Choosing the Perfect Room Setting in the St James Suite

Inside the CabRig area of the St James Suite, you have some Room options. These are different ways to place your guitar cab in a simulated space. This is a similar concept to Reverb, but you would use this more subtly than a Reverb.

Think of the Room area of CabRig as being the natural ambient spill that you get when putting a mic infront of a guitar speaker.

Room Size

The first option is the Room Size, this is the overall size of the room that you are placing the cab into. You can choose Small, Medium or Large.

Each room size has a specific use and can be combined with the Room Width options for a variety of different room sounds.

A smaller room offers a tighter, closer feeling sound. If you want to sound like you’re recording in a small studio or a bedroom, and keep that close to the amp feel, this is a great choice. If you want your guitar to sound like it’s being recording in a big room such as a large studio or hall then Large will add that sense of size to your sound.

Room Width

The Room Width is sense of stereo width that you hear in the room, you can also think of this like the wideness you hear in a room when you pull a microphone back further from the speaker.

There are three options, Close, Spaced and Wide.

Close will give you minimal stereo width, it will feel more like the microphone is closer to the amp. The biggest setting, Wide, will feel like you’re hearing a really wide stereo image of the room that you have chosen.

Room Volume

The Room Volume is how loud the room sits in the mix of your guitar signal. You can boost the room all the way up, as seen in the video, but this will give a very unnatural room sound. Using this control, you can blend your chosen room size and width in with your dry guitar signal to get your perfect room tone.

How to Use This

When you are dialling in a room size, you want to start low and gradually increase the volume of the room until you find the right blend between your dry guitar and the space of the room. The volume is very responsive to the size and width controls so if you chose a large room with a wide width, you will need to set the volume lower as it will be more intense at higher volumes.

Smaller room sizes can be boosted more as there is less space to blend in.

Add enough of the room to create the feeling of space without totally swamping your guitar tone.

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This article on how set up a room sound in the St James Suite was written by Leigh Fuge. Leigh is a professional guitarist and content creator and also works alongside musicteacher.com to create guitar focused, educational and entertainment content.

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