Hey all! This forum seems really interesting if you're into metal sound engineering; which I am.
Introducing myself: my name is Fredrik Groth and I'm from Sweden. I'm the guitarist of the melodic metal band THE STORYTELLER (and we have just finished recording our 4th album, which will be released in october or november). My one and only huge interest is sound engineering, but since I'm on a low budget I mostly work at home with my Behringer equipment, hehehe! Not having money or expensive equipment means you have to be innovative and creative when recording, and that's where most of the fun is, according to me.
Basically; this is my stuff:
Behringer UB 802 mixer
Behringer MX 602A mixer
Behringer Tube Ultragain T1953 preamp
Behringer Autocom Pro MDX1400 compressor
Behringer Ultra-Graph Pro equalizer
Behringer Ultrapatch patchbay
Behringer V-AMP2
Behringer Ultra-DI DI20 (worst investment EVER!)
Tannoy Reveal passive monitors
Celeron 3417MHz computer /w 1GB RAM
Audiophile 2496 soundcard
ADK A51ST
2 x SM57
some more microphones, mostly cheap ones
a $5 bass guitar (yes, I bought it for $5)
a bunch of guitars
and of course some heaphones, a midi keyboard and stuff like that
I'm not doing commercial recordings at home, obviously. Storyteller demos and pre-productions, and some demo recording for other bands... but most of the times I just play around because it's fun!!!
For a looong time I've tried to get decent guitar sounds from my V-AMP, but the speaker emulation leaves a lot to wish for. Yesterday I got the idea to simply turn the speaker emulation OFF, and use some miked cabinet impulse responses to do the emulation by software. I've tried a bunch of impulses, and today I found a few that really reminded me of the Metallica sound, and whooops, there I was, recording a few bars from Enter Sandman. Totally useless, but a) I had lots of fun, and b) I learned that the V-AMP is more flexible than you could imagine. There's a world of impulses out there, waiting to be discovered!
You can listen to the clip here.
Well, fellow forumists... keep up the good work!
best regards,
Fredrik Groth
http://www.storyteller.nu
Introducing myself: my name is Fredrik Groth and I'm from Sweden. I'm the guitarist of the melodic metal band THE STORYTELLER (and we have just finished recording our 4th album, which will be released in october or november). My one and only huge interest is sound engineering, but since I'm on a low budget I mostly work at home with my Behringer equipment, hehehe! Not having money or expensive equipment means you have to be innovative and creative when recording, and that's where most of the fun is, according to me.
Basically; this is my stuff:
Behringer UB 802 mixer
Behringer MX 602A mixer
Behringer Tube Ultragain T1953 preamp
Behringer Autocom Pro MDX1400 compressor
Behringer Ultra-Graph Pro equalizer
Behringer Ultrapatch patchbay
Behringer V-AMP2
Behringer Ultra-DI DI20 (worst investment EVER!)
Tannoy Reveal passive monitors
Celeron 3417MHz computer /w 1GB RAM
Audiophile 2496 soundcard
ADK A51ST
2 x SM57
some more microphones, mostly cheap ones
a $5 bass guitar (yes, I bought it for $5)
a bunch of guitars
and of course some heaphones, a midi keyboard and stuff like that
I'm not doing commercial recordings at home, obviously. Storyteller demos and pre-productions, and some demo recording for other bands... but most of the times I just play around because it's fun!!!
For a looong time I've tried to get decent guitar sounds from my V-AMP, but the speaker emulation leaves a lot to wish for. Yesterday I got the idea to simply turn the speaker emulation OFF, and use some miked cabinet impulse responses to do the emulation by software. I've tried a bunch of impulses, and today I found a few that really reminded me of the Metallica sound, and whooops, there I was, recording a few bars from Enter Sandman. Totally useless, but a) I had lots of fun, and b) I learned that the V-AMP is more flexible than you could imagine. There's a world of impulses out there, waiting to be discovered!
You can listen to the clip here.
Well, fellow forumists... keep up the good work!
best regards,
Fredrik Groth
http://www.storyteller.nu