5-Min UAD Tips: Recording Electric Guitar & Bass with Century Tube Channel Strip
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- čas přidán 30. 08. 2018
- In this 5-Minute UAD Tip, learn how to craft tastefully saturated bass and electric guitar tones using UAD Century Tube Channel Strip’s simple workflow so you can capture inspiration whenever it strikes.
Available for UAD-2 hardware & Apollo interfaces, or natively for Mac and Windows.
Learn more about this plug-in here: u.audio/2MlVDQ6
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00:27 - Dialing in a Bass Tone with Century
00:42 - Gain Stage Mode for Arrow & Apollo Devices
01:37 - Compressing Bass
02:09 - EQing Bass
02:45 - Recording a Bass Take
03:40 - Extreme Tube Saturation
04:39 - Recording Overdriven Bass
05:13 - Bass Wrap Up
05:35 - Century On Electric Guitar
06:30 - Recording Guitar
07:30 - Exploring the Setting Tweaks
08:02 - Another Take
08:54 - High Gain Mode
09:18 - The Last Take
09:56 - Wrap Up
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Century Tube Channel Strip is a Unison-enabled plugin for capturing creativity the moment it strikes. With its organic tube mic preamp, transparent dynamics control, and intuitively voiced EQ, the Century plug-in is perfect for desktop UA audio interface users - allowing you to stay in the creative zone and helping you capture first-take magic with stunning results.
Creating solid guitar and bass tones with just a DI can easily sound flat if there is nothing to enhance a raw track. However, with some basic mixing tricks and an intuitive plug-in like Century, musicians and producers can quickly find sounds that are either warm and clean, or saturated and distorted.
In this video, Ben Lindell from Universal Audio demonstrates how to craft unique tones, fast, with Century.
Before dialing in the bass tone using Century’s tube preamp, Ben starts off by showcasing UA’s unique “Gain-Stage Mode.” This is an intuitively designed feature that allows UA Audio Interfaces to communicate with UAD plug-ins using a tactile surface to set recording levels and multiple gain stages.
After his input levels are right, Ben crafts his bass tone by using Century’s tube preamp, transparent single-knob compressor, and intuitively voiced 3-band EQ. Learn the process a professional engineer goes through to create a bass tone that is full, clear, and punchy. Then after finding a great “standard” bass tone, hear what Century sounds like when pushed to the edge of destruction as Ben explores the extreme saturation and distortion tones with Century’s tube mic preamp.
Next, Ben crafts some unique guitar tones using both Century and the UAD Marshall Plexi Classic. Similar to the bass, for his first take Ben dials in the gain and level, compression, and mid-range section of the EQ, shaping a warm guitar tone that still pops through the track. He then experiments by kicking the preamp into high gain mode, giving the guitar saturation and added sustain which ultimately adds bite and grit.
Hear how both Ben’s processing skills and Century’s features add up when he records multiple guitar and bass takes using Century’s Unison enabled technology - all while crafting both clean and nasty, funky-fresh tracks on the spot. Watch the full video and learn how Century allows you to easily remain in the creative zone and capture first-take magic with stunning results.
Want to learn more about Century Tube Channel Strip? Watch this UAD 5-Min Tip video focusing on recording vocals and acoustic guitar: u.audio/2OY40Pj
For more music production and recording studio tips, visit the UA Studio Basics Blog: u.audio/2Ktn2PM
☞ Gear Used:
UA Arrow
UAD Century Tube Channel Strip
UAD Marshall Plexi Classic
Nash P/J Bass
Gibson The SG Guitar
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Love how he started rocking out when the distortion was kicking in. Pure Joy!
I record my vocals through this plugin and I love the results!
Nice! Thanks. I'd love to see the whole operation, from wiring inputs to finished mix using this and apollo. Cheers.
Wow....what a breath of FRESH air..he and his music is soooo smooth and....um....adult like?...Imagine that!.. Totally inspirational ...thank you UA!
Good sound and demo. It helps greatly that there is so much space in this song, but you nailed the point home about how to track with this plug. I'd love to see a similar demo tracking with the Voxbox going in with drum overheads or a vocalist. Also, newbies might want to learn that you could alternatively split the signal coming in the DAW so one track would have the channel strip and one would be a clean signal that could be edited later...perhaps reamped in Oceans Way.
Very helpful. Just what I was looking for.
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This was a great no nonsense example video Ben. Sounded great and enjoyed the changes explained too! Thanks!
I like this cat! Nice vid/vibe
love the century tube
No sé si alguien más ha notado el groove increíble que tiene Ben Lindell y cómo mueve perfectamente a tempo la cabeza con la canción! jajaja. Genial!
fire. thank you!
I enjoyed that! Way to go, Ben!
I got this for free with my Apollo solo heritage Edition !! It was an extra promotion !!
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Thank you very much 🤘🏻
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BEN THIS TRACK IS BEAUTIFUL
Ben, that was smooth AF!!!!
Thanks!!
I bought the Twin X recently, but I'm having trouble co-ordinating console with Logic Pro in terms of hearing my guitar with plugins in Logic engaged, as well as when I try to connect my external guitar pedals to the Twin X, I hear nothing but squealing. Can you please explain what I need to do so I can begin using the product? Thank you!
smmmmmmooooooth
Those guitar tones have those spiky 2khz-3khz I hear all the time when recording through the Hi-Z of Apollo stuff and using Amp Sims. It make having smooth/realistic tones very hard (possible but way harder).
