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Alright, I originally popped this together really quickly just before Christmas but I've worked on my tone and micing a bit since then. I'm not trying to copy the tone of the original - I just want it to sound good - I'm pretty happy with this. Any improvements? Unfortunately getting away from...

I've been pretty light on posting tones at the moment as I've been working on a lot of other stuff. 1. Mainly working on improving my singing which is shit as I'm currently adding vocals to a few of my tracks. 2. Re-tracking my version of We Are The Road Crew by Motorhead - I initially did a...

OK, here it is, in the style of the New Tone Thread from "guitars and basses" I've decided to post the "Fake Drums Tone Thread" Most of us would love to have real drums on our recordings but don't have the space, neighbours, money, talent or time to develop our drumming so we have to use fake...

Here's the latest remix - based on various comments. I'm parking this track for a while now while I work on the vocals - but I'm generally pretty happy with the guitars.

Alright, not done a great deal of vocal recording and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing really. I need to know how to get a vocal track to sit in a mix properly, this sounds a bit like... eh, well like someone singing over a backing track! I've added Reaper's ReVerbate "Live Vocal"...

Aside from my other thread (about possibly getting a Chibson in place of the Tele and Washburn) the other thing that I'm really keen on is sorting out a really cheap shit old strat copy that I have. Its quite a thin body; made by Encore - its the guitar that I learned to play on. Not sure if it...

OK, I've got my new Crimson Custom, sold my FMT HH Telecaster, decided to keep my Ibanez and have decided that I'm gonna get rid of the Washburn too (if I can find any sort of buyer for it). I want to get another dual humbucker, guitar to replace the Washburn and was considering a Chibson...

"studio" pic Alright, dudes. As you know I need a totally mobile set up for recording. Check out this shambolic mess... I did find a use for the Boss HM2 though. ---------- Update ---------- Unfortunately, that's what constitutes a "studio" for me these days!

Gents, tone of the day. This is an old song of mine that I've been dying to get around to re-tracking. Actually wrote this when I was 15 (yes, that's 20 years ago!) hence the genericness of it. Got a cool idea for a guitar solo for this, quite Bowie/Frippesque - I touch on it in the first...

Seen anything cool that you really fancy coming out of NAMM? I've seen an actual analogue tape delay which is pretty cool - although probably completely impractical! Victory (you know I love Victory Amps) have just released a Plexi style amp called The Sheriff which comes as a 22W or 44W...

Shan, this is a similar mix to what you've heard on the SoundCloud but with some minor EQ tweaks on the guitar. I'm now very happy with the tone. Any extra tweaks you can come up with would be helpful but I don't want to fuck with this much more.

While I'm at it - I've remixed the chorus to a track of mine (That most of you have heard before) I think this is a lot better, I've tweaked the levels and added a touch of reverb to the the "lead" guitars and left the rhythm guitars pretty dry, before they all had exactly the same reverb. I've...

Speaking of consolidating - I found two tracks in my recording drive that sounded similar and were only 5 bmp apart. I stuck em together and retracked the guitars. Lower gain that I've been using lately - I quite like it.

Gents, With Greg not being about I posted this in the MP3 mixing clinic but its more appropriate here. Getting a good heavy tone now, my semi clean verse tone sounds appropriately mangled and I love the feedback at the end.

This is another test mix to go to the drummer. I've not added the solo to this (cos its getting late here and I've pissed off enough people recording the rhythm part) I think the guitars sound heavy as fuck which is good. The feedback section in the middle turned out OK and I really like the...

Alright Dudes, I don't post in here very often - but I just want to get the levels on this right before I hand it over to the drummer to make a proper job on it rather than my rubbish. Weird, sounds totally different on phone to computer and iPad.

Tone threaders, with all of your help, I think I am close to finding the tone I am looking for. A little more tweaking on the amp this evening, minor stuff with the EQ and ISF and I think I have it as good as I can get it - its also at a sensible setting where I can just dial back the gain knob...

Sorry about the SPAM tones for now (this'll be my final tone test of the day) but I've nudged the preamp vol up a bit and the gain down a bit. I think I've made some progress with what I'm after though.

Here's an example with the Preamp Vol set to 12 and the Preamp Gain set to 12. I've lost a bit in total volume (in the room) here as I didn't nudge up the master vol enough to compensate for the reduction in preamp vol. To be honest - I think it sounds quite nice - not quite as angry as I was...

Tone Threaders - First tones of the new year: The B, M and T positions are "O'Clock positions" i.e. 12 would be the midpoint. On all of these the master is at 12. The "Gain" is low (as low as it'll go without silencing the amp!) but the preamp vol is very high ~3:30. Reverb is at 9. The...