Helix Rectifire, with Lundgren Pickups

[Gobol]

The fine folks over at Lundgren Pickups asked me to demo their newest humbucker set, called Black Heaven, and this is what I came up with.  All guitar tones (and bass) are coming from my Helix Rack.

 

The high-gain rhythm and solo tones are all the Cali Rectifire model. The clean tones, and the low-gain solo are through the Essex A-30.

 

Thanks for listening!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SubhUJSMaUk

 

And also... can anyone tell me how to embed youtube videos on here? I was trying some different code (including the youtube embed code), but the post previews looked like none of them would work...

 

Cheers!

[TRENDKILLCFH333]

Sounds good dude!!!  I can't get the Rectifire model to sound that great.......yet.   Very well done!  

[Verne-Bunsen]

16 minutes ago, TRENDKILLCFH333 said:

Sounds good dude!!!  I can't get the Rectifire model to sound that great.......yet.   Very well done!  

That’s exactly what I was going to say. That sounded absolutely brutal, I can’t get Rectifire to sound like that. Nicely done, sounds great.

[BBD_123]

Just paste the raw url into your comment seems to work. No need to use embed codes:

 

 

[Gobol]

Thanks guys! Rectifire was the first amp I went to because I love my old Dual Recto Rack. I still haven't really spent much time with any of the other models yet. For me, I put an EQ block after the amp block and that makes for a big improvement in the sound of that model!

 

And @BBD_123, thanks for the embedding tip! It's strange, I tried putting just the url as well, but when I hit preview it just appeared as a link. Huh. I'll try again sometime. 

 

*edit* That's so weird, you're right, it works... I don't know what I did then... Thanks

[BBD_123]

Glad you got it working. The forum software is a bit... odd sometimes, so I wouldn't worry about it :-)

 

Tidy demo that. I'm not the target customer for those pickups, but they do what they are supposed to do :-)

[TRENDKILLCFH333]

1 hour ago, Demisery said:

Thanks guys! Rectifire was the first amp I went to because I love my old Dual Recto Rack. I still haven't really spent much time with any of the other models yet. For me, I put an EQ block after the amp block and that makes for a big improvement in the sound of that model!

 

I'm definitely experimenting with this tonight - thanks for sharing your secret!

[BBD_123]

EQ block after the amp... don't make high cuts in the cab block... secrets for success... ;-)

[Gobol]

@TRENDKILLCFH333 No problem. I can share the preset if you want (it would be later, after work), but for now, I had taken a screenshot for a friend, so here are the settings I'm using for the Parametric EQ after the Rectifire. Tweak to suit, of course, but this really tidied up that model for me.

I should also mention that I'm using an Ownhammer IR, and not a Helix cab in that video.

 

@BBD_123 Don't make high cuts in the cab block, that's interesting! I've been doing that on occasion... do you feel that it hurts the tone to do it that way? I actually haven't experimented with any other high cut methods yet.

 

[BBD_123]

1 hour ago, Demisery said:

Don't make high cuts in the cab block, that's interesting! I've been doing that on occasion... do you feel that it hurts the tone to do it that way? I actually haven't experimented with any other high cut methods yet.

 

I do, but I can do better than handwaving :-)  Have a read of this, and a listen to the audio clips. See what you think. I haven't used a cab block for high (or low) EQ cuts in a long while. FWIW, I find that the Parametric EQ provides a more musical sounding cut than the plain High / Low Cut EQ. Hope this helps - not that you seem in need of much help in the tone department :-)