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Gain Stage Acoustic by Mani Consulting Limited Company - Released
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1567355339
Description:
Gain Stage Acoustic makes electric guitars sound acoustic and makes acoustic guitars with piezo pickups sound more natural. It includes input presets for a wide variety of magnetic and piezo pickups. Select the input type that most closely matches your guitar and pickup configuration, adjust to taste with the included eight band equalizer, and you're ready to go.
FEATURES
- Input profiles to support twenty different types of pickups
- Natural reverbs designed especially for acoustic guitar
- Stereo simulator to add guitar body resonance
- Peak limiter
- Hiss suppressor (based on multiband expander/noise gate)
- 8 Band EQ
- Includes both Audio Unit and standalone app
INPUT PROFILES
To get a good result, an acoustic guitar simulator needs to compensate for the EQ profile of the input pickup. This plugin includes over twenty customized input profiles for a variety of pickups and instruments including, various types of single coil and humbucking magnetic pickups, piezo pickups on acoustic guitars, piezo pickups on solid-body electric guitars, ukulele, and cigar box guitar. It also includes profiles for the acoustic guitar models in the popular GeoShred app.
DOES IT REALLY WORK?
Let's be honest: this app will not make your electric guitar sound like a 1930's Martin guitar recorded in a professional studio with a Neumann U87 condenser mic. But it will take any guitar with a magnetic or piezo pickup and make it sound much better and much closer to a natural acoustic tone. If you are playing acoustic style music through your iPad or iPhone with your guitar, you will hear a huge improvement in your tone when you use this app.
Details:
Universal: Yes
Minimum OS version: 13.0
Rated: 0 based on 0 votes
Comments
Nembrini! Mani! Acoustic preamp sim!
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/46085/nembrini-acoustic-voice-preamp
What's going on lately with all those acoustic preamp ?
Bought… how can I turn down a developer that does special GeoShred presets🎸
Yeah, I just made the best GeoShred preset I could for an acoustic nylon guitar (with very mitigated results…) and sent this through Gain Stage Acoustic and the result is now very convincing ! Well done @Blue_Mangoo 👍
Yes, GeoShred guitars have always been unconvincing (compared to Yonac’s Steel Guitar, for example) and now GeoShred’s default sounds can get a nice subtle tweak.
I’m really curious how this would sound after a nylon style waveguide..
I like the Cigar Box Tele Neck preset on 4pockets MidiStrummer’s Steel Picked guitar sound. I turned off the chorus, delay and reverb in MidiStrummer and the reverb in the Gain Stage Acoustic app and then loaded IMPULSation up so I could find a reverb I liked. Certainly sounds better to my ears.
Interesting.
I would love t hear it, if you made any recordings.
Here is a sample recording.. I have used Geoshred Steel Resonator Jr (taken reverb etc out).. Then applied Gain Stage Audio and finally Mixbox "Acoustic Ambient Shine" effect with reduced delay and reverb... Experts can comment how realistic it sounds..
Sure ! I will make a simple recording as soon as I get back to home.
I am so much waiting for the amplifier that was hinted on in this video:
Nothing coming down the pipe for us, @Blue_Mangoo ?
😢😢💦
Here it is !
Only the intro, sorry… 😉
https://soundcloud.com/robin-pauletto-943284024/private-investigations-intro
This was a really interesting experiment, and we might use it someday. The main problem I was having with this approach to amp distortion is that it’s not very similar to what the hardware amps do. So we have this model of a “thing” that does high gain without aliasing, but the “thing” isn’t a transistor and it isn’t much like a tube either. When it comes to figuring out how to build an amplifier using those things, we’re on our own without any guidelines or past experience to draw on. It’s not difficult to put together some sort of amplifier using those things, like we did with Gain Stage Vintage Clean, but it’s hard to figure out how to make it sound like the classic amps people already know and love.
Thanks man. I like that.
Whoa, can’t believe I almost missed this. This is great. It could really give more life to a lot of the guitar presets in GarageBand. Checking this out ASAP. Thanks for the great work @Blue_Mangoo
That sounds good.
I feel like these GeoShred models might be more realistic than they sound but because the velocity is stuck at a fixed value we immediately hear that they are models. I wonder if using a MIDI keyboard with velocity would help.
To be honest, I am totally not interested in how this sounds or that it is similar to a classic amp.
I just want a way to increase the gain with few distortion.
🤗🤗🤗
https://socalabs.com/developer-tools/hugegain/
(Source included, the developer has a few apps on the app-store already).
You're an immense source of information, many thanks!
A 100dB gain sounds quite similar to what @Blue_Mangoo was trying!
Did they implement the same method?
Going to read and install, if possible 🤗🤗🤗
EDIT: It is not available for iOS / iPadOS. So quite uninteresting for us iDevice nerds 😅
@Blue_Mangoo it is still an opportunity 😅
anyone could compare this two plugins? They came almost the same day. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acoustic-voice-preamp/id1573403690
It's just a simple gain, very good for listening at the noise-floor of an audio interface
(So if you audio interface is giving you readings of -97db or so when a mic is connected you can boost it to near 0db and hear 'everything' including the noise generated by the interfaces AD but don't touch the mic LOL).
It looks like it’s just a 100dB clean gain boost without the soft clipping. That is done with one line of code.
Soooooo?
Will you - probably - implement your fantastic amplifier?
I think that this is a BIG THING!!!
I don’t feel like we understand it well enough to make a good app from it. I am not saying we won’t release it, I just don’t want to release it until we figure out how to make something with it that I personally enjoy plugging my guitar into. We make a lot of experiments each year and not all of them end up in apps. Sometimes it takes years before the pieces come together in a way that really makes something good.
That 100dB amp sounds really flabby in the bass. When I use high pass filters to try to tighten it up, it looses a lot of gain before it gets reasonably tight. And by the time we get the low end under control then the loudness isn’t so extreme anymore. That’s a problem that real amps also struggle with and it’s why the gain channel on high gain amps high pass filter the input. I need some more time to learn about how the filters should fit together with the method we were using in that video because apparently I was missing something last time I tried it. I got tired of experimenting with it and decided to work on other things for a while instead.
@Blue_Mangoo Velocity can be changed in Geoshred (Settings > Key-Y velocity) and with a very low-velocity curve (almost 10-degree angle) I was able to get quite close. I would admit here that I am trying to reproduce the "Lap Steel Guitar" like initial attack rather than acoustic guitar type. @Blue_Mangoo Do you think your attack softener would help me further to reduce the initial attack?
Have you tried using his Attack Softerner app???
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/attack-softener/id1504605178
No I have not. That's why I asked him to try attack softner app and let us know as he has built that app too.
The attack softener will work well for that. Just set the softening strength low and it will take some of the edge off without loosing the click noise entirely.