Timestamps: 0:49 - Use the right impedance! 2:05 - Rack Overview 3:20 - What is Cabinet 3:50 - Using multiple Cabinets 5:10 - Pedal Glance 6:18 - Gain Staging and Treble Boosters 9:08 - “Clean” Tone is clean 11:25 - Room Reverb and realism 12:30 - Big Fuzz and Stereo Cabs 15:17 - Hi Quality Mode in Pedal 16:48 - Metal Tone 18:31 - Spanky Compressor Tone 20:40 - Crappy Octavers 22:23 - Ableton Pedalboard 29:05 - Roll Your own Guitar Rack
Clearly... they promote a lot of new stuff from live 11 but I'm pretty sure a lot of people (including me) just understimate the power of these fx plugs.
I can't believe the stock effects can sound so good when you know what you're doing. I always used some plugins to handle this, but plugins are annoying in general. This is so elegant. Thank you so much for putting this together.
This is what I think! I started my adverture at eletronic music making in Abelton and have something in mind: Just search for plug-ins if it's hard or not possible to do with stock plug-ins. Btw. It's been helping me to learn sound design, I can figure it out what each fx, config does to each sound, opening me paths to construct unique sounds
Hands down one of the best and most comprehensive guitar tone videos out there. Definitely subscribing. Thank you so much for providing the racks as well.
I just gave up on using Ableton effects the other day and mic’ed my amp. Now, after watching this I realize my approach was ALL wrong! Thank you so much for this, so much valuable info!
Great video! I've always thought Live's guitar effects were overlooked. An additional tip: you can place effects between the amp and cab to replicate the send/return feature of some amps, series/parallel/dry-wet/whatever. I like to place modulation and time-based things in there, and then do as you did with a room reverb but with M4L Convolution Reverb. Great for guitar, just alright for bass. However, you can make some cool bass rigs though by combining the bass amp/cab and a couple guitar amps/cabs all in parallel.
@@AndreaBedoya Very strange how paths cross don't you think, I clicked on this video expecting to create some digital guitars I can mess up to layer over some techno but realised it was not what I was thinking. Then I seen this guys comment about using the techniques on synths, so that got me. Then I noticed you saying check out my last techno samba preview...that got me more interested because I thought this person is thinking what I'm thinking. Then I find your live jams, fantastic. Where can I find more of your music, please? You got stuff out?
Ah haa found you on Soundcloud. I'm reaching out to people I like the sound of. Me and my friend are about to release an album just after xmas, we are working on it now. We decided to release it on our own label and we are reaching out to people we like the sound of to make friends and maybe work together in some way in the future if they like what we are doing. Our stuff is a little tougher but we like your vibes, thank you. Would love to do a remix of Canela for you :)
Thank you!! That's amazing... I've been using AL for 4/5 years and I always relied on VSTs to rock my guitars. I've learned a lot about how to get a great tone but this one was missing and is a lifesaver when you don't have your favorite plugin. Amazing tones!
Recently blew the dust from one of my old guitars and fixed it up after so many years. Looking at Ableton other than an electronic music machine is so refreshing, amazing video.
You're a legend bro. Way to break this down like you did without the mindless blabbering some of these RU-vidrs do. I honestly didn't realize you can get such fantastic tones in Ableton without an entire rig. Talk about a true "ampless" setup. Thanks for this priceless knowledge!
Well, I’ve learnt a LOT! What an amazing, informative and professional video! It’s a classic case of “knowing”! I didn’t know I had to add a “cabinet” to the chain… and the tones you are wrangling are sweet !
You took Ableton Guitar fx to the next level. Among guitar communities Ableton guitar effects are meh but now I can say you can get some pretty good sounds. Another of your unmatchable quality is you 'define' 'why'. That's not many do while making videos. I am coming from Studio One daw and completely newbie finding hard to understand Live's workflow. This move is because I just got Novation SL61 mk3 which is dawless version of Ableton and a dawless setup (with daw) suits my workflow. I also have few outboard synths that I can control using this keyboard. Hope to find more interesting videos on your channel. Keep going.
I think i need to watch each part 20times to get everything 😂 this is the most clear and complete tutorial on a subject i really need to know but my brain is too small for just one shot. Thank you dude your'e the best
Ive been devouring Ableton vids since Covid started and this is by and far the most well done tutorial I've come across. It might be guitar specific, but if your style translates to learning other elements of the software, then your courses are def worth it.
This is one of the best tutorial style videos I've ever seen, you didn't just show us what can be done but how you did it in a relatively easy way. Thank you so much!
This video has been a tremendous help for me. I am recording guitars for my ep and some of your tips have made a huge change in my tone. Thanks a ton, you really have made a difference!
Seriously appreciate this video, and the download link. Didn't expect downloading the pedal board to be so easy, but it took all of five seconds. Thanks, man.
This video is really amazing. Turns out ableton can do everything I need when it comes to guitar 😂 I would’ve loved to have had this video back in my shoegaze days when I first started got ableton
Thanks for this guide, I'm truly appreciating this! As someone who's played acoustic all his life and just stepped his toe into the world of electronic, this is just invaluable information. Saves you alot of headache figuring out yourself. Hats off to you
this sounds pretty good ! I don't know why I didn't even know there were cabinets in Live, I only tried the amps a few times and was disappointed lol. I'll have to try this, even if I'm still probably gonna spend 260$ on NI guitar rig 6 and 4000$ on a real guitar amp. But it's nice to have different tones, and also I guess the live racks are super cpu friendly
Thanks so much! This has made such a difference to my tone - from weak and flabby to sounding like an actual guitar. Applied the same principles on bass too and it has made such a difference.
UPDATE: This definitely put me on the right path. I was doing all kinda crazy crap before.. After trying out many free sims (using the methods in this video)...ive settled on Amplitube. I like its sound better but the stock ableton plugins are great as far as cpu.
