What's up everyone? I'm Ola.
And today I'm trying out the Line 6 Metallurgy.
Metallurgy.
So, Line 6 released a new bunch of plugins called Metallurgy.
Uh... or metal--
Metallurgy.
Metal... Metallurgy.
Whatever, man, it's 3 plugins basically.
Modern, Thrash, and Doom.
And they all contain a couple of different amplifiers
and some kinda new cabinet thing...
...part of the Line 6.
That supposedly it should be good.
I have absolutely no expectations.
I just bought and got this set of plugins.
And I'm just gonna, you know...
...hear how it sounds, let's just check it out.
Wh-- What is the regular...
...Line 6 thing? Toneprint? Tone--
Tonewood?
Tone... Tonehub?
It's been a while since I tried a Line 6 plugin.
And from what I understand, they were similar to the Line 6...
...Helix editor, and the editors that they made.
But look at this, this looks like a...
You know, one of those plugins like everyone else does.
You know, with the amplifier face here, the cabinet section
A post-FX, a pre-FX with the pedals, I mean--
Shit, man, OK, so it's nice to see that they're doing this.
They're venturing into the competition of all the rest--
You know, the Neural DSP guys
and the STL guys, so that's cool to see.
And let's just start with the Modern, man.
Let's just try out a couple of presets.
I'm not gonna dial too much, I'm just gonna play the presets, baby.
What's this?
Oh, it's the Revv.
Why is there a lot of reverb?
Oh, it's because I'm in Lead, OK, let's go to Rhythm.
Fruity Booty.
OK, OK.
Hi Misha... Oh.
Sounds pretty good.
Less Is More, OK.
Archetype I guess is the PRS Archon.
OK.
Baby, baby, let's go.
I'm just dialing in whatever...
Wh--
Why do I have Aggression on green? It's supposed to be on red.
OK, OK, that's pretty...
What happened?
Alright, so we ha--
Pre-FX maybe, is this on?
OK, so we have a boost engaged.
Caliper Drive.
Oh, is this the Precision Drive?
It kinda reminds me of that in the layout.
You have the... you know, 5 different Attack.
I mean, it doesn't sound half bad.
It's more about the impulse responses, I guess.
It's not really up my alley.
So you get a mixer, OK, that's cool.
The cabinets sound very 'Line-6-y'.
If that's a... if that's a thing, but...
You know, just like with every modeler I had, you know...
It's more about loading in your own impulse responses
because they usually sound a lot better than the internal ones.
But for the sake of it, I think the...
The Cali sounded the best.
Can I just scoop out the mids a little bit?
OK, Metallica, baby.
OK, let me see if I can...
I can, if I turn off the cabinet.
Great sound.
OK, so right now I turned off the cabinet section
of the Modern plugin right here.
And loaded in my own impulse response.
Which is very scooped.
I... I know.
But I think it sounds pretty good.
I think that sounds great.
OK.
Let's try the Vitriol.
OK, OK.
That sounds good, man.
Badonk.
Capo, what's this?
Oh shit.
Yeah, man, so it's a capo, or pitch-shifter in that sense.
OK, let's do it fast, because there's a lot of latency right there.
OK, so there's...
Latency is still here, but...
I guess it's kinda the same type of latency that goes in other apps as well.
OK, let's jump over to the Thrash.
Alright, I'm gonna turn off my impulse response, and just use the one in the Thrash.
Oh, that's so hard right there.
So good.
Marking Out.
I guess this is like a Friedman
Because you have HBE right here.
OK, let me... check out the cabinets real quick.
Oh, it's basically the same, no?
Can you hear that noise?
Just at the end there, the tail.
OK.
Oh, it might be because of the decay.
I can't say that the cabinets are impressive.
So, let's shut it off, engage my own...
Alright, let's try out the amplifiers.
So, the HBE right here.
Is there... yes, there's an overdrive engaged.
Shut it off.
OK, that sounds pretty good.
Let's go with the Cali.
OK, which basically is a Mark.
I see, let's do the good ol' Marky Mark McMarkFace settings right here.
OK, OK, OK.
OK...
There we go.
Alright, cool, man.
Uh... what... Das Benzin, let's go.
Mega?
I think this is the Herbert.
Let's head over to the Doom one.
I'm gonna do some presets after this as well.
Uh... let's shut off my impulse response.
Doom Slayer?
OK.
What amps do we have?
Mail Order Twin.
OK, Moo)))n.
I guess this is Sunn O))).
Oh, Mandarin Rocker.
Let's play a couple of presets instead.
I think that's better in this case.
OK, cool.
You can hear it almost breaking up.
Ooh, that was cool, I like that.
Listen to this.
That's pretty cool.
Mix Ready... OK, let's go here.
Dude, that's pretty cool.
Alright, let's go back and do the Thrash...
Just play a couple of presets, man.
Lead.
Kirk Hammett Simulator.
Can they actually use his name?
OK, that was apparently Kirk Hammett, everyone.
Oh--
Tha-- OK...
Metallica, for some reason.
The plugins sound really good, in my opinion.
It's just the cabinet section that I'm not really a fan of.
But that's such a subjective part of your tone right there.
So, I mean, I know a lot of people
they might think that this is a better sounding cabinet than
what I'm using right here.
You know, this is my impulse response that I made for myself.
It's very scooped, man.
But you know, that's what I think sounds really good right now, so...
And when I'm listening through my impulse response
it's easier for me to hear the character of these amplifiers in the plugins.
Because that's what I'm used to, right?
I'm used to hearing this impulse response.
That's cool.
When I'm using my own impulse response, I have to push Presence, Treble, and Mid.
Because it's a very bass-heavy impulse response.
OK, what if we...
That's cool, I like that.
Let's dial down the gain.
OK, now we're talking.
Too tight, man.
Too tight, let's go back.
What is happening?
The f*** is that?
I think I dialed up the Drive.
That sounds really weird, let's just bring that back.
Yeah, man, I like that.
Nice.
Alright, so, I just wanted to test out a couple of presets.
and see how these 3 new plugins sound.
I think they sound really good, actually.
It's...
Just like always, the cabinet section is not perfect.
I mean, there's enough options for you to sit
and change the different microphones and all that.
But it's just the speakers, man, that...
The speaker imprint is not perfect, I would say.
I much prefer using my own impulse responses.
Because they're catered to me, and you know, that's what I like to hear.
There will probably a really big chance that you guys will like these impulse responses
that are in the cabinet section of these plugins right here.
But when I'm using my own impulse response
I think these amplifiers sound great.
So, there you go.
I actually am kinda pleasantly surprised over these plugins right here.
I mean, they're competing with Neural DSP, and STL, and all those guys.
And it's a tough market, man.
It's a tough market.
But it's a fun market, because it's on computer.
It's the future, man.
Yes, alright.
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