born_hard":1h1fr7rw said:
can you give us Suhr RL owners give some hints, too?
Sure... I recently pm'd a fellow RT brother this info... made a few edits to make more sense, here you go...
I'm gonna tell you what I just told a friend of mine who picked up a Torpedo Captor and was getting muffled muddy sounding guitars. With the Suhr RL if I try to use the attenuation feature (the di level on the front) and crank my amp louder with IR's it sounds like shit.. muddy, muffled, no definition at all. For over a year I was wondering if my RL was broken.
I figured out that I got the cleanest articulate metal/thrash sounding tones by:
1. Dialing in my amp to my liking with my cab connected thru my Suhr RL first with the master volume set to about 1 (unhook the cab afterwards)
2. On the Suhr RL/Captor/Rockcrusher turn
the attenuation off/turning the knob to zero (no attenuation)
3. Use the unbalanced out of Suhr/loadbox to your interface (balanced works too but unbalanced sounded better to me)
4. Turn your interface input all the way down/off for now
5. Insert a track to your daw, load your VST IR loader (I use NADir
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/nadir-by-ignite-amps ), then load your IR’s up
6. Slowly crank up your interface's input til you start to clip then pull back just a bit to taste
7. Experiment with your Hi Z button on your interface... I stopped turning it on with my Roland and noticed I got thicker bassier tones without it. Almost everyone else on the net says to use Hi Z but I didn't like it personally.
IRs:
I use Celestionplus IR’s lately, mainly the V30 412 C Hi-Gn All Celestion.wav from the V30 4x12 pack. When I record and playback I usually pan a guitar hard left, hard right and middle, and before rendering I like to turn the middle track down just a bit so you hear the left and right guitars more dominantly.
So if I'm using V30 412 C Hi-Gn All Celestion.wav for my hard left I literally load and click thru a few variants of the same IR and pan that hard right til I find one that adds fullness/something different. Basically let your ears use the force lol. I find that I usually load one IR that is sort of bassier (left), 2nd has more mids (right) and 3rd that has more highs (panned middle with less volume) so it sort of has a more natural scooped sound vs using an EQ in the DAW.
Try that and see if it helps any. It made a HUGE difference for my buddy using a Torpedo Captor. Best of luck!