AmpliTube Queen/Brian May Tutorial and Preset Download

[thomas.brunkard]

In a break from normal forum programming, I've made a set of Queen themed presets and an explainer of how it all goes together. The presets are linked in the video description.

One thing I've learned, the EQ-81 from Max might be the most useful gadget in the universe for this type of thing. If you're planning on buying AmpliTube and Max isn't in your budget, definitely give some consideration to picking this piece in the Custom Shop. It's so useful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osf6MwVtDzQ

[garfy]

Great video thomas.brunkard. Kudos points/thumbs up if we had such a thing on this forum.

User @carlaz might like to watch this to add more info to his seemingly bottomless knowledge of classic guitar set-ups.

[carlaz]

Great video thomas.brunkard. Kudos points/thumbs up if we had such a thing on this forum.
User @carlaz might like to watch this to add more info to his seemingly bottomless knowledge of classic guitar set-ups.

Yes, great video. I was indeed hooked as soon as I heard the warning that "it's going to get a bit geeky"!

I was interested to see the Star Gate placed after the Treble Booster. I think many of the stock presets start with the Star Gate? I love the Treble Booster -- but it is (authentically) frickin' noisy! So perhaps the gate afterward would indeed make more sense. The trick about emulating the change in tone from blending in the mic on the back of the amp was also admirably geeky. The EQ81 in AmpliTube 5 is tone gold! I swear, you can just stick it near the end of the chain and switch it on; even without doing anything with the knobs, it just makes things sound "better"! I sometimes just use the high-/low-pass filters at the bottom if nothing else. My only objection is that the onscreen controls are a little fiddly.

So: yeah, cool! I watched, I downloaded, I subscribed.

[thomas.brunkard]

Great video thomas.brunkard. Kudos points/thumbs up if we had such a thing on this forum.

User @carlaz might like to watch this to add more info to his seemingly bottomless knowledge of classic guitar set-ups.

Thanks Garfy! It was hard work but I hope it prompts some other folk to look at the possible recipes and get some discussion going on what we can achieve here as tone geeks!

[thomas.brunkard]

Great video thomas.brunkard. Kudos points/thumbs up if we had such a thing on this forum.
User @carlaz might like to watch this to add more info to his seemingly bottomless knowledge of classic guitar set-ups.

Yes, great video. I was indeed hooked as soon as I heard the warning that "it's going to get a bit geeky"!

I was interested to see the Star Gate placed after the Treble Booster. I think many of the stock presets start with the Star Gate? I love the Treble Booster -- but it is (authentically) frickin' noisy! So perhaps the gate afterward would indeed make more sense. The trick about emulating the change in tone from blending in the mic on the back of the amp was also admirably geeky. The EQ81 in AmpliTube 5 is tone gold! I swear, you can just stick it near the end of the chain and switch it on; even without doing anything with the knobs, it just makes things sound "better"! I sometimes just use the high-/low-pass filters at the bottom if nothing else. My only objection is that the onscreen controls are a little fiddly.

So: yeah, cool! I watched, I downloaded, I subscribed.

Thank you so much for the support. My thought was that the source of the noise should be before the gate and to be perfectly honest, I use it very sparingly. On the Brian May guitar the sound of the neck and middle pickups out of phrase is precious and extreme gating can cost the tone.

Glad you picked up on the back of cab thing! If there was ever an update for the Brian May pack it would be great if the back of the cab was given a speaker model. I've another film where I use an IR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpWvTpkSyJM

And you're bang on with EQ-81. It deserves a place at the end of every chain and it's very useful for fighting Fletcher Munson too.

[carlaz]

My thought was that the source of the noise should be before the gate and to be perfectly honest, I use it very sparingly. On the Brian May guitar the sound of the neck and middle pickups out of phrase is precious and extreme gating can cost the tone.

I have found that the three gate pedals in AmpliTube 5 (Gate [formerly known as Slash Gate], Dime Gate, and Star Gate) seem to work better or worse in different situations, so I will often swap them around to try things out. It is (too_ easy to get some high/mid tone-suck with a gate, so I do find it worth experimenting amongst them. (I used the [Slash] Gate a lot when it first came out, and then started using the Star Gate a lot. I've more recently been experimenting with the Dime Gate, yet though its controls are still simple, twiddling with the freuqency cut-off is pretty necessary, I find.)

And you're bang on with EQ-81. It deserves a place at the end of every chain and it's very useful for fighting Fletcher Munson too.

Amen and hallelujah!