Should Guitar rig be changing the sound even without any effects loaded?

Hi,

Just bought Komplete. Really enjoying it though.

Trying to use Guitar rig on a drum bus to introduce some breakdown fx. But as soon as I load an instance on the bus channel, the sound changes before I have even loaded any particular effects. It becomes thinner, weaker, and doesn't sound as good.

When I click bypass (in Logic), I get back to the original, clean sound.

Surely without effects loaded, the sound should be 100% the same as when guitar rig is bypassed?

Am I missing something here?

 

THANKS for bringing this up!

I too have noticed this in a completely different DAW. I will follow this thread for possible info...


Also noticed by using Kontakt standalone = fat sounds

Then loaded Kontakt instrument inside the DAW = fat sound
Then added guitar rig as an Audio Insert = thinner sound (before even making a selection in Guitar Rig)

My workaround was to load an effect and tweak the sound back to what I wanted to hear.

 

Make sure the guitar rig input is stereo if the audio feeding into it is stereo.

 

Excellent !

Thanks a million !

 

So does this mean it cleared up when you selected stereo or you are just grateful for the suggestion?

 

Yes - his information was right on target !


Somehow my guitar right was defaulting to single channel.

I looked and noticed L/R were not both illuminated - so I simply clicked both and the sound was fat again !


NICE TIP - for something easily overlooked (since I did not remember toggling it off - I did not bother to look there)!

 

I'm not sure which is the default setting - obviously guitars and basses output a mono signal anyway...

 

Factory default is Mono input.

To change this, go to Options > Preferences:

Save global Header Setup as Plugin default > Save

 

On a Mac at least it is labeled Default Plugin Input Configuration and is accessed through the Guitar Rig interface Options > Preferences as opposed to the File > Preferences accessed through the top menu bar of the operating system which only sets MIDI and audio input/output routing and drivers.