20 Using an Amp Simulator Video Lecture | Tracktion 5 Tutorial: Master Music Editing - Video & Sound Editing

in this video I'm gonna show you how to
use an amp simulator plug-in along with
recording direct with an electric guitar
and using amp simulator plug-in we need
to enable intend recording also insert
the plug-in in the mixer section I'm
gonna show you how those things work so
first of all I'm gonna copy the input
section I've created a new track here
and it's labeled guitar amp sim so I'll
just drag this over and then to get set
up let's just see if we've got the input
working turn the guitar up it's still
connected so we have the guitar coming
in now we shouldn't really hear the
guitar so let me just play but we do
hear it because we're using the input
monitoring from the audio interface so
if your audio interface has a mixer app
or a button or a mixer knob on the front
of it you're gonna want to turn that off
so I'm gonna do that right now my
interface has a button so I turn that
off so still getting signal into the
input but I'm not hearing it because I
want to hear it through this track in
order to do that I enable end-to-end
monitoring down here in the control
section and so this works pretty much
like setting up a guitar tuner in the
previous video so let's find an amp
simulator plug-in and the way we do that
is to go into the browser you open that
using this little icon here and then
under plugins we can type in a few
letters I have a few different amp
simulators but for this I'm going to use
the simple virtual guitar amp from
Studio devil and here it is it's a VST
plug-in so I just drag it from here and
drop it in the first kind of in the
first spot here in the mixer and then
that opens up and then I should be able
to actually hear sound and the effect of
that see it sounds like I'm playing
through a guitar amp and I could
actually switch the kind of amp to
British here or switch it to modern
and we also have crunch lead things like
that let's try crunch
that's a lot of gain put this back on
British turn the volume on the plug-in
down a little bit
all right well come back and set this up
more later now I want to show you that
if you want to turn this off or bypass
this plugin do you click on the plug-in
over here in the mixer and down here
where it says enable just click that and
that puts it on bypass another way to do
that is to use the keyboard shortcut F
so any plugins that you have selected F
will bypass them now I want to just
check the latency settings here so I go
back to the settings tab and you can see
on the try capture here I've got my
audio buffer set to 512 it's 11
milliseconds the round-trip latency
might be noticeable with something like
that I typically like to have this much
lower if possible so I'm gonna set it
down to 64 samples and that will give me
a little bit better feel now if you
don't get clean playback at a little
setting like that then you can try
increasing it if you have a really fast
computer you could probably go even
faster than that and let's just see if
it's still working
select that hit F to turn it back on and
I'm gonna go for a little bit less gain
on that sound there's also a noise gate
on this one so if I turn that up it will
mute it out while I'm talking and then
it should open it up
just roll back my volume a little bit
and let's go for a little reverb here or
maybe some chorus
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and I could adjust this just like it was
a regular amp take a little bass home
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all right now I've got a basic set up I
don't have to really commit to this
sound because I can change it after the
fact I've got the plug-in inserted and
it is working so now all I need to do is
rewind and then I can record with the
sound now if I want to do loop recording
it's the same as before I can set the
in-and-out loop point if I as long as I
leave loop on I can play through this a
couple times and see if I can come up
with a part that I like to add to this I
have the other lead part here muted just
so that I'm not distracted by that while
I'm recording with this virtual guitar
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all right so I did three takes of that
so I'm gonna expand that out and show
the takes so I'm gonna quickly put
together a composite for this when I'm
done I'll be back alright I'm back after
building the composite you can see I've
taken something from every take I can
hide the takes you could hear the
composite
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the point of that was to show you that
once you've actually recorded the part
you can still tweak the sound so I
tweaked the sound I was trying a lot of
different kinds of sounds from the
studio devil VGA to virtual guitar amp
plug-in and you could hear there's a
wide variety thinks I could put in a
completely different plug-in because
there's many choices for those available
if you want to bypass and just hear the
clean zone
let me just solo that you can use F will
bypass the plug-in and that gives you a
fairly weak but that's the direct actual
signal from the guitar and then with the
effect on hit F to turn that back on
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and that's just kind of what I was
playing with I would probably tweak that
more actually find a part that would fit
in there and we might do that more as we
move along so that's using a virtual
guitar amp or guitar amp simulator in
traction 5 thanks for watching