You can either just play this song or you can play some riffs or whatever. Um, I think what I'll do is I'll just have you, like, kind of mess around. So, uh, let's demonstrate this amps him that I created called Tone Forge. Um, I don't think that my life would be possible without them because the amount of work that would go into doing it, um, would just be insane. Um, if you were doing it with a real AMP, you would have to figure that all out, like in the moment, which sometimes is impossible. And so, like, if I get to the point where the only way I can fix apart is by doing an e que automation, the amps them allows me to do that after the fact after I've recorded the guitar part. All right, let's take a look at just this note here so you can actually go in and do, like, little eq you automation is for certain notes. So I actually used this technique quite a bit, um, like going in and changing the volume of the notes, or sometimes even doing preemptively cues like if you put a e que in front of the the guitar, the guitar amp, let me find a good one. So It's just a never ending battle of trying to get the parts to be sounding proper. And then, if you if you do revamp the whole part, chances are your tone is gonna be a little bit different. And then if you go in and try to fix just that one note, it'll sound really weird because the the tones not as consistent so you would have to revamp the whole part, and that would take a lot of time. If you're working with a real AMP, you might have a weird note. Is staying the same, then you can change the note, and you've fixed the you know, the problem with with the part. So if if you do hear a weird note and you're not changing your tone, your tone is changing. So you know that any changes you're going to make is gonna be that way forever. So if you actually get into a situation where you think one of the notes sounds kind of weird, Um, the great thing about am Simms is what you hear is what you get. So if I'm like looping my my section and changing the volume of this, we can hear how it will interact differently. So I can click on this note and I can actually change the volume of it and hear how it affects the tone. This is something that you would never be able to do with the real AMP. So if I take this guitar track, for example, and I put it into a tone and let's say I'm actually looping a little section right here one second, okay, so as I'm looping that Aiken fine tune notes. And what that means is, you know, if we look at this session, for example, I'm going to actually look at the original guitar tracks. You also get the instant revamping while editing. Set it all up, try to get the same tone and then change the gain up, which is just a lot of work. If you don't own it, you don't get it again. If you wanted to do that in real life, you'd have to go back, get the amp. The other great thing about AM Sum's is that they have recall ability, so you can open a session three weeks from now and still change. Sims, you pretty much don't have that problem. When you're working with real amps, it's it's hard to keep consistent tone. I've noticed that when you're miking up in AMP, it can change sound from day to day, and I know that's ah frustrating thing. And having all those variables makes it very hard to have a consistent guitar tone. You've got the life of the tubes, all the various settings on the amps on the AMP, the speaker Cabinet, the type of speaker, the angle of the speaker, the microphone, the room that the microphone and the speakers are in, and the microphone going into the mic pre amp.
And if it goes into an AMP after that, you've got a 1,000,000,000 variables. Then it goes out of the guitar into guitar cable and then into a D. You're gonna have the guitar, which has already has a ton of variables, as we've learned today. Um, you know, a typical AMP set up is going to be It's gonna have so many different very variables.
You know your settings after, you know, from in different locations and things like that. Itar tones and make adjustments and change.
You can take your session around if you need to go to a different studio as long as they have the guitar AMP simulator installed than your session will open and it'll sound the same. Um, and that's really great, especially in today's age, where everything is done on computers. Um, I want to talk about why we're going to use AMP simulators and why It's important.
So with this, what I wanted to do with this plug in, um, I wanted to actually let's talk about before I do this, you could stay there. Pretty soon someone's gonna show you how you can utilize that to get your guitar tone. Simulator plug in, and it's going to be available. So I'm going to show you how I I actually made my own AMP.
And I know a lot of people are probably curious about how to how to go about guitar tone. ID like to show tone forage if you wanna play some guitar for me, Cool.