Quick Ableton Demo with VM and Les Paul

[record335]

Hi all,

I have been getting in to Ableton 8.0 lately and been enjoying tinkering around with the trusty VM and a few sounds. This clip has no bass or real drums but proves that some reasonable results can be gotten from a laptop and some software. It's not complete; I know but I have just been discovering some of the capablilty/possibility with the limited amount of recording gear that I use. I might consider putting some of my own stuff down in the future. By the way.........I love my VM!

Regards

Mark

[surfnorthwest]

Sounds good!! Watch out though, once you get into recording it becomes addicting, also not very wallet friendly.

[record335]

Thanks Surf!

It's largely due to listening to the audio clips that you have uploaded, that I have decided to play around with the VM and a microphone. I can well imagine that it gets extremely expensive! You are right though, there is something very addictive about putting tracks down electronically.

Regards

Mark

[Licks61SG]

Sounds great mate. I use Ableton 8 as well and started some home recordings with the band this week with my VM. I got the waves mercury plugins that Surf swears by, can't wait to learn how to use them.

[Slashwannabe1]

Hi all,

I have been getting in to Ableton 8.0 lately and been enjoying tinkering around with the trusty VM and a few sounds. This clip has no bass or real drums but proves that some reasonable results can be gotten from a laptop and some software. It's not complete; I know but I have just been discovering some of the capablilty/possibility with the limited amount of recording gear that I use. I might consider putting some of my own stuff down in the future. By the way.........I love my VM!

Regards

Mark

Hey Mark sounds great! what kind of settings/effects are you using?

[Mats A]

Good, is it a chorus or a flanger that you use on the clean parts?

[record335]

Hi,

I used the VM and an SM57 mic angled almost against the speaker cone of the 4x12. I used Ableton 8.0 as the software on a DAW and used my Boss GT-10 for adding some effect to the audio channels. I tried to replicate as far as possible the album version as it has a fair range of effects in the left and right audio channels. I used chorus for the main intro and changed the body and detail on the VM according to either Izzy or Slash's parts. I did use the accoustic simulator for the clean sounding guitar parts in the right channel for the verses and solo.

For the most part the VM was set to 6 or 7 across the board. I think for a quick mess around in the spare room, I was actually really please with the outcome for a quick demo. I will get my head around the Waves .vst files that can be added for the post production kind of stuff. I am going to do a few more songs over the coming weeks and will try to replicate the studio sound where possible. I am looking forward to doing a few Led Zeppelin covers as the VM is definately the tone monster of choice for the Zep stuff. I am not in a band or anything so am really just tinkering at the moment to see the kind of stuff I can achieve with limited recording gear and some persistance.

I think the solo came out well in terms of sound and think a lot of that is down to the Seymour Duncan Alnico II's that are in the Les Paul. I will continue to see what the art of the possible is and experiment more. Thanks for the comments guys! That is what this great forum is all about!

Regards

Mark