How about a Guitar Tone competition, round two?

[lolzgreg]

I'm sort of interested in hearing what everyone here is capable of again. I figure since I won the last guitar tone competition (whether it be due to talent or pure luck), I should kind of throw it out there to start up another one. I think MarkG did an awesome job of hosting the first one, so I suggest he run this one as well if he has the time.

I think Bloodjinn or TheDude should supply the DI's this time around. The Dude's AxeFx Clips were awesome and the playing is super clean. Kyle is also a great player.

If you had the time, TheDude, I think it would be great if you could supply both drums and bass tracks as well. Your work is awesome.

Anyone down?

P.S. You better get your Roadster soon Marcus, time to redeem yourself

 

[GarethSE]

Fuck yes, round two. i wanna get in on this one.

 

[AeternusEternus]

I'll give it a go.

 

[Ermz]

Charlie and Kyle need to get in on this shit ASAP.

 

[lolzgreg]

I'm glad theres a concensus.

 

[Jaekae]

im in, but i think we should make small donations to markg if he do it again, cos it will take alot of time for him and last time he did all the work for free, atleast so he can get some free beer

 

[K Odell]

Well damn I am honored that you would want me to supply some DI's. I am definantly down. I just dont know what to record haha.

 

[Ermz]

Djent!!!


(...or groove metal of some kind)

 

[ahjteam]

I can host this one also if Mark is too busy, I had to do a lot of the editing work last time

I had a weird thought that how about we add a clean tone into the game?

 

[lolzgreg]

I'm gonna go with groove metal. Something cool and original. I think 30 seconds long or so would be appropriate. New strings and Countryman Type 85 (or something equivalent) would be standard. We need great DI's to start with.

 

[lolzgreg]

How about battle of clean guitars/battle of distorted guitars? Two different threads would be great.

 

[ahjteam]

and remember to write down the tabs (and notes) for people who want to use real amps but are without reamping capabilities

 

[lolzgreg]

I think everyone on this forum should donate a dollar to each individual on this forum who doesn't have a reamp box *cough cough* ola and poidaobi *cough* The worst part is they are two awesome contenders for this tone-off.

 

[Ermz]

My Countryman should get here within the week. If you guys don't mind I could do an entry with the Hellraiser > Mogami cable > Countryman > Millennia Origin > RME Multiface?

 

[Jevil]

Count me in.

But... the rules should be clear from the beginning, last time my sample was a bit controversial due to was louder RMS, but I demonstrated it was perfecly correct, cause there were 2 ways of normalizing RMS (weighted to human earing and the other). I passed to the final but people then hated my tone for being tricky. Sons o' bitchas.

Or to do things easier, the master of the contest should normalize all samples to the same average RMS.

It is just guitar tone, or guitar tone sitting in a mix, I mean, will there be drums and bass?

 

[Ermz]

They should be weighted to human hearing. Certain spectral responses can cheat flat RMS metering by too much or too little frequency content in one area.

 

[ahjteam]

I think 30 seconds long or so would be appropriate.

I think 30s is maybe a bit too long just for one tone, the previous shootout was 10 seconds and pretty much was long enough. How about 10 second clean intro and 20 second long heavy part?

 

[Jevil]

They should be weighted to human hearing. Certain spectral responses can cheat flat RMS metering by too much or too little frequency content in one area.

That is what I did and look what happened... the guy on the floor it's me.

 

[Jevil]

I don't think time is important, but it is very important to test a tone, differente styles or techniques... full chords, palm mute, solo, arpeggios...

 

[Fox Mulder]

Count me in!!!