{"id":27831,"date":"2021-12-03T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raytownproductions.com\/blog\/?p=27831"},"modified":"2021-12-25T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T20:37:51","slug":"3-guitar-di-secrets-for-massive-guitar-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raytownproductions.com\/blog\/3-guitar-di-secrets-for-massive-guitar-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Guitar DI Secrets for MASSIVE Guitar Tone | How to Mix Guitar and Bass Amp Sims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Everything You Need to Know When Working With Guitar DIs and Amp Sims<\/h1>\n<p>If you record and mix guitar or bass DI tracks, then this video is a MUST WATCH!<\/p>\n<p>Learn my secrets to unlock <strong>MASSIVE guitar and bass tones in your music\u00a0<\/strong>from any DI (direct injection) track.<\/p>\n<h2>What You Will Learn:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>When to <strong>EQ BEFORE or AFTER an Amp Sim<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>How to <strong>sculpt and EQ guitar tone<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Enhance the pick attack<\/strong> with dynamic EQs like FabFilter Pro Q3<\/li>\n<li>How to use specialty EQs like Eventide SplitEQ to <strong>selectively EQ transients to add aggression<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>How to <strong>wake up a poorly recorded guitar DI<\/strong> using transient enhancers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a lot of deep, fundamental information in this video so stick with it all the way through to the end!<\/p>\n<h2>And as a bonus, you can grab my FREE guitar cabinet impulse response pack to use in your songs!<\/h2>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\ud83d\udca5Download My FREE Guitar Cab Impulse Response Pack: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Hn9bEr\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bit.ly\/3Hn9bEr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f<strong>VIDEO TIMESTAMPS<\/strong>\ud83d\udcfd\ufe0f<br \/>\n0:00 Intro<br \/>\n1:14 Download My FREE Guitar Cabinet Impulse Response Pack \ud83c\udf81<br \/>\n2:06 Fundamental Concepts When Working with Guitar DIs<br \/>\n2:35 Guitar Cabinet Impulse Responses are Linear Processes<br \/>\n3:14 How We Use a Null Test to Test Audio Files<br \/>\n4:09 How to Perform a Null Test<br \/>\n4:57 EQing Before or After Guitar Cabinet IR Is an Identical Process<br \/>\n6:02 EQing Before or After Amp Sim or Distortion<br \/>\n7:45 Guitar Tone When EQing DI BEFORE Reamping<br \/>\n8:45 Guitar Tone When EQing AFTER Guitar Amp Simulator<br \/>\n9:07 When Should You EQ a Guitar DI?<br \/>\n9:38 Cleaning Up Bass Tone by EQing DI<br \/>\n10:46 When Should You EQ AFTER Reamping?<br \/>\n11:10 Using a Dynamic EQ to Enhance the Transients of a Guitar<br \/>\n12:52 Using a Dynamic EQ to Clean Up Guitar Cabinet Resonance<br \/>\n13:40 Eventide SplitEQ to Enhance Guitar Pick Attack<br \/>\n15:11 Using a Transient Enhancer to Make Guitar DIs POP<br \/>\n17:35 Quick Summary<br \/>\n19:24 Don&#8217;t Forget to Download My FREE Guitar Cabinet Impulse Response Pack\ud83c\udf81<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3 Tricks to Maximize Guitar DI for Massive Tone | How to Mix Guitar DI\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VhckSWiPnD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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