Hi I'm Ola and welcome to my video.
Now if you've been following my channel you have probably heard about the genius that
is Mike Fortin, he designed my Satan amplifier among of a ton of other cool pedals
We have the Zuul Noise gate, we have the 33 pedal,
Grind...
Not that one.
Now Mike has designed a lot of really cool amplifiers during the years, and today I'm
happy to be first to try out his new Fortin Nameless Suite amplifier plugin made by
Neural DSP together with Fortin Amplification
For this test I'm using this Solar A1.7 Artist into the input of my Apollo 8 interface into
Logic Pro X and that's it basically, I also have a plugin noise gate
just to save you guys from hum and noise during my speaking segments of this video.
So , ok lets go...
So first thing we see when we load up the plugin is the face of the amplifier here with
it's controls, You have a Master volume control that you
can pull for more gain.
Presence, bass, mid and treble knobs and it has two gain knobs Gain 1 and 2, and depending
on which input you're using, you can switch between high and low input here.
in High input mode the two gain knobs work together, and on the Low mode only gain 2
is active.
With that said the amp controls are fairly simple it's more about finding the perfect balance with
the gain 1 and gain 2
Up here you can switch over to the microphone settings, two sides where you can use two
microphones in stereo or just one in mono or blend two in mono, there's a lot to do
here, and you have a bunch of different microphones to choose from ,and you can also upload your own Impulse Response
You can Set position, you can either drag the microphone here or just these knobs
You can set mic level, panning, phase reverse, so there's a lot to do here..
And in before the amp and microphone block you have a pedal block, where you will the
famous Fortin Grind pedal, I have it here, it's an awesome pedal.
that you can switch on and off.
And if you're not familiar with the Fortin Grind, it's basically a set pre-filter boost
that gives a little extra push and tighter low-end.
It's an excellent pedal!
So this is the amp without the Grind Pedal engaged...
Sounds really good...
Ok lets try out the Gain knobs a little..
A little bit too much.
So the point here is to set a good mixture between the two...
Then when you've found a good mix of the gain knobs, maybe you can use the Grind pedal
Just crank the hell out of it...
The Grind ads a little more of that glassy type of sound...
Alright, lets turn some knobs...
Presence knob.
Bass
Middle
Treble
Yeah that sounds really good.
Alright lets try out the different microphones...
Lets start with just one.
Sounds good
Yeah I like that
You know what I really like about this?
It sounds real.
The response feels real too.
Like how I hit on the strings.
Yeah that's sick...
I can't play that song!
*dead*
Yeah that's sick
Ok and you're saying like: Ola you f*k face, you only play like in drop Q
Ok, lets plug in another guitar...
This is in standard E, so no complaints now
Shit...
That sounds amazing...
Alright let me if I can..
..upload my own impulse response
oops sorry!
Aooops sorry!
That's just a lot of fun!
Alright, because I'm a Swede, lets play a blue guitar as well.
Alright so let me set this in Low Input
Shut off this...
So if you use the Low Input and set Gain 2 to somewhere beneath 12 o clock
And not have the Grind engaged , you should have a plexi sound going.
Isn't that Dream Theater?
That's nice... I really like that.
It's nice that you can do that with this plugin, it's a metal amp
but you can still go full plexi if you want to.
Alright so there you have it, you're probably already saying, Oh Ola you could plug into
a cat and it would still sound this awesome, I know,
maybe that's a good idea for the next video.
but honestly if you're into modern metal this is probably the best distortion plugin I've
tried so far, and I'm usually a bit reluctant to use plugins for rhythm guitar tone, I like
to use real amplifiers when I record because I just think they sound a lot better, but here
is a plugin that I can see myself using for rhythm guitar on a production, it sounds frigging
awesome to be honest.
If you want to know more about this check out neuraldsp.com
It's been an absol...
It's been an absolute pleasure to try out this plugin, thank you so much for watching
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