Tone competition 2 round 3

Which clip has your favorite guitar tone?

  • EV

    Votes: 40 48.8%
  • F

    Votes: 11 13.4%
  • FF

    Votes: 9 11.0%
  • FU

    Votes: 11 13.4%
  • G

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • GG

    Votes: 8 9.8%
  • GT

    Votes: 2 2.4%

  • Total voters
    82
  • Poll closed .

MarkG

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I'm posting up this round as well to make up for lost time. I'll keep this round up for a week to give enough time to listen to both rounds carefully.

The winners from these threads will face each other head on in the final thread / showdown of semi-epic proportions.

I'll give every round a couple of days to gather enough votes before moving on to the next round. I intend to keep the voting time 5 days, but I'll extend it if needed and shorten if possible. I don't want to rush a round with insufficient votes or drag on too long when there's already a clear winner.

When voting, please keep in mind this is about the guitar tone. Some have louder guitars than others. No extreme differences though, the most extreme ones have been edited by Anssi. Some files were submitted with master bus changes. We used the submitted guitar only files and put those in the standard backing track in these cases to remove the master bus changes.

Without further delay, here are the7 contestants for round three.

EV: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/EV.wav
F: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/F.wav
FF: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/FF.wav
FU: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/FU.wav
G: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/G.wav
GG: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/GG.wav
GT: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010558/GT.wav

If you recognise your own work, please keep it to yourself. Usernames will be made public in the end. Please place your vote, and post in the thread with your reasoning!
 
Hmm, the best bunch yet overall IMO (except for G, which is definitely mono, and GT, which is rumbling like a mofo - also F is a bit thin/harsh, and GG a bit bloated; all IMO of course) - overall I'd say EV is the most balanced, so that gets my vote; FF is a bit too nasal, and FU a bit too distant, much as I would've loved for it to win (FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU :lol: )
 
what Marcus said

except i voted for GG

It has more ''body'' than EV....plus EV sounds a little hursh.I think it's overgained tbh.Second best though
 
The best match to me, but the worst winner.... EV has my vote... but have a strange lows.... like ressonance
 
very tough, but I went with FF... It had the clarity I like. Could have had just a tad more bite though, but anyways.
 
Voted for FU for the way it fit in the mix. I would have voted for EV but it was dominating the mix too much for me. The snare was really buried in it.

And also because it's a cool acronym. :p
 
More difficult to sort out than round 1 & 2 that had a few "eliminated at first listen" clips.

Here that's not the case.

Still there's no tone that i like 100%.

So for me it's EV (almost perfect balance, tone is good but not awesome, cuz' a bit too digital/gainy/untight sounding).

Quickly followed by FF (very clear & tight but not balanced enough, and has a kind of POD djent/thinness/nasalness also), FU (nice balance but tone is too digital/smooth/polished for me) & GG (not bad but no totalty balanced, and a tad unclear/too much lows/lo mids).

Then : F i didn't like the tone. G sounded muddy/phasey/messy/undefined, like guitar tracks in mono or something. GT : meh tone, very POD-ish.