Fail attempt at trying to make a funny thread title!
Anyway, simply put; I have found an easy way to fatten up the tone in my current guitar chain without any effort. I went through my chain today to see if there was something that needed tweaking and at the end of the chain I have ReaXcomp (multiband compressor) and I decided to play around with it. Its job is to tame the low end and I had set it to NOT activate auto make-up gain and had instead controlled the gain manually. For the fun of it, I activated auto make-up and just slightly lowered the gain for the lows because it was quite a lot of lows it brought up, and this is what I ended up with.
The clip contains 2 riffs that are repeated twice so you can hear the "fat" and "non-fat" version after each other. As all my scratch tracks, this one contains no bass guitar and there is a poor Addictive Drums track accompanying the guitars.. sounds like crap but it's just a scratch track! You'll be able to hear the guitars anyhow so it's cool
Here it is, listen! d()b
I know the bass guitar is gonna have a tremendous impact on the tone but the guitars might perhaps need a little bit more fatness in any case.. well, I thought I'd get your opinions too
I know I have been posting tone threads awfully a lot and you probably think I'm obsessing like a maniac... which actually is true from time to time but still, this time I'm just posting for the fun of it really =) So which one of the tones do you like the most, the first or the second? I haven't mentioned in what order they come but I think you'll definately hear that one is thinner while the other is fatter. Question is which one you think will fit the music better
Perhaps the fatter tone is a bit TOO fat but it's easy to fix... just pulling down the gain on the low band by 1.5-2dbs should solve it.
Anyway, simply put; I have found an easy way to fatten up the tone in my current guitar chain without any effort. I went through my chain today to see if there was something that needed tweaking and at the end of the chain I have ReaXcomp (multiband compressor) and I decided to play around with it. Its job is to tame the low end and I had set it to NOT activate auto make-up gain and had instead controlled the gain manually. For the fun of it, I activated auto make-up and just slightly lowered the gain for the lows because it was quite a lot of lows it brought up, and this is what I ended up with.
The clip contains 2 riffs that are repeated twice so you can hear the "fat" and "non-fat" version after each other. As all my scratch tracks, this one contains no bass guitar and there is a poor Addictive Drums track accompanying the guitars.. sounds like crap but it's just a scratch track! You'll be able to hear the guitars anyhow so it's cool
Here it is, listen! d(
)bI know the bass guitar is gonna have a tremendous impact on the tone but the guitars might perhaps need a little bit more fatness in any case.. well, I thought I'd get your opinions too
I know I have been posting tone threads awfully a lot and you probably think I'm obsessing like a maniac... which actually is true from time to time but still, this time I'm just posting for the fun of it really =) So which one of the tones do you like the most, the first or the second? I haven't mentioned in what order they come but I think you'll definately hear that one is thinner while the other is fatter. Question is which one you think will fit the music better
Perhaps the fatter tone is a bit TOO fat but it's easy to fix... just pulling down the gain on the low band by 1.5-2dbs should solve it.
). I wonder how it'd be with the bass though.
