Mark IV - Testament Goodness!

[Melb_shredder]

Ok, so here's the deal. I was just noodling with tones the other day, and realized my alder body jacksons just aren't doing the rhythm stuff well. I'm getting a nice mahogany Jackson soon *SLS 3 drool* but decided to use my les paul COPY with an active pup just to get some toanz playing some Killing Season

So here, with sloppy quadding, which I apologise for, but I wasn't intending to keep these tracks. But since I thought the end result was good, and I don't hear enough good mark iv tones around the interwebz, hopefully you guys think this sounds good, I look forward to getting a proper mix done to work on it more

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/306055/AwesomeMarkTone.wav

 

[PhilTheBeard]

That tone is really scratchy sounding. but i could hear it working in a mix

 

[Melb_shredder]

Surely their are other things to note here for future recording?? Or is scratchy the only critique here?

 

[Ermz]

Told you it had to be in a mix, Chris!

 

[Melb_shredder]

Someone go make me a nice backing track to play over then

 

[DFGeneer]

Might be my poor english, but I wouldn't call this "scratchy". It sounds quite smooth in my opinion.
But yeah, smoothness to a big extent is a matter of mic placement.
Strange dip in the 500 Hz area. Is it post-processing?

 

[Melb_shredder]

Yes actually, post processing there, I did it for comparisons sake against some other tones. Bit too much then?

 

[iHate]

It sounds quite smooth in my opinion.
But yeah, smoothness to a big extent is a matter of mic placement.

Your English is fine lol, but you are right. But this amp is just inherently smooth. So much that it's difficult to get a really mean tone like a recto.

 

[Melb_shredder]

Your English is fine lol, but you are right. But this amp is just inherently smooth. So much that it's difficult to get a really mean tone like a recto.

Indeed, that's why I think the main aim is to NOT try sound like a recto

 

[DFGeneer]

Cool! We have an agreement! :-D

I love smooth driven sounds. However, to capture a really smooth sound of my MarkIV (through 1960AV cab) I have to play a bit with the mic placement. It doesn't work straight away.

 

[Melb_shredder]

I had a marshall cab, worst thing for a mark iv IMO, just hated it