That's it, that's the tone!

@KeyanHoushmandLive

2 ай бұрын

there it is

This man’s presets do kick ass

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

thanks king

@bolillo5013

3 ай бұрын

Especially on the nameless

Great format, great explanations on what you're doing, why you're doing it, and how it interplays with everything. I love this.

Loved the straight to the point approach.... Boom boom, peace! Great format imo!!!😎😎🎸🎸

you are my lifesaver keyan! thank you so much!!!

This is amazing, gotta try this next time. I always feel lost when doing some of this stuff, I especially find myself trying to "mix" using the EQ sometimes when I'm not happy with the starting tone yet.

And then you try to work with it in the mix and everything falls apart

@spawn302

3 ай бұрын

All this guy does is record for mixes so I trust this to sound fine in a mix

@silaswintersguitar

3 ай бұрын

Thats why you record DI with it.

@MeTuLHeD

3 ай бұрын

You HAVE heard his mixes...right?

@Durkhead

3 ай бұрын

A lot of the time you just have to move the mic a little on the cab section while the mix is playin and the guitar will magically fit right in

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

@@RayFerrettiif you record both at the same time, you can use the printed tone for playback and then save heaps of processing power and put less strain on your CPU from constantly needing to feed DIs into an amp sim every time you hit play

I swear this video fixed my tone issue! I applied it to my physical gear and it fixed the issues I had! I know its sad but i never thought of adjusting the amp settings besides the gain... But it honestly fixed my issues!

For the soldano I dialed it in 5 seconds. Hit the Ihsahn typical lead preset and made an EP with it 😂

please more of this ill watch every single video

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

There’s heaps of videos like this on the channel that go all the back to almost 5 years ago, enjoy!

would love to see you do this with bass and parallax!

Great video Keyan! It would be super great if you would make another one with more "recent" low tunning. Like double drop D# for example. :)

Yeah man! I got a cheap 7 string Jackson last year and I'm modding it with some custom Stringjoy's and Graphtech locking tuners; still deciding on what specific amp/sim, distortion and compression pedals to get but I'm excited to get my tone sounding sick like this! I'm also a live sound engineer so I wanna use that to my advantage; keep this shit up man, love it! ❤‍🔥

Great video. Good Job

I might need to pull the trigger on a couple Neural DSP plugins to take advantage of the 50% discount that's going on right now

@FCdrums

3 ай бұрын

you can always download the free trial for 14 days, you won't regret it, I have 4 plug ins now from Neural DSP

@user-kh8dz4yp6e

3 ай бұрын

DO IT

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

I use this approach for all of them!

@Guips96

3 ай бұрын

@@KeyanHoushmandLive I wish I could. The euro is way to expensive for me in my country lol. I might buy two to not break the bank

@Drpepperkiller10

3 ай бұрын

@@Guips96 Soldano X + Plini X and you're set on every tone and feature possible

Extremely helpful, as I’m just getting into NDSP plug-ins

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great video! Just want to add this for any newbies guitarists who want to make huge metal mixes - fix your drums first before you get into the guitar tones. In my experience first get an absolutely banging drum sound, a huge bass tone, and you're gonna sound massive no matter what the guitar tone is. Like, the drum tone is more important than the guitar tone overall in my opinion. I spent YEARS trying to make my mixes sound huge by tweaking guitars and it never worked. But then I started studying other tracks, experimenting with mix templates, drum libraries and presets, and stuff and then I realised - if your kick and snare are massive, there's a good fx chain on the master bus, and your bass is big as a rhino's arse - you really are sorted and then the guitars are like, the raw pasta and the drums and bass are the sauce. Good pasta is important but the sauce is what really makes it a dish. You can get away with having ok pasta if you have excellent sauce, not the other way around imo.

@Nofe20

27 күн бұрын

I read all of this. Thank you.

Idk whether I just have bad ears, terrible headphones (or both) but it's sometimes really difficult for me to discern the difference between the subtle tweaks he's making along the way to shape the overall tone. Stuff feels like magic ✨

@bassic6959

3 ай бұрын

He is going very fast and also knows exactly what he is listening for so I wouldn't worry too much if you can't notice it. You can for sure train your ears more and your listening device makes a huge difference

@TheMirrorify

3 ай бұрын

He's making subtle differences to an already good tone. When the amp is good to begin with only slight sculpting is needed. He's set this up pretty much exactly how I do my 5150 with a 10 band in the loop.

