 Dave Hilderman here and this video is all about creating app models for voice live 3 voice live 3 We decided to do something different with the way we have app modeling what most companies do in their app modeling is They have tons of parameters and there's tons of stuff that they tweak and tweak They only expose a few parameters for the users What we've done is in our app model. We show you every parameter that's in the app model and We create styles we've created styles so that you can pick Models that sort of correspond to classic amps Just for a quick starting point But if you want you can go in deep and you can really adjust everything that makes that app model sound the way it is So that's what this video is going to talk about is going to talk about How you can go in there and what all those parameters do and how you can use them to get the sound that you really want to get I'm going to show you the screen here that shows the the app model page so Here the acoustic the first model is it's actually not a model at all acoustic is like nothing So what you're hearing is just my my strat on the That's the neck pickup With nothing at all totally clean Now if I go through some of them the models here, that's a great clean British sound California clean sound so you know that'd be a fender this one would be a Like a Marshall. That's like a fender Be like a Vox clean Deep clean. I'm not actually sure what that is, but this is what the bright switch on on a Warmer sort of a boutique amp clean to be one of those teeny little That's why we call it little thing gives you an idea Anyway, so these are all these different apps and if you go in here, you can see all these proud is like so many parameters Well, what do these parameters do? Well? That's I'm going to try to explain to you here in this video. So if I put it in the acoustic Acoustic is basically nothing. It's it's so I guess the architecture of our amp is this we have The guitar comes in and then there's EQ three bands of fully parametric EQ with lots of gain and gain and cut you can do 18 dB of boost and cut and each one of the three bands and then there's a Nonlinear section which is the tube simulation and the tube simulation is where the distortion happens. So EQ the sound you distort it and then there's EQ after it plus a speaker model Basically we use Specific types of EQ to emulate a speaker. So we'll go through that. So here we go so If we go down here anything that you want it anytime you say pre-gain So pre-gain would be before the tube emulation post gain is after the tube emulation and Here let's just let's just hear what it sounds like if we add some gain to this guitar So here I'll So that's what it sounds like That's what it sounds like if you just have a guitar perfectly clean going in and hitting a tube and distorting Kind of interesting, but it's got a little bit harsh a little bit buzzy So I guess another thing we can do here. Let's make it cleaner again now let's um the first thing you have to do you have to simulate a speaker because You don't take the preamp from a tube get from a guitar amplifier and just go And in your quarter that you always have to go through a speaker speaker makes a huge Really makes a impact the sound that you hear on a guitar. So a speaker The frequency response of a speaker always has it only goes up to certain high frequency and then it drops and typically it It's I know maybe five kilohertz. So that's what this parameter is. This is the high frequency So it's the high frequency. So let's just say go maybe let's say five kilohertz there that's 5100 Hertz What does it sound like if I so a 20 kilohertz? That's like 20 kilohertz We go to five kilohertz here Let's not like here so There so that's Then also the low frequency Speaker that's in an amplifier guitar amplifier typically maybe responds to you know Maybe 120 Hertz would be the 3db point the minus 3db point So that would be a perfectly flat no eq totally clean amplifier be like a let's say a Power amplifier putting your acoustic guitar or your electric guitar Through just a preamp and then to a power amplifier into speaker That's what it would sound like so now Let's um now if we add gain to that So that's kind of I mean, it's kind of interesting And if I really crank the crap out of the game you'll hear it it actually sounds Almost sounds like a fuzz fuzz pedal So that's a ton of gain now five So let's just So that's cool now, but that's not what amps are like like normally Like what happens in amplifiers is there's always some eq like there There's a tone controls and amps and also there's it's not a flat frequency response. So look this is this is what happens if I Fiddle with things so let's first let's try Fiddling with the eq of the signal going into the into the tube So so eq of the guitar sound pre The tube what's with distort. So let's um, I will set the So the frequency let's let's boost some mids. Let's take something like maybe I don't like maybe one kilohertz and Let's make it so this is the bandwidth. So this line here talks the cut and boost of the different bands This is the frequency of the bands and this is the bandwidth. So bandwidth is an octave. So this is 0.25 octaves I'm gonna set it to I'll set it to yeah, just two octaves. Let's try that. So You hear how that sounds different Got really kind of a powerful kind of a crunch Here let's hear what it sounds like without that boost