http://destructavator.com/92dl/1.flacI didn't forget about updating my older music tracks for UFO: AI, and I wanted to polish them all off at once with a nice tone for the guitars. I've struggled to get better sounds out of amp sims, including combining Line 6 with Guitar Rig and IR Files for the cabinet part, until finally I decided to use REAPER's own wave-shaping tools and craft a unique tone myself, slow and painstaking, very tedious work.
This is what I came up with, very close to the sound I've really been after for a lot of my work, much more so than any amp sim I've tried.
The actual melody in this short track is quick-and-dirty, as well as the drum part, but the
tone of the guitars I put a lot into. There's no bass guitar in this one, just two tracks from one of my Gibson Explorer guitars, you're hearing the EMG-81 in the bridge.
The audio tools I used to shape the tone also has its own internal oversampling, this is at 2x but it goes all the way up to over 32x or so, give or take a bit.
For those who don't know anything about this audio stuff, just tell me how
real you think it sounds, as opposed to a common amp simulator, and if you think it sounds good or off.
This is a FLAC, which VLC can play, I think WinAmp also has some plug-in or something for FLACs. (Free Lossless Audio Codec, much better sound quality than MP3.)
I admit I didn't test this tone with real speakers, I crafted it with studio headphones, I have no idea how it will sound on other people's basic computer speakers...
Edit: This is with an additional minor filter right after the second stage of overdrive, might sound a little better:
http://destructavator.com/92dl/1c.flac
