Shadowing Practice: The basics in Amplitube 5 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hello, it's the Devil here and in this video we're actually gonna play with amplitude.

We're inside my DAW, you can see this lower bar, it doesn't have all those sweet options.

gonna see how to actually sculpt the sound by adding uh

pedals uh changing the cabinet changing the amp adding effects to the bus

and to the master bus and all that sort of stuff

and then uh when we have a sound uh we're actually also gonna save it as a preset so yeah

and here's what it sounds like now we have a JCM 800 model here so it's the Brit 8000 here

on the amp selection section so it sounds like this

Excuse me, you can hear some picking sounds, I think, through my vocal microphone.

I have to pick lighter.

So, anyway, we have an amp here.

And of course, we can change the amp settings like this and get a different sound.

You know, just the...

Let's take all the middle off. So it sounds like...

Let's bring them back up.

yeah so now you can change your sound a bit by doing that but let's get to the

cabinet is that's the thing that will affect the most so as seen on the last video

about the interface we have this cabinet section here you can just click the cap you get here or

you can and well yeah uh let's change the whole cabinet so it sounds like this now

so what if we take the grit silver instead

so that's totally different all right and the thing what makes it different is the elements

so in here we have brit 75 speakers so we can change the speakers and these are

modeled after the most famous Celestian ones I think and then some other other stuff

and I'm not sure if you can bring you can actually bring your own like impulse responses in here but

let's change the other so it sounds like that let's change it to V3 let's change the other one so

uh let's take back the British 75 Change them to V30.

So the difference in sound is huge.

And you can change just the other one.

Now we can see like, oh yeah.

Okay, and then the other thing we can do is, now we sound like this.

So we can change the microphone placements.

And as you can hear, if we take them like to the edge of the element, so further away from the cone.

Totally different sound.

Bring them closer.

Bring that one.

Let's take that like further away from the cabinet.

And of course we are not hearing so much of that mic now.

All right then, what else can we do?

Just with these basic endings to sculpt our sound, we can take this microphone and change it to another one.

Yep, that's quite different when you compare it to this one.

And that is why the Shure S&M 57, as it is modeled by,

is so popular for those piercing

rock guitars and this one is 87 models and neumann i think then we have this uh room mics here

but yeah so if you if you want to uh get a sound

and you want you have like a artist you like

and you want to recreate some a sound they have the

first thing i would do is i would look into what amp

and what kind of elements they are using in their cabinet is those are the things that will

affect the most on the earlier part of the chain of course then we'll add some effects

and all that but these are the core of your sound so and we're just gonna

leave it like that now but we can check the this section here

so if we would like we could pan uh

that sure to the left side completely take even take the other one other mic out

So that is what we would have.

And then we could just put the 87 on the other side, so on the right, and we would have this.

Bring them a bit closer bone,

but still have like a little bit of width. Did it?

I wanna just...

It's like, ah, to it.

There we go.

Yep, we could bring up the room mics and we would get some

And we can actually change the whole room from here.

So let's hear how that sounds when we have the volume up.

Small studio.

Yeah, much less echo subway.

This should have a lot of, you know...

Yep.

Oh, it's clipping a bit, so... And that's bad.

But yeah, let's take it off.

We don't want that room in there, so...

All right.

And the last thing I will show about the cabinet thing is the ver.

So you can get really precise with it in here.

Take this one and just change the mic placement from here.

are we like dead center now there we go all right and of course you can also change the room mics

overheads all right uh let's get into the basic tricks so we have a one amp setup

and in here we have all these effect pedals

and we can just take one and drag it here

and let's do the basic thing that is we're gonna boost the JCM 800 with an

uh over scream overdrive pro

which is the tube screamer 808 i think uh let's take the tone a bit down

and a bit less overdrive we don't need that much

and now we can hear we have some hiss

so usually a good thing to have is a noise gate

you can actually bring it on this part of the chain because this part is limited to six pedals, I think.

So if you want to have more than six in front of the amp, you want to drag some here.

And the threshold, like, up there.

And now, what do we have?

That's what we have.

So without the screamer. With it.

Oh, that's the annoying pick sound again.

Well, yeah, so that's how we can tighten up the sound.

It's a pretty usual pick.

And now we could just try a different overdrive if we would like, just by when we have that chosen.

You just try a different one by clicking.

I think that's the Boss DS, you know.

