How to turn a nonmetal head into Metal

Not bad, the distortion feels right but there is too much treble/presence and too little mids. Up the mids and lower the treble boost on the BBE, and possibly add some more bottom.
 
One more time...

Sonic Maximizers are the beer goggles of guitar playing. Something may seem like a good idea at the time, but you'll regret using them once you get to your senses.

Jeff
 
JBroll said:
One more time...

Sonic Maximizers are the beer goggles of guitar playing. Something may seem like a good idea at the time, but you'll regret using them once you get to your senses.

Jeff
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I couldn't agree more. It's kind of like Izotope's Ozone3, when I first heard results with it I thought "Damn! this thing is a jack of all trades that'll finalize a track with a single instance. It didn't take long til the more I used it, the more I began to loathe it. It strangles the life right out of a mix. I picked up the Sonic Maximizer (software version) and just from it's tone coloring and processing I instantly thought it was the same type of effect Ozone was and I've used it very little because of that initial test run.

On that amp you are using for this clip, is it the Maximizer pushing the preamp into overdrive? The tone has potential for further adjusting, IMO. It is too trebly for my taste but the crunch and response are there.
 
GuitarGodgt said:
Huh, I don't find Ozone 3 to be at all like you described it. I certainly don't loath it anyway.

Your right though it is not a jack of all trades like Izotope would have you believe.
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To be fair to Ozone I have made a couple of presets that I use on my drum kit/tracks in AD. It has a decent mastering reverb for a kit and I like the EQ and dynamics enhancer. But I found I get much better and livelier results using Dynamizer by Rodger Nichols and Tls's Pocket Limiter when working with the final mixdown track.
 
how'd you hook up with Mustaine - or was it during one of his ebay "gear dumps"? just curious....
 
JBroll said:
One more time...

Sonic Maximizers are the beer goggles of guitar playing. Something may seem like a good idea at the time, but you'll regret using them once you get to your senses.

Jeff
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Dude, every other metal guitar player here in my town swears by either a 5150 or a Recto with a BBE in the loop. I've tried to explain to them many times that your amp should sound like you want it to without adding a bunch of shit to it. They all loved my tone and I have no outboard gear. Why do people insist on spending $1200 on miscellaneous junk to build up to a descent tone instead of just forking out that whole sum on a really fuckin good amp? If I'm layin out a couple G's on some gear and it doesn't sound exactly how I want it, I find different gear. Maybe I'm an oddity in that respect?

I love having a variety of tones at hand but some guys struggle with their pedal-boards and amps then a rack then a cab and aren't even happy then plus they can't live without any of it. I think that's one of the reasons I never really seriously considered trading my Triaxis and 2:Ninety for a Roadking. The Triaxis isn't the greatest preamp on earth. It's supposed to do a few things and do them really well and to me it does that. The Roadking seems to me to be trying real hard to be the perfect "every-amp" and I'm sure most of you know that most things in life are either 'ok' at a lot of things or 'great' at one thing. It's like a Swiss army knife... yeah, it has a saw on it but would you use that saw over an actual saw if you had a choice?

I know some will say that they didn't have $1200 or so to drop on an amp and I certainly understand that but don't waste too much money trying to turn an Epiphone Valve Jr into a Bogner Sig X stack. Know what I mean, Vern?
 
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