This video is fantastic, I just wanna throw in a list of the really base level effects going on. - tonal eq - saturation(soft-clipping)/distortion(hard-clipping/limiting) (managing input/output gain w these) - analogue emulation - compressor - reverb - surgical eq within mix - dynamic eq / multiband compression (responds to different bands based on how loud they get) - delay - managing/panning/delaying double tracks for authentic width - keep parallel processing and panning in mind with most/all these elements - manage your lufs loudness as you add these effects (match input with output), you don't want to just add something because it'll make it louder. You can always turn up the gain after the effect chain. imo these are the root elements of the tone (many of the plugins and amps being used are doing these base things behind the scenes). If you can master these than you can get incredibly precise and creative with your guitar tone. Of course, doing this takes a lot more time than the plugins you're using. And I would honestly use amps/effect-racks/blah if I'm trying to pump out mixes at a fast rate, but taking time with the true base elements and getting a good workflow with them can add a lot to your tracks.
Honestly I love this, I was about to purchase Amplitube of BiasFX but this actually gives me what I need without that. I don't need an insane range of amp models to get a good guitar sound.
very good tutorial worth a tip guys. if you download the racks, leave some dollars doesnt need to be much but if we all do that the dude's gonna feel as good as we do discovering this tutorial !
dude this is awesome! who needs expensive VST guitar plugins anymore that just take up space and slow down the CPU, now I can just use the stock Ableton stuff to get my own tones. This tutorial was very informative. Thank you for the knowledge
Excellent tutorial this! I'm not a guitarist, but I've used your tutorial to create an effects rack of my own to feed D16 Phoscyon through, for that authentic 90's distorted 303 sound. Works a treat! considering lots of people were using guitar pedals/amps for their distortion needs back in the day. Keep up the great work!
this is the exact video ive been waiting to pop up in my feed. thanks so much for sharing all of this! i finally get how amp and pedal and cabinet are meant to be used, thanks to your super easy explanation! subscribed
I saw the thumbnail to this video and thought, "that guy looks like Anthony from Papadosio," so I clicked out of curiosity. Then I saw your SG on the wall back there and I got excited. I just started learning Ableton literally yesterday, and this is exactly what I needed. I subbed right away of course, let's do this!
After getting to 27:30 where you discuss Envelope Follower and Autowah was just looking through the Ableton docs and realised they're both using the Auto Filter effect. Had me stumped for a couple of minutes there!
this is awesome man, i loved how you explained what's going on with the plugins, and diving into this made me appreciate distortion in guitar more. thank you so much
Dude, awesome video!! Feels like it's hard to find people on youtube who can explain both what to do and *why*, and you've got the why down fantastically. Thank you for this
Beautiful, right? So thorough, so practical, delivered with energy & joy. Not to mention Some delicious song choices. Especially enjoyed boards of canada & Radiohead.
Im new to ableton. Your contributions have been more than helpful in my understanding and production quality, yet i still have a long way to go. Keep'em coming. Again Thank you.
Loved the Dayvan Cowboy reference with the tremolo guitar!
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Wow! This helped me a LOT! I really struggled with all digital guitar recording and never got the tones I was looking for. I recently switched from Reaper to Live 11 Suite as my mein DAW and stumbled upon this video. It all makes sense now! :D Really cool video!
I would love to see this for Acoustic guitars! I usually use my Taylor acoustic guitar with Live and would love to see your thoughts on making a cabinet for acoustic guitars.
"if you're not a tool fan get out!" 😂😂😂🕉️💜 That's a real gift, I'm so thankful really good content and I'm loughing my ass of 😂😂 Thank you so much, really good video. Greets from Germany
This was tremendous - not in love with Ableton guitar sounds and as a good player with years of experience, this was incredible. Without these tips one would be far better off and I mean FAR with the Studio Devil plug in. So, cheers. **On my wish list and not really related to your video.... As I record so many guitars generally, I group them. I'm a scene-based guy. For quick and dirty volume control, the group channel slider is invaluable. UNTIL you play a different scene. Then you have to re-adjust. Surely there must be a simple way to code so that scene 1's channel volumes can be 'locked,' so that when you then listen and adjust scene five's volume, it doesn't screw up scene 1. Grouping guitars and then using the group slider is the best way to get a handle on overall volume, quick and dirty. If only the group slider could be made 'sticky!'
man, this is incredibly helpful. i started releasing music and kind of just put shit together based on how i used to do it. i never really LOVED my guitar tone, so i started looking into how to make an srv sound with ableton. this is hands down one of the best tone videos ever. thank you! definitely going to dig into this more. yay, no more crappy tone :D
This! This is exactly what I was looking for as a newcomer to Ableton. I'm def down for the Ableton course, especially if you've going to cover 11 when the update comes out.
Thanks , I write songs and play them on guitar. Recording for me has been a nightmare. I tried my best to copy what you recommended. It helped a lot, but I thought I'd go ahead and download your packs from your site (Added a Tip for you hard work) Wow, what a difference in the sound!!! That's why your the pro. Thanks for what you do!
This is something like the third or fourth time I've watched this video. Each time i get it a bit more as I've come further along in my journey to understanding audio in general. When I first watched it, I was disappointed to find out that the effect rack would not work for me. That's because I don't have Ableton suite. I have Ableton Standard. Many times, I have considered getting Ableton Suite. Right now, it's not in the budget though. I would really appreciate if you would put together a similar resource for those of us without Ableton Suite. There are still some general concepts here that are helpful though. Also, some of these affects are in Ableton Standard.
Great tutorial. I'm a ableton user/trainer, and had all but written off the guitar effects. But this has definitely renewed my inspiration to use them! 🔥🔥🔥
