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If I was in a pinch, I will always use this plugin, and I have already on records.
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I'm just not going to tell you which ones they are, and I don't think you'll know.
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So there are two main ways to use the plugin.
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The first is in standalone, where it just becomes a replacement for an amplifier, which I love.
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That's the way that I first envisioned using it in my house.
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And to some extent, it is the way that I use it.
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But if you try it with your DAW, now you have two things that are working for you.
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The first is that you were able to record an idea in a heartbeat.
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I used to take out my iPhone and hit the voice recorder
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and put it on a table and try to turn the thing up so the voice recorder could catch it.
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And it was a lot of me messing with the iPhone to record across the room.
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When you're running the plug -in through a DAW, all you have to do is just hit record,
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and it's immediately going down the same way you hear it, and it's going down as a DI,
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unless you were to set it up so that it was printing that way.
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You now have flexibility where you can come back and fix the sound a little later if you want.
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You could get a guitar part you really liked, use it on a record.
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So now you could be at home messing around
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and your guitar riff could make it on a record
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because you have the printed direct signal and you have the plugin that's saved inside of the chain,
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all from the same experience of picking up a guitar and just playing through what feels like an amp.
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It's the same experience intellectually of picking it up and playing and it's right there, except in the background, I hit command to space bar,
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I'm recording the idea.
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What's really cool about using the plug -in in a DAW is that the Archetype plug -in works really,
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really, really well as the first stage of a signal chain.
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I can very easily open any plug -in I want that is in effect.
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Using the Archetype plug -in as the first stage,
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it gives this kind of water pressure to the rest of the sounds you want to put on top of it.
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It really buffers the signal super well
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so at home all i have is this laptop with the plug -in on it an interface
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and two studio monitors and as someone who's been playing guitar for
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so many years you know it has had patch cables nine volt batteries different uh pedals
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you forget to unplug the pedal you know
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you forget to unplug the pedal you take a little break playing at home
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you go into the other room then you hear the delay pedals dying
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and all these different things and i've had amps where the reverb circuit was messed up
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and you'd turn it on
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and it'd go you'd have to put the reverb down to zero things
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that were just always in kind of disarray at home and i've
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looked forward to the year i would be able to simply have one cable a laptop
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and two speakers and have that be the whole rig
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and it's what i use at home so i thought i'd bring it in
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and show you how i use it so the first thing
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that i want to talk about when it comes to this plugin is
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that it is capable of doing everything from clean to very saturated distortion.
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The ear tends to go immediately to what it can do in terms of saturation.
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It's really fun to play high gain stuff.
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I do it.
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We all do it.
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What ends up happening, I think, is you put the guitar down a little sooner because there are no dynamics.
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All you have is just a blowtorch.
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And I love it.
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I'm not saying to change a thing.
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I think if you have the plugin or
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if you've had the 14 -day trial
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and you haven't opened it up in a
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while there is something about just setting a sound
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and letting your ear join to that sound
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and the sound join to your ear it takes a second just like
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when when you've got a real amp in the room you can a b all day
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and you can kind of lose your way
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and then you just want to go get a sandwich
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because all you've done is a b
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so first thing i want to show you is this is the setting that i use at home
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it's set to a certain place i think the reason i like it is
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because i can control when the note gets saturated
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so yeah it's really easy to put both the halfman overdrive
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and the teal breaker at the same time who doesn't love it
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but what i do is i
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and i think this has been the same setting for a couple of weeks
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now uh i have it set up in pro tools
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because what i'm able to do in pro tools is record whenever
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i have an idea i cannot recommend this enough
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if you use this in pro tools all you have to do is hit record
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if you have an idea it's brilliant i want to get into
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that part of it a little later what i want to show you is i don't have a set thing
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i play
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i don't have a set thing that i play
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when i pick up the guitar i purposefully don't have a set thing
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that i play i'm okay sucking for four or five minutes to find something so what i'll do is
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just start with a smaller dynamic than you'd think
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and i would pick up and this is really what i'll i'm gonna pretend i just sat down in my house,
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and I just turned on the guitar.
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I'm just saying hello to the thing.
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I don't even, I'm not using my pick.
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I want to feel what the string is doing, how it's responding.
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And I know I'm putting myself in a situation where you might make fun of me.
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And I want you to know that I'm okay with that.
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And I want you to live a life where you express yourself,
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where you're okay if people make fun of you for expressing how you like to play music.
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So I just take a second.
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I have a sound that I like.
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This plugin can do it.
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Let it do its thing.
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Almost don't even look at the screen turn away from the screen.
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I just like A, the key of A on the guitar, and I just...
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I don't mind being wrong, doesn't matter, we're all just playing, just play.
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that's
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when I'll change
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it I'm
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being intentional that's what I'm trying to learn to do as
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a guitar player is be as intentional as I can possibly be hey guess what the sound is set
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that's what's great about the plugin it's there it's the same sound
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now you get to consider how you want to play based on
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that sound that's the same sound for two weeks how am i playing inside
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that sound how does the guitar feel inside of
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that sound i also have it set up so that
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if i want the note to to to get a little distorted just a little overdriven as an effect, then I can do that.
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So I'm going to turn up to 10, and I'm going to try that kind of same idea again.
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that's clean that
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didn't change anything
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same patch all i'm doing is playing the guitar differently so on the same patch
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Thank you.
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So that's the first thing
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I want to tell you is one patch can really do a lot just like any amp
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because the plugin is created to replicate amps
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i think about these just like i would an amp i don't play for a second on an ac30
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and go wheel in the wheel in the bad cat
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i don't say wheel in the marshall you get a piece of gear
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and you get to know it but that's where the plugin gets really cool
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because there's also hundreds of other sounds in here but
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if you take just one and make it your amp build your sound around
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that as you move through all these patches any one of these could last you a month
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and you could write song after song after song for so many years people wrote records using one amp
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And I think that's the message I want to send, is that there's so much possibility if you just look away from the screen.
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Let it be about the guitar.
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And all I was doing is going between A and G.
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And I'm not afraid to mess up.
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I don't care anymore about messing up.
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I hope you don't care anymore about messing up.
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It doesn't mean you're not a great player.
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It means you're going looking.
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You're going just looking.
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We're not performing if you're in your room
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and you want to play your guitar and put it on camera
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and put it on social media you're just playing no one thinks you suck
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if you can play like this we know that's good
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you're allowed to suck on the next thing you're looking around
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you just played something good I know you're good look around didn't change the patch either it sounds more distorted
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if I told you I put
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more distortion on you'd
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believe me
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how about
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that this is just my session from home is using a doubler on it so
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and then it suddenly becomes
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it reminds me it's
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It's kind of got that people get ready thing.
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So let me show you why this is really cool.
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We are now recording.
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I now have that just as you heard it, but I can still go back in and change the effects
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if i want so i want to take the doubler off let's do this no doubler i don't like the
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that's what it sounds like without the archetype plugin i think that's the best example of what this thing does
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off on that's wild so let's put back in and i can add more to it you know that
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let's try it again let's put everything back on
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let's say i got a sound i really like i got this groove i really like Let's go.
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Okay, I got a thing I like, which I sort of liked there.
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this so you can use it again as a second instance
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so you're going to keep opening this plug -in multiple times with different personalities
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so i want to put a lead on top of it
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let me go into let's say a little more gain all right let's use both let's have fun
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and let's use the signature 83
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okay so i've got a loop
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that i liked playing this is all still in my living room pretend
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but i can without putting the guitar down without opening up another piece of software it's all right here
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that i could play on top of it
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Thank you.
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saved saved idea if you have an idea
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and you want to be able to layer on that idea or record
