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What it is, what you need, how to get help.
The Only Way is John LaCroix's guitar rig from Ten Yard Fight's final EP, brought to Mac and Windows. It uses Neural Amp Modeler captures of an early-90s Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier, like the one John played on the record. Plug a guitar into an audio interface, load the LaCroix preset, and play through that sound, or shape your own for practice, writing and recording.
What's in the rig
- Two channels. Switchable. Each channel runs one capture of the amp; pick a different capture per channel.
- Sixteen captures. All of the same amp. Not sixteen different amps. The LaCroix preset uses two of them, one per channel.
- Amp controls. Gain, bass, mid, treble, presence and master, per channel.
- Overdrive. In front of the amp, to push it.
- Noise gate. Keeps the high-gain channel quiet between chords.
- Tuner. Polyphonic. Strum all six strings and it reads every one at once.
- Cab. A 4×12 cab voice, plus ten selectable impulse responses.
- Output. A five-band output EQ, then an output limiter.
- Presets. Save the whole rig: every control, both captures and the cab.
- The microphone. Part of the visual rig. It doesn't move and doesn't change the sound.
To play
You need a guitar, an audio interface, and headphones or monitors. Open the standalone app, choose your interface in Audio/MIDI Settings, pick a buffer size you can live with, and play. The LaCroix preset is the record's sound; everything else starts from there.
To record
Use the plug-in inside your DAW. On Mac that's the Audio Unit or VST3; on Windows the VST3. The plug-ins come with the direct installer, not the Mac App Store edition, which is the standalone app only.
Specs
- Mac
- macOS 12 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel. Mac App Store: standalone app. Direct installer: standalone app plus Audio Unit and VST3 plug-ins.
- Windows
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Direct installer: standalone app and VST3 plug-in. ASIO supported.
- To play
- A guitar, an audio interface, and headphones or monitors.
- To record
- The AU or VST3 plug-in from the direct installer, in a compatible DAW.
Get help
Something wrong, or a question this page doesn't answer? Use the contact form; it comes straight to John. Your data: the privacy policy. Back to The Only Way.