Robot Cousin Soundworks

Highly entertaining and very informative, I give you “MARSH: Slipperman’s Recording Distorted Guitars Thread from Hell”

An exerpt:

You gotta start in the room with ‘the sound’. First, Put in some fucking earplugs, so when you go to get sounds on the desk later you’ll actually have an opinion on ANYTHING. Then, get ‘Einstein’ to fiddle with his miserable square wave rectifier/noise generator until he confirms it is indeed producing “his sound”. The incredibly new and amazing sound you haven’t heard from anybody else…. in the last 15 minutes. This is MAJOR, once attained, we now have a starting point. We can now feel free to embark on our hellish voyage into the most fruitless and subjective undertaking ever conceived in the history of man’s sad efforts on this sad and forgotten pebble in space. “A great guitar sound”. Something NOBODY has agreed upon for more than 15 minutes since Ike left the White House.

Second track completed.

Before you listen, while I hate making excuses, I really must stress that I plugged in my guitar, loaded up Addictive Drums and the ImpOscar, and said “screw it”. This is what happened. Barely mixed, barely edited, I do enjoy how it feels like a celebration of sound, as if you were to put a soundtrack to a flashy, abstract painting.

Just keep that in mind.

Sleeper

Crazy deal available until Dec 31st 2009

You buy and register one of their listed products (StealthPedal, StealthPedal Deluxe, AmpliTube 2, AmpliTube 2 Crossgrade, AmpliTube Fender™, Ampeg® SVX, AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™, AmpliTube Metal), and then you get to choose from THREE (3) of their plugins (AmpliTube 2 Crossgrade, Ampeg® SVX, AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix™, AmpliTube Metal, T-RackS 3 Standard, SampleTank 2.5 L, Miroslav Philharmonik CE)

Just got this email from IK Multimedia. I would jump at this deal if I could afford it right now, but unfortunately, I cannot. A few years ago, I did participate in a group buy deal from IK, and I ended up with a ton of samples (SampleTank 2) I never use (it doesn’t really seem like they work… sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t, maybe I’m missing something, maybe I didn’t care enough), but it came with Amplitube 2, which was the free plugin they let me choose. This looks like an incredible deal, but even though I’d be saving $900, I’d be spending over $200 that I don’t currently have to spend.

If only this deal had shown up sometime early next year. I would absolutely love to have that pedal.

The plugins I would probably choose would be Ampeg, T-Racks, and Amplitube Jimi Hendrix. A lot of people prefer Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig, and I’ve tried it, but there’s something about Amplitube 2 that just got me from the start. I think it’s the wonderful crunch sound they emulate that I had difficulty emulating in GR. Perhaps it’s because it seems to take few system resources to run.