I’m not sure why, but it never fails for me to be disappointed whenever I use an amp sim.

Whenever I plug in my guitar directly into the DI and load up an amp sim with a cab ir, it just sounds super flat. No dynamics, no life, just very lack luster all around and I have no idea why.

I have recorded guitar tracks while running a distortion pedal into a Mooer Radar Cab IR Loader and it sounded very good. But cannot for the life of me get an amp sim to sound nearly as dynamic when I run just my guitar into the DI

What gives?

  • manwichmakesameal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Here’s how I do it and it now sounds AMAZING. I used to have a very flat sound when playing through the computer too. I use Reaper for my DAW. I have NAM (neural amp modeler) plugin along with the NadIR plugin from Ignite Amps. I used the ToneHunt site to grab some IRs and amp sims. I’m currently using 2 tracks: one has NAM using the Ola Englund Satan 50 with a couple of IRs from the NadIR default. This track is panned slightly to the right and has a room setting of around 53ish%. The other track is similar: NAM using the ENGL Savage 2 and NadIR using some default IRs. This track is panned to the left and has a room setting similar to the other track. Using this setup makes my guitar sound WAY bigger now.