Cyclick Samples - Funk & Soul Guitar [WAV] -Sin

I am typing this with an uncommonly saw right arm thanks to playing choppy guitar lines over and over and
over again for about a day and half, but I think it was worth it. Though I was the bass player in a funk band
for years, I tend to play less frenetic, more noisy stuff on the guitar so this has been a bit of a shocker! The
84 lines I have recorded (one per white note key in four tempos) are presented here in four sound formats:
DI, Amped (modelled and real) and through pedals.

The Stratocaster made two sets of lines – one with the middle pickup and one with the neck pickup. I know
the bridge pickup is a funk/soul classic, but I can only really stand it's brain-needling gnat-scream noise
through masses of effects (distortion) and feedback when I know it is being used to abuse ears. Using some
treble boost with either of the other two pickups yields a far more usable tone which will still cut through a mix
– for this purpose I used the Minifooger Boost pedal with the tone all the way up which gets a lovely top end
without getting harsh. The Gretsch is not a standard for funk or soul (more likely to see an E335 type if it's a
hollow body), but I thought it'd add some variety. Also my other likely candidate guitar is strung with super
heavy strings (14s, or pylon wire) and drop tuned to C, which makes it really unfunky! The Gretsch used a
blend of the two pickups, biased toward the bridge one for some bite and less body. Again this was
brightened up with the Minifooger Boost. The lines were all laid down through the Little Labs Redeye DI and
a Classic API VP26 preamp with a touch of basic Alesis 3630 compression on the end (works great on
guitars).

The DI versions are untouched after the AD conversion, except for dither to 16bit. The virtual amp (VAmp)
samples are treated with the Amplitube amp modelling plugin (Fender Twin and AC30 amps) preceded with
a little UAD 1176AE and followed by a UAD Fairchild 660 with a 50% wet limited signal (mostly pushing
around 6dB GR on the meter). The RAmp samples used the Little Labs Redeye in reamp mode to feed three
amps (see below) which were mic'ed and adjusted for each guitar/pickup, recorded with the ISA828 preamps
and then mixed in Nuendo through a group buss strapped with UAD Neve 1081 EQ and EL Fatso Snr plugins.

The Redeye reamper was utilised again for the Pedals variants. This involved a chain of pedals that
were inserted onto a Nuendo channel before the Amplitube amp plugin, which again was followed by the
Fairchild 660 UAD plugin. For each tempo and guitar setup the pedals were switched in/out and tweaked
to taste, with plenty of expression pedal and knob adjustment as the section bounced in realtime.