Hi all. Long time lurker, new poster.
I've been learning my way around guitarix and I have a question about effects/tonestack ordering. It seems that some effects need to be placed before the pre-amp section, some between the preamp and amp and/or cabinet model, and some after the speaker cabinet.
For example, the DS1 distortion seems to have little effect if placed before the pre-amp, but the tubescreamer works better before the pre-amp. The ds1 seems to work best after the cabinet emulation.
What I'm wondering is, is there a guide anywhere to what goes where, or do I just need to move stuff around until I'm happy?
I made a bunch of "Amp model, clean tone with deactivated distortion effect" patches this evening, but I'm having trouble understanding where things go. It doesn't quite match up with my real world experience. Another example is that compression seems to be most effective at the end of the chain, whereas my pedal board would have compression right after distortion effects.
I seem to have worked out volume leveling so that switching effects or presets give consistent output (although at one stage, the Amp head and the FX sections both connected to the outputs, so I had spent ages working on levels before realising that it was hooked up weird and my volumes dropped about 80%.
All of that said, I have been repeatedly stunned at how accurate the emulation is. All that gear I sold over the years is back! And I can fit my whole rig in a briefcase. Guitarix is seriously good software, and the extras in gxplugins are also very good. I had a Mess Bottlerocket years ago, I turned Hermanns plugin on and there it was, like it had ever left.
Hermann, that reverse delay is mental, Just BTW. I spent an hour noodling with it, it's given me some interesting ideas.
But any advise on ordering would be greatly appreciate. At this stage, I'm mostly concerned with the standalone program, but advise on ordering plugins in Carla or directly in Ardour are also welcome.
Thanks
Nate
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Re: Effects Ordering In Guitarix
This is discussed at some length in a nice write-up on Guitarix at LibreMusicProduction: https://libremusicproduction.com/articl ... d-guitarix.
The short answer is, yes, it is subjective. But there are some "best practices." Some effects are generally used on the preamp (eg compression, wah, distortion), and others are generally used after the amp (eg reverb, delay).
The short answer is, yes, it is subjective. But there are some "best practices." Some effects are generally used on the preamp (eg compression, wah, distortion), and others are generally used after the amp (eg reverb, delay).
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Re: Effects Ordering In Guitarix
Alrighty then. Thanks for the response. I've read all of the documentation I could find, which got me this far. I guess I'll just keep playing with it, and I might even try to write up whatever I come up with.
Oh well, off to fiddle with guitarix!
Oh well, off to fiddle with guitarix!
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