Polishing Guitar Sound

andrewpaiven

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Sep 4, 2007
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Downloaded yesterday the GuitarHack impulses and Voxengo Pristine Space but I find it impossible to get that "polished" sound that most of you guys can get like as we can hear here -> http://www.sneapforum.celtiaproducti...ses MASTER.mp3 - by CJWALL
My chain is: ENGL POWERBALL -> soundcard microphone input -> Voxengo

Here's my Voxengo Settings
voxengo.bmp


I added some EQ

EQ.bmp


Here you can hear the crap it turned out to be

www.forumpunkhardcore.com/guitar.mp3

what am I doing wrong/am not doing ?

Thanks a lot
 
I think you are boosting way too much and too high up. I usually don't boost anything over 5k, any higher and you just end up enhancing the fizzyness. If you need to boost that much, then you don't have your tone on your amp set right. You need to get your sound close without any eq, and the use the eq to refine it. you didn't mention if you were using any compression or not, but using sparingly it can tighten up the tone, and give your tone more power.
 
I added Izotope to the Chain and did some drums as well, here's the result.. I need your opinions !
www.forumpunkhardcore.com/mymixf.wav

That clip has 4 chugs and a sustained chord. We need more than that to really hear how the guitar sounds. Not alot more but yeah.

I would say from the little that is heard on that clip it sounds alright.
 
there are no mids at all. I know scooping out the mids sounds heavier. But that tone would get so buried in a mix.