was a game changer for me.
I still do that with guitars and vocals. Sometimes
when I start recording a vocal, the energy is too
low, and I won’t know. I might have just been
having a mellow day. I don’t know if you’ve
noticed, but if you have a Saturday evening
service, when you play a high energy song,
if the energy is great in the room, the song
might feel a little slow. Then, you play the same
song on Sunday morning, and it feels like it’s
20 bpm faster, even though you’re playing to
a click. Our bodies really fluctuate in terms of
their perception of what is going on. That’s
why I really like getting my vocals produced
by someone else who has a more objective
viewpoint and can guide me to give a little more,
dig a little deeper, or lighten it up in places, or
pull it back in my throat. It’s really nice, and it’s
one less thing that I have to think about.
[WM] Let’s talk about your gear for a little bit.
What is in your signal chain these days?
[Lincoln] I’ve had a few different things
kind of bumping around. Because I have the
POD HD500X still programmed with my patch
changes via MIDI, I’ve still been using that
when I play live. We haven’t played out live very
much the past year and a half, and that’s been
on purpose so that we could take a break and
make the new record. I still like the HD500X
a lot.
In the studio, I’m using a combination of things.
I still use POD Farm 2 with my old Plexi Variax
sound in there. I still love that sound. In fact,
that’s the guitar solo on “Here I Am,” on the
record. I also used a Kemper profiler quite a
bit. I did a lot of the solos with the Kemper,
along with a lot of the overdubs. I also used the
Line 6 Helix Native plugin. When I’m recording,
I like to have a plugin because I can keep
recording pickups and putting amps on them
and then monkey with it later. It’s nice to do
that, especially when you’re dealing with a lot
of tracks with a lot of keyboards and layers. You
may want the guitar to do a different thing later.
So, Helix Native has been really great.
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I do use quite a few third-party cabinet IRs I’ve found though, that whether you use Line 6,
(impulse responses) with Helix Native. I use Kemper, Fractal, or whatever… if you’re going
a thing called mixIR2 plugin from RedWirez. I for a Plexi, the whole concept is that it should
also used a plugin that’s a ’57 with an off-axis, sound like a Plexi. It shouldn’t sound like five
darker sound on a Celestion 25. I love using different manufacturers. They should all sound
IRs, and have even plugged my ’69 Plexi like a Plexi amp. And I’ve been finding that
Marshall into a load box and run it straight into more and more, especially with the newer stuff,
ProTools and put an IR on it, and that works everyone is doing a pretty good job of modeling
great as well. the different amps now.
May 2018
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