Recent content by amra

Will Adler from Lamb of God (which is no way in hell "Nu Metal", BTW) gets his sound from Mesa Mk4 and Mk5 amps, real honest to god tube amps. Not a cheapo, sub $100 distortion pedal. Why waste your money on a tube amp only to use a crappy distortion pedal? I never understood this. All you are...

Does anyone else hate the guitar tone with the dated 80s sounding reverb on the opening riff of the first single? It is so far away from the raw guitar tone Slash had on their early stuff. blech.

Thanks, I'll give a closer listen to those things. Anyone else?

Looking for opinions on this song: Is it catchy at all? recording quality? Anything that jumps out at you good or bad, let me know! Losers, Saints and Sinners Thanks! A.

You definitely nailed the 80's hair metal vibe. That little lead line in beginning especially. Pretty cool tune. Only thing you might do is bring down the guitar just a bit. Not too much or it won't have that authentic 80's guitar driven feel to it, though. A.

Pretty cool song. Had a kind of cool 70's throwback "queen" kind of vibe to it. Also reminded me a little bit of that band spacehog. Pretty cool tune.

Sounds real good. I don't hear anything in the mix that distracted or kept me from being able to enjoy the music. Sounded pretty much radio worthy to me. A.

I play pretty high gain stuff, so for me, an overdrive is the only way to push my single channel tube amp to mega-gain levels. Actually, in truth, it is only hi-gain, probably not mega-gain. I set my amps preamp around 7, then use an OD pedal with the level on 7 or 8 to push the gain. I don't...

+1 to what weasel said. To add on a bit: Do a separate scratch guitar track using line out or something, put it into the headphone mix so the drummer and the guitarist hear it plus the drums, but doesn't come out in the drum mics. After you get a good drum track, redo the guitar with miced...

You should just be able to go from the 1010 outputs directly to the tape inputs (or the equivalent.) If that doesn't work, maybe you have a problem with cables or something else. I used a 1010 (2 to be exact) for years with a mixing board providing the preamps. The way I had the best results is...

to be a little more specific: - Add an FX track - Choose a reverb - make sure it is set to 100% wet (this is important) - on the right hand side of your chanel strip, choose your FX track as a send (it will show up as whatever you named the FX track, or whatever the name of your first plugin by...

All you guys that think a computer can't do nice reverb need to think about it. The best reverbs back in the 80's had, by modern standards, slow processors and poor digital converters. Modern PC's have way more horsepower, and even mid range converters are probably better than the best of the...

When I record guitar, I record dry, and setup the reverb/delay or other effects as a "send" to an outboard rack unit from within my DAW, like you would in a real mixer. Then you hear the effects while you are playing, but they are not recorded until you mix down. Up until that point you can play...

Like has already been said, it is an existing band, so the band decides what tuning to play in. Having said that, like metalhead said, the tuning you guys are playing in is pretty relevant. Don't assume that the majority of metal bands out there are playing in standard, cause they probably...

+1 to the classic delay. I use it quite a bit.