This is just my opinion though and in some situations a well played guitar emulation will do the job. If a professional guitar sound is required though, personally I think it would be worth hiring someone who can play well and knows how to create the sound you want.
Yup.. no matter the sound you're using, you should play it with a guitar brain to make it more acceptable to the ears.. this is not easy.. Doug from the soundtestroom actually understands this quite well and does some demos with guitaristic qualities..
My favourite 'guitar-like synth' is the classic DX-7 run through a guitar amp (sim).
It can sound stunningly real, if the synth wave is mostly clean, but not completely.
Many patches have interesting attack variations (or are easy to tweak that way).
I'm a horribly guitarist according to common standards, but I really enjoy my tone and articulation - and don't wanna miss the instrument interaction.
Btw this applies to acoustic guitars as well.
Actually none of the choices for me
I'm using pre-recorded, sliced guitar loops (mainly REX loops inside Stockholm in KORG Gadget). This gives me real performances and the option to change the riffs rhythmically and melodically to some extent.
Even on desktop, getting a real-sounding performance isn't easy although Ilya Efimov and Amplesound libraries sound quite good, as well as the RealGuitar series.
The controller is at least as important as the sound, with MPE near-essential for any kind of plausible expressiveness. I get least worst results with an Artiphon in tap mode simply playing the Artiphon app's acoustic guitar sound (which sounds absolutely dreadful on its own, but has been sampled well for MPE responsiveness) through Tonestack; the quality of the original sound isn't mission-critical if it's run through a nice crunchy distortion. But it only really works for solo lines. And acoustic, especially classical, guitar is pretty much a non-starter.
I'm a songwriter, but growing tired of writing to solely electronic music. I want to get that electric guitar sound that is heard in a lot of top 40 music today, the type by producers such as Dr Luke (yawn, I know).
The problem is, I only have an acoustic guitar. Is it possible to record my acoustic guitar into Logic using my mic and then manipulating it in Logic to sound like an electric? Using amp designer or something? And if so, how would I go about doing so...
But yes generally you can to an extent try to emulate an electric guitar sound with an amp modeling plug-in such as amp designer... distorted sounds will be easier to emulate than clean sounds though.
Quite generic sounding, but great to write songs to. Do you have any tips on how best to emulate an electric guitar sound, and exactly what do you mean distorted sounds will be easier than clean ones?
I think it might be hard to make an acoustic guitar sound like that. You could roll off lows and mids, compress the crap out of it, but it still won't have that snappy Telecaster smack I'm hearing in those samples, even though it will be closer.
Your best bet might be a guitar sample instrument. Do a search on "Funk guitar samples" and listen to some of the sample tracks... most of them are loaded with licks exactly like the ones in those records, played on real electric guitar guitars.
Hello, I am looming for an external sound module that has realistic electric guitar sounds preferably distorted rock. I would be attaching this to my Roland GR-20 guitar synth that I use playing my bass guitar. I'm looking for something older that won't break the bank. Thanks
I can only speak as a keyboardist - for us, regardless of the sound, the challenge is to play parts on the keyboard that have the voicings and riffs that are guitarist-like, and not keyboardist-like. And it is just plain difficult to manipulate samples in a way that come off sounding like a real guitar.
I think the key is to use guitar processors after dry guitar sounds. A good amp sim, wah-wah, distortion, etc. help give that "guitar character." Samples of distorted guitar don't work because the distortion occurs for each string...which can be a cool sound, but not an authentic guitar sound.
Here's an incomplete "rock demo" I made using only sounds from my Roland Jupiter-50, including electric guitar. These kinds of guitar sounds are available in the newer Roland instruments with the "SuperNatural" sounds, such as the Integra-7 module. Again, I am a keyboardist, and it is really rough to play these sounds with voicings that are consistent with what someone does on a guitar. But I try my best.
I cancelled the previous download of multiple packs and triggered the install of the Lennox Beatmaker Acoustic guitar pack (755M) on its own. This is probably going to take around 10 - 20 minutes based on the speed of the bar.
This will work on other distros I'm sure, but it will definitely work on ArchLinux x86_64 architecture
So it's pretty easy. Place Soundbanks file in /opt/GuitarPro6. Now, in a terminal mv to /opt/GuitarPro6 and change GPBankInstaller to GPBankInstaller.sh.
Then in the terminal enter: ./GPBankInstaller.sh Soundbank.file ./
The above command with install the soundbanks leaving a new directory called Data/Soundbanks inside the /opt/GuitarPro6 directory. Now restart the program and it should now be working. I hope you guys find this useful.
an approximation of Matt Bellamy's guitar tone on the first half of the "Knights Of Cydonia" solo. Had a devil of a time doing this until I read the recent GP story and figured the harmonic synth -...
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These are some presets I recently created for my guitars: 2 for my Telecaster and 6 for my Les Paul (w/ P-90 single coils). All are pretty simple, I especially like the clean tones for the Les Paul (p...
My take on the classic tremolo guitar on Nancy's Bang Bang. Added some tape delay just for more NOISE. Panned left and tremolo timed roughly with the Kill Bill -version. I have no idea what they used...
You can make changes for your guitar, but if you think there's a sound more similar to the origanal song, please send it in e-mail to fefe...@gmail.com. I'm playing the lead guitar, so please don'...
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I've been developing some general sounds to play live with any of my guitars. If you find them useful. Make your own adjustments and send them back to me. All improvements are gratefully recieved. Ma...
This is basically for drums like toms/crashes but works with any sound (guitares, pianos, voices etc). It is a delay, pre-amplified by a twin and cabinet, followed by several Eqs for a more authentic ...
There are times though when I need a variety of different guitar tones or simply just an alternative attitude to the sound of the guitar. These are the times when guitar amp plug-ins really come into their own because of the huge variety of tones available within amp plug-in presets. Finding good amp sounds within hundreds of presets though can be a challenge.
Over the years I've recorded through a variety of guitar amp plug-ins. Below are my "go to" clean, crunchy and overdriven guitar amp plug-in presets including short audio examples and reasons for why I use these presets, when I'm not using my Vox AC30, regularly in my guitar recording workflow.
Guitar amp plug-ins usually include a range of "signature" presets based on notable guitar players and popular guitar led songs. Can you guess what song this preset was based on? When I scroll through guitar amp presets I try to find ones that sound tasteful while complimenting my guitar playing style. The Sultan Of Silk preset is a really sweet sounding tone that makes good use of the built-in compressor component in Destructor. This is by far the best clean to slightly crunchy guitar preset I've found in my guitar amp plug-ins collection as it always fits in whatever mix I'm working on - no matter the song or guitar I'm playing.
I have used the Vintage Amp room by Softube for a number of years, in that time I have really taken to the slightly crunchy tones of the Brown "Fender-like" amp. The Brown Clean preset sounds great out of the box but I like to take it a step further by engaging the Vibrato section followed by tweaking the Speed & Intensity controls to get some lovely retro wobble in my guitar tone. I don't really care much for the other two amps in this plug-in as those amps sound too artificial when clean or overdriven.
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