Exploring, Plugin the DAW.

Guitar sounds with plugins (Week 1 Blog 2)

I've always been interest in how guitarist bands and audio engineers get those incredible sounds vibrating though the home stereo unit especially when the music is crackling through the speaker and as it blasts out of a tiny little transistor battery powered radio. l remember thinking in my teens, as l was digging post holes in the bush on a 40 degree heat day on my school Christmas holidays, (yes, trying to dig through rock hard clay with a shovel and a bucket of water, that ain't my idea of fun) How do they get that big arena stadium sound coming through the little transistor radio? So the thirst for sound has never ever stopped, and l'm now lucky enough to be learn how they do it through SAE.

Remember the last blog l talked about the project one (Drax) and how we are going to experiment the with a genre mix of EDM, Goth and Hard Rock/Metal. The 'Drax' are trying out:

• an electronic drum kit.

• guitar plugging straight into the interface.

• finding different plugin effects to use in the Daw.

The only acoustic instrument will be the vocals with effects from the Daw, so at the moment l'm searching for some great free plugins to create heavy distorted guitar sounds. I found this on YouTube, so check it out.

Good free plugins on a shoe string budget for VST windows. (Damn it, I use Mac)

https://youtu.be/WgZazz10apU

Found a couple of free plugins, I've already tried this one out.

YouTube video's below for guitar amplifier simulator.

Emissary - Amp Simulator

https://youtu.be/aYNaX760B-s