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that idea in the first place you do not have to open another piece of software to find out
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that it must be updated and there therefore you must also log into your account
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and you must also oh can i upgrade oh i can upgrade for 39 i don't even know where
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that old license was do i just buy the new one did they go to 4 .0 what's my oh
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i was 2 .3 was no it's all right here
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now i can walk around for the rest of time
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i can bring my laptop in the studio
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i can just be like i want to show you this thing
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i was working on can also change i could take off the distortion
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It's all there in the session.
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it can be called back up in a heartbeat and you can continue to change the sound if you like
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So that's why I love the plug -in for just living inside of Pro Tools.
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For me, I can open it up.
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I just play.
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What's the difference between playing and recording anymore?
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Just open the plug -in up inside of a Pro Tools session that's saved as a template
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or a session that you like.
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Open it up.
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Put it on record.
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You never have to record.
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I listen through studio monitors at my house.
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That's the end of amps in various states of disrepair
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and cables and screws and those little cables
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that go from like 9 -volt ports to little battery things that are taped under your pedal board and the pedal board.
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And nobody wants to hit a tube screamer with a naked foot.
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I can also use this on sessions in one of two ways.
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I can just put the plug -in on the computer in the studio I'm working in
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and I can play into it and therefore the engineer
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and the artist has that direct signal and the plug -in instance as an insert.
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Or I can just bring my laptop as an output device using an interface, and I get to control what the engineer gets.
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Sometimes I do like baking the decisions into the guitar track.
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I'm a big fan of, like, make your decision and put it down.
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Too many things can be moved around and changed.
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It's nice to commit sometimes.
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I just did a session for an artist, a friend of mine, and I played a big, fat guitar track on it
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and it was funny to send him one track
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there's not close mic for mic one far away mic for mic one
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and then doubled for two and three
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and a room mic it's it's one stereo track
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and you could probably email it you could probably text it to someone because it's all printed that way
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And if you like your presets and you want to play on someone else's record,
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it is a cool way of the best of both worlds of getting the tone you want
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and making sure you don't hear it come back in a way
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that you don't visualize or didn't imagine in your mind what it was going to sound like.
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So suddenly, I get to go to any studio I want with one guitar and a laptop in the guitar bag, and I'm good to go.
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I build my presets in fact i'm building my presets now more than i did before the plugin came out
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when i started
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uh playing through people's presets when i first got the plugin i realized that mine totally uh
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they suck and i'm gonna write a lot more presets
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because i have been very inspired by
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so many artists coming up with such great sounds for the plugin my argument was the plugin is my preset
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i didn't know how much you'd like presets and
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so i want you to know
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that in a future update you will have some some very cool presets
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i understand i didn't get it at first
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and then i heard how good the presets were and i realized
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that i was so busy making the darn plugin that
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when it was time for presets i had like 20 minutes
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so i'm apologizing to you i'm an honest guy what can I say?
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Hold on.
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I want some room.
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I want to hear a little room.
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guitar solo Let's put it through Smooth Operator,
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let's put a lot of bass on it,
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and let's, the thing about the Smooth Operator is that volume knob is very true to what those amps do.
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the other day i was playing like a grateful dead thing at home
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i wanted to get the sound of like early fillmore style grateful dead saint stephen dimed guitar amp
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and instead of using pedals i turned the volume of the smooth operator up
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and i was like oh this thing is responding completely differently it's actually acting like an amp
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that has the volume turned up more than an amp on five with distortion pedals
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but let's see what the smooth operator does with even an L5 so
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now that's actually breaking up like a like a I mean that's what it sounds like
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that is so authentic sounding that I'm scared I'm gonna blow a speaker
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here's what's interesting about the gain stuff
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i just want to double check i don't have any oh let's take the boost off okay
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and let's really get the volume knob to set the kind of throatiness we want
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now we can use the output we have two outputs we have the output of the amp
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and we have the output of the actual plug -in
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so that's two separate ways of speaking with the note the
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first one coming out of the amp is going to change the character of the amp somewhat
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so I actually don't even want to I'm going to turn
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the output of the plug -in up just a little bit Thank you.
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Thank you.
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guitar solo
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That's what I'm going to get.
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I'm going to play.
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It's an L5 through smooth operator, getting a little quieter on the first stage, opening it up a little bit in the last stages so
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that you're not pushing the note too hard in the preamp all the dynamics all the physics are
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so similar to a real amp i invite you to get in there
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and if you turn the volume up all the way here
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and you turned it down a little bit here turn the output
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and it opens
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up like one of one of those real amps
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because it's not compressed like a distortion pedal I guess I'm doing
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so you've got an amp
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you've got a workstation you've got something you can bring into studios
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and play immediately I mean I I think
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this plug -in lives somewhere different than just inside of your recording setup i think
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because it's uh such a natural authentic emulation of amps
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it just does what amps do except it's already chained in to being able to just record it
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and have all the flexibility i want to see how fast and clean maybe this actually is one of my presets like
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Ultra Clean get
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a little more low end out of that
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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oh we go until we till we die
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it's just like call of duty zombies it just send in more waves until you're overtaking the speed of
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that is faster
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and more responsive than most real amplifiers i know
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i don't know how to feel about it either one thing i want to say is
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that this plug -in was never designed to replace an amplifier
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it is not a moratorium on the tube amp it is not a commentary
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I think more options are better when it comes to technology taking the place of very heavy,
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expensive things that spend a lot of time in the shop.
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There is always going to be a really, really good reason to use amps.
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I will always continue to use amps.
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I don't believe you'll see me on a stage playing in an arena with a laptop.
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I don't think that's that cool.
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but if you want to pick up your guitar and play
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and you've had the experiences
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that I've had where the trip to being able to start playing involves the batteries in your pedals the patch cables,
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the wiring how long has the amp been on, are the tubes blowing how do you get the amp to the session
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if I was in a pinch I will always use this plug -in
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and I have already on records I'm just not going to tell you
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which ones they are and I don't think you'll know
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That is not meant to replace an amp.
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I'm still going to always play tube amps.
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It's meant to give you more options.
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It's meant to bring the experience of owning a tube amplifier and owning this gear into your home, no matter who you are.
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It's meant to democratize the gear.
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Something really interesting happens when you democratize access to the gear.
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You realize that everyone has their own sound.
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You'll also realize that I have not mentioned any of the tones that made the songs I've already made.
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Barely interested in that.
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I think it's super fun to find out that, yeah, you can pretty much nail some of those sounds.
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What's really interesting now that you've kicked the tires and you go, cool, it does that.
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What's your sound?
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You know what it reminds me of is That's what you wanted
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Yeah Dynamics.
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So, one more thing I want to show you.
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I have a guitar on.
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It is capable of playing anything I can imagine, and yet I am not playing.
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Am I doing nothing?
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No, I'm not doing nothing.
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I'm sitting, and I'm just thinking about what the guitar can do.
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Now, that is some woo -woo stuff, but it's true.
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I love this feeling as soon as you know
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when i was growing up i would watch tv
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and i would just have the guitar on me and i'd play during the commercials so i'd mute and i just
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now i'm not playing so what do you want to play everything's dialed in you got the patch you like
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you got the plug -in you like you got the sound
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you like everything is ready to go the guitar is tuned speakers are ready to play whatever
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you give it take a minute
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and have some fun with what your intention is going to be this is my favorite part of playing guitar
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i'm about to do it i don't know quite what it's going to be
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so i'm just going to let it lead and i'm going to say goodbye to you
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with a song and i don't know what the song is going to be
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i was like in b i hope i can stay in b oh i got the band hits
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Hey, man.
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thank you very much i hope this was helpful in some way to add a little more uh color
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and dimension to the already great videos i've seen people do this plugin is made to last forever
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because music's made to last forever i love each
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and every one of you i love your criticisms i love the dirt you throw i love this whole world
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when i die whenever that is your dumb comments will flash before my eyes
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when i think about my whole entire life i love you no matter what keep playing guitar I'm John bye

