Author: Rich Rath

Sleepwalk #7 take 2, Won’t wake the baby.

* Where: https://youtu.be/zmL6pAlWmLQ
* When: I hope you can stop by next Thursday night around midnight (Or Friday Morning if you are on the East Coast!)

7th installment (take 2) of “Sleepwalk with the Digital Guitarist.” When I explained to my 9-year-old nephew that my show last Thursday was called “don’t wake the baby,” and that I messed up and there was no sound turned on for the whole hour I played, he remarked, “maybe you did that ‘don’t wake the baby’ thing a little too much.” It was a great set, sorry about the glitch, so I will try the same thing again this coming Thursday. I am just going for a mellow vibe and we’ll see what happens. Part of it will be on the new 12 string, but I will probably switch it up a bit too. I won’t wake the baby though, promise. But this time with the sound on. 🙂

Just before Midnight, THursday May 28, til about 1 AM Honolulu time. That’s 6 AM opn the East Coast and 3 AM on the west for you early risers and late nighters!to one, Thus

Sleepwalk with the Digital Guitarist # 6 this Thursday night

danelectro 59x12
Danelectro 59×12

“Sleepwalk with the Digital Guitarist #6” I’ll explore all things Mersey/Athens/Brit Invasion/Hoboken exploring the jangle and the chime by introducing the newest member of the family, my Danelectro 59×12 twelve string run through different amps and such. What is the difference between “Needles & Pins” throaty Vox chime (or hard days night, or …) and the fendery jangle or early REM (or anything from 80s Athens or Hoboken)? What difference does the guitar make? How about different amp Sims? (although I’ll do the amp shootout some other time!)

If you want an idea of what the sleepwalks are like, here is Sleepwalk #3:

RREPlay’s fourth album, “RREPost”

Eric and I are working on Album Four, tentatively titled “rrepost.”  Here is what we have so far…two more cuts to go, I’ll post them soon.

Here it is, RREPost

Tec Breath & Bite Controller workout

Way Music went down for two days…Sorry about that! Now it is all refreshed since it got its REST 😉 I have been busy though, and just completed a video playlist demonstrating the Tec Breath and Bite Controller 2 and showing how to set it up. That will be the last BBC2 video for a month or so since I am having a tooth pulled and won’t be able to play the BBC2 until it heals.

A breathtakingly thorny bite

With a nod and a tilt to…

Finally getting around to giving my Christmas present a workout! I got a TEC Breath and Bite controller 2. Here I try it out for atmospherics on this almost ambient piece.

This is really fun. I can already control two things from my guitar by where I pick and by the MIDI volume knob. The breath and bite controller (hereafter just “breath controller”) adds four more very expressive controls, bite, breath, tilt, and nod. The first 45 seconds is setting up the loop, then the synth comes in, Dmitry Sches’s excellent Thorn, controlled by the guitar and the breath controller.

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ProFET Distortion wins 2018 KVR Developer Challenge

proFETPro FET by Ignite Amps

Distortion modeling of a hardware pedal made by Ignite.

ProFET, Ignite Amp’s entry in the 2018 KVR Developer Challenge, gets a six-minute Digital Guitarist workout. It was the first place winner in the contest.

  • Drop it in front of a clean guitar amp for instant metal tones.
  • Professional GUI.
  • Easy on the CPU.
  • Nice sounding distortion made for a particular genre’s tone.

Within that limited frame, ProFET provides nice tone shaping with a 4-band EQ and some nuance on the transients with the “shape” switch.

There are a ton of different free and paid distortions, each with its own personality. I’ll do some more vids on them probably. Try out the demos and freebies and pick the one that suits your ears best. This is a good one if it fits your style.

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