Hey everyone!
Let me just start off by saying how much I appreciate all the help here on this forum. I found this place just a couple days ago, and I've already learned more about recording than I have in several years. In fact I am seriously considering going into a sound engineering career.
Problem is, horrible recordings do not a good sound engineer make haha.
So I've decided I want to tame my horrible distorted guitar recordings first.
Gear as follows, in order of signal chain.
-Environment: amp is sitting on hardwood floor, about a foot in front of some curtains, pointed diagonally at a fabric chair about 20 feet away.
-2006 Gibson SG Standard, stock
-Homemade TS-808 modded to Keeley/AMZ Fat specs. Just a bit of overdrive, treble-heavy tone, unity volume.
-Mesa F-50 1x12 combo, running through stock everything (Black Shadow and stock Mesa tubes). Master at 2 or so, about the loudest I can get without complaining neighbors.
-SM57 right where the dustcap meets the cone, straight on and 3-4" back (I never could get a decent sound directly on the grill; recording from a distance pleasantly surprised me).
-Presonus Firebox
-completely dry signal. No verb or compression or eq, because I'm still awful at all of em aha
Three guitar tracks here. If someone really wants them, I can post specific settings/separated tracks.
L70 with a metal-ish slightly scooped eq setting.
R9 with a boosted mids eq setting, playing octaves instead of power chords.
R70 with a fairly exaggerated mid scoop.
I know it's not very good, but it's about 100x better than what I usually record. I'm not necessarily going for a chugga chugga metullll sound, just anything that can sound good out of my amp really.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Also, try to ignore the blatantly sloppy playing; I stuck with first takes. Excuses excuses, I know.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/105562/rev_guitar_test1.mp3
Let me just start off by saying how much I appreciate all the help here on this forum. I found this place just a couple days ago, and I've already learned more about recording than I have in several years. In fact I am seriously considering going into a sound engineering career.
Problem is, horrible recordings do not a good sound engineer make haha.
So I've decided I want to tame my horrible distorted guitar recordings first.
Gear as follows, in order of signal chain.
-Environment: amp is sitting on hardwood floor, about a foot in front of some curtains, pointed diagonally at a fabric chair about 20 feet away.
-2006 Gibson SG Standard, stock
-Homemade TS-808 modded to Keeley/AMZ Fat specs. Just a bit of overdrive, treble-heavy tone, unity volume.
-Mesa F-50 1x12 combo, running through stock everything (Black Shadow and stock Mesa tubes). Master at 2 or so, about the loudest I can get without complaining neighbors.
-SM57 right where the dustcap meets the cone, straight on and 3-4" back (I never could get a decent sound directly on the grill; recording from a distance pleasantly surprised me).
-Presonus Firebox
-completely dry signal. No verb or compression or eq, because I'm still awful at all of em aha
Three guitar tracks here. If someone really wants them, I can post specific settings/separated tracks.
L70 with a metal-ish slightly scooped eq setting.
R9 with a boosted mids eq setting, playing octaves instead of power chords.
R70 with a fairly exaggerated mid scoop.
I know it's not very good, but it's about 100x better than what I usually record. I'm not necessarily going for a chugga chugga metullll sound, just anything that can sound good out of my amp really.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Also, try to ignore the blatantly sloppy playing; I stuck with first takes. Excuses excuses, I know.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/105562/rev_guitar_test1.mp3
