Best Guitar Rig 5 Presets
Chara Dagres
I thought I heard one of these at first amongst the og presets, but now I can't find it. I am looking for a solid rhythm funk preset, James Brown style. I am not having much luck making my own... nothing sounds right. Anyone have one, or know of one. Did a little searching through the online presets, but am striking out.
Hopefully you're starting with either a strat or a tele because it will be difficult to get where you want to go with anything else. For very traditional funk sounds (like Average White Band) I start with a standard Twin amp and cab, no reverb, and the LA Compressor in front of the amp. For more grungy funk like James Brown I've found the standard Matchless clean and Roland Jazz cabinet works well. In both cases you want VERY light Drive setting (around 1) and roll off the Bass to around 2 or 3. Position 2 or 3 on the Strat pickup selector.
A lot of the tone in funk depends on using a lighter (more flexible) pick and of course the right chord inversions, colorations and rhythm techniques. I'm going direct into a FRFR speaker (Yamaha DXR 12), so YMMV depending on your output arrangement.
Thanks. I do not have a strat anymore, though I know it is a key part of the sound. Would be could if there was some pickup conversion available loke a means of going from humbucker to single coil via modeling within the helix, which is perhaps what I was/am after. I'm fine when it comes to inversions and technique. I will give these suggestions a shot today in any case.
Preset 09A, Funk Clean, in the Factory 2 setlist is my take on a clean funk preset (hence the name :) ). I'd say it was designed with single coil guitar in mind, preferably the neck or 2 or 4 positions on a Strat.
I play both acoustic and electric through my Pod Go.
I have made separate presets for my Hummingbird and a smaller parlor acoustic, both with L.R.Baggs Element piezos.
I use the 'studio preamp' and EQ to dial in the tone and level - and chorus, reverb, and delay in different combinations (snapshots). No IRs - and directly into to PA - great tone :-)
I bought an acoustic IR (10 USD) from 3Sigma and it sounds unbelievable with my Takamine - with piezo pickup into the Pod Go. No more Ovation type quacky acoustic sound, just gorgeous, "mic-d Taylor in a studio" sound, in a live setting. I have been waiting about 20 yrs for this acoustic sound. And now the kicker - it happens to make my strat also sound like an OK acoustic. No chorus needed, just slight compression and room reverb.
1. A sigma dreadnought with passive piezo pickup, no onboard pre-amp and the levels from this piezo are very weak, and yet the PodGo does a phenomenal job of giving up to +24 dB of boost to the weak signal just by setting up my presets.
2. A borrowed one from a friend (Yamaha) that has an onboard electric preamp and onboard EQ. With this one, the PodGo doesn't need to provide much gain but the reverb and delay (used subtly) add a lot to it, and the EQ on the PodGo is far more flexible than the onboard EQ.
As a side note if you just want a credible acoustic sound the "acoustic simulator" in pod go does a passable job within the context of a full band mix, of giving me a strummed or arpegiated acoustic part, suitable for country or folk accompaniment, without changing to an acoustic.
The big drag with acoustics is they are giant feedback magnets in a loud-stage environment. If you have a big resonant acoustic, and you can play it on a big quiet stage, great, but if you just need to not be the guy the sound guy is having problems with, you can get by without a real acoustic when you're not the center stage person.
Call me strange, but for some reason i don't like the idea of loads of features that I'm not using. I like simplicity. And even though the layout seems simple enough, it's still a departure from my usual pedal board.
For this reason I'm considering getting a Tech 21 Flyrig 5 V2 as its simple layout makes more sense to me. The thought of something going wrong in a live situation but then being able to make adjustments with physicals knobs and dials on the fly appeals to me. And I think I would be satisfied with the fewer tone options on offer with the Flyrig. A fender Blonde for my clean and a Plexi for dirt - I'm a simple guy.
I know exactly what you mean, but 're option paralysis that fades away as you get to know Pod Go. Once you've found your favourite amp and cab set up, reverb, delay, distortion, modulations, etc these are the ones you'll gravitate too.
