Hey guys, i saw you were mentioning pushing your recording into sounding more professional, so i'm going to post some softwares that can improve your overall sound
I won't post the actual products though, that would go under warez and i'd get banned back to the stone age. But lets see..
Revalver MKII
This is a great tool, which i use all the time. It's pretty much a "fx" which you load into REAPER, or any other VST host. Inside this one, you can load various stuff, and i can post my chain as an example:
ShutUP Noisegate (i believe this one is modeled after the HUSH C)
Kitty Amplifier (A mesa boogie dual rectifier, versatile as fuck!)
RIR Impulse cab (I use a custom impulse, will post below)
Delay and reverb after this, if i need
i use modern channel, with treble up in the 7-8's and bass the same.. Mids i add for taste, rolled off mids for a rythm chunk, and boosted mids for some nice and sexy lead. Gain should be adjusted from your input.
It features a variety of amplifiers and FX's, modeled from real world counterparts. These being:
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier
Marshall JCM900(i think)
VOX Somethingorother
Fender Bassman
And some Blues amp i cant recall the name of.
+ various other amplifiers
There are preamp versions of all, and even some other preamps that i really like, for getting a GP-1000esque sound
Poweramps and speaker(Impulses) simulations.
You have stomp boxes of different shapes and sizes (figuratively speaking, they look like rack gear in the program

), being things as:
Greener (a tubescreamer clone)
Compressor
Chorus
Texas Treble Maker (lol.. Treble booster)
Various overdrive and distortion pedals
Wahwah (i honestly dont know how this one works)
Tremolo
Vibrato
Flanger
Phaser
2 different delays
Limiter
an "auto swell" effect, makes it sound like you play backwards
and "Octapus", an octave pedal, but its rather poor quality imo
Other effects are reverb, EQ's, more compressors
And ofcourse, a VST Host module. So you can load your own effects/amps or pretty much anything you want, straight into the chain.
Here are the impulses i use:
GuitarHack Impulses
I use the "Between 0" the most, sometimes the 1. I use a different one when i dual track, i use the 0 on the left channel, and whatever i deem the best at the moment on right channel.
PRICE: 149 Euro @ The Alien Connection Homepage
Next up is
EZ Drummer
You can listen to the samples on the righthand side of the screen.
EZD is a very nice tool, it runs on midi and love, and you load it as a VST Instrument in your recording program of choice.
To make a drumtrack, do it the easy way! Take your prefered drumtrack from say, Guitar pro, and remove all other tracks in guitarpro, and save it as a file, with only drums in. now export this to midi, and remember to take note of the bpm! Now just drag and drop this midi file from the desktop, or a folder, onto a track in REAPER/Cubase/Whatever, and load the EZD as a FX/Vst instrument in the same track. Change and jumble sounds around, do some tweaking with volume, add a EQ if you want, and voila. You've got yourself some drums!
It's pretty simple to use, and the results are pretty good! There are addons to broaden your sound, ranging from A latin cocktail kit, to a "Drumkit from hell", which should satisfy your metal needs.
The latter one i believe was recorded for/by Meshugga's "Catch 33", and also its used on Devin Townsend's "Ziltoid the Omniscient"
PRICE: Varies from 150$ to 200$ Not going to post sites
Reason
Now i havent tried the new Reason 4, but i use Reason 3, and it's amazing, if i might say.
Any kinds of orchestration, or soloing, you can get it. Just program the midi's like you did with the drums, and load it into Reason. You'll get massive synths, or a sharp Harpsichord, a gentle piano, or a "in your face" lead tone
I don't know how much else i can add about this program..
PRICE: about 500$ @ Their "Proshop" Atleast the worlwide price.
As for the rest of the "band" lineup, like Vocals and Bass, i suggest that you invest in a bass, or get some friend of you to do it.
This might be a complete waste of place but, i had nothing better to do.
If you know a better program for these things, do post its advantages and price, and the likes.. I hope this helps some of you out