@Return2TheLiving

3 ай бұрын

Look at this way he is doing things that individually change like 2-5% of the tone, and on its own that component can be hard discern but with years of messing around you notice them more and more but even so it’s such a small adjustment he is making. Then you take into account that he has made 10 different changes to different parameters and that all make a 2-5% difference it becomes a 20-50% difference than where you started. A good amp will sound decent with most things set to the middle position and really are there for fine adjustments in most cases.

Nice system! Trying to achieve a balance between crip picked riffs and slightly saggy palm mutes is always a challenge.

Hi Keyan, Love your vids, watched you for a couple of years now! I have a video idea/suggestion: Buy a cheap entry level guitar, test it in a mix with no changes and then upgrade it with new pickups, strings, nut (whatever you can to make it sound better) and then test it in a mix, and then test one of your premium guitars in a mix. I think a lot of people don't understand how much of the sound of a guitar is just a really good tone/mix and what a couple simple upgrades could do. In my opinion, a cheap guitar with sensible upgrades can sound just as good as a premium guitar and I'd love to see you test it out! Could be an S by Solar 7 string, the Jackson JS22-7, the Ibanez Gio GRG7221QA (Loved your video with this guitar), or whatever you want, could even by a 6 string. Just an idea, if it sounds dumb or you think your Gio video already covered this extensively enough, then that's fair. But would love to see it explored a bit more. Cheers!

Thank you for the great tutorial. Be interested to hear if you (or anyone else here) have any particular strategies for dealing with interference and noise. It seems to be pretty much absent throughout this vid.

We have a very similar approach in dialing tone

broo i'm speechless... in this video is amazing. that's also show us, how can we save more time . SUB

Sick

Timing of this vid is perfect for me. Happen to be dialing in a digital soldano also

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

Nice! Glad to hear it dude

first impression: a bloody soldano amp? that's boutique! who does this kid th.. second: oh. it's a plugin. well. seems more portable than my pod hd prox. heard a lot of good things about bias, actually. third: around 1:47. i think he knows what he's doing. he's explaining it perfectly along with the sound examples. fourth: thanks. kids, listen to and learn from this guy. this is justinguitar for brick wall enthusiasts.

Do you deal with the input level? What kind of interface do you use?

Hey keyan, what thumbuckers do you prefer in your guitars for the type of music you play? Thx..

You know the tone is gonna be fire when that amp skin changes

he is right, purple does in fact sound the best!

Honestly, the "stock" tone at 0:45 is what I've been preferring lately. Simple and natural. In your own words, you like a sterile tone, so I guess that's where we differ. I'm over guitars being sterile. 😅

HANDS DOWN. THE BEST TUTORIAL.

Hi Keyan, i have the same Juggernaut evertune 7 guitar that you have showed in other videos, I want to set it up on Drop E, i don't know if buying a 74-13 string gauge or a 80-11 strings for Drop E. Any advice? I know 74 is a little bit thinner but i dont' know if the 80 gauge is going to affect my tone. I hope you can help me. (Sorry for my bad english, greetings from Chile!)

Peace!

What analog do i need to get this tone

I wonder if the slo pedal can pull this tone

Great video. Gonna try this approach with my recently updated Gojira and Soldano X models. One thing I'm not sure you mentioned in the Eq section was that you've applied low and hi pass filters. Unless I missed it

@issy_dev

3 ай бұрын

He did mention it at the beginning of the EQ section, although it was only brief

Nice dialing. What tuning are you in?

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

Drop C#

Not me listening on my phone 😂

Is this on standard tuning?

Soldano looks different from mine.. The EQ is different and those two extra options on the main amp interface, 'transpose' and 'doubler'. What's up with that? Have they updated or something? Amazing guitar playing. Wish I knew how to do all that stuff. 👍🏻

@jimmymeinhart4265

2 ай бұрын

The new Soldano X came out. It's a free update if you just have the original plugin. Transpose pitch shifts your guitar by semitones so you can play in different tunings, and the doubler is supposed to mimic the sound of a double-tracked guitar.

@Fiveash-Art

2 ай бұрын

@@jimmymeinhart4265 hmm, .. Don't know if I'd have much use for either of those.. But I like the low and high shelf on the eq.. Looks like maybe some new presets too. I'm gonna grab it. 👍🏻

back years ago I used to use physical amps and pedals ect. Never had a problem recording with active pick ups until trying to use an amp plug in. Can't get it to not clip. I've tried everything I can think of to get it not to clip. I use a Focusrite 3rd gen 2 channel interface. Maybe I need an interface with a better pre amp. Any ideas?

