A brief excuse to try Attack Softener

JeffChasteen

Epiphone ET275 electricguitar, Attack Softener, GS VintageClean, Alteza, Groovebox, AUM
Thanks for listening

jacou

@JeffChasteen said:
Epiphone ET275 electricguitar, Attack Softener, GS VintageClean, Alteza, Groovebox, AUM
Thanks for listening

That’s a very nice piece!!

JeffChasteen

@jacou said:

@JeffChasteen said:
Epiphone ET275 electricguitar, Attack Softener, GS VintageClean, Alteza, Groovebox, AUM
Thanks for listening

That’s a very nice piece!!

Thank you very much.

LinearLineman

Sounds good!

noob

@JeffChasteen love it. and great sonics (but why did you dial back the escape from NY arp bass.. keep that through the song!

barabajagal

@JeffChasteen nice work mate.

barabajagal

@noob loving your changing avatar pic... hilarious 😂

scadet

Nice one Jeff! I’ve been tempted to get this app too.

noob

haha just trying to cheer you up

barabajagal

@noob said:
haha just trying to cheer you up

Yep it’s worked 👍

McD

I love that particular guitar rig:

Attack Softner
Gain Stage Vintage Clean
FAC Alteza

I love to introduce Magic Death Eye Stereo (or the original or both if CPU's free) in the first slot to add extra 2nd order harmonics. Anything Tape related can also help add tube harmonics (Tape Cassette and/or Tape Cassette 2).

Lately I've been appreciating Eventide Blackhole using the controls to remove the delay and just open up the "Alteza-like" Reverb and then test for a delay treshold to add a bit of shimmer to taste. What's happening is easy to see and control. Expensive but great for ambient guitar.

Something analog worth doing is running the guitar through a volume pedal to really
change the attack envelope. Good guitarists can often get the effect with a pinky sliding up and down the guitar's volume knob.

lukesleepwalker

Beautiful! That softened lead at the beginning is just lovely.

barabajagal

@JeffChasteen said:

I think I’m gonna have to dust down my geeetars. Sitting surrounded by my 7 axes that I have not touched in several years due to my consumption of everything iOS.
I dunno I guess I feel for me I can convey more emotionally through electronic stuff. Don’t get me wrong I still get drunk & listen to “guitar music “ but as far as creating stuff like that, I feel it’s all been done & I don’t want to go near it. This is coming from somebody who used to be a roadie. Like I said ... I dunno😔

McD

@barabajagal said:

@JeffChasteen said:

I think I’m gonna have to dust down my geeetars. Sitting surrounded by my 7 axes that I have not touched in several years due to my consumption of everything iOS.
I dunno I guess I feel for me I can convey more emotionally through electronic stuff. Don’t get me wrong I still get drunk & listen to “guitar music “ but as far as creating stuff like that, I feel it’s all been done & I don’t want to go near it. This is coming from somebody who used to be a roadie. Like I said ... I dunno😔

Sometimes you have to just play for yourself and forget what's been done and enjoy
doing it... just for that feedback loop of stimulus response. Get those axes out and
remember why you got them in the first place. (But hit record and upload for comments.
You'll get more stimulus.)

noob

@McD

McD

https://i.imgur.com/to7bEtW.mp4

JeffChasteen

@LinearLineman said:
Sounds good!

Thank you!

JeffChasteen

@noob said:
@JeffChasteen love it. and great sonics (but why did you dial back the escape from NY arp bass.. keep that through the song!

Thanks for the love!
It was very difficult resisting keeping it going throughout 🤣

JeffChasteen

@barabajagal said:

@JeffChasteen nice work mate.

Thank you very much.

JeffChasteen

@barabajagal said:

@noob loving your changing avatar pic... hilarious 😂

@scadet said:
Nice one Jeff! I’ve been tempted to get this app too.

Thank you.
I would definitely recommend it.

JeffChasteen

@lukesleepwalker said:
Beautiful! That softened lead at the beginning is just lovely.

Thank you. Glad you liked it.

JeffChasteen

@McD said:
I love that particular guitar rig:

Attack Softner
Gain Stage Vintage Clean
FAC Alteza

I love to introduce Magic Death Eye Stereo (or the original or both if CPU's free) in the first slot to add extra 2nd order harmonics. Anything Tape related can also help add tube harmonics (Tape Cassette and/or Tape Cassette 2).

Lately I've been appreciating Eventide Blackhole using the controls to remove the delay and just open up the "Alteza-like" Reverb and then test for a delay treshold to add a bit of shimmer to taste. What's happening is easy to see and control. Expensive but great for ambient guitar.

Something analog worth doing is running the guitar through a volume pedal to really
change the attack envelope. Good guitarists can often get the effect with a pinky sliding up and down the guitar's volume knob.

Those three really do work well together.

My volume pedal is essential in my hardware guitar rig. My teenaged self would have been appalled, though- “What? You mean it doesn’t make any crazy sounds??? Why would you want that? You paid for that???!!!”

McD

@JeffChasteen said:
My volume pedal is essential in my hardware guitar rig. My teenaged self would have been appalled, though- “What? You mean it doesn’t make any crazy sounds??? Why would you want that? You paid for that???!!!”

Hey kid, what's crazier than this:

volume off - slams a power chord - slide power up to max.

With a MIDI sending expression pedal we can MIDI map the volume control to the output and bring up the output volume into the mix. Even more awesome. I have an old Digitech
guitar pedal that outputs MIDI and has an expression pedal. I should hook that up and into AUM for some Fripp style fun. Now I want a row of expression pedals. Does anyone make such a thing.

I saw a live organ player that had a pedal that controlled the audio volume and send the Leslie rotor speed out by pivoting the pedal on a center axis. Now I can't remember who makes it. It wasn't cheap... beautifully made for gigging leyboardists to free up a hand while changing the Leslie rotor.

mjcouche

@JeffChasteen This is beautiful. I hear some elements of Ennio, some Tarantino soundtrack feel, some Explosions in the Sky. What’s your preferred delay app?

JeffChasteen

@mjcouche said:
@JeffChasteen This is beautiful. I hear some elements of Ennio, some Tarantino soundtrack feel, some Explosions in the Sky. What’s your preferred delay app?

Thank you for your kind words.
I am fond of RP-1 and (the relatively ancient) AUFX:Dub (it’s still a great delay and so much more)
Thanks again.

JeffChasteen

@McD said:

@JeffChasteen said:
My volume pedal is essential in my hardware guitar rig. My teenaged self would have been appalled, though- “What? You mean it doesn’t make any crazy sounds??? Why would you want that? You paid for that???!!!”

Hey kid, what's crazier than this:

volume off - slams a power chord - slide power up to max.

With a MIDI sending expression pedal we can MIDI map the volume control to the output and bring up the output volume into the mix. Even more awesome. I have an old Digitech
guitar pedal that outputs MIDI and has an expression pedal. I should hook that up and into AUM for some Fripp style fun. Now I want a row of expression pedals. Does anyone make such a thing.

I saw a live organ player that had a pedal that controlled the audio volume and send the Leslie rotor speed out by pivoting the pedal on a center axis. Now I can't remember who makes it. It wasn't cheap... beautifully made for gigging leyboardists to free up a hand while changing the Leslie rotor.

Must I remind you that I was the dumb teenage dirtbag who traded a 65 Fender Champ for a Peavey TNT because the Peavey was really loud and big enough to climb onto and jump from while making demonic guitar faces? 🤣