're ease of use, the new feature of saving user preference settings in v1.30 means when you select these they'll already be set to how you like them. You can also create a template 'new patch' with eg your favourite reverb, delay etc already 'there'.
With regards to real knobs Pod Go kind of has these in that the 5 parameter knobs will control the selected amp or fx, but these are limited. It's a huge reason that my Vox Tonelab SE has been my gigging MFX for the last several years because it has easy to use knobs and selector dials that make onstage tweaking so much easier.
But another mfx that has a great real 'knobs' layout is the Zoom G11. In addition to real knobs for all effects, with a layout that looks like stomp boxes, it has a dedicated set of knobs for amp parameter settings that mean you can tweak it just like a real amp if you want to adjust volume, gain, presence, mids, treble, bass, etc. Had it not been for the stupid initial price (which has come way down) I'd have seriously considered it. Amp options are more limited at 22 currently but is still plenty for what most folk will need.
1) Make sure you use equipment that your Pod Go is designed for: i.e. High quality studio monitoring headphones and/or an FRFR speaker or studio monitors. Yes some will say it can work through an amp, but what I suggest is the most direct path to ENJOYING the device. Took me 8 months to realize this...
2) Despite the above, you will most likely not like the presets. They are rarely the patches of choice, maybe because Line 6 is maybe trying to demonstrate the amazing array of features instead of providing many usable out-of-the box sounds.
3) Stop thinking like a guitarist who just tweaks an amp. Expand your outlook slightly to add a mic-d guitar cabinet to your universe. It's not that much more complicated and once you find 2-3 goto sounds that you know how to tweak, it opens up a huge array of possibilities, if you are interested.
5) Search Youtube for Helix Amp Model videos. The amp models in Pod Go are the same and there are many "recipes" of amp settings that will produce sounds you will not believe. And the videos will quickly have you grasp best practices (for example the usual order of blocks (od, amp, cab, eq, delay, reverb etc)). Yes there are tons of settings but you quickly keep re-using them. Use a laptop to dial in sounds as they do on these videos - much quicker.
Guitar VSTs are loaded into your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) as a track insert, so you can convert your DI guitar tone into a realistic-sounding amplifier with minimal fuss. A lot of guitar VSTs also come with standalone software as well, allowing you to practice and hone in your settings outside of your DAW.
Handily there are a few that offer official models. Amplitube 5 comes with official Fender, Orange, ENGL, Mesa/Boogie, and many more amp and stompbox models that have the original manufacturer's seal of approval. Softube Amp Room also features official Marshall models, so you can get that hallowed JCM800 sound from the comfort of your home studio.
Of course, amp and effect models are the main course here and all the classics are covered here, with new amps including PRS Archon, Friedman Pink Taco, Bogner XTC, and Diezel VH4 and an intuitive drag and drop signal chain delivering limitless tonal possibilities.
Already a legendary guitar processing workstation in its own right, Native Instruments Guitar Rig 6 Pro sees the software get a serious update. Guitar Rig has a reputation for doing things a little differently from other, more traditional amp sims, with an emphasis on sound design and creative expression rather than painstaking hardware emulation.
The layout is as simple as you can get really, looking exactly the same as the real deal, the Tone King Imperial features two channels, EQ controls, and built-in reverb and tremolo for adding depth and breadth to your sound. Extra versatility is offered by the outboard EQ, a selection of post and pre-stompboxes, and the mic placement page with 8 classic mic emulations to choose from.
With a name like Chris Lord-Alge behind it, the CLA Guitars plugin from Waves Audio was bound to come with a certain level of quality. As a pared-down amp sim, this delivers a relatively small selection of guitar-specific tones, but what is there sounds fantastic.
One of the best things about Axiom is that you can configure your signal every step of the way. Add any of your effects or plugins on the input stage, which goes into a pre-amp pedalboard where you can add six more stompbox effects. You then get to your amp with its own customization options before the post-FX, then finally the output where -you guessed it - you can add further effects and plugins.
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