little inspiration while testing 
plz comment guitar tone is it any good? http://www.box.net/shared/kvsmfldmrt
plz comment guitar tone is it any good? http://www.box.net/shared/kvsmfldmrt
soloC & new awesome impulse
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Erkan
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Very cool tone! I like it because it's kinda unusual... all I hear around here are super fat and tight tones all the time, it's nice to hear something that's isn't so extremely saturated and tight. The tone is a bit dark, which is a nice thing, and more tweaking could make it even better yea.
Still, I think it's a pretty pleasant tone to the ears, atleast for me. I'm so used with super tight modern distortion these days
Still, I think it's a pretty pleasant tone to the ears, atleast for me. I'm so used with super tight modern distortion these days
Injectionboy
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thank you for your comments,this is extremely EQed, but obviously in the wrong way... the goal was to make it natural hi gain tight guitar ,but i i screw it up.After many hours of tweaking it SOUNDED natural to me,,,but now its kind of sci-fi ,,,it is not bad but it is not what I wanted to do . I hope that that I don't get buried by forum for saying this but I have about 7 EQ on this track.I tried to fix it cuz my tracks dont sound even close to something Good people on this forum post and say HP and LP only no post processing.Anyway I would appreciate very much if u can give me some tips what to do with EQ on impulses.For example this is what im talking about, this is the first version,it is soloC with 7170 and this is what is sounds like http://www.box.net/shared/zhxcq5j8sm ,TERRIBLE ,when I blend this 2 sims togather phase comes am i doing something wrong? in this clip it is not very very obvious.help me get that super tight modern distortion !! Thank you very much!
p.s. it is smoke on the water hahahaha
,,,it is not bad but it is not what I wanted to do . I hope that that I don't get buried by forum for saying this but I have about 7 EQ on this track.I tried to fix it cuz my tracks dont sound even close to something Good people on this forum post and say HP and LP only no post processing.Anyway I would appreciate very much if u can give me some tips what to do with EQ on impulses.For example this is what im talking about, this is the first version,it is soloC with 7170 and this is what is sounds like http://www.box.net/shared/zhxcq5j8sm ,TERRIBLE ,when I blend this 2 sims togather phase comes am i doing something wrong? in this clip it is not very very obvious.help me get that super tight modern distortion !! Thank you very much! p.s. it is smoke on the water
hahahaha
GarethSE
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To be honest man the key is to not over-process your raw files.
When I do just literally the bare essentials to a guitar tone, high pass, low pass, and an obligatory wide 2-3db cut at 900hz if revalver is involved, a surgical cut at 100hz to kill rumble, and maybe one or two other minor cuts or boosts, I always get a much better sounding tone. More natural, bigger, wider, heavier, which is everything I'm usually going for in the first place.
I *ALWAYS* overprocess my guitar raws, and then as I carry on refining the mix, or do another iteration of the mix, I always cut down on the processing of the guitars especially. Just try and keep them as raw as possible and you'll probably get what you want as long as you dialled in a good tone to begin with.
Also try setting your high pass and low pass, THEN dial in your tone. I find that I end up dialling in huge amounts of bass for a thick tone, then I high pass, low pass, 10khz shelf boost, 100hz surgical cut and then turn off my eq and realise my tone is boomy and fizzy as fuck. I seem to subconsciouslly compensate for the basic eq'ing that I do, because I find that when I high pass and low pass I most of the boom and fizz that I didn't like in the raw tone, and I'm just left with the good stuff, so don't be afraid to experiment with what look like ridiculous tones. Jason Suecof puts his bass at 10 on 6505's I believe.
When I do just literally the bare essentials to a guitar tone, high pass, low pass, and an obligatory wide 2-3db cut at 900hz if revalver is involved, a surgical cut at 100hz to kill rumble, and maybe one or two other minor cuts or boosts, I always get a much better sounding tone. More natural, bigger, wider, heavier, which is everything I'm usually going for in the first place.
I *ALWAYS* overprocess my guitar raws, and then as I carry on refining the mix, or do another iteration of the mix, I always cut down on the processing of the guitars especially. Just try and keep them as raw as possible and you'll probably get what you want as long as you dialled in a good tone to begin with.
Also try setting your high pass and low pass, THEN dial in your tone. I find that I end up dialling in huge amounts of bass for a thick tone, then I high pass, low pass, 10khz shelf boost, 100hz surgical cut and then turn off my eq and realise my tone is boomy and fizzy as fuck. I seem to subconsciouslly compensate for the basic eq'ing that I do, because I find that when I high pass and low pass I most of the boom and fizz that I didn't like in the raw tone, and I'm just left with the good stuff, so don't be afraid to experiment with what look like ridiculous tones. Jason Suecof puts his bass at 10 on 6505's I believe.
XRated thank you for tips, I will post soon another sample so you can tell me am I going to the right direction.The main problem to me is ,sound of upper mids, its always too harsh to my ears so I EQ that area mostly.I set gain about 4-5 so not much, if tube screamer in front and it is bringing more gain, then I lower it so I dont get more nasty freq. I usualy LP at 10k (but it depends on impulse) and HP at 80-90,but this test is not HP cuz I didnt record bass and I wanted some meat .But when I LP at 10k the guitars kinda lose brightness and if I high shelf on 9-8k or 10k it introduces some fizz.I will post soon test with minimum processing.Thank you very much for tips and help
.But when I LP at 10k the guitars kinda lose brightness and if I high shelf on 9-8k or 10k it introduces some fizz.I will post soon test with minimum processing.Thank you very much for tips and helphttp://www.box.net/shared/ssokxd4qjy here it is , HP 80Hz ,LP 10k, cut around 150Hz for low boom, around 300 for box (2-3dB),700-800Hz (2-3db) and thats it.It still sounds little boxy, to me, but anyway is it better or not?
I would appreciate if someone is willing to give a try to mix this and that way show me how to deal with guitars .Here are DI guitars and midi of drums (I use superior 2, tempo is 160 http://www.box.net/shared/ox6mxekg5u
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