Ah dude, that sounds soooooo good. CJ you're the man. You're making me miss my Fireball!!
Question, have you ever used it in a band environment? Did you find that it cuts through?
Also, I might have asked this before, but which guitar and pickup do you use?
-Joe
i've never had a problem with the FB cutting through in a band practice environment. this is probably even more true with V30s.
i'm still using my ancient schecter w/the stock passive duncan knock-offs
and the DI's are built-in to the first two one or two inputs of almost every interface now-a-days, that's all I used. nothing special.
settings on the FB were right on;
8:30 for gain
bass: 12
mids: 2
treble: 1
presence: 2
the raw sound is actually rather bright, but filtering takes care of this nicely.
as for mine being so loiud, i've finally gotten to the stage where I've found the right combo of plugs to make me decently happy w/ my levels. namely:
HQ EQ, multi-band, clipper, limiter, dither.
done.
the rest is up to the mix really and not having huge amounts of low-end energy eating up my headroom.
sounds like you need to treat the other istruments to get the snare to sit right. i'm hearing too much buss-compression and low-end. it's generally kind of smeary. trying HPF stuff that doesn't need all that low end information and just generally getting the kick/bass to play together nicely.
easier said than done I suppose