Very different and here I'm gonna change the frequency of that boost So that's cool. So now let's try a few other things. Let's um, I don't know. This is Actually, I kind of just like it, right? But let's let's fiddle with a few other things. Let's um, let's do a little more Maybe let's boost a little more high frequency stuff. So let's sure keep that at one octave so now that It's kind of not maybe a little I kind of like the sort of characteristic of the high frequencies in the distorted stuff What happens when you boost those frequencies before the amp before the tube? I keep calling it the amp before the tube the nonlinear tube it it really changes what Changes the characteristics of the distortion a lot because it's before the distortion. It changes what gets distorted So if I So right now we don't have any EQ on the post so if we set the post EQ similar to the pre-eq Let's go to 5300 or whatever that was Was it 5900 sorry Go to 5900 and I cut some there She may be yeah one one point one eight. Let's see what happens. We do 1.18 there Okay, so let's actually you know, I might try some crazy sounds. So I don't mind it So what is that? So it's kind of nice. You can sort of has a bit of the things. I'm using these in-ear monitors I'm not really sure if they're actually better to do this stuff when you're listening to studio monitors Or the actual speakers that you'd be using live. Let's try a few other things here Okay, so so that's cool. So That is this thing. So maybe we should let's see what happens if we put a so a speaker typically What this bandwidth thing is here? speakers typically have a Resonant sort of a peak in the frequency response just Before it drops off before the cutoff. So I'm gonna add a little boost there. So now I don't know is this do you like this sound? I'm not sure Another thing we have for camera here is amp sag. So what amp sag is? that is When you have a tube amplifier and you're really pushing it hard you're making it really really loud When you're not making any sound with it the voltage in the amplifier is one thing and as soon as you hit it It actually causes The voltage to drop and it acts like compression because everything gets a little quieter There okay, so that's kind of a cool sound. I am going to store this Store it there store. There we go Now another thing that we have in this amp model thing It's kind of is not on the amp tab. It's on the drive tab. What this is is that All that drive is is different pre-gain and post-gain with the same model that you already built in the amp model So this is 20 and minus 15. So if I go here to 20 and minus 15 Doesn't change at all, but Add like another 20 db So now if I put this on hit So let's just see so if I go store store the guitar page now so Right now reverb is on I Usually do I usually set up my amp sounds with a bit of reverb because unless I'm in a room where I've got a bit of ambience or something because Usually if you just hear the amp completely dry without a bit of reverb it it's just to me It's just a little weird setting making an amp sound without a bit of reverb. So I Got a bit of reverb I'm here to start. So here. So Say forget let's not do the hit. Yeah, so that's That's the amp sound that we just created and so I think The thing that we found when we were making These amp models and stuff, you know, you've got the EQ you've got the guitar goes in then you apply EQ and then there's the tube Model that is in there and that causes the distortion then we have EQ and the speaker simulation after well guitars totally changed the sound of everything and This is a Fender strat and it's a very thin sounding strat So I find that When I use this guitar and I use the voice live 3 I Find that the amp sounds are they're a little bit bright So I usually go on them having to tweak things. So that's the thing I made this video so that hopefully you can go in there and you can get your voice live 3 Sounding the best for the kind of guitar that you've got and it's also kind of fun And you can sort of experiment with different things. So actually a few Few other things I'm going to show you here. So if I go back to this guitar thing I'll get off the drive there and let's go to the amp Because that's we started from because that's nothing if you fiddle with the EQ on the post EQ Didn't even hardly do anything with post EQ, but if I I go here to post EQ. So Low post there we go Add some good to it that's a little boosting at 92 Hertz a little bit. Let's just say 160 Hertz Let's maybe have a lot of times speakers will have a the lowest Speakers on a tube amp a lot of times have a bit of a so That so I'll let you hear what this this thing sounds like that. That's what it sounds like on the neck pickup This is what it sounds like on neck and middle pickup Center pickup that is the center and bridge pickup And this is the bridge pickup so That is the amp model in voice life 3 and voice life 3 extreme So I hope you have fun, and I hope what you learned a bit from this and if you can You know you can go and play around with it and get your own sound. So Another thing I didn't mention is we also have a tube and a transistor model Transistors a little more harsh than the tube But you'd expect Because a transistor hard clips Tube to soft saturation So there we go. That's it. I'm gonna store that preset. There we go new crunch is what I call it There we go, and I hope you have a great day