Quest for new guitar tones (passive pups, at250+sm57+r121...EVH amp and box)

[Lasse Lammert]

every now and then I'm trying to find new ways to achieve cool guitar tones (by "new ways" I don't mean like "wow, that's not been there before", I mean "different from my usual go to approach")....

For this project I was looking for a slightly more vintage feel, not too vintage though, I still wanted it definied and cutting/in your face...
to avoid getting to close to what I'm doing with Alestorm (this is the second band of the Alestorm guy) I chose to do everything differently from what I'm doing with AS...

For AS I'm usually using EMG into v30 loaded Mesa cabs and sm57+m160 or md421, so for this band I chose the EVH cab instead and mic'd it with the AT250DE, an r121 and the sm57...passive pickups (Duncan SH6) in a Gibson FV...so an entirely different chain....
I guess people are still gonna say it sounds like a Lasse Lammert tone...and that might be right, after all my taste doesn't change THAT much...but I hope it's diffwerent enough and I really hope it matches the style of the music....a bit more "raw" and "open sounding...

either way, let me know what you think

ATTN: I'm talking about the guitar tone here, not the "mix", as it's not mixed yet..at all!
This is just the cue/tracking-mix, so ignore its flaws...let me know what you think about the guitar tone.....

GH Guits

 

[PD-Baraka]

my kind of tone!!!! wuuhuuuu

 

[Firaxis]

Sounds much more vintage compared to your usual stuff but still sounds great, I like it!

 

[neonlight]

nice tone! did you use all of these 3 mics or did you end up using just 1 or 2 of them?

 

[RichS]

I love that tone.

 

[Redline4]

Reminds me of some early Green Day

 

[Siriun]

I like it a lot. Sounds great. What head are you running that rig through? Sounds like Marshall

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Evh 5150III blue channel, it was either this or the jmp, we used the jmp for crunch stuff then, soldano for solos.
Using all 4 mics (at250 is two in one).

 

[RichS]

Lesse,

Even in your experimenting clips as with many other here, the drums sound pretty darned good. The drums out of the box, like Superior drummer simply do not sound as good as yours. Do you guys have presets that you load up when working on guitar sounds?

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Thanks.
no presets for me...
just some low mid notching, sometimes some high end boosting (talking about kick and toms here), some MH CS compression on the snare, that's it

 

[Nuno Filipe]

Awesome combo. Guitars sound great and so smooth and the drums, best raw drums that I have heard in my life!lol

 

[shredder10]

These drums are sexy haha!!
And guitar tone is so sweet even without that 'mixing'. I'm loving the palm mutes a lot lol!!!
*plays the short tune again*

 

[S1770]

Good JMP Tone Lasse ,passive pickups (Duncan SH6) in a Gibson FV
Heading towards a Rhodes Tone



S1770

 

[Firaxis]

Good JMP Tone Lasse ,passive pickups (Duncan SH6) in a Gibson FV
Heading towards a Rhodes Tone



S1770

Just stick a fuzz box infront and I think you'd be most of the way lol.

 

[Mago]

I think this is the less "Lasse-ish" tone I've heared from you so far (maybe apart from that HM2 Deathmetal tone you did somewhen).
Sounds fucking tits non the less! Really chunky, maybe a tad more highs/air and it will slay in a mix

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Thanks
This is the 5150III btw (blue channel), I used the JMP for crunch tones (less gain than this), but you can't hear it in this clip

 

[Vicioushead]

Sounds great, far superior to any tone I could produce!

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Actually, the least Lasse-ish tone might be this:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/backline/826641-first-orange-ad30htc-clip.html

 

[Djabthrash]

I think this is the less "Lasse-ish" tone I've heared from you so far (maybe apart from that HM2 Deathmetal tone you did somewhen).
Sounds fucking tits non the less! Really chunky, maybe a tad more highs/air and it will slay in a mix

Agreed (besides the fact that the Orange clip sounds not that Lasse-ish either) !

Love that new tone you got here ! I feel the Green Day thing too