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这节口语课以视频“How John Mayer uses his signature plugin”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有:amp, guitar, sound, plug, plugin。 这段视频共有 403 个句子、3981 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 35:50。 说话人语速平稳,每分钟约 111 个词,很适合跟读。 82% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词,其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中 15 个值得学习的单词,附发音和释义:

单词发音释义
guitar 名词/ɡɪˈtɑɹ/吉他, 六弦琴
plug 名词/plʌɡ/插頭 /插头
pedal 名词/ˈpɛdəl/踏板, 腳蹬子 /脚蹬子
output 名词/ˈaʊtpʊt/輸出 /输出
laptop 名词/ˈlæp.tɑp/手提電腦 /手提电脑, 手提計算機 /手提计算机
smooth 形容词/smuːð/平穩 /平稳, 順利 /顺利
tube 名词/tuːb/筒
operator 名词/ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/話務員 /话务员, 接線員 /接线员
distortion 名词/dɪsˈtɔːʃən/扭曲
suck 动词/sʌk/吸吮, 咂
dynamics 名词/dɑɪˈnæm.ɪks/動力學 /动力学
tone 名词/ˈtəʊn/全音
monitor 名词/ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/顯示器 /显示器
remind 动词/ɹəˈmaɪnd/提醒
grateful 形容词/ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/感激, 感謝 /感谢

