Tele with EMG-T's stems & DI for download

[J.L.BeelerMusic]

My dad had an old Lotus Telecaster that he gave me before he passed away and he had complained for the longest time about needing to fix the busted up guitar. So naturally I took it upon myself to do so and I'm pretty happy with it. Ordered a Warmoth neck, replaced the bridge and installed a pair of emg-t pups, which took a lot of routing work to get them to fit.

Anyway, long story short I recorded this track to test how the guitar could handle high gain:


Click here if you want the Midi, Stems and DI's:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nr4pcu901tc918s/AADmxWhySKJOLsGLtAs63Y1Ca?dl=0

Mix Notes:
Tele - Cheap DI Box - Boss OD - 6505+ - Avatar Contemporary Cab loaded w/ V30's - Sm57 (4" edge of dust cap, w/ blanket draped over cab and mic) - focusrite saphire pro40 - protools 11

Wasn't happy with how that sounded so I blended in the DI's with Fluff's 5150 amplitube preset

Bass is a cheap Sound Gear Ibanez, once again using Fluff's Amplitube Bass preset

Drums are a slight variation of Nolly's Superior Drummer preset (changed the snare to maple, tweaked eq and levels)

Then I slapped Ozone on the master bus for volume and spent about 5 minutes cycling through its presets.

Be easy on my playing I stopped playing metal for some time and joined a rock band so I'm a bit rusty. I honestly didn't spend as much time on this as I probably should have but I'm okay with that. Let me know what you think \m/

 

[J.L.BeelerMusic]

I don't mean to bump the post, but after listening to the mix I realized that the snare doesn't have as much presence and impact as I want. This could probably be a few things, the guitars are probably a bit loud for one, and I may have squashed it during the "Mastering" process. I'm a total noob when it comes to mastering so any advice would be great.

Also this is the first time I've linked to files on dropbox and I'm not entirely sure I did it correctly, fingers crossed. Let me know if it didn't work

 

[xXxMetalJunkiexXx]

I don't mean to bump the post, but after listening to the mix I realized that the snare doesn't have as much presence and impact as I want. This could probably be a few things, the guitars are probably a bit loud for one, and I may have squashed it during the "Mastering" process. I'm a total noob when it comes to mastering so any advice would be great.

Also this is the first time I've linked to files on dropbox and I'm not entirely sure I did it correctly, fingers crossed. Let me know if it didn't work

First of all, really liked this song! About mastering, have a read:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/f-o-h/278894-getting-your-loudness.html

 

[J.L.BeelerMusic]

Thanks MetalJunkie, I haven't been able to read through that entire thread that you linked me yet, but it's already taught me a few things. Thanks for sharing it

 

[mva801]

Sounds pretty rad. The EMG t's are single coil active right? Guessing they have a pretty high output. Are they noisy?

 

[J.L.BeelerMusic]

Yessir, they're active single coils. They seem pretty quiet noise-wise (of course I also use a noise suppressor in front of my amp which I failed to mention), tonally they seem to bridge the gap between single coils and humbuckers, but retain a moderately high output. They don't hold a candle to the output of my Duncan distortions but that's totally to be expected.