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Ibanez TSA15H Clean w/ Custom 1x12 Cabinet

Full Rig / Combo Capture

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richpence

2 hours ago

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My first attempt at a NAM capture, this is exciting stuff! I want to try capturing my bedroom amp. It is a Ibanez TSA15H all tube amp head. A beautiful little clean 15watt amp. This is as I play it in my room, clean, no Tube Screamer or Boost, with bass down a bit and treble up a bit, in 15watt mode but turned down quite a bit. The Cabinet is a custom one I made with my Uncle, it houses a 12" Jensen Jet Falcon 50watt 8ohm green back speaker and sounds as awesome as it looks. The Microphone is a custom Mic I made using a scrap MXL990 body and a new circuit kit and k87 Capsule I built from Micparts.com. I can't compare it to a u87, but that is the flavor of the circuit and capsule and it is a great full bodied mic. I used the Dry/wet method of capture by first recording a few minutes of my regular playing into a looper. Noodling (no pick, all fingerstyle and nail strumming) and made sure to turn my tone and volume knobs and use all my pickups in different styles. I sent the signal into the interface and set the levels as high as I could without peaking anywhere and recorded the DI in. Then I plugged the looper output into the amp and dialed in the mic placement and the recording level. I then synced the transients, normalized the amp track, and exported them out. I got into NAMs after buying a Sonicake Pocket master mini multieffects unit which is super cool and allows for NAM loading. I use a medium sized Ikea portable Vappeby speaker with it on the coffee table and want it to sound like my favorite amp. Though the NAMs on the pocket master often sound very very quiet compared to sonicake's built in amp models. The "Channel Normalized" Model is an attempt to get the sound as close as possible to the original amp to my ears and a stronger more record ready signal coming through headphones and desktop monitors and portable speaker with the Sonicake Pocket Master. In Studio One I first added -8db reduction to just the silent buzz with Izotope RX11, then I used the free analog obsessions plugin "Channev" to add 38db of "Pre-72" drive, and EQ with added bass +4.8db at 68hz, mid/mud cut -2.2db at 363hz, and a high cut -3.4db at 7.4khz. Then finally the stock limiter with 7.11db input gain, 0 ceiling, 0 threshold, and a release of 274ms. I exported that and for good measure I reimported it, normalized and exported again to try and get as much clean gain as I could.

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