Oh, actually overdrive.

We have the distortion here.

Let's hear how that sounds.

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That's nasty.

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Yeah, a lot of his.

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So let's just keep the or scream.

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Have our sound like.

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Tone down a bit.

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The over travels there.

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What next?

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Let's take some modulation.

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So there's a whole lot of stuff in this AmpliTube Max package.

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A lot of stuff here.

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So let's take a phaser and put it after the over screen.

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Oh, yeah.

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So that's how a phaser sounds.

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But yeah, it's as simple as that.

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You just pick something, drag it there.

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If it sounds good, yeah.

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And you can always just click it off like that.

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Or from here.

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Then we have some like these expression pedals, volume, and then we have war pedals.

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But of course, if you want to use them, you need to have a controller so and

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that will be i will make a another video about

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that how that works but let's take a wall here

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and we have this order setting uh does it work yeah

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so you can always uh play the

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wall with I think most of these do have the auto setting.

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Let's check.

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This one actually don't.

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But most of these do.

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So if you want that wow sound, yeah, you can get it.

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But of course, it's much more fun if you have a controller.

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So that will be an upcoming video.

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Let's keep it there for that video.

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All right.

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Next, let's go to the most amps nowadays you have something called the effects loop.

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So let's put our time based effects like they usually do.

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Let's put them here, there.

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So a delay would be nice I think.

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Let's find one.

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Let's use a so this is a T-Rex replica.

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Let's bring the repeats down.

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There we go.

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Bring the tempo down like 306 a little less echo

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and let's take the volume down to 5 let's hear how it sounds now

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All right, bring the volume up a bit.

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Let's take the phaser off.

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Alright.

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Kinda like that.

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So let's leave it there.

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And of course you could...

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So here, those are like put into this weird rock thingy.

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And what else we could take there?

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We could try like a chorus in there for fun.

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So how would that sound?

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A bit more.

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Sounds good.

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So let's leave that there. And yeah.

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Of course, we can go and edit this from, you know, there.

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you know click edit and then when we want out of this window we could click here and then edit

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there we go and then we have this uh mixture here

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so uh let's say we want a little bit of reverb and we want some plate

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So we could take it in here, in the bus.

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So that would be just after the cabinet.

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Let's hear that.

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Something like that.

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Probably put a little...

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Yeah, not that much.

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Alright.

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So now we have an effect in our bus also.

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We can go and click this mixer again.

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And let's see how it sounds if we take the volume down.

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So what happens?

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Yeah. So.

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So everything goes down in volume.

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All right.

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And well, let's try this.

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So I showed this on the interface studio but what happens when we click this?

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We get a second cabinet. And here's the thing.

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Now when we look at this that reverb is not affecting that cabinet at all.

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And if we would like it to be affecting the whole sound, we would just drag it here.

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Now, now we want to go, it's in the master insert.

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So let's hear it now.

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Oh, that was an ugly bend.

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But yeah, so let's get it.

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Let's take it back to one.

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Alright, and let's for fun, let's put a compressor on the master insert.

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There we go.

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And that's like a Fairchild, I think.

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Let's hear how that sounds.

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doesn't do anything yet so let's bring up threshold

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there we can see the meter is moving

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so what it does is uh

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if you don't know the basics of a compressor i suggest

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you look it up i might make a video about it in the future but But for now, there's some resources on YouTube.

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But it evens out the volume of my playing.

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Spring up a bit more.

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The volume.

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Alright, let's go back to the arm, let's take a bit of the middle off.

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Let's try that with the phaser.

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Yeah, something like that.

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But anyway, so what did we do here?

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We added some effects to the front of the amp.

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we can click them on off we have the amp we

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can change the amp of course from here we have some stuff in the loop

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on the amps effect loop and we change the cap we could do it again for fun let's try it

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Let's check what we had in here.

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So V30 and 75.

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Alright, let's do that again.

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So let's take the...

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Come on, there we go.

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Let's take the British 8000.

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Yeah, so let's change this one to the V30.

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So yeah, that's a totally different sound.

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So these are the things I would mess up with the most,

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you know, and like I explained the whole mic placement because now when we...

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You can hear the difference immediately.

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So get these in order for the sound you like and then I would start adding effects and

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all this stuff in here.

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But yeah, that's the basics here how to, you know, juggle around in this.

