Native Instruments Guitar Rig

[taez555]

If you're going to buy Guitar Rig, you might as well just buy Komplete 8 (If not Ultimate, at least get the regular)

It's worth it alone of the price of Massive, or Kontact, or all the all the pianos, the organs, the bass, the keys, the orchestra instruments, the drums, etc, etc.. Seriously, one of the best deals around.

As for Guitar Rig. It will never replace a real guitar amp(maybe many years down the road), but in the right mix and with the right settings it can sound damn close.

I actually use it alot just for the effects when mixing real guitars. Those delays, verbs and other guitar effects sound great by themselves.

[disfrontman]

I use Guitar Rig for recording. I have the Rig Kontrol and have played out live with it as well, but when doing so I lived in mortal fear that some clod would trip over the USB cable and send my MBP crashing to the ground (me being the "clod" most likely to cause the catastrophe!) so I've since retired it from live use.

I should add that I tend to use GR and/or any preamp model (digital or analog) in conjunction with Redwirez IRs (instead of the stock ones in GR). They are stupid cheap for what you get: a great value with tons of flexibility. To my ears, the tone imparted by the cab/speaker/mic type/mic position configuration is the most important factor in distorted guitar sounds. A crappy analog preamp pedal or poor digital sim can still sound pretty realistic if run through a well-crafted mix of great IRs.

[fusionid]

I see, what I really care about is how is the tape delay?

taez, do you use it much for mixing?

thanks

[taez555]

Originally Posted by fusionid

I see, what I really care about is how is the tape delay?

taez, do you use it much for mixing?

thanks

I do actually use it quite a bit for mixing. Especially for guitar parts. If I have normal mic'd guitar tracks, I'll usually grab the delays and reverbs from GR first before using any of the other plugins from my DAW.

It has 6 different guitar delays(which sounds crazy, since it's just a delay). But they're all are unique and sound great. The tape delay is actually one it's best features. I swear sometimes I think it's an Eventide.

[fusionid]

Taez,

I like your strat very much. You record mostly using a Vintage 30 speaker? I used them on a 2x12 cab for more than 10 years but recently changed to a wizard eminence. Similar sound, just a bit different

[taez555]

Originally Posted by fusionid

Taez,

I like your strat very much. You record mostly using a Vintage 30 speaker? I used them on a 2x12 cab for more than 10 years but recently changed to a wizard eminence. Similar sound, just a bit different

Thanks!

Honestly I switch it up between the open 1x12 with V30 and my closed back 4x12 Carvin (just stock speakers). Depends on the sounds I'm looking for. Although I think I made about 6th months of youtube demos just with the vintage 30's. :-)

[fusionid]

Very cool. I decided to get it. Only 50 dollars for the update to GR 5 Pro. The additional amps which are the Van 51 (5150 version) and HOT SOLO+ (soldano version) make the upgrade worth it.I figured the worst case scenerio was I wasted 50 dollars but got new effects for my DAW.

As far as the overall feeling of GR I can not explain why but guitar rig elements was compressing the signal while the PRO version sounds just 3 times better. Also for some reason it seems to like the Dimarzio pick ups the best (in comparison to the sound of my Les paul historic w/ bursbuckers or EJ strat) that are loaded into my Frankenstein carvin.

[fusionid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWWLSG2xpPg

hehe here is a shred fest with an R8 LP