Guitar tone competition 3 round 1

[MarkG]

The time has come to vote for your favorite guitar tone yet again. There are 69 entries this time around, far more than the 25 from the first competition. That's why I'll be making several threads, with 7 entries in each. The winners from these thread will face each other head on in the final thread / showdown of semi-epic proportions.

I'll give every round a couple of days to gather enough votes before moving on to the next round. I intend to keep the voting time 5 days, but I'll extend it if needed and shorten if possible. I don't want to rush a round with insufficient votes or drag on too long when there's already a clear winner.

When voting, please keep in mind this is about the guitar tone. Some have louder guitars than others. No extreme differences though. Some files were submitted with master bus changes. These were disqualified. Some files were submitted with a much louder backing track. These too were disqualified. All the uploaded files here have been checked, but it may be that we missed a mistake. If you hear that someone didn't follow the rules let Anssi and myself know.

Without further delay, here are the first 7 contestants for round one.

1A: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/comp3 mp3s/1A.mp3
1B: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/comp3 mp3s/1B.mp3
1C: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/comp3 mp3s/1C.mp3
1D: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/comp3 mp3s/1D.mp3
1E: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/comp3 mp3s/1E.mp3
1F: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/comp3 mp3s/1F.mp3
1G: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/comp3 mp3s/1G.mp3

If you recognise your own work, please keep it to yourself. Usernames will be made public in the end. Please place your vote, and post in the thread with your reasoning!

All uploaded files are 320kbps mp3s.

 

[MetalJonesy]

well listening to the 320kbps, my vote has changed slightly this time round (i still like the one i originally voted for) but this sounds more balanced in the mix, really not a fan of E or F far too ear piercing!

 

[professorlamp]

wasn't a fan of the last ones they were too gainy IMO turned a bit mushy

 

[Spamds]

Hmm.. why not post several rounds and give them a week time? And then post bunch of other rounds next week? I mean, this is very time consuming with this many entries... IMHO

 

[Spamds]

BTW, what was the point of sending guitar tracks soloed since we cant judge them ...?

 

[mefourtwelve]

Oh wow, 320 kbps changed the perception of the sound. The E i liked before is not good anymore :-/

 

[kramer1309]

@spamds: its to make sure that no one 'cheated' by using any thing on the masterbus or raising the backing track..
its F for me..

 

[Soundlurker]

I hope you won't hate me for this but I'm not a fan of any of these tones. I found 'B' and 'F' to be closest to 'acceptable', with 'F' being just a bit better, so I voted for it.

 

[James-Doolan]

I went with b

I noticed some of the clips having trouble with low mids (multiband compression people!!!) and way to much high end for my liking, not a fan of the fizz

 

[HANIAK]

I still think 1F fits the song better, on this round.

 

[Mago]

I liked F the most.
but damn, some quite similar sounds in there, Anssi was right O.O

 

[Sickan]

Hmm.. why not post several rounds and give them a week time? And then post bunch of other rounds next week? I mean, this is very time consuming with this many entries... IMHO

+1

 

[Calippo Tecks]

voted B, although I'm not a fan of the treble/high gain fizz in there, but still sounded the best to me so far.

 

[Soundlurker]

^^+1

 

[Helius]

For me it's a really hard round to vote.

A - really strange and muffled sound. Doesn't really do it for me

B - Good tone in general, the guitars are mixed too loud, center guitar is a little bit low compared to the other guitars. Lead FX makes me nuts "sorry"

C - lacks upper mids

D - too dark for this song

E - very aggressive and ear piercing

F - At first I liked it as well, but listening to this track on my studio monitors reveals some really boomy low end. The lead FX is much too wet for my taste

G - Too muddy and muffled

Sorry guys. I didn't want to hurt anyone, that's just my personal opinion.

In this round the winner for me is track "B" even if I didn't like the Lead Guitar and the Guitar is mixed too loud.

 

[kev]

+1

I was thinking that too, we will be here for about 6 weeks at this rate wont we?

 

[ahjteam]

I was thinking that too, we will be here for about 6 weeks at this rate wont we?

with 69 participants more like 10 weeks + finals. But this round has like 2 pretty clear "winner candidates", they have like 90% of the votes

 

[ttrentt]

went with B. F was too scouped.

 

[Unavailable]

Last time we did 2 or 3 rounds at a time. Couldn't we do that this time too?

 

[Dexter_prog]

I haven't made up my mind yet, but I am definitely not voting for C. The rules said no editing the backing tracks and the guy adds an automation. Fuck that, the rules are the fucking rules.