will it impact the sound quality.

[@FrightboxRecording]

Yes, I explain this in the checklist..it's a great habit to get into.

[@jaredjones6354]

This might be a dumb question, but I'm relatively new to the home recording game (have just started diving into your videos, which are great btw). I've just set up my guitar and DI tracks (am running the regular track through the Archetype Gojira and the DI clean), but the waveforms are exactly the same for both tracks. Should that be the case? It doesn't appear that way in your videos so just curious.

[@FrightboxRecording]

If you're recording straight into your interface monitoring through the amp sim (on the track) you should only have one track, the clean DI.

[@SuperJonSluggo]

Thanks man

[@gregnott7157]

Hey Bob. I like this workflow and try to practice it regularly in a slightly different way. I am a Studio One user and I am wondering if you or anyone else reading this knows how to commit up to a certain insert as you demonstrated in Pro Tools. I would typically use Transform in S1 which is really just a freeze. Same idea and nice because you can unfreeze at will, but not quite the same as committing. Any thoughts on S1? Anybody??

[@FrightboxRecording]

Great question! I know you can definitely commit plugins in most DAW's, but not sure if you can do it up to a certain point like I'm demonstrating in Pro Tools. An easy fix would be to bypass all of your other plugins, commit the track and then copy them over to the printed version.

[@gregnott7157]

Nice answer. That's exactly what I have to do in Studio One. I found a feature request for the exact workflow ProTools offers. If I do and EQ moves before committing, I save the settings as a user preset and boom... The nice thing about S1 commit (they call it transform) is that it is reversible!! ProTools as well? Rock on Bobby

[@iliatilev]

The reason i don't commit to audio is that i write and mix at the same time.. Occasionally i will freeze tracks but it's not something i do often ;)

[@rvstlungofficial5741]

I didn't know committing was a thing. I always used the Sims live. I'll have to try this. So just commit the raw tracks and then edit them? Correct?

[@FrightboxRecording]

I edit before I commit. You can do it after committing, but make sure you group the DI and printed tones together so you're editing both at the same time.

[@nickferrero8029]

Does anyone know how to commit to audio in Logic Pro?

[@therareplatypus7121]

I don't commit the tones. I've been thinking about starting though to see if it's any different for me. Mainly for point one. I do have very powerful pc, but maybe that'll make a difference. Point two isn't really a problem for me and my band. We just make the tones we like, then we leave them alone for the most part. For point three, I know to render down everything, because that's how I would want it done. So I render the clean DIs, and each one with the tone applied.

[@bilaledi7894]

my question is u did not do anythnig yet but u got them traks sounding loud how? i never get my tracks loud and sounding pro straight out of the box

[@FrightboxRecording]

They're actually not that loud. This is just an early production draft with no mastering. If I bounce this out and compare it to a mastered track, it's extremely quiet, which is normal. Don't worry about things being loud until you're well into the mixing phase.

[@MKUltra77715]

What if I have commitment issues? I'm never satisfied with tone.

[@kempdaw6726]

Everything is clear, but I don't understand one thing: When you commit the tones, the faders are set halfway to reach the level I see at around -18. So you commit your tones at that level, but you have the same fader position in the rendered tracks as well. I have Studio One. when I render the tracks they maintain the level I had decided, -18 -12, but the faders of the new audio tracks are in unit position. I have tracks at -18 -12 but the faders at zero units. So should I export the tracks to zero unity? and re-adjust the levels in the exported tracks? I don't understand this and it's very important.

[@sylvesterheisenberg7682]

On reaper you do this by recording the output of the tracks?

[@FrightboxRecording]

Happy to have been a help!

[@Dave_TheMetalJester]

I always commit my MIDI Drums and my Guitar tracks with the Amp sims. What i don't always commit are my bass tracks. Also pretty helpful to tackle with the tone issue. That way I don't hace the temptation to go black and keep tweaking whatever I may think needs to be tweaked (Which often is not even necessary)

[@anagramsaneurysms543]

How do I do this in logic?

[@jay-ur1mj]

i do this too because i always have in my mind that it has to be right from the source dont try to fix something broken and then i dont commit

[@DundyTM]

Hello, Bobby. I have a question, mate. I have a guitar processor Boss ME-50. I love it and I wanna use it in my production. So my question is this: Is there a way to record a Di track and then add the Boss Me-50 tone to it? Cuse when I record directly with the processor, you know the deal, I end up having only the wet track, no Di, and I can't edit it. I hope you can guide me :) All the best, mate!

[@FrightboxRecording]

Great question! You're gonna need a DI box to split your signal into two: 1) clean DI 2) Boss ME-50's output. You'll then record both tracks at once.

[@DundyTM]

@@FrightboxRecording Thank you very much, mate! And if you have a video about this, showing the process step by step, I'd love to watch it. Or maybe make one someday. Im sure it will help a lot of people outthere. All the best, mate!

[@fawzialnazer2465]

this video just came out as I'm having difficulty getting a decent powerful sound, not sure what settings I have to adjust. How important is having a DI box?

