I’d like to hear more of it in action. To me he could have recorded the same song playing his Jaguar, without much difference.
I used to think 4 pickups like on this Eastwood LG-150T was a bit much. 
I think it could sound good. I experimented with hx stomp in the OTs cue / FX loop, recording guitar clean. The gain staging was slightly fiddly not overly. It sounded almost as good as plugging straight in. and those amp models are highly sensitive to the input signal. I was impressed.
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The best pickup comparison video I’ve seen!
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That’s really cool
I swapped in a couple new pedals (API CMP compressor & Origin Hot Rod Compact) to the main board today.
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Hah. I ripped apart mine too. I’m going back to my roots and making a complete retro Boss board, because I love tone suck 
Actually, I’m putting two new Waza ones at the end (new improved buffer?) and going to cheat with a fx loop/boost pedal in there somewhere. I’ve run out of Velcro!
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Just curious, to all of the guitar and bass players here, do any of you play a vintage guitar as their main (or one of their mains)?
Define vintage…. I have an American made (pretty certain it’s a custom shop, or it went through the custom shop at some point as it has a CS neck plate and no serial on the headstock) Tele from circa 1994. In 1994 I would have considered a guitar from 1967 to be vintage so…
It’s ok and the pickups sound good (I think they are the custom shop Texas specials or whatever they’re called, a bit hotter than vintage spec) but I’m not wild about the vintage style frets it has and the ringing behind the nut is the worst of any guitar I’ve owned. Also a previous owner stripped one of the neck bolt holes in the body by over-tightening. With some TLC it could be a really good guitar, it’s probably time I took it to someone.
I like that it’s a bit rough and ready, it was never babied and so probably isn’t especially valuable, which I think might be what you’re getting at.
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I recently acquired an electric guitar.
I don’t have an amp, I use a channel strip that feeds into the converters.
The channel strip has got a quite transparent preamp which does a good job to my ears, but I am struggling to get a good tone in Ableton.
Anyone has any suggestions regarding signal processing?
I also recently got a bass guitar, same as above.
Cheers
You probably want a tube amp, or an emulation of one, and possibly of the mics too, to get the typical electric guitar sound that you’re expecting to hear.
The core elements are amp (preamp + power amp) > speaker cab > mic(s)/room. All can be modelled / emulated - eg UA interfaces often have a hi-Z input for a guitar/bass that you can then use with their amp and cab sims.
Probably the easiest solution with your current setup is to try using an “amp in a box” type pedal to juice up the signal coming from the guitar and then do the rest in the box. Same thing with a bass, there are lots of bass preamp pedals that will give some warmth/punch. Your mixer channel strip is possibly just a bit clean/neutral.
It very much depends on the tone you’re trying to get though. Some things need overdriven tubes / transformers.
Hey man thanks for the info but I’d like to keep it all in the box.
I’m trying to shape the sound with guitar rig but I am not sure I like it, it all sounds very noisy and distorted, which I guess it’s good if that’s what you’re after. I am looking for a gentler tone though, jazzy
Maybe try searching this thread for info about amp modelling plugins, IIRC there were a few recommendations. Something clean like a Fender Bassman style or a Deluxe is probably in the right ballpark.
I looooove P90s
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I use a Strymon Iridium. It’s the only one of its type I’ve tried so I can’t really compare, but it does the job at the end of my board going in to my interface.
I tried Guitar Rig and wasn’t keen.
It doesn’t match the ‘feel’ I get when playing into a proper tube amp, though gives a pretty good approximation of it.
Headphone out is great too, perfect for late night playing or for avoiding neighbour issues.
I also use an Iridium, I definitely prefer it to the ITB amp sims that I’ve tried but I’ve not tried that many and don’t really know what I’m doing with them so YMMV.
+1
I might have some (more) incoming this week.
I’m going to pick up one of the new Boss HM-2W pedals once they become more readily available in the US. The original Boss Heavy Metal was my first dirt box ever.
Edit - Just found one in stock and ordered.
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Excellent. And just noticed, they didn’t do a custom mode on that. Why mess with perfection 
Mine was the DS-1 (long dash 
) As soon as my Velcro arrives I’ll slap it all together for the obligatory pedal porn shoot.
I love that the stock picture has all the knobs dimed, aka the Swedish chainsaw tone.
My first pedal was a (LM308) Rat. still have it. Though I did recently buy a Jam Rattler, which is like a Rat in HD… really nice pedal.
and Velcro