Guitar Rig 5 noise problems

[MartyH]

Hope it works out for you. I remember you had a post about a week ago looking for advice about using virtual instruments. You must have gone with some native instruments products. NI also has a forum were members share their user created patches. If you're familiar with it, go to the GR section, then you sort by ratings you will find a patch that has one of highest ratings created to simulate Jeff Loomis' tone. Try that one. It's probably one of the best I have heard so far.

[playagibson]

Cool tones come with even cooler noise.
You need to get Ozone RX-3 . That will clean up the noise and the guitar will retain it's character.
I use it all the time. I'm a big fan of saturated guitar tones which brings out all the digital demons and
RX-3 fixes it every time .
It's worth the money.

Rich.

[andygabrys]

hey Mike,

ok first - that soundcloud snip would make an excellent soundtrack to one of those Van Halen "Shreds" videos on youtube.

you mention you have a Duet.

how high do you turn up the gain on the DI when recording your guitar?

In addition to the noise gate being a little touchy, I have found that any higher than 10 on the preamp DI gain leads to overdriving Guitar Rig itself and leads to not so good sounds. Then if you try to compensate by turning the gate to more sensitive, it snaps shut and chatters. which sounds like what you got here.

i am with russell - if you post a way we can try your preset we would be able to see if its just computer dependent, or interface or what.

good luck!

[Brock1]

Hey all,

Russell: I will try to post a screen shot and/or export the patch when I get a chance. I've never tried to export a patch, so I might stick with the screenshot.

Marty: My post about virtual instruments was related to drum software. I've had GR5 for quite a while, but I haven't run into this issue until now. In all honesty, I don't even like the patch that much. I think there is too much distortion...but I am bothered by the fact that it's doing that weird digital noise thing...even if the patch sucks it should still "work". And I have run across other patches that I do like that have the same issue.

I will check out the NI forum..thanks for the tip!

Playagibson: If I can't resolve the issue any other way I may just do that. Thanks for the advice!

Andy: I never allow the input to clip. The highest I've ever turned up the DI is about "7", meaning that 7 of the volume "boxes" are filled in on the screen.

An out-of-state engineer friend of mine is convinced I have dirty power in my house and that is the problem. He thinks I need a really spendy power conditioner.

I'll get you guys that patch asap.


Mike
www.mikewestbrock.com

[MartyH]

Wouldn't a power conditioner be more for a physical rig? This is all internal right? You're hooking your guitar up to your interface and recording direct? I'm no expert but that doesn't sound right to me. By the way, can you computer handle guitar rig fairly well. I know it burns through cpu power on my machine and I'm running a 2nd Gen i7. It's better now with the aax 2 format, but before i could load a patch and it spike my cpu.

[andygabrys]

Wouldn't a power conditioner be more for a physical rig? This is all internal right? You're hooking your guitar up to your interface and recording direct? I'm no expert but that doesn't sound right to me. By the way, can you computer handle guitar rig fairly well. I know it burns through cpu power on my machine and I'm running a 2nd Gen i7. It's better now with the aax 2 format, but before i could load a patch and it spike my cpu.

probably true. if the power was that much to blame you would see effects among a wide range of plugins, and just using the computer in general. not just Guitar Rig. but who knows for sure?

unless you are running a wall wart for the Duet (the duet 2 has one as an option if you don't want to run off the USB bus power) and its plugged into a different circuit than the computer itself. then there could be problems if one of the circuits is kinda packed it in.

[Kolstad]

You may have some power issue with your setup. At first I would just try to unplug everything you have, and plug it in a different way than you have now. That might solve it if you're lucky.

[Brock1]

Marty: yes, GR5 is internal, but I still have my computer, monitors, et al hooked up to a single power strip which may or may not be on a breaker with other units that take resources.

My computer seems to run GR5 just fine...it rarely passes 17% on the CPU.

Andy: That was my thought as well...but how else to explain it?

The Duet is powered via USB.

TheSongCabinet: yes, I've unplugged everything, and even replugged it all into a breaker that I know is "clean"- meaning, it doesn't share with anything else.


Btw, I tried to paste a screen shot from the GR5 patch and it wouldn't let me do so...is the TAXI forum incompatible with screenshots from a Mac?

Mike
www.mikewestbrock.com

[andygabrys]

I tried to paste a screen shot from the GR5 patch and it wouldn't let me do so...is the TAXI forum incompatible with screenshots from a Mac?

that's a drag.

[divinorivera]

I have the same problems with GR5 so I stopped using it. Is there a good VST plugin that reduces hiss and noise but maintains audio quality? I have free noise and hiss reducers but not that good at maintaining quality.