BIAS FX Van Halen 1st Album Tone Test

[lll]

Testing the 1st album VH tone using BIAS FX in my DAW along with some "studio magic". Not note-for-note.

Little Dreamer:
https://soundcloud.com/lefty-lounge-lizard/lll-bias-fx-ld-test

On Fire:
https://soundcloud.com/lefty-lounge-lizard/lll-bias-fx-of-test

Atomic Punk:
https://soundcloud.com/lefty-lounge-lizard/lll-bias-fx-ap-test

 

[crwnedblasphemy]

Sounds good to me.

 

[Hung Huy Tran]

 

[mdc1mdc11]

Is this one of the existing presets from the community or did you dial it in yourself. Sounds good.

what guitar and pickup combo driving it?

 

[MKibanez]

Wow sound good man, great job. I just got de Bias desktop. Really love it, a lot of possibilities.

 

[charvelstrat81]

so do you prefer BIAS over the rig you used here?

 

[lll]

Thanks guys.

I did the preset myself, but not everything I used was found within BIAS FX.

For example, I used different speaker iRs... and of course some Waves plugins for the verb.

The guitar is a strat (same exact strat as in the vid) with a SD SH-5.

My plan is to do some YouTube vids featuring different tones you can get with the BIAS FX.

As for the last question, I always prefer tubes over simulation, but I'm damn impressed with BIAS.

That vid I did is over a year old and I've learned a couple new things since then. But I still stand by the main
gist of the vid. The only difference between now and then is the pickup (SH-5 now), the speakers/EQing, and I've learned how to get the album reverb down real good.

 

[charvelstrat81]

Thanks guys.

I did the preset myself, but not everything I used was found within BIAS FX.

For example, I used different speaker iRs... and of course some Waves plugins for the verb.

The guitar is a strat with a SD SH-5.

My plan is to do some YouTube vids featuring different tones you can get with the BIAS FX.

As for the last question, I always prefer tubes over simulation, but I'm damn impressed with BIAS.

That vid I did is over a year old and I've learned a couple new things since then. But I still stand by the main
gist of the vid. The only difference between now and then is the pickup (SH-5 now), the speakers, the EQing, and I've learned how to get the album reverb down real good.

does the BIAS have a true amp tone/feel in person?
I know it is versatile as hell but how does it sound live in person?
am thinking of buying the desktop version of BIAS.

 

[lll]

does the BIAS have a true amp tone/feel in person?
I know it is versatile as hell but how does it sound live in person?
am thinking of buying the desktop version of BIAS.

Yes, BIAS has a great feel to it - something that past modelers were sorely lacking.

I used to be strongly anti-modeler for over a decade... until I tried BIAS.

It sounds great... I think they have a demo so you can give it a test drive before purchasing.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I am interested in this for the amp match feature... how good a job does it do? Have you tried it with your rig?

 

[charvelstrat81]

does the BIAS have a true amp tone/feel in person?
I know it is versatile as hell but how does it sound live in person?
am thinking of buying the desktop version of BIAS.

Yes, BIAS has a great feel to it - something that past modelers were sorely lacking.

I used to be strongly anti-modeler for over a decade... until I tried BIAS.

It sounds great... I think they have a demo so you can give it a test drive before purchasing.

yeah i seen they offer a free demo i will check it out.
I hope there are no latency issues like i had with overlouds TH2.
I was getting a lot of lag and it definitely was not my PC'.
My PC is a high end gaming tower i built with a i7 in in and 32gb of fast RAM sticks.

 

[lll]

I am interested in this for the amp match feature... how good a job does it do? Have you tried it with your rig?

I've only futzed with it a little bit, so can't say for sure.

 

[lll]

yeah i seen they offer a free demo i will check it out.
I hope there are no latency issues like i had with overlouds TH2.
I was getting a lot of lag and it definitely was not my PC'.
My PC is a high end gaming tower i built with a i7 in in and 32gb of fast RAM sticks.

I'm using BIAS on my *other, older, slower* computer which is:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz
ASUS Maximus-something mobo
8 GB RAM
EMU 1820m "prosumer" style audio interface from 2004

...and it does well in ProTools, Adobe Audition. But with that config of mine - if I had a huge production
going on with like 24 tracks loaded to the gills with plugins, it'd probably bog down and crash.

You'll have no problems computer-wise.

 

[MKibanez]

Thanks guys.

I did the preset myself, but not everything I used was found within BIAS FX.

For example, I used different speaker iRs... and of course some Waves plugins for the verb.

The guitar is a strat with a SD SH-5.

My plan is to do some YouTube vids featuring different tones you can get with the BIAS FX.

As for the last question, I always prefer tubes over simulation, but I'm damn impressed with BIAS.

That vid I did is over a year old and I've learned a couple new things since then. But I still stand by the main
gist of the vid. The only difference between now and then is the pickup (SH-5 now), the speakers, the EQing, and I've learned how to get the album reverb down real good.

does the BIAS have a true amp tone/feel in person?
I know it is versatile as hell but how does it sound live in person?
am thinking of buying the desktop version of BIAS.

I have the BIAS desktop since a month. I was a Guitar Rig user since a year. The thing I didn't like with GR was the fact that I didn't have any amp feel like. At the biginning with BIAS, I wasn't impress with the go to ready preset, which are realy goog with GR. The fact with BIAS is that you have a ton of possibility with all the features and things you can dial to have your sound. One I figured out how it works really, I started to love that thing. You don't have the absolute amp feel but it is way way better than the others soft, in fact enough for me for the little home recording I do. One thing I love wit BIAS desktop is the amp match. Really easy to use and very accurate. It's also a good way to start using this soft and get a good sound fast, that you can tweek after. The end of the story, I highly recommand it to every one like me that cannot bother wife and kids too often for recording and don't have the budget for an AXE FX. For the price it a winner for me. Forgot to mentionned that you can share your presets on a BIAS cloud and there is ton of good preset that others users did on it.

 

[MKibanez]

I am interested in this for the amp match feature... how good a job does it do? Have you tried it with your rig?

I did a test with my Recto and a 57, a friend of mine wasn't able to find the real one on the track alone. In the mix, it wasn't impossible to see the difference.

 

[lll]

I have the BIAS desktop since a month. I was a Guitar Rig user since a year. The thing I didn't like with GR was the fact that I didn't have any amp feel like. At the biginning with BIAS, I wasn't impress with the go to ready preset, which are realy goog with GR. The fact with BIAS is that you have a ton of possibility with all the features and things you can dial to have your sound. One I figured out how it works really, I started to love that thing. You don't have the absolute amp feel but it is way way better than the others soft, in fact enough for me for the little home recording I do. One thing I love wit BIAS desktop is the amp match. Really easy to use and very accurate. It's also a good way to start using this soft and get a good sound fast, that you can tweek after. The end of the story, I highly recommand it to every one like me that cannot bother wife and kids too often for recording and don't have the budget for an AXE FX. For the price it a winner for me. Forgot to mentionned that you can share your presets on a BIAS cloud and there is ton of good preset that others users did on it.

I agree 100% - Guitar Rig is like flat, one-dimensional cardboard tone... just like you're playing software (which you are, but...).

Aside from sounding good, BIAS actually has good (pick) dynamics and therefore can do vintage tones well. That's the "feel" thing, and BIAS does a good job of it. That's the feature that impressed me the most - the feel. Any modeler can polish a turd 128 MIDI ways til Sunday with a heaping of chorus on top, but does it "feel" right?

 

[AndyK]

Nice! The reverb and tone were spot on for Little Dreamer! I was waiting for the drums to kick in!