Recent content by Neil_Williams

Hi Andre, I am currently starting to get into surround sound mixing of live recordings, and am particularly interested in the techniques used for the Paradise Lost 'Symphony X' album. I know it was Jens that mixed this one, but is there any insight/pointers you could give yourself as to how...

Ha, not specifically on Swano :P It's on the impact of distortion when recording down-tuned guitars and as the HM-2 is about as bad-ass as a distortion pedal can get I'm definitely including it :)

Yeah I'm aware most just stick everything on 10, both guitarists in my band do exactly the same (listen to the track I linked in my first post). Have also referenced Ekeroth already, just trying to find evidence of someone with a slightly different approach that will give me an argument for...

I appreciate this is a very old thread now but I'm currently writing a dissertation on the use of distortion in Metal recordings and was wondering if I could get more detail on how the HM-2 was used. Did you have the gain all the way up on the pedal or was the Hm-2 just used to 'shape' the tone...