Jazz Guitar Sound (Again)
A few months ago I posted a question to see if anyone had come across any good, realistic electric jazz guitar sounds. I received a couple of suggestions and links but nothing particularly inspiring turned up.
Anyone come across any new suggestions in the meantime? Thanks.
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Why a new post rather than continuing on https://musescore.org/en/node/142316?
In reply to Why a new post rather than by Jojo-Schmitz
Because I'm not familiar with how the Forums here at MuseScore work and just assumed that the previous one was long since gone and buried. Sorry.
In reply to Because I'm not familiar with by juniorjet
No problem, I was just wondering
In reply to No problem, I was just by Jojo-Schmitz
Someone did reply to the previous thread and offered a sound file from their private stash but then never followed up. I hope he or she is still listening :-)
In reply to Someone did reply to the by juniorjet
Hi all, nice to see there is still an active forum talking about soundfonts which are completely abandonned nowadays elsewhere.
@juniorjet, here is a jazz guitar extracted from the SGM general midi soundfont, which i think is ok, i have not found something better free.
it needs some reverb and chorus to sound nice.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Xrr5MhTPAaRDJYNU5KQm83Y00/view
ps:sorry for my"french/english"
In reply to Hi all, nice to see there is by ErPaille
@ErPaille: Thanks. I have heard that guitar font and it's as good as any of the other free ones I have heard. Thanks for the link.
If I could find a really exceptional jazz guitar sound, I would be willing to pay for it but i can't even find that.
BTW your English is just fine - better than some native English speakers whom I know :-)
In reply to Someone did reply to the by juniorjet
I've got some nice guitar sounds including Jazz on my site. You might like to check it out.
Try the Guitars Universal soundfont.
https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/
Best,
John
In reply to I've got some nice guitar by Jonky Ponky
Thank you. I have downloaded the electric guitar file as a .zip. Now I just have to figure out how to get it unpacked and into a folder where Musescore will recognize and load it. I've never done that before but it shouldn't be too difficult, with some help from the forums :-)
In reply to Thank you. I have downloaded by juniorjet
See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/soundfont#install
In reply to See: by Shoichi
OK did this. All went according to instruction and when I click View>Synthesizer the electric guitar file shows up there as a .sf2 file. I click on Add. However, when I then go to Edit>Instruments to make a choice from that file, the various electric guitar sound choices aren't listed. What did I miss? Thank you.
In reply to OK did this. All went by juniorjet
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In reply to .... by Shoichi
Thank you. Yes it is in Mixer. Sorry for being so dense.
@John: got your sound fonts loaded and so far prefer Jazz Guitar AR. Thanks again.
In reply to Thank you. Yes it is in by juniorjet
too late ;-)
I was looking for: https://musescore.org/en/node/115306
glad you've solved
In reply to too late ;-) I was looking by Shoichi
Personally I think the jazz guitar from the jazzpage is the most authentic. It clips a little when you run it in musescore, but the output in wave/mp3 is perfect. It has that proper sound of a jazz guitar you get in a band like the King Cole Trio.
That soundfont of guitars above is great, particularly the acoustics, but the electric Jazz guitars are a little too jangly for the late 40s to 50s jazz sound.
In reply to Personally I think the jazz by Roger v.d Velde
Of course that depends a lot on what you consider an authentic electric jazz guitar sound to be :-) The one from jazzpage.de attempts that treble rolled off, typical Gibson sound which is thought by many to be quintessential jazz guitar..
I haven't heard it in .wav or MP3 but played back through MS it definitely clips, especially on chords (to the point of being unusable) where the lowest notes in the chord are played on the 5th and 6th strings. Way too muddy for my taste.