Haha... listening to me will not nessecarily give good results.. i am still green as well.. haha.. but yeah..
Ether makes a good point, what i do, and i know many others do as well, is constantly put up your mixes against those who have the sound you are aiming for, Atheist..
This will help a grand deal.. not in the beginning perhaps, and you probably will find yourself freaking out a couple of times when it just does'nt work... but that's cool..
That being said.. your clip sounds pretty good actually.. seeing what you are working with here.. i have had the GT6 before i went POD.. it was pretty good for what it's worth, but the POD was a real upgrade in the distortion department.. much better to work with, better gain, more presence, more options.. you might want to look into that, or the big deal, a real amp.. if you have the knowledge and patience, that is.. if not, look into getting a POD.. it worked for me.
Oh yeah.. listening to your clip again.. i would say to forget about compression and EQ for now.. if you are anything like me when i started out, i thought i could do a lot just depending on EQ'ing, compression in my host after i had input guitar tracks in the host..
And offcourse, people like colin, James and Andy can actually do some magic with crappy tracks and turn them into gold, but i think they would agree if i said it might come in handy if you get your basics right before relying on processing after the tracks are recorded..
so try and get the guitars to sound good without EQ and compression when you record them right from the start.. it will help..
good luck!
ten times worse then yours..
