If that's also direct into the soundcard it's going to be bad - the amp does so much shaping that you won't get anything near a proper sound without at least a vague attempt at an amp sim. Have you looked into Guitar Rig?
Jeff
Jeff
Thoughts on this OSP guitar?
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Okay, I'm confused. sm7 pedal?
You mean sm57 mic? (microphone)
So that clip was recorded with an sm 57 mic on your bass amp?
It does sound better all ready but still bad with that soundcard.
Practice to a metronome often, then when your playing is tight (perfectly in time with the beat or metronome) quad track the riff (record 4 seperate tracks of the same exact riff) and it will sound even better still. This is common practice. The idea being that you want to play back the 4 tracks layered together on top of each other and pan 2 hard left and 2 hard right (2 guitars in the left speaker, 2 guitars in the right speaker) and have it sound like its actually 1 gtr in left and 1 in right. This process makes the gtrs sound bigger and better and more metal.
If they are not tight, you will hear it as it will sound like 4 gtrs played sloppy and we don't want that.
Also play around with that distortion pedal. Might as well work on finding an okay tone with what you have. It doesn't sound like it's used in that clip.
Well, you got the sm57 (I think) and that is a start and a step in the right direction.
Pedal?
You mean sm57 mic? (microphone)
So that clip was recorded with an sm 57 mic on your bass amp?
It does sound better all ready but still bad with that soundcard.
Practice to a metronome often, then when your playing is tight (perfectly in time with the beat or metronome) quad track the riff (record 4 seperate tracks of the same exact riff) and it will sound even better still. This is common practice. The idea being that you want to play back the 4 tracks layered together on top of each other and pan 2 hard left and 2 hard right (2 guitars in the left speaker, 2 guitars in the right speaker) and have it sound like its actually 1 gtr in left and 1 in right. This process makes the gtrs sound bigger and better and more metal.
If they are not tight, you will hear it as it will sound like 4 gtrs played sloppy and we don't want that.Also play around with that distortion pedal. Might as well work on finding an okay tone with what you have. It doesn't sound like it's used in that clip.
Well, you got the sm57 (I think) and that is a start and a step in the right direction.
Pedal?
Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
Okay, I'm confused. sm7 pedal?
You mean sm57 mic? (microphone)
So that clip was recorded with an sm 57 mic on your bass amp?
It does sound better all ready but still bad with that soundcard.
Practice to a metronome often, then when your playing is tight (perfectly in time with the beat or metronome) quad track the riff (record 4 seperate tracks of the same exact riff) and it will sound even better still. This is common practice. The idea being that you want to play back the 4 tracks layered together on top of each other and pan 2 hard left and 2 hard right (2 guitars in the left speaker, 2 guitars in the right speaker) and have it sound like its actually 1 gtr in left and 1 in right. This process makes the gtrs sound bigger and better and more metal.
Also play around with that distortion pedal. Might as well work on finding an okay tone with what you have. It doesn't sound like it's used in that clip.
Well, you got the sm57 (I think) and that is a start and a step in the right direction.
Pedal?
Oh what I meant was, I just recorded that to see if the pedal made the sound improve a bit. Im getting the sm57 mic next month :Smokedev: but thanks for the advice
Its still the same recording stuff with that clip, just a different pedal
And long ago when you heard that song "Toe Fungus" (if you did) that wasnt recorded with my computer, it was with an mp3 player last year on a distorted bass. I removed it, really is shitty sounding
If you can get your hands on something that simulates an amp, you can actually run it through an amp sim and it will sound infinitely better. Unprocessed hard clipping is just not going to sound good ever, period, end of discussion. I doubt you'll get a whole hell of a lot out of recording a bass amp with a high-gain stompbox like the SM7 either.
Get Voxengo's Boogex plugin and use that with an impulse from the FTP - if you need a pictorial to figure that one out I'll put it up, but it's pretty straightforward. Spend some time working on making that sound good (hint: turn the Drive to zero, turn the Tone up until it doesn't sound muffled, turn the Dynamics to 100%, and don't use much of the internal EQ) and you'll be much better off.
Jeff
Get Voxengo's Boogex plugin and use that with an impulse from the FTP - if you need a pictorial to figure that one out I'll put it up, but it's pretty straightforward. Spend some time working on making that sound good (hint: turn the Drive to zero, turn the Tone up until it doesn't sound muffled, turn the Dynamics to 100%, and don't use much of the internal EQ) and you'll be much better off.
Jeff
Hmm what preamp should I get? And is there any certain type of SM57 mic I should get? It seems like there are a few diff types on ebay
There's only one 'real' SM57...
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Shure-SM57-...yZ133006QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem is about as good as I'd plan on getting. $80-$100 is the going rate. There's only one Shure SM57, so...
Jeff
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Shure-SM57-...yZ133006QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem is about as good as I'd plan on getting. $80-$100 is the going rate. There's only one Shure SM57, so...
Jeff
Thanks, could you recommend a cheap preamp now? I read through the thread, my parents wouldn't give me 1000$ worth of stuff for Christmas 
so how about a cheap one that will last me about a year before I get a job?
so how about a cheap one that will last me about a year before I get a job?Honestly, I'd just build one. If you don't trust yourself with soldering, though, I'd go for an M-Audio Audio Buddy or DMP3 (if you can pull it off, you'll be keeping the DMP3 quite a bit longer) for right now.
Jeff
Jeff
