This is a cover of Guns n Roses “Rocket Queen” that we did during lockdown. We did a few of these remote recordings during that time, whilst we all couldn’t do our gigs. Da Tube has been a stock plugin for as log as I can remember, pretty sure it was even there in my ancient Cubase VST 5. I have a few tube & tape plugins for saturation now, but for this type of rock vocals, I first used Da Tube, cos it was the only plugin I had for this purpose. All these years later, I still actually prefer it.
Cheers!
Yes, I guess we sometimes overlook stock plugins, cos we just expect the UA, Waves etc to be an upgrade, but this particular one is great. It can sound a little harsh & extreme when you’re soloing out the track, but it sounds just right for this kind of vocal at least. I actually used the Rev X reverbs here aswell.
Cheers, yes I’ve started using more of them these days, particularly the Rev X verbs. We actually did Nightrain first, it turned out alright so I just had to have a go at this, it’s also my favourite GnR song. If I lose my voice tomorrow, I’m satisfied now, but hopefully that doesn’t happen, cos I got gigs all weekend
Mine too!
Yeh that’s apparently a bottle of Duff beer!
Andrea, who did the guitars, always goes home to Peru for new year to stay with family and surf. In 2020, he got stuck there for almost 2 years because of the pandemic. It took him a couple of months to get his hands on an interface.
That Squier Strat he got, he actually found in a bin in London, so he fixed it up and took it to Peru just so he could have something to play when he goes there. He did an amazing job with it. He said it was like playing a tree!
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