Modern Rig Rundown

Yargnad said:
I love the quilter mini 101. Strong blackface vibes with the right settings. Maybe a tad bit darker than the real thing but still vury nice.
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I’ve only had it for short time. I like the sound of it playing through a cab. For recording I tried the headphone out and fx send. Didn’t like the sound of either way. It sounds terrible on headphones as well. Hook up a speaker and it sings. The best thing I like is once you dial in a tone it is the same tone no matter where the volume is set.Can’t wait to try it live.
 
Clockworkmike said:
Only thing he has between the guitar and amp, live, is a Schaffer-Vega Diversity Wireless. He used it in the studio too to capture the slight difference he wasnt hearing. Now its a SoloDallas Schaffer Replica GT ( Model # 001) modeled heavily after the SVDS. Can't rightly call that an effect but if someone wants to be technical: it is a bit of an overdrive signal towards the front end of the amp, which pushes them a lil harder
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And why Fil Oliveri created the Storm pedal!
 
Yargnad said:
Yeah audiobus is also the name of an iOS app, but I'm pretty sure that's what MacOS X used to call their audio subsystem.
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They may have had a different name, pre 2010, for the ”audio and MIDI” app on Mac....but I was into iOS recording at the inception of “audiobus”, and contributed to their development.
Post PC recording time, for me, was largely consumed by a foray in to iOS recording. I did lots of stuff from iPhone 4S to now...happily.

This has been an option since I moved over to Mac....
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Note the “Create Aggregate Device” option. I left PC for that option. It’s not perfect, but it is a viable option for me.
 
Yargnad said:
Yeah I used to use Macs heavily but then draconian changes to the OS made me give up on it. I dont like being locked into a closed ecosystem.
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Our main studio just upgraded to some ridiculous super-computer they had custom made, because we were experiencing latency problems running Pro-Tools, Cubase Pro and Blue Cat Destructor, sometimes simultaneously on multiple projects.

There's a big laundry list of parts and goodies that went into it, that's about all I know.
 
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Ramo said:
Dose Ripper needs Ilok and peace licence and all that jazz? I use pro tools first and its getting on my nerves.
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Some plugins use ilok but Reaper does not. Reaper has some of the easiest licensing I’ve seen. I use the Audified Amplion 2 Rock Essentials plugin which uses Ilok. No problems with it so far.
 
Kerry Brown said:
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Some plugins use ilok but Reaper does not. Reaper has some of the easiest licensing I’ve seen. I use the Audified Amplion 2 Rock Essentials plugin which uses Ilok. No problems with it so far.
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I had enough of pro tool first crap. makes work harder than it needs to be. I used to use Cubase loved it, i reformated pc and I forgot that I lost the license for it :rolf: only remembered it when I was reinstalling it. is Repper free or paid? I cant remember now.
 
Ramo said:
I had enough of pro tool first crap. makes work harder than it needs to be. I used to use Cubase loved it, i reformated pc and I forgot that I lost the license for it :rolf: only remembered it when I was reinstalling it. is Repper free or paid? I cant remember now.
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Reaper is free. Technically they say "Free to try" but you can use it forever without paying into it. I paid because I loved it, and felt it was the right thing to do to support a killer, powerful DAW.

And I use Mac not because it's "superior" to processing audio or video, it DOESN'T BREAK. I F'N haaaaaaaate Windows PCs because they only last about 6 months before they are trash. They constantly need updates, reboots, lock up, and are just a royal pita to work with. Sure, you can consider Windows platform to be the in-between tweak platform of Linux and WebOS, but I'll take the zero-headaches of WebOS for the win.
 
Ramo said:
I had enough of pro tool first crap. makes work harder than it needs to be. I used to use Cubase loved it, i reformated pc and I forgot that I lost the license for it :rolf: only remembered it when I was reinstalling it. is Repper free or paid? I cant remember now.
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It is free. I paid for it because it is reasonable and I use it every day so I want to make sure the company sticks around. I recommend trying it for free. If you are still using it after a couple of months pay for it.
 