[@butcher_0392]

The DI box nowadays is throwing away 200 dollars without any sense. * The reason that it is always recommended in the forums to record DIs is because 10 years ago the interfaces did not have a hiZ dedicated instrument input that was optimal for receiving signals from electric guitars or basses, so there was the famous clip without the possibility Tracking at -6dbfs peak a quality DI signal. The first generation of scarlett had max input gain of +3dbu the current 3rd Gen has +12.5dbu therefore we have 4 times more headroom so now we can record excellent quality guitar DIs using only the interface without the need for External DI Boxes. Also the new interfaces have much quieter preamps, excellent dynamic range, good converters, efficient drivers for perfect latency, where we can monitor directly from the Daw without a problem, and a scarlett only costs just 120 bucks it's a gift you don't need more .

[@FrightboxRecording]

I 100% agree.

[@wesliggett2454]

Would love your input on this…. OX or Captor X?

[@FrightboxRecording]

No idea...never heard of either one.

[@Elytr1]

Certain vst and soundfont guitars that are *free* even sound good now its crazy

[@martinjaramillo5205]

Hey, thank you for making this, I have a question, maybe im dumb but is committing the same as rendering? Also, if it is, should I render my guitar tracks as MP3 files or WAV?

[@FrightboxRecording]

Hello, Martin! Committing is the same as rendering. Always render at native bit-depth and sample rate that the DI's were recorded at (usually 24/44.1).

[@martinjaramillo5205]

@@FrightboxRecording Thank You!

[@Sailor1010]

How are buses affected by this step?

[@MaxMCMLXXXV]

Thanks for the info! Can you share the band?

[@FrightboxRecording]

The band is called Voidscape 🤘

[@leader6303]

first 45 seconds got my sub brohella cool

[@fromdepthswerise3024]

Question, out of curiosity: do you record the individual tracks in mono then bounce to one stereo track? Example: I quad track my guitars (two left 100 percent and two right 100 percent), should those be in mono?

[@greghillmusic]

Yes, if you're recording DI using one cable, it's mono. If you're recording an amp using 1 microphone, it's mono. You stack the quad tracks into a sub mix or mix bus or whatever you wanna call it, you bus them together and that channel is stereo.

[@fromdepthswerise3024]

@@greghillmusic okay, so I got that part right at least. What I've been doing as of late is I've been grouping them together and in the submit track is where I'd put the amp Sim, EQ and such but I was routing that to the master audio. I didn't think to print the stereo track for every part then mix that way. I would've saved so much time.

[@FrightboxRecording]

I record everything in mono and keep them in mono. The only time I utilize stereo tracks is on stereo sources like drum room mics.

[@fromdepthswerise3024]

@@FrightboxRecording I followed your technique here as I'm currently remixing my band's debut record we just released a couple of months ago. You have single-handedly saved me time and frustration as well as CPU space. I will continue to do this going forward! Thank you.

[@FrightboxRecording]

@@fromdepthswerise3024 Hell yeah dude, so happy to hear that!!!

[@EricMakingWaves]

Maybe you've already answered this, but do you do the same with drums?

[@FrightboxRecording]

I do! Only when using midi drums.

[@DontalkJushoot]

Does anyone know how to do this in Reaper?

[@greghillmusic]

Did you already edit guitars before committing?

[@TheXxjmpxxx]

How do you add a clean DI track in Reaper? - Asking for a friend

[@FrightboxRecording]

If you're recording straight into your interface (guitar plugged straight in), you're recording a clean DI.

[@alrecks619]

the first step is really useful when you have low end rig or something like that, because you can keep on mixing without being too concerned about CPU usage. And ofc not to mention the "MAKE UP YOUR MIND!" mindset. edit : speaking of the main reason why Amp Sims nowadays tend to use so much CPU, it's mainly to get more of that analog kind of top end without the so called "digital fizz" which is known as aliasing, by using Oversampling (think of it as "Anti-Aliasing" in your game's graphics settings). Ofc in addition with heavier CPU usage, oversampling can also introduce latencies which can be undesirable if you are tracking. Some amp sims will let you adjust how much oversampling you want, but some will lock out at certain levels of oversampling (looking at you, IK Multimedia!).

[@FrightboxRecording]

I've found that fizz usually comes from badly captured IR's. I've heard a lot of fizzy tones coming from the newer fancy pants amp sims...I honestly don't get what all of the hype is about with newer amp sims...I think a lot of it is just marketing and pretty-looking GUI's. 😂

[@FlightSimDude]

Do you have any idea how to print an amp sim onto a track in Cubase ?

[@Bogdan_Tolm]

Yep it’s called “Render in Place”

[@FlightSimDude]

@@Bogdan_Tolm I do not have Render in Place in Cubase 5. I have Cubase 10 but it is so glitchy that it's a headache to use.

[@Bogdan_Tolm]

@@FlightSimDude In Version 5 You can Print, like here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npCvc4iMpdugmMU As far, as i expiriences with Cubase 10 - it's Rock solid everywhere.

[@Bogdan_Tolm]

@@FlightSimDude Also you can export it and put it back in session automatically through an “AudioMixdown” in both of the versions.

[@Hansipp]

I do this, but I take one step further. Due to I have a real amp and using a loadbox, I print DI, amp without the cab sim I used, and one with the cab sim I used

[@FrightboxRecording]

Hell yeah! That's the way to do it.

[@tgstk2]

damnit.. welll i never really mix mix .. just a bit. you know to share it with the bandmembres. so i do see it a bit as a mix... but i never commit to the guitar... going to give this a try!