r/guitarlessons • u/Mateja_Tomiccc • 1d ago

Question Getting a good tone

Hello. For a while I've experimented with NDSP plugins such as Nolly, Gojira and Fortin Nameless, but all of these plugins fail to give me even a decent tone. I get a unlistenable noisy mess. I was aiming for a simple metal rhythm tone using the presets and tweaking them a bit (not too much, just pulling the gain back a bit or something like that). Here is audio of me playing random stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Si_SK3LcDY through the Fortin Nameless plugin (This is pretty much how every plugin I play through sounds, except Gojira which has so much gain that you cant even differentiate between notes). As for what gear I am using: Harley Benton SC-400, Fender Deluxe Series Tweed Instrument Cable, Audient iD4 Audio Interface all of that into my PC. The DAW I use is Reaper but I doubt that has anything to do with the tone. Please help me get a decent metal guitar tone.

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u/Ok-Chocolate804 1d ago

How did you record this? The tone itself sounds fine but you have some weird phase issue going on. do you have the NDSP app open outside of your DAW?

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u/Mateja_Tomiccc 1d ago

No, it was recorded in Reaper. I did enable the doubler, so maybe that has something to do with it?

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u/Ok-Chocolate804 1d ago

yes, disable that and try again.

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u/Mateja_Tomiccc 1d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4yLCc0A0xc Does this sound better?

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u/Ok-Chocolate804 1d ago

yeah that sounds fine. if it's still too harsh, try reducing the gain and adding a hi-cut to around 10-8k. On NDSP you can use the built in EQ and lower the last 2 or 3 sliders to around -3 or -6 db.

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u/Mateja_Tomiccc 1d ago

Alright, thanks a lot.