Kerry Brown said:
It is free. I paid for it because it is reasonable and I use it every day so I want to make sure the company sticks around. I recommend trying it for free. If you are still using it after a couple of months pay for it.
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good point.
 
Ghostman said:
And I use Mac not because it's "superior" to processing audio or video, it DOESN'T BREAK.
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I have had similar experiences. My roomie could trash our office PCs within 6-8 months...after the 3rd tower poofed...in 18 months, I replaced the office computer with a 2012 iMac that still runs(but is now outdated/unsupported as of 2020).

Yargnad said:
I've had my Dell XPS 27 for about 6 years now, not a single issue. Actually I am typing this on a Dell Studio Hybrid Core 2 Duo from 2007. Still kicking like a champ as well as a Dell Precision M4300 laptop, also got a couple HP servers that never give me any issues and a custom built work PC that has been running for 24/7 for about 6 years. Again, no issues with any of them. So......

Ive long considered Macs to be the computers for people who hate computers.
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I still have a HP tower that I optimized for studio work in 2006. It’s an XP machine, and it has fired up within the last 2 years...it never really died completely. (The power supply was on its way out though)
But as times change in the Windows environment, so do those drivers for running outboard stuff. I have a couple of things that only work with 32bit OS drivers....external stuff that still works fine on their own, but not with any of today’s computers....their driver development was abandoned long ago.

So, I don’t “hate computers” at all. I like them very much when they work well for long periods of time.
 
gball said:
Am I committing some kind of guitar player sacrilege by saying I just don't think Angus' tone is anything special? Just sounds like cranked NMV Marshall, no frills, nothing that exciting going on. What have I been missing all these years?
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Nope. I love that sound and the simplicity of it.
 
Yargnad said:
I've had the same exact experience with Macs. And dont even get me started on the walled garden and planned obsolescence which is the philosophy of Apple design. Ive got plenty of Apple iOS devices laying around in mint condition that I cant use for :poo: anymore because Apple says so.
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I firmly believe that each person has different experiences with brands. Some people, Macs just don't work for them, and vice versa. Same could be said about cars, electronics, etc. etc.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Nope. I love that sound and the simplicity of it.
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I've grown to prefer complex high-gain tones. Best is a good multi-amp setup with several similar-but-still-distinctive high-gain amps for me. It's all subjective, but I find that "cranked Plexi" thing pretty boring personally.
 
gball said:
Am I committing some kind of guitar player sacrilege by saying I just don't think Angus' tone is anything special? Just sounds like cranked NMV Marshall, no frills, nothing that exciting going on. What have I been missing all these years?
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not at all. And you're not alone. Marshall tone to me is done so much it's just generic blah tone to me now. Nothing to hear here folks, move along. :D
 
Yargnad said:
I've had the same exact experience with Macs. And dont even get me started on the walled garden and planned obsolescence which is the philosophy of Apple design. Ive got plenty of Apple iOS devices laying around in mint condition that I cant use for :poo: anymore because Apple says so.
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Yeah...me too....they still work fine for some things....like my iPad 2 will still record multitrack audio fine, and makes for a great portable recording rig. Same with my old iPhone. My 2010 mini runs great, but can’t upgrade the OS...so not online anymore....but it works fine for studio stuff, offline.
But I lost data when the office PCs died without warning (supposedly....I was not operating them when they died). Sometimes I think I’d rather the forced migration over the sudden catastrophic hardware fails that I’ve experienced. Both scenarios are disappointing though.
 
Ghostman said:
not at all. And you're not alone. Marshall tone to me is done so much it's just generic blah tone to me now. Nothing to hear here folks, move along. :D
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Yup, generic "Rock" tone. Workhorse and ubiquitous but not exciting. Like a good family sedan.

Edit: it should be noted that I am a big fan of high-gain Marshalls. It's the old-school ones that I am not a huge fan of.
 
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