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So yeah, here are all your effects pedals.

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You can change the arms.

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You can change the cap, all the stuff related to the cap, cabinet.

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And here you have all your rack stuff.

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And you can take this rack stuff also.

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So you can just put it here also.

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Like, or some...

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So, let's not limit ourselves in that way.

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And if you want to get rid of an effect, you can just remove it from there.

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What else?

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Can you actually, let's, can you take a...

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Like a pitch shifter and put it here.

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Well, goddamn you can.

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You have it like this and edit it from here.

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Yeah, it's for fun.

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Let's see how that sounds like.

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Might be awful.

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Yeah.

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Because I would have to, you know, Would it sound good with the C major?

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Yeah, it would.

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Well, good is subjective.

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So, but let's take that off.

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There we go.

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So, we have our sound now, and we want to save it, so we can use it later.

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Then we would go here and click this.

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Aha, we get this little window.

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And you can name it first.

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Let's give it a name.

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Amplitude video, I think.

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Then we can choose the folder.

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Like this.

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That's pretty.

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There we go.

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Artist.

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Well, me, the devil.

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Song.

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Yeah, you wish.

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But yeah, you can, you have all this.

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You can tag it pretty good.

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Even insert a note.

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Let's put it.

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Dude.

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instrument type, you know, metal solid body.

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Yeah.

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Pick up position, pick up type, hamburger.

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All right.

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Keywords enter keywords.

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Yeah.

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You can, you can do all this stuff.

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Metal.

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high gain i would say song part uh whole song i

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mean the whole yeah you wish on i will never have

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and then we could oh and then you save it there we go

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and now it's in there pd so now we could just change the preset like that

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and here we have a totally different setup

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and we can go here and click that and there we go we have our sound back so yeah

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I think that's it.

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In the next video we're gonna start with building a setup with two amps,

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maybe even three, and then I'll show how you can actually share them in the ToneNet. and how you can

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let's get a bit more into that and how to download presets from there and yeah I think that's a

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good video for the next one you know just

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go a little bit deeper into these two things and then after that another video would probably be about the

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midi controller which is uh actually that's gonna be a long one since

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when we're doing it in the DAW I will show you how it it's much simpler

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when you use the standalone mode

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but in here I have to go through some stuff you get the controller working

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and you know mapping it up so that will be a

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that will be a video but for now I think we're good so yeah have fun bye

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “The basics in Amplitube 5”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: sound, amp, cabinet, effect, hear. This video has 285 sentences and 2526 words to shadow. The speech runs for 34:16. The speaker talks slowly, about 74 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pedal noun	/ˈpɛdəl/	A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
overdrive noun	/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdɹaɪv/	A state of heightened activity.
phaser noun	/ˈfeɪzɚ/	An electronic device that produces special effects on the sound produced by an electric guitar etc.
controller noun	/kənˈtɹoʊlɚ/	One who controls something.
preset adjective	/ˈpɹiːsɛt/	Set in advance, especially as a default.
microphone noun	/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/	A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
amp verb	/ˈæmp/	To amplify.
mic noun		A microfarad.
insert verb	/ɪnˈsɝt/	To put in between or into.
placement noun	/ˈpleɪ̯smənt/	The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
amplitude noun	/ˈæm.plɪ.tud/	The measure of the size of something, especially its width or breadth; largeness, magnitude.
compressor noun	/kəmˈpɹɛ.sə(ɹ)/	A device that produces pressure, such as a gas compressor that produces pressurized gas.
keyword noun	/ˈkiː.wɜːd/	Any word used as the key to a code.
reverb noun	/ˈɹiˌvɝb/	An electronic effect which simulates echoes or reverberations in the sound signal being processed.
screamer noun	/ˈskɹimɚ/	One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
bring up verb	To mention.
pick up verb	To lift; to grasp and raise.
back up verb	To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
go back to verb	To stem from; to originate in.
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
take back verb	To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).
think through verb	To fully consider, so as to understand all the consequences of.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Let's take all the middle off.
Let's bring them back up.
Let's take that like further away from the cabinet.
All right then, what else can we do?
We don't want that room in there, so...

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 26 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, thingy /ˈθɪŋi/, width /ˈwɪtθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, modulation /ˌmɑd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/, distortion /dɪsˈtɔːʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: modulation /ˌmɑd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pedal, overdrive, phaser.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?