 Hello everyone and welcome back to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and in this video today brought to you in partnership with MusicTeacher.com we're going to be checking out some Beatles inspired guitar tones using Blackstar's Amped One and Shabrig. So all of the tones you're going to hear in this video are coming directly from the Amped One which is running out of the headphone output straight into my audio interface. We're using the cabrig software to simulate the speakers in this video. So we're going to be checking out three tones that have been inspired by classic Beatles riffs. These tones are a great starting point for you to dial in some great 60s British rock sounds with your own Amped Setter. The guitar that I'm using in this video is a completely hollow guitar. This is sort of in the vein of an ES330 with a set of P90s. The Beatles used a lot of epiphone casinos in their recording career which is a similar kind of construction. So this guitar is going to be used today on the bridge pickup. That's going to get me close to some of those classic sounds. So the first sound we're going to check out is the inspired by the track Come Together and it sounds like this. So the Beatles aren't a high gain band. You'll notice on the Amped One I've got the gain set at half way. I'm on the UK voice and my EQ has not really set that extreme other than quite a prominent mid boost. So I've got the bass dialed a little under midnight and the treble a little over because the Beatles did have some quite bright guitar sounds but the mids are really pushed. Now the reason for this is the Beatles recorded a lot of their material with small speaker amps. Now those amps when cranked give a very pushed mid sound. So we're trying to recreate that by doing this. I've got the reverb on just over half way just because the Beatles would often mic things with the mic a little bit away from the speaker cone so just to add a little bit of that space in there and they used those classic AC combos so I've gone with the EL84 response for that tone. The second tone we're gonna be checking out is inspired by the track Twist and Shout and it sounds like this. So this is a much cleaner tone we've dialed the gain right back for this one so the gain is somewhere around the 10 o'clock region I'm still using that UK voice and I'm still on the EL84 response but where I have made some changes is in the EQ section. So I've cut the bass so the bass is now on somewhere between 9 and 10 o'clock so there's a bit more kind of bass shaved off and I have brought the mids down to 11 o'clock so even though we typically want that kind of small amp response we don't want too much mid-push on this kind of tone. We want a very shiny bright tone and that also means the treble has really been boosted on this one but I did a touch more reverb as well just to give it a little bit more space. The third and final tone that we're going to check out is inspired by the track Helter Skelter. Now as far as the Beatles go this is quite high gain. So this song by 1960 standards could be considered quite a high gain song. Now obviously in the 60s high gain wasn't really a big thing. Some bands did dabble in high gain stuff through fuzz and through cranking amps and the Beatles were definitely one of those bands. So we've got the gain on max and we're still using the UK voice for this. This is as much gain as you can get on the Amped one in this setup. So EQ-wise the bass is exactly the same as it was the previous one. The mid is actually brought down just a touch and the treble is now boosted to full because we want that real kind of cutting, almost aggressive sound and there is a little bit less reverb on this. I'm still using the EL84 response for this tone. Alright so now we're going to go over to Cabrig and check out the Cabrig settings that I've been using for this video. So in Cabrig I've actually used the same settings for all three of the sounds. All three of these sounds have been inspired by classic Beatles sounds and I've just gone off the premise that I have one amp that I'm tweaking the EQ on to get the different tones. So the cab I'm using for this is the 2x12 classic UK combo. The Beatles would have used those classic AC style amps which do have two speakers in so we've gone for that as our cab because that's probably the most closest thing to what they would have used. Mic-wise I've gone with a 67 condenser. This is one of those mics that is in pretty much every major recording studio so the Beatles would probably have recorded with one of those mics or something very similar at some point during their career. So room I've got a large room sound because obviously the Beatles did tend to record in large rooms in big studios and I've got this set to the wide mode because we really want that sense of the room being quite prominent. The room is set at minus 1.6 dB so it's only a fraction below the cabinet's volume because again we want that space in the sound. A lot of these bands recorded loud amps and the mics pulled back a little bit so we want to create some of that ambience in the tones. Then the master volume is set to 0 dB. We do have some slight EQ tweaks going on here in the master output as well. So there's a low cut which is set to just on the halfway and there's a high cut which is on 6.1. Those are just to kind of tame the frequency at either end of the spectrum. I've brought the lows down by 2 dB because the Beatles didn't really have a huge amount of low end on their guitars. They were quite cutting sounds and then I've boosted the high mids by a dB and the highs by just under dB. That's just to kind of you know just kind of push that top end through the mix a little bit more as well. This patch is also available for you to download so if you want this patch and you want to use it with your own Amped One you can scroll down to the description and there's going to be a link or you can head over to the written accompaniment to this video over on the Blackstar website. There'll be a link in that article as well where you can download this Cabrig patch and put that into your own Blackstar architect and use this with your Amped One. Thank you all so much for watching this video on three Beatles inspired tones using Amped One and Cabrig. 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