How to get similar guitar sound

Discussion in 'Working with Sound' started by TwistedCycles, Feb 22, 2019.

  1. TwistedCycles

    TwistedCycles Member

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    I am working on a 2 minutes soundtrack for a friend's project and would love to create an ambience which evokes desert, saloon, and apocalypse.

    I remembered a part of the good old Fallout 2 PC game and eventually found where it originally came from ( the embed video in this post)

    How could I achieve something like that ? Is there a Kontakt library ? some samples packs ?

    I own and play (bad) a 6 strings LTD Guitar LP style with humbuckers and use some amp sim (1 UAD Marshall ) and also S-Gear 2 but I couldn't make it sound anywhere near to this super bright sound that I d love to reproduce.

    I just know about the obvious big bends, slides, hammer on off and pretty reverb, that's it.

    Thanks for any hint or link
     
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  3. Baxter

    Baxter Audiosexual

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    Bottleneck slide
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    Resonator / Dobro guitar
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    To get close to that sound, if you're going to use your guitar, you need to combine both pickups with the neck pickup a bit lower than the bridge pickup.
    Send it to an eq and search 2 frequencies to push a bit: One in the low mids and the other one in the upper highs.

    You could save some time using an acoustic simulation preset from digital guitar effect, but right now I cant remember for sure which plugins has it.
    The rest is obviously reverb , discrete (stereo) delay ...
     
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    Thanks to both of you,
    I ll try some dobro libraries first cause that's definitely the sound I am looking for but I ll try again your pickup ideas combined with the EQ principle.

    So far I had mainly tried to use the split pickups function to get a brighter sound and found the neck gave me a bit more clarity but even with eq a bit with hi shelf, I wasn't quite there.
     
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