Comments on: Do Impulses Make Direct Electric Guitar Recording Usable?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:45:52 +0000

For Mac folks you are in the same boat I'm in...once you get going with Pro Tools you begin a journey of buying more and more stuff that you could just do with a $500 PC and cakewalk/used Echo audio card. Is the street cred worth that much? I decided to just apply for some loans and use the real Pro Tools ($250,000 of equipment) and get the certification I need meanwhile running what I just mentioned for my recording needs. Recording is one thing, audio certificates are another. You wont learn by running Pro Tools at home unless you can see how it works with the top preamps, mixers, mics, oh yeah and the latest Macs. Buddy of mine fell into the trap of buying a Mac on eBay not realizing you need to get a workstation not just any old Mac. For that price and if you are just recording guitar stuff, you could put the money into a good sound that will give you more street cred than having a Mac/PT, etc. You have to decide what you want to do in life, and getting a cheap Mac and anything less than a Digi003 will not get you anywhere so you might as well sell what you have and hope the next dude on eBay will think he is really getting a good deal.

By: sunset

sunset — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:38:02 +0000

hey guys - i just dabbled with these impulses the other night with Amplitube Jimi Hendrix and Guitar Rig2 and i was astounded at how great they sound! without realising it i was still jamming away 45 mins or so after activating it and i hadn't even noticed the time. I guess that's a good sign.

While I'm keen to jump into this, I'm having a really hard time tracking down cheap/free Mac VST/RTAS plugins for handling the impulse responses. SIR2 is the one I'm demoing right now, but it runs SUPER SLOW on my system (i'm using a PowerPC Mac (not intel) and I also use Protools LE 7.4).

Anyone have any hints for us digidesign/mac folks?

By: jsd1982

jsd1982 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:08:38 +0000

I created my own impulse from my MESA/Boogie gear and detailed the experiment in the forum here:

http://forum.recordingreview.com/f13/homemade-impulse-my-own-mesa-boogie-gear-6991/#post39915

By: NTR

NTR — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:38:33 +0000

Yes, impulses are a great alternative. I've been using them lately with amplitube, and getting some great results. You can't tell the diff, especially if your guitars are double or quad tracked, like a lot of rock and metal is.

I frequent the guitarampmodeling site as well. Some very good knowledge there, and free impulses as well. Give the Guitarhack ones a try, among the best. Also the new revalver MKIII has impulse modeling and the demos sound very promising.

By: TDM2684

TDM2684 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:03:20 +0000

you might wanna link to this site :

http://www.guitarampmodeling.com

thats the site i got all my info from, so if someone has questions these guys got awnsers.

By: TDM2684

TDM2684 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:00:02 +0000

hey right on man!!!!
Still if I had the set up to mic a amp I probably would, but like you said:

"(the person)who doesn’t own the amp of the century (1969 50 watt Marshall Plexi) or his version of the amp of the century, the impulses are a nice alternative."

When I started recording I didnt have anything but a m-audio fast track pro, a guitar and a 1/4 cable...I had to look into amp modeling on a PC....and impulses saved my life.

thanks for the plug!!! lol