视频中出现的短语动词

单词发音释义
pick up 动词拾取, 撿 /捡
find out 动词找出, 查明
go down 动词下降, 下去
look around 动词環顧 /环顾
come back 动词回來 /回来, 返回
come out 动词/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/出, 出來 /出来
come up with 动词想出, 提出
end up 动词到达

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中简短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常对话里:

  • I'm not saying to change a thing.
  • I don't even, I'm not using my pick.
  • I don't care anymore about messing up.
  • I hope you don't care anymore about messing up.
  • It doesn't mean you're not a great player.

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结构视频中的用法
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事has had · i've had · you've had
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的is just hit · was messed · is hit

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说话人用了 120 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 I'm, don't, you're。请按听到的简短形式来说。

  • “th” 音: smooth /smuːð/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: distortion /dɪsˈtɔːʃən/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, flash /flæʃ/, intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
  • 长单词——注意重音位置: operator /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, flexibility /ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪti/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, commentary /ˈkɑ.mənˌtɛ.ɹi/

中文母语者容易读错的音:

  • /v/ — 不要读成 /w/,上齿轻触下唇: invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/, involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/, groove /ɡɹuv/, responsive /ɹɪˈspɑn.sɪv/, reverb /ˈɹiˌvɝb/
  • 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚,后面不要加元音: plug /plʌɡ/, amp /ˈæmp/, patch /pæt͡ʃ/, output /ˈaʊtpʊt/, laptop /ˈlæp.tɑp/
  • /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: grateful /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, replacement /ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/, ultra /ˈʌltɹə/, replicate /ˈɹɛplɪkeɪt/

如何用这段视频练习

  1. 先完整听一遍视频,不要开口,记下不认识的单词。
  2. 用正常速度逐句跟读,每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
  3. 录下自己的声音并与原声对比,特别注意 guitar, plug, pedal 这类单词。

什么是跟读法?

跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧,最初开发用于专业口译员的培训,并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大:您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同,跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性,语调,节奏,连读,听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。

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