Help me improve my guitar tone.

[justinITB]

I havnt been happy with my guitar tone lately. Its not smooth/round enough for me. I think some of it has to do with i have no clue what to do with adding compressors and eq's to it. Ive been using a compressor lately, but i honestly cant tell a difference with it on or off, other than its louder.

I want to try and emulate the tone from As i lay dying's "Shadows are security"

I used my axe fx on my 5150 patch.

Heres a short mix test of an AILD song with my "go to" Axe Fx patch. I didnt try and make it sound like the AILD tone at all.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5702817/AILD-MW di.zip

Heres the drum and guitar DI's if anyone wants to actually try and do something to it.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5702817/AILD-MW.mp3

ALSO....there is no bass, because i dont own one.


Updated
I Reamped it, tweaked the settings alittle. and used a difference impulse

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5702817/AILD-MW2.mp3

 

[XnaySaturo]

While I'm not really happy with my own guitar tone, I really never use compression. Distorted guitars are already compressed a lot and you don't need to add some more. (You said it yourself, you can't hear the difference). People always try new things, extra plugins, wideners and everything on guitars, but what really sounds best is direct from the amp with HP/LP. Or in your case, your AxeFX. Your tone sounds really scooped, so you might want to try to add some mids to that and see where to go from there. I'm not really familiar with the AxeFX, but I guess you could fix your problem in the actual patch, and not with effects and EQ after recording it.

 

[justinITB]

While I'm not really happy with my own guitar tone, I really never use compression. Distorted guitars are already compressed a lot and you don't need to add some more. (You said it yourself, you can't hear the difference). People always try new things, extra plugins, wideners and everything on guitars, but what really sounds best is direct from the amp with HP/LP. Or in your case, your AxeFX. Your tone sounds really scooped, so you might want to try to add some mids to that and see where to go from there. I'm not really familiar with the AxeFX, but I guess you could fix your problem in the actual patch, and not with effects and EQ after recording it.

Haha, the only thing i actually changed on the patch was usually i have way more mids, but everyone complains to me about them. And since it was a metalcore song, i took them down to around 4 instead of like 8.

Ill reamp it later and add some more and see what that does.

 

[ScootBaloo]

Dude, you didn't upload the DI's, how are we supposed to "do something to it" ?

 

[ahjteam]

If you can afford Axe FX, you can afford a cheap bass guitar too. You really need to add a bass guitar there, the guitars will otherwise sound that they don't have any balls without it.

 

[justinITB]

Dude, you didn't upload the DI's, how are we supposed to "do something to it" ?

i was trying to see if you could do any post production to them, to make them sound better. But heres the DI tracks, id love to hear what you could do with it.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5702817/AILD-MW.mp3

If you can afford Axe FX, you can afford a cheap bass guitar too. You really need to add a bass guitar there, the guitars will otherwise sound that they don't have any balls without it.

i knoww, ive always had access to a really nice warwick but my friend recently took it back, and i always spend all my money on guitars and forget about getting a bass.

 

[ScootBaloo]

i was trying to see if you could do any post production to them, to make them sound better. But heres the DI tracks, id love to hear what you could do with it.

Thanks for the DI's Justin, I will do a reamp but don't get too excited
because my Reamps wont sound like the original band !!!

EDIT : Hey Justin you posted a link to the mp3 instead of the DI's by mistake.

 

[justinITB]

Thanks for the DI's Justin, I will do a reamp but don't get too excited
because my Reamps wont sound like the original band !!!

EDIT : Hey Justin you posted a link to the mp3 instead of the DI's by mistake.

oops, here it is. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5702817/AILD-MW di.zip

 

[ScootBaloo]

Did a quick reamp, dosent sound anything like the original, your DI's are good though !!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2785995/2010-Apr-01-1.wav

I think you should concentrate on setting up the Axe FX with a better tone
and forget about post processing.