I have a maxon od808. However, I'm confused as to how you would use a real tube screamer with an amp sim... Run it through my interface?
Yup... In real life, the chain is guitar -> ts -> amp -> cab, so the guitar and ts are just in the real world, and the amp and cab are digital!
Now a bit off topic, something that's concerning me. Does anyone know why my guitar tracks are sounding so... washed out? The strings are old, and the track isn't EQ'ed, but will those two things be the magic ingredient to the awesome modern sounding guitar tracks I hear here? This is the first mix/recording I ever did... I'm researching to make myself MUCH better, keep in mind this was like less than a week of me knowing what to do at all.
The bass track actually does a pretty decent job at "hiding" it. The tone is by no means bad at all, but it's not like what I'm seeing people with the same setup doing. This example was an 8505 with s-preshigh I believe, I think there might have been a low pass on the guitar too, and a few other minor things. No EQ.
To find a better example of what I mean "washed out" guitar tone, heres a
ROUGH DEMO version of the full version of that song our guitarist recorded.
There's no bass track (ok well he did a very bad synth version of it
), so of course that reduces the tone, but this shows a pure example of it. And the drums sound horrendous cause they are Drumkit From Hell! He isn't also an expert on mixing by any means (though he is getting better
)
Would a string change and an EQ (and perhaps some compression and other editS) really make the tone get that modern kickass sound?
