Get Chromeo's Guitar Sound in 5 Min. (same as Chic & Prince) 

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So, I’ve noticed some people talking about the amp, and the compression settings. I’ve played guitar for a long time, so I think I can shed some light on things. The sound they’re going for is super heavy compression. The reason they want to get away from an amp, is because amps tend to have a really soft compression, or at least a soft knee compression, that morphs into distortion. The compression they’re using is something really hard and fast. If it was a guitar pedal, it would probably be the MXR Dynacomp, which is known that that smacky, poppy sound you hear. Any hard knee compression should work great. For everyone complaining about how they use an amp plugin: On Waves GTR, which is what he’s using there, the “Direct” setting is “no amp”, meaning “Direct in”. Which means that any sound he’s getting out of that plugin is from the cab (speaker) emulation. The other setting, for Punchy, is still very clean. And, as you can probably tell from the name, it’s based off an amp that accentuates the punchy, snappy compression tone they’re after. Specifically, it’s based on a 100 watt Marshall amp, with the gain down low so you don’t get that soft knee compression I was talking about. The fact that they’re running the compression BEFORE the amp means that they get the compression character they want, and the amp is either only giving them a cab emulation for a bit more character, or some light saturation from the punchy amp for a bit more character. This is very different from the traditional guitar setup, where the guitar is run into a slightly dirty amp to get some light compression and distortion there, and then the engineer adds some light compression during the mixing stage. That sound (and you can hear this on really any rock record every) is smoother and bigger and much, much less snappy sounding. Basically, guitarists haven’t been trained to hear compression, so when they use it, they go way overboard lol

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This is my favourite channel on RU-vid right now. Bitesize, well edited, clean videos. Straight to the point no nonsense. Love it.

I did funk even when I was rock so quite naturally to play funk. Clean tone and compression is the way

Great video! Thanks! It covers the basics super well.

Thanks guys. Very cool. Very DIRECT! x

DI all daayyyy baby love to hear it. Was getting frustrated about all the background noise in my apartment trying to record an amp.

This channel is a gold mine. I feel like this channel alone is making me step from beginner to intermediate

That tone is gorgeous!! Love Chromeo

another nugget of gold right here.

Thank you - straight to the sound I was trying to get out of my Strat.

Thank u for the insights

Keep em coming!

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second comment so the algorith pushes this (i really appreciate your work)

Much needed

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Love Phoenix, good taste

O my!

Great

Nile plugged directly into a Neve Preamp I believe or a Neve Desk.

How come 3 people not like this? Def gold is not enough for some people.

money money money from which band should i learn ?

i comment so the algorithm pushes this

What song is money money money again?

Is there any hero out there on the Internet who can tell me the tab or roughly explain the funk licks that Chromeo plays in the video?

CLA-76 settings?

Nile Rogers produced Lets Dance by David Bowie, if I remember right

The Abba song? Or the one by the O'JAys? For the Love Of Money?

when he says learn "money money money" does he mean the ABBA song?

Did they show the compressor settings?

they say, we dont use amps. but then they pick waves guitar amp. I didnt get this point :) any help for me ?

Stating same as Prince is wild because Prince played Tele's almost 90% of his career for rhythm guitar. His Hohner MadCat specifically, so claiming "same as Prince" is wild.

it's DI but then they use an amp sim so it's not really DI?

I know its not a vocal booth, but you have a lot of resonance in the lower Hz. Maybe the microphone is just placed where the low end resonates? It only happens to the guy with the glasses.

nice video, how much compression should i use?

Please tell me the song at 0:55 heartache no.9 doesn't sound like that

algo rhythm

"Jack the Compressor", very helpful.

So basically a humbucker guitar... or single coils haha... Didnt know it was purely di guitars that were in funk tracks.

Which Money money money? Abba...?

Yeah I did thank my past self for subscribing

dont plug into an amp, but then uses waves gtr amp.... LOL

"No amp" but then they use an amp plugin...

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Magic!!!