Post a sample of good guitar tone.

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I've been trying to improve my guitar tone and it looks like I am just going to need to invest in a better amp.

I was hoping some of you recording types could post me a sample of good guitar tone :) preferably isolated (e.g. just the guitar track not the entire mix)

This is a sample of one of my latest tracks, it's just two guitar tracks panned hard left and right, I want to improve the tone so I am looking at new amps - maybe you can post me a sample of good tone?

It would help if the track is along the lines of the tunes I am working on - like alt/rock/punk type stuff...

So let me hear some good tone :guitar:
 
What are you using for an amp now? It's kinda heavily effected and fizzy....just my opinion...
If you browse through my Soundclick GMP link songs - the first 10 are mostly overdriven Marshall JCM 900
(rhythm = Kramer w/Schaeller humbuckers, leads = Kramer or Strat). Mic'd with an SM57...
 
Have you looked in the "Tone to Die For" thread in the Cave? 102 pages of toneful goodness. :)
 
Bubba po said:
Have you looked in the "Tone to Die For" thread in the Cave? 102 pages of toneful goodness. :)
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I read the first 2 pages and gave up.

Plus it seems that the consensus is something about ear bleeding volume. I need tone from lower volume - my studio is like 12x14' and I don't really want a giant amp that I have to crank up to get great tone from.
 
ido1957 said:
What are you using for an amp now? It's kinda heavily effected and fizzy....just my opinion...
If you browse through my Soundclick GMP link songs - the first 10 are mostly overdriven Marshall JCM 900
(rhythm = Kramer w/Schaeller humbuckers, leads = Kramer or Strat). Mic'd with an SM57...
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Not sure about heavily effected - the only effect on there is an HT-DUAL tube distortion pedal - there isn't any other effect on there - nothing in the DAW and no reverb from the amp- it's mic'ed with an SM57 in the grill of the Fender Frontman 25R -

but anyway - the tone is what I am trying to improve - your tone sounds good on those tracks but I'm not sure how that would sound for my tracks which are a little different style.
 
arca-dekko, do you have a style in mind? Maybe a band that has a guitar tone you might like to sound like?
 
Greg_L said:
arca-dekko, do you have a style in mind? Maybe a band that has a guitar tone you might like to sound like?
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That would be too easy.

I guess I should pull up some tracks and give a listen.

The guitar sounds I really lie, I'm not sure if I want to sound like...

I like the guitar sound on Jet Boy by the new York Dolls. Alcohol by Gang Green and X Poor Girl - More modern bands have some good guitar tone like The Hives and The Fratellis.

But it could just be that I like the songs and riffs...

I like the tone on ACDC Dirty Deeds but I don't think that really fits with what I'm doing...
 
Anywhere I could go to post some wavs or a site that will convert to mp3 for me so I can post some clips? :facepalm:
 
kidkage said:
Anywhere I could go to post some wavs or a site that will convert to mp3 for me so I can post some clips? :facepalm:
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Audacity is a free program that allows you to save waves as MP3 with the LAME extension.
 
Ok, I been messing around - I tried micing my Laney Bass Amp with the SM57

Here is a sample of the riff played with 3 tone settings

1) Through the HT-Dual Pedal
2) Playing Clean
3) Playing clean through the free Amplitude sim



think any of these sound better than the first one recorded through the Fender 25R?
 
arcadeko said:
Ok, I been messing around - I tried micing my Laney Bass Amp with the SM57

Here is a sample of the riff played with 3 tone settings

1) Through the HT-Dual Pedal
2) Playing Clean
3) Playing clean through the free Amplitude sim



think any of these sound better than the first one recorded through the Fender 25R?
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They all sound way better. Way better. The first one being the best - to me. I think if you took that first one and cut some of the lows or mic'd a brighter spot on the speaker, it could be a winner.
 
arcadeko said:
That would be too easy.

I guess I should pull up some tracks and give a listen.

The guitar sounds I really lie, I'm not sure if I want to sound like...

I like the guitar sound on Jet Boy by the new York Dolls. Alcohol by Gang Green and X Poor Girl - More modern bands have some good guitar tone like The Hives and The Fratellis.

But it could just be that I like the songs and riffs...

I like the tone on ACDC Dirty Deeds but I don't think that really fits with what I'm doing...
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I'm very familiar with the NY Dolls. They used Fender Twins and Bassmans played loud. Johnny Thunders was a no pedals, all amp, crank the shit out of it kind of guy. You need a tube amp, bud.
 
Greg_L said:
They all sound way better. Way better. The first one being the best - to me. I think if you took that first one and cut some of the lows or mic'd a brighter spot on the speaker, it could be a winner.
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word to this.
the clarity of the third with the thickness of the first... if that makes sense :confused:
 
arcadeko said:
I read the first 2 pages and gave up.

Plus it seems that the consensus is something about ear bleeding volume. I need tone from lower volume - my studio is like 12x14' and I don't really want a giant amp that I have to crank up to get great tone from.
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I'm not intending to troll your thread or take it off-topic, but it took some time for the thread to get going -more than a couple of pages - and for the clips to be posted. I really think it'd be worth your while to at least skim it and listen to a few of the clips. There are examples of every kind of tone, from emulated outs, to balls-out 100-watt tube stacks recorded in a separate house. :D
 
Q: Does the Cave come up in web searches or the new posts list?
I agree that the Cave thread is the best thing since trs plugs,
but respectfully suggest that a separate narrowly focused tone thread here in guitars
is a good idea for the rest of society.

Everyone is chasing the good tone...
 
We could re-do the tone thread in here. Except dumbish n00bs will flood it with youtube clips as opposed to their actual recorded tone.
 
I thought the song was really close to the riff, sorry.
I shall desist from posting videos.
 
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