I'm working on an old school rock project
it's actually an EP that I'm hoping to release later this year and I wanted to
get a classic rock sound for this project and I sold my tube amp years ago
so I could afford to go to college and I really didn't want to have to spend to
buy a new tube amp so I decided to go with the Joyo British sound pedal as its
supposed to give you the sound of a classic marshall lamp which is exactly
what i want to achieve for this project so I figured I'd share this process with
you show you what I'm working on at the moment and do a bit of a guitar
recording tutorial using the Joyo British sound pedal and I'm going to do
this in waveform 11 as that's the DAW I use but the basics are going to be the
same so you can do this in whatever daw you prefer so I'm going to show you what
this pedal sounds like recorded raw and then I'll show you what it sounds like
with a free cabinet sim IR loader and then I'm going to show you what it
sounds like in a mix I'm Zane and on this channel I do weekly audio tech tips
tutorials and reviews to help you conquer the techie and unleash your
creativity and just so you know I've linked to the Joyo British sound pedal in
the description just in case you want to see the latest pricing or get some more
information on it I've also linked to anything else that I mentioned in this
video so be sure to check down there for that right now let's look at how I set
this thing up so I connect the joyo British pedal output to my behringer di
and now this is a very affordable di I mainly just use it for the ground loop
switch and if you want to know more information on this di I actually did a
review of it I'll link to that below and I actually have this di velcroed under
my desk and it's always connected to my audient ID44 audio interface so I can
quickly plug in and start playing now if you don't have a DI box don't worry
about that you can go straight from the pedal output directly into your audio
interface that's fine so now that it's connected we could actually just start
recording this way but it would sound like this
yeah it's missing something the guitar cabinet so I'm going to load the free
nadir IR loader I'm going to use the free redwirez 1960
cab IR collection with it and links to both of these are in the description
so now let me show you how I set all of this up in my DAW and like I said before
I use tracktion Waveform Pro but the basics are going to be the same across
most DAWs and if you're actually looking for a daw you can grab the free version
of waveform Pro it's an unlimited DAW and it's very easy to work with
so first I'm going to set up my input I use input 2 for my guitar so I'm going
to select that and you just click here go to input 2 and now you want to press
the arm for record button right here and you should be able to hear your guitar
now
if you can't hear your guitar and you're using waveform just click right there
again and then go down here and you want to make sure this live input monitoring
is turned on now we want to add the effect so go over to this section here
right-click add new plug-in then you would just find the plug-in in the list
there and if you don't know how to install plugins into waveform and you
want to learn I actually have another video that shows you how to install
plugins and get them into wave form I'll link to that in the description these
are all the impulse responses that come with nadir but I also downloaded that
free redwirez impulse response pack for the 1960 cab what you need to do is just
click on this folder here I put all the redwirez responses in the same folder
so I can easily get them so just click here choose your sample rate and your
bit depth
and then you can see the different mic options here I'm gonna go with the sm57
and if you click on just one of these it loads up all of them in that folder so
you can easily just click an audition whatever one you want to hear and you
would do the same for the other side
you
now you can play around with the knobs on the pedal itself and find a sound
that suits the project that you're working on and also find the impulse
responses that work best for your project so you can see the settings on
my pedal here this is what I'm using and I found impulse response settings
that I really like I went with the sm57 rate in the center on the cap and I also
went with sm57 on a 45-degree angle on the cap which is a classic way to record
rock guitar so now let's listen to what that sounds like on that recording that
we did earlier and now here it is without the cabinet sim now let's go
back to the project that I'm going to record into so I have my impulse
response set up I have my pedal set up I'm ready to record just got to make
sure this arm for record button is in and then I would just press record and
away I go
all right so I've come up with my scratch guitar recording it's just sort
of a temporary recording while I put the song together I'm going to rerecord
everything later once the song structures all in place and here's what
it sounds like with the cabinet sim on
and here's what it sounds like with the cabinet sim off
now let's listen to what it sounds like in a mix and this is obviously a rough
mix but I have tried to tidy sum things up a bit just so it sounds a little bit
like a full mix and let's listen to that now
in my opinion the joyo British sound pedal is a great little piece of gear
for achieving a classic rock sound on a budget if you want to check out more
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tech I'm Zane keep creating and we'll talk soon