Recent content by Son of Caladan

Yes, I have. It was a small improvement, but nothing significant. What I think is going on is, I noticed that when I have the speaker at about ear level, the there is a ton of treble/fizz coming out of it, which explains why the recording sounds thin and fizzy. I was able to somewhat remedy the...

I've been working on my mic placement skills for over six years, and I still just don't get it. If I follow conventional advice and place the SM57 on the dust cap edge of a V30, I get a lot of high end that often sounds spiky, depending on settings, and always sounds thin, as I'm capturing a lot...

By "tracked," I think he meant "double tracked."

If you zoom in on the picture at the link below https://www.ironmaiden.com/news/article/rip-martin-birch-1948-2020 you will notice that it appears that each guitarist has two tracks. Since the labeling is not very descriptive, and hard to read, to boot, we can only speculate, but based on what I...

Whenever I close-mike guitars using the standard approach (SM57, V30, an inch off the grille, where cap meets cone or really anywhere on the speaker keeping the one inch distance), I get an exaggerated low end and lots of top end. It seems to me that the midrange, the very frequency range that...

Great question. I, too, would love to know. I know that Martin used a close mic and a room mic on The Number of the Beast for the guitars, but the details on that (mic type, mic placement, mixing technique) are impossible to find. I absolutely love the guitar tone on Piece of Mind. Been trying...

I see what you are saying, but your antidote to fizzy, boomy tone is just more of the "unquantifiable" and "magic" that you seek to dispel, by claiming that if I did some magical modifications to my playing technique, the EQ of my tone would suddenly go from fizzy to midrangey. I agree that two...

I am usually at a loss when people say that "tone is in the hands." I mean, how many different ways are there to hit an E power chord to make it sound different. I am not sure what I could change drastically about my technique or level of performance that would make the recorded sample I...

Every time I record distorted guitars at home, I always end up with a boomy, fizzy sound. I can get a thicker, less fizzy sound by cranking the amp past 8, but then I also end up with something that sounds a bit muffled and muddy. When I try to remedy this via post-EQ, I find that in order to...

This is just my personal preference, but I would raise the drums (especially the snare) relative to everything else in the mix, and maybe tweak the compression on the snare to give it just a little more body and punch. Maybe some other guys on here, who are good with mixing drums, can comment on...

The individual instruments sound pretty good. I think the guitars could use a little more sparkle. They sound a bit dry, like there are some exciting high frequencies missing, which is only noticeable in the verses. And they could be crunchier in the chorus. The biggest problem I noticed with...

I don't see how it would be beneath the guys with more knowledge and experience to contribute on here and answer similar questions from newer members. I also visit Marshallforum.com regularly and am, humbly, known over there as a resource for questions about Iron Maiden and the smaller DSL...

Thank you for the feedback. You and the guys here on this forum have helped me piece the evidence together and come to a few practical conclusions. I have been able to fix most of the issues I was having with fizzy close-miked tones. The solution was in using a lot of volume. On my DSL15C that...

Same here. I always thought the Piece of Mind tone was the best in its class, but a class nonetheless, as there is a whole family of that kind of tone, so I use it as a reference point for figuring out how to achieve something like that. I've also heard that kind of tone on other '80 metal...

I personally don't hear chorus on the rhythm guitars on Piece of Mind, but since you are the second person who has mentioned chorus, there might be something to it. However, if there is chorus on the rhythm guitars, it is subtle and unlikely to be the main reason behind why those guitars sound...