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Luke Johnson
Howdy,
I'm trying to get a decent Guitar sound from my UA Apollo Twin X and using the amp models with the Unity Preamps. Clean Guitar seems to be a lot easier to dial in.
I guess an issue I'm having with overdriven and distorted tones is that there's just so much amp noise and when I use a Noise gate (either using the gate built into the Amp Heads or loading up an API Vision Plugin on the Insert) I can hear it kicking in.
When I typically record Guitar back in England, I go through a Guitar head (a real one), and I use a noise suppressor guitar pedal before the Guitar goes into the head. So I'm just wondering if I should buy another one as I can't seem to stop the sound of the Gate kicking in. Sometimes I used Scuffham Amps and used Guitar pedals before going into my interface (Motu not Apollo) but now I have an Apollo I want to utilise it properly.
Has anyone got any tips and tricks for using the Guitar amps with UAD? I'm tempted to buy some Overdrive and distortion pedals like I have in England and run them before going into the Apollo but I thought half the joy of using the unity Preamps was to use everything in the box.
If anyone knows of any videos on getting the best out of this gear, it would be greatly appreciated!
Jono
I'm trying to get a decent Guitar sound from my UA Apollo Twin X and using the amp models with the Unity Preamps. Clean Guitar seems to be a lot easier to dial in.
I guess an issue I'm having with overdriven and distorted tones is that there's just so much amp noise and when I use a Noise gate (either using the gate built into the Amp Heads or loading up an API Vision Plugin on the Insert) I can hear it kicking in.
When I typically record Guitar back in England, I go through a Guitar head (a real one), and I use a noise suppressor guitar pedal before the Guitar goes into the head. So I'm just wondering if I should buy another one as I can't seem to stop the sound of the Gate kicking in. Sometimes I used Scuffham Amps and used Guitar pedals before going into my interface (Motu not Apollo) but now I have an Apollo I want to utilise it properly.
Has anyone got any tips and tricks for using the Guitar amps with UAD? I'm tempted to buy some Overdrive and distortion pedals like I have in England and run them before going into the Apollo but I thought half the joy of using the unity Preamps was to use everything in the box.
If anyone knows of any videos on getting the best out of this gear, it would be greatly appreciated!
Jono