Linux-Audio

Muselog #5 - Guitar Sound - 2

Staying motivated is hard.

I made a relatively acceptable sound of the rhythm guitars in Guitarix before, but I wanted to keep all the work inside of the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). The DAW is where the recording and mixing is going to happen, so I wanted the guitar effects to be there as well. I’m glad that all the Guitarix effects are also available as plugins for DAWs. The one I’m using/trying to learn is Ardour.

Muselog #4 - Guitar Sound - 1

I started working on the sound of the rhythm guitars in Wherever I May Roam using Guitarix (a free and open-source virtual amplifier). Here’s what I got for now (put on some headphones and watch out for the volume)

Now let’s see how I got that sound.

The big picture

Watch this from 12:13s to 12:56s (already set)

Muselog #3 - Linux audio

Recording and processing music on a computer in real time require some preparation. This is a Linux specific post, I haven’t done this on Windows.

Probably the easiest way is to just install a Linux distribution that is prepared for audio production, like KXStudio, AV Linux, Ubuntu Studio or others. I have only tried Ubuntu Studio. That said, any Linux distribution can be set up for audio production, I installed Manjaro (Linux distro) on my old(er) potato and will use it for the music things. These are the resources I more or less followed:

Muselog #2 - Gear

I wanna recreate the song Wherever I May Roam by Metallica at home from scratch. Well, maybe not from scratch, I do have a few things:

Guitar

I have a used Epiphone SG G-400 that I got for a good price. The previous owner put a Seymour Duncan bridge pickup, so that’s good. The bad is that some strings make a choked buzz kinda sound on some frets. I suspect that the truss rod needs some adjustment. I have no experience with that whatsoever and I don’t feel like paying to get it fixed right now, so I’ll use it as it is and blame the crappy solos I play on those frets.