Spreading the love! With impulses...

[Ola Englund]

Recently I recorded some impulses of my Mesa Boogie 2:50 and Carvin cab that you can find in the Production forum. Tried it out a bit and came to this sound. What do you guys think?

Still having problems getting a true miced tone but I´m working on it.

UPDATED
http://www.feared.se/crap/love-2.mp3

The impulses can be found here:
http://www.feared.se/crap/GoddamnImpulses.zip

 

[KeithTidd]

sounds pretty awesome to me.

what compressor are yo using on the guitars/2 bus?

 

[MarkG]

Sweet! MoAR impulses

 

[Erkan]

Wow, nice!

 

[Wild Hades]

To be honest I think that your previous tones are better, smoother and fuller...
This is a bit harsh for my taste, the whole mix should be smoothered a bit... is a bit ear fatiguing...
The bass is crushing, what did you use? Really nice!

Let that snare breathe a bit more, sounds like the compression attack is too fast...

 

[The-Zeronaut]

the bass is AWESOME

 

[Morgan C]

Wow, really unique and awesome tone, really aggressive. Bass fits with it really well too.

Only thing I'd change about the mix, as has been said, is the snare. Too much compression.

 

[Ola Englund]

To be honest I think that your previous tones are better, smoother and fuller...
This is a bit harsh for my taste, the whole mix should be smoothered a bit... is a bit ear fatiguing...
The bass is crushing, what did you use? Really nice!

Let that snare breathe a bit more, sounds like the compression attack is too fast...

I can totally hear the earfatiguing point here at work. DAMNIT!

 

[Ermz]

I would take some of the high mids out of the guitar sound. It's roughly the 3k area killing it and causing a lot of the ear fatigue. They sound really 'pushed', over-EQd or something.

I'd say the issues you're running into getting a true mic'ed tone are more due to the impulses than your own methods. Impulses aren't there yet. The best way I've found to mask the static nature of them is to quad-track using two fairly differently voiced impulses that work well together. So perhaps if you make one with the ENGL cab and one with the Carvin that blend together well, you can go from there.

 

[Ola Englund]

I would take some of the high mids out of the guitar sound. It's roughly the 3k area killing it and causing a lot of the ear fatigue. They sound really 'pushed', over-EQd or something.

I'd say the issues you're running into getting a true mic'ed tone are more due to the impulses than your own methods. Impulses aren't there yet. The best way I've found to mask the static nature of them is to quad-track using two fairly differently voiced impulses that work well together. So perhaps if you make one with the ENGL cab and one with the Carvin that blend together well, you can go from there.

Thanks for the tip.

Yeah impulses is more a lazy way for me to record rather than going to the rehearsal and record there. I know that I eventually go back to record a real amp but I need to convince myself that I can't get the same tone using impulses

 

[Ermz]

Well if it helps at all, I'll convince you; You can't get the same tone from impulses. There, end of story. Now get back to mic'ing the cab

 

[Ola Englund]

Well if it helps at all, I'll convince you; You can't get the same tone from impulses. There, end of story. Now get back to mic'ing the cab

I tell you what, I'll go to my rehearsal space tonight and record through my rig. If it sounds good I'll buy a 1x12 with celestion and shove it into my closet by tomorrow.

 

[Soundlurker]

1x12 tends to sound a bit nasty because of the small volume of the enclosure, IMO.

 

[Ola Englund]

Ok I just reEQ the guitars and put up in another clip: http://www.feared.se/crap/love-2.mp3

 

[_Protoss_]

This tone is pure win!

 

[Sickan]

Ok I just reEQ the guitars and put up in another clip: http://www.feared.se/crap/love-2.mp3

Fucking juicy

 

[AudioPhile777]

Ok I just reEQ the guitars and put up in another clip: http://www.feared.se/crap/love-2.mp3

What amp/preamp are you using with that impulse?

 

[CatharsisStudios]

WOWWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW what is the rig o.o!

 

[Ola Englund]

This is actually revalver used as a preamp.
Here are the settings:
http://www.feared.se/crap/revalver.tiff

 

[Toni S.]

Ok I just reEQ the guitars and put up in another clip: http://www.feared.se/crap/love-2.mp3

That sounds awesome!! What post-processing did you do for the guitars!? YOU GOTTA TELL US!

ps. you rule

btw, do you use something like boogex because you haven't loaded the impulse to the Revalver RIR?