dull rhythm guitar

[castlerock]

here's something else to consider: if you really like the rhythm tone when you solo the track and want to keep some sembelance of it, find out what frequencies your guitar track are hot in, then cut those frequencies on the bass and kick drum track. if you have a heavily mid-cut guitar sound, you may even want to boost some mids on your bass track. you need to give everything it's own space in the spectrum or it'll all just mush together.

i tried this, at the advice of others, on my last track and got dramatic results. my recording is still ass, but it was a 200% improvement over what i was doing before.

good luck.

 

[ocnor]

yeah, absolutely no carvin gear whatsoever.

You said it. All we can do is show people the path to musical righteousness. It's up to them to take the first step by renouncing all of those unholy brand amps and accepting Carvin as their tonal savior.

 

[Zaphod B]

Where's the OP?

 

[ggunn]

not necessarily

You're right. I should have added "in my experience" to what I posted. Also IMO, electric guitar with lots of distortion sounds very muddy and indistinct when full/complex chords are played, and (again) in my experience, such a sound can be very difficult to get to sit well in a mix even when you can get it to sound OK when soloed. YMMV, of course.

Still not talking down.

 

[Erockrazor]

i can get delicious lead tones out of my amps but rhythm always sounds dull and quickly falls into the back ground.

The rhythm is supposed to be in the background. The lead is in the foreground. I think you've been doing it right this whole time.

 

[DrewPeterson7]

Where's the OP?

Yeah. Forget posting clips - we can't even begin to help him if he doesn't post anything.