@silphv

Күн бұрын

Maybe put a DI box between your guitar and the interface to control the level if your pickups are too hot. You shouldn't need a new interface

My amp doesn't have a purple skin. What do I do now?

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

Sell all your guitars and give up

@abiishk

3 ай бұрын

@@KeyanHoushmandLive :(

ya know when this man says things like "that airy top end" I then listen closely and go "ooh that IS an airy top end" I then quickly remember I have no clue what I'm talking about 😂

Hey guys, i just got the Fortin Nameless Suite and tried to use Keyans Preset „The Tone“ for some Recording. Turns out i somehow have problems with the noisegate setting he is using.. it seems like its gripping so fast, that playing single-note lead riffs is not possible without losing a big piece of the sound. Can somebody explain to me, what the reason for this could be? I am using the scarlet 2i2 dialed in just so, that the input does not turn green. My guitar is an EC 1000 with emg 81 pickups. Thanks alot! Keep riffin🤘🏼

@silphv

Күн бұрын

It could be technique or your guitar setup or both. Something's eating into your sustain more quickly than it does Keyan's basically. If you know your fretting technique isn't the issue you might have some fret buzz for example that you're losing energy to. Ideally fix that (if you've never carefully checked the evenness of fret heights on your neck before you might be surprised-you can lose a lot of sustain from a mild fret buzz that you can barely even hear-but it could also be the nut slot depth or neck relief if it's not set up properly). But a workaround in the meantime can be opening up the gate a bit more, or using a compressor pedal in front of the amp to get more sustain at the expense of some dynamics.

Next, do it with beginner electric guitar

What should I do if I can't change the amp's color to purple ?

@silphv

Күн бұрын

Just quit

You should lowpass and high pass in the ir section

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

3:42

@Durkhead

3 ай бұрын

​@@KeyanHoushmandLivemy amp sim has a high and low pass built in to the ir section, i guess this one doesnt. I also low pass way higher like at 100 to 120hz

@Osoch

Ай бұрын

Hi pass, sure Low pass? Not always

me 5 seconds in....... "you can change the WHAT?!"

#tuning in vid?

@OthiOthi

3 ай бұрын

Drop C#

sounds like Pulse rhythm tone

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

Good ears, I used the Soldano for that song!

Use “The Tone” in the Fortnite amp

@joederbyshire_

3 ай бұрын

bro said fortnite amp

@amirjester4384

27 күн бұрын

@@joederbyshire_ 🤣🤣

Too many knobs! Jeeez

its funny, when just a random youtube guy hear the difference bellow 0,5dB when eq

@silphv

Күн бұрын

It's experience. A lot the best tweaks that add up to a good sound are to find just where you really notice a change and then dial it back a little bit. Our ears are dumb sometimes and tend to lead us to go overboard.

This doesn't carry over to the Fortin Nameless Suite X at all.

scoop the mids, ALL THE GAIN. takes you 2 seconds. you're welcome

Why Keyan reversed

Sounds like landmvrks

@Blacklight_Music

3 ай бұрын

I believe they used this plugin for “Lost In A Wave,” so you’re pretty on point with that.

@theknightdrifter

3 ай бұрын

You need a fender on (or) a single coil to have that sound

You okay bro? You look a bit tired 😂

Just pick presets only, problem solved

0:45 you zero in guitar playing, you can't mute without noises😁👎👎

0:45 you zero in guitar playing, you can't finish sound without finger noises 👎👎

Plugins are shit

i cant stand cab sims ,amp sims , plugins any of that computer crap it doesn't matter, its fake, for recording its killer i am sure and it sounds great, but it doesnt really transfer to real gear well. if i just recorded i would get rid of all my gear except my guitars but really would only need one because you can make any decent guitar sound like anything you want with all that computer stuff i will see a killer pedal or amp and go look for reviews and most of the reviews are with computer and IRs or whatever, why even buy the amp or pedal because you can just use the computer crap for everything, and reviews plugging into computer are ridiculous

@talaynt2656

3 ай бұрын

Okay

@broidk2391

3 ай бұрын

Old man finds out about plugins and modelers what's new

@Fiveash-Art

3 ай бұрын

@@broidk2391 😂"Computer crap"

The arrogance of this guy in this video makes him impossible to watch .🤮🤮🤮

@DrDeusExMachina

2 ай бұрын

You’re high

That's good tone! Coming from a die hard tube guy.

@KeyanHoushmandLive

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!