rust in peace cover - rate my mix

[Pman]

hello all
i covered megadeth - rust in peace a couple of weeks ago but i have been away recently and have now returned
i recorded the guitar fredman style and used a peavey studio pro 112 it is a friends amp which i have been trying out tones with
im not entirely satisfied with the tone it sounds very mushy
but it seems the best i can get out of the amp
its just the positioning i am fiddling with at the moment
the bass was a clean guitar pitchshifted
and the drums are real with the sneap gog from www.drumagog.com
http://www.fromtheabyss.com/ripm.mp3
enjoy and thanks for listening

 

[Kazrog]

Work on getting the playing and timing solid, and save up for some better gear. Seriously, focus on the playing aspect before you go nuts with production.

 

[Pman]

i dont have time at the moment to play regularly
im not really a guitarist, just a drummer and my main focus of recordings is my band not just me
so please forgive me for the shitty guitaring (and also drumming)
and also i am intending to get purchase a pod xt soon once i have my money

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

im not really a guitarist, just a drummer

We should ban lower-level life forms from this forum.

 

[Carrier Flux]

i dont have time at the moment to play regularly
im not really a guitarist, just a drummer and my main focus of recordings is my band not just me
so please forgive me for the shitty guitaring (and also drumming)
and also i am intending to get purchase a pod xt soon once i have my money

for not being a guitarist you did a good job. that song is deceptively hard to play tightly in parts.

but I'm afraid I have to agree with the kazrogzor. and it's tough to make a good judgement on a mix when you're distracted by slop.

btw one of the reasons your guitar sounds muddy is that you have about 20x as much low end as the guitars on the actual megadeth album had.

 

[kev]

ah, something ive had to come to terms with recently Dont record unless its pristine , other wise there is not so much point in recording... stage 1 is having something to record well, its the old cant polish a turd thing again! but its true of course

 

[Pman]

i hardly play guitar or drums at the minute due to long hours of work
so im very sloppy currently
anyway thanks for the suggestions
a problem with this amp is theres very very little high end
plenty of low and plenty of middle
so its quite a struggle until i can my hands on the pod and start with that

 

[Kazrog]

i hardly play guitar or drums at the minute due to long hours of work
so im very sloppy currently
anyway thanks for the suggestions
a problem with this amp is theres very very little high end
plenty of low and plenty of middle
so its quite a struggle until i can my hands on the pod and start with that

Or save up for a tube amp. Surely the guitarist in your band should be saving for one anyway right?

 

[Pman]

my band are very much in the sense of "if it works, its fine"
one guitarist uses the peavey and the other uses his £5 distortion pedal that sounds like shite
i mean my zoom sounds better...
my amp is a ultra crappy marshall which i just cannot get a good tone out of
i always used to use the emulated out for recording with it but since i started recording seriously with the band, i have been trying a lot harder with tone
here is a song of ours that i recorded one day with the peavey
i tabbed it out as best i could but some parts are different to the way they play it
http://www.fromtheabyss.com/heresth.mp3
btw i have only recently become the drummer and i know the song is very repetitive
the vocals arent on there as it was just a test by me

 

[Nebulous]

For the Rust in Peace cover, id definately agree that you have too much low end there. Id try get rid of that, untill it starts sounding clearer.

 

[Kenny Lee]

Yeah Megadeth is no easy band to replicate!!! Sounds cool, just (in my opinion) needs a lil' more tightening






Hehe.... I did a Line 6 pod pro xt patch for Megadeth
Holy wars sample Pod Pro xt right-side.



GORILLA

 

[Pman]

Yeah Megadeth is no easy band to replicate!!! Sounds cool, just (in my opinion) needs a lil' more tightening






Hehe.... I did a Line 6 pod pro xt patch for Megadeth
Holy wars sample Pod Pro xt right-side.



GORILLA

whoah man that sounds badass

 

[Pman]

hello all
i had another quick go at the guitar tone
its a huge step up from the original tone with a lot less mids and low
it still needs improvement but here it is anyway www.fromtheabyss.com/ripm2.mp3
please excuse the incredibly sloppy playing
but my computer is acting up and adgitating me to hell

 

[Nebulous]

Less lows, and put the mids back, then give them a bit mroe still. Mids are definately the key to a MD tone.