James Tyler Variax: Solidbody Electric Sounds | Line 6

Vintage solid body electric models are explored using the new James Tyler Variax®.

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Notes:
All sounds were recorded in a direct wet/mic'd dry configuration.

The guitar went into a POD® HD500, and afterward the XLR outputs of the HD500 were sent to a pair of homebrew Neve® mic preamps. The preamp outputs were sent into a new AVID HD IO audio interface, and on into Pro Tools® HD.

The HD500 was also connected to a DT25™ head over L6 Link™. Only the dry preamp signal was sent to the DT25, which was sent out of an older VHT 4x12 cabinet loaded with Celestion® Vintage 30's, and mic'd on the bottom with an AEA R92 ribbon mic. The mic went into an EMI REDD47 tube mic preamp, then into the AVID HD IO, and then into Pro Tools® HD.
No effects were added in post after recording -- all effects came live from the HD500, and were mixed with the mic'd dry cabinet signal.

The exception to this occurred in the case of the acoustic guitar samples, where only the direct feed from the HD500 was used, with no amp modeling enabled.

Amps used were custom-built on the fly, mixing and matching amp parts using the preamp and tone stack from the HD500, and the variable tube power amp section on the DT25 head.

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• electric models
• electric guitar modeling
• guitar modelling
• James Tyler Variax
• POD HD500
• DT25
• guitar models
• JTV

[troymkennedy]

@seanhalleyguitar Thanks bro. Much appreciated.

[seanhalleyguitar]

Sorry for the NAMM lag. Yup, I definitely turn the speaker emulations off - I'm not a fan of multiple speaker stages for guitar (I'll use them when mixing though, on instruments that need help, using something like McDSP's Futzbox though). I don't do the second thing you mentioned as a matter of course, if only because I sometimes use dual input paths in the HD500 to process the magnetic pickups and Variax separately. Hope that helps!

[troymkennedy]

@troymkennedy Hey Sean, sorry to bug. I am getting my DT25 dialed right now. On the HD500 pre amp models do you turn off the cab speaker simulations to they don't compete with the real cab?

and 2. Do you do the input trick where you turn the input 2 to aux or mic so it doesn't sum the inputs in the HD500?

[troymkennedy]

@seanhalleyguitar Ah, thanks.

[seanhalleyguitar]

@troymkennedy

The preamps and tone stack in the DT25 are done with modeling, and they're the same as are in the HD500. I run the HD500 into the DT25 with L6 Link (one cable), because then I can mix and match guts from different amps. So whether or not you're running the DT25 standalone, or running it with the POD HD, the preamps are the same models. The difference is the mixing and matching that's possible when you link them, which is awesome.

[troymkennedy]

@seanhalleyguitar That's what I thought. I have a DT25 coming. So that should be fun. These sounds on this video are the best Line6 patches I have heard in terms of "authenticity." I had to ask if I could get the patches.:)

So, no preamp models from the HD500 just effects. And the breakup is all DT25. Correct?

Hey, tell Rich I said "hi!" We are bro's from way back. He used to play for me when I was a worship pastor in L.A. I am now a a great church in Kansas City. - Peace, Troy

[seanhalleyguitar]

@troymkennedy

Hey Troy. 97% of what you're hearing in these videos is one ribbon mic on the bottom speaker of a 4x12 cab, which is coming directly off the DT25 head. The HD500 went direct as well, but it's literally only providing that small amount of reverb you're hearing, so that's the other 3%. The only time on these where the amp isn't the whole sound is on the acoustic examples. On the Overview vid I think I used a Tube Driver on the intro example, but that's the only one with a pedal :-)

[troymkennedy]

Hey Sean, how would you say the DT25 plays into the final sound of these demo's? And, are your patches posted anywhere?

[seanhalleyguitar]

@TheEternalLeader

I keep switching guitars so that you don't listen with your eyes :-)

The three-way switch is still a three-way, but pressing the tuning knob gives you access to the other positions (2 and 4). Hope that helps...

[TheEternalLeader]

Two questions: Why does he keep switching guitars?

How do you get a fourth position sound if you have a 3-way toggle? Or does it just look like a 3-way toggle and is actually more, or is there something else going on?