Guitar Tone Competitors that didn't make it to the competition but want feedback

[ahjteam]

I didn't want to participate even tho it was "my" competition, but I would still want some comments. If others like Jevil and Nuno Filipe who made the track but didn't make it to the competition and want comments too, feel free to post them on this thread.

I used this to demo the track a few months back with this and now I think I maybe should've participated.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338211/GTC4mp3/ahj.mp3

Rhythm guitar tones are panned hard left and hard right and divided to two parts:

Track 1: main tone

- Podfarm (screamer pedal only, drive 7:00, gain 5:00, tone 12:00)
- Kuassa Amplification Lite (input 9:00 Rhythm channel, Bass 7:00, Mids 9:00, Treble 3:00, Presence 12:00, Volume 12:00, Internal impulse)
- Waves Renessaince Axx, Attack 5.0, Threshold -4.3, shaving off ~6dB
- Highpass filter at 112hz

Track 2: Low end resonance

- Podfarm (screamer pedal only, drive 9, gain 5:00, tone 12:00)
- Lecto (input 3:30, red modern, drive 3:00, low 4:00, mids 7:00, high 7:00, presence 7:00, master 5:00, resonance 4:00, output 12:00)
- Waves IR-L (lolzgreg's ASEM impulse)
- Waves Renessaince Axx, Attack 5.0, Threshold -4.3, shaving off ~2dB
- Highpass filter at 100hz, lowpass filter at 250hz

Bass: panned center

- podfarm dual tone
Tone 1: Noise gate, Rock Classic amp (drive 10:00, bass 2:00, low mids 3:00, high mids 2:00, treble 3:00, volume 2:30, no di blended in, bass 8x10 class cabinet 0% room 20 dynamic mic), compressor (threshold -20dB, gain 4dB)
Tone 2: Jazz clean amp (drive 9:30, bass 11:30, mids 12:00, treble 3:00, presence 7:00, volume 2:00, 2x12 1987 Jazz Clean cabinet 35% room 57 on axis), compressor (threshold -19dB, gain 0dB)

Lead guitars: panned center

- Kuassa Amplification Lite (input 9:00, lead channel, gain 3:30, bass 12:00, mids 5:00, treble 5:00, presence 2:30, volume 12:00, internal impulse)
- Waves Supertap 2 delay (two delays -16dB and -20dB, 8 and 16, feedback 50% at 7), I used the tap to time the delays

 

[Nuno Filipe]

Here it´s my mix:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1457645/Gtr tone comp.mp3
I put a limiter in master bus.

 

[Fama]

I think you both would have done well.

 

[RaNk]

Yep, would have made very good entries for sure. ahjteam, your own mix is very good. Also nice guitar tone, especially considering it's all ampsims. I wouldn't pick them out as "lifeless" ampsim tones because they don't get dulled out in the mix at all. Still I think a real amp would give nicer, less "flat" midtones (and punchier, to me really benefitting a song like in the competition). Since you solved your own "real amp tone" (which was a total win hehe, I read about it but was mostly reading the forum only), you could have done it with real tubes. Then again, this mix would sure be one I could vote for, having voted and thus listened to all entries this morning. As for Nuno Filipe, I played it less loud to simulate having nothing on the master buss, it sounds good too. Nice rhythm sound, nice leads, but the bass is a little loud/overpowering to my taste. Still a good mix for the competition, too bad for "cheating" on the master bus. Maybe a "mastering only" competition would be alot of fun and very educative as well?

 

[hidemerre]

Good tracks.

I was working on two shots for this contest.

Take 1:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1990692/Guitar Contest1 - Stereo Out.mp3

Take 2:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1990692/Guitar Contest2 - Stereo Out.mp3

compression on the master and some limiter.