Yes on guitars, not so much on bass. I have ditched using a bass amp since I got my Apollo. Guitars still go through an amp/mic.
@@gravityfreaksmusic Agree, on bass it's less problematic. Which is logical regarding the problematic frequencies.
Have you found any tips you can share? Im really trying to get as good a tone as I can through amp sim but I have to admit Im not overly crazy about anything yet, thanks man
You can always do a little subtractive E.Q. to cut the harshness out?
Hey guys - is there a special reason master is at max? No problem with gain stacking in the DAW?
Why are there ads on your CZcams channel? It's weird considering the level of brand you have
Ben Rules!!
Hi thanks for this vid! Why are you in Mic mode while recording Bass and in Line mode while recording Guitar?
Great demo, thanks! In the guitar part, why do you have the first switch on "mic" for the first part and on "line" for the second part?
I just ask for the same question...
dude! gibson sg firebrand! high five!
dope
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my bass DI level is way too low but it should be line level right? cant really et any signal when playing. only when I use the channels trip as a unison preamp though. If I use it as a normal effect, its all fine
Great tutorials , just WISH they'd do them using PLUGINS INCLUDED w/ Apollo for instance..TY
This one is included!
Not for me ! 2 week demo,unless that's what you mean! Trying to get rid of ALL THE NON PLUGINS, it's a process
I bought the heritage edition that came with this and a lot of other mic preamps
So, is there a preamp built into the UAD hardware or do you technically always use a preamp plugin when, say, recording guitar through the hi Z input?
I can't press the big knob on the Apollo Twin to setup gain staging and changing to the other knobs ?
I don't understand why my setup doesn't give me this kind of volume? I use a Fender Precision Bass straight into my Apollo Twin mkII HI-Z input, and I get a pretty quiet sound until I turn it up too much that it becomes hissy. When I engage a plug-in, the UA 610-b for example, I basically hear nothing. My headphones are turned up, same if I were to monitor through my monitors. There has to be something either wrong with my bass, or I've messed something up in the Apollo Twin or Console. Any insight?
Hey Electric Religious, get in touch with Customer Support, they'll walk you through some detailed troubleshooting steps. help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/210253543-Contact-Support
Play that soul music white boy!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Wait. He plugged the bass into the Hi-Z input on the Arrow. Why is the MIC//LINE switch on the Tube Preamp section of the plug-in set to the MIC position?
Because the plug doesn't have a dedicated HiZ in like an amp sim would.
@@UniversalAudio -- I'm using an Apollo x6 with UAD-2 Satellite Quad Core. If I set the MIC//LINE switch on the Century Tube Channel Strip to MIC when I have a guitar plugged into HI-Z 1 or HI-Z 2 on the Apollo x6, I get sheer grunge because the input is being way overdriven.
It indeed gives a nice saturation, but I've tried it today and I can't get it to my DAW. Since it is in unison mode, the input in Protools also is saturated and it doesn't sound like it sounds before recording. How can you get the Unison preamp saturated with the Century Tube and translate that sound into a recorder version in a DAW, because I've tried and I simply can't get it.
Hey gwislomezable, get in touch with Customer Support, they'll walk you through some detailed troubleshooting steps. help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/210253543-Contact-Support
4:44 When Pino Paladino subtitute to Flea...lol
GUI could be better sounds cool
Nice Plugins, but i hate the point that i have to be allways online to use them.
Is this a UA demo? I don't hear any death metal type OD/Dist and screeching/shredding solos. (in all seriousness, please keep going in this direction guys. the 80/90s have been over for a long time...)
It’s music dude get over yourself I WISH they’d demo proper deathcore in the BMTH, If I Were You, ABR style of tracking.
It’s MUSIC, not a time period!
Gabriel Gonzalez why would you waste using UA gear on recording that? Record it in your moms basement.
Abr and if I were you have great production quality, gtfo of here
this dude interviewed andrew scheps the other day
Cool I want to see that
5:36
Ben is god
I stretched my budget to afford a $899 Apollo Interface which does not incline me to spend an additional $99 just to get basic recording functionality with this plug-in.
Your Apollo comes with the 610 preamp. You aleady have basic functionality plus options. You must be a bit new to not truly appreciate that you would have had to pay $899 just for one hardware preamp channel a few years back.
Red Bird True.
Fat warm and punchy hey? After a few beers maybe.
Never trust advice from a guy who hasn't restrung his bass correctly.
Nevermind the guitar and bass sound, the guy's voice sounds painful to listen to, overall boomy, and ice-pick-sounding esses
"painful to listen to" are we watching the same video? Sounds good on my monitors
It's boomy, it lacks mid range and the esses are very sharp sounding.
You might be watching a different video though.
So you are that type of guy... people are never happy these days. Even when they get free education they complain, just take the free tips and be happy.
Why, I do appreciate the content, but I don't think things being free makes them exempt to criticism, and hopefully they'll improve and get it better next time.
@@BorgoDrums you must be a Grammy winner