Khompy and Eric- Thanks you guys. He's fine. Had a little run-in with some rednecks I guess. No violence but I guess it got close. While that was going on I guess someone took his wallet from his car outside. No money, but had his baby's pictures and credit cards, etc. Some people just shouldn't breed.
M. Brane- Thanks for the suggestions on settings. And also for mentioning the ECM's. At some point soon I'd like to get a good room mic for the amp. My MC012's are nice for clean guitar leads, especially one 012 a few feet back with the 57 near the grill. But I am failing miserably with the heavy tones. Also I'm getting some rumbling from the amp with the bass on only 2. It's not the speaker because I also have an extension cab and a recording out line, and it happens in both of them as well. Possibly a tube problem? I know they're all at least two years old, so I'll swap those out and see what happens. I'll be doing some experimenting today because I just don't have the budget for any major upgrades in gear. Although like Tubedude said, a better pre should probably be my next major move. Anyway thanks for all the guitar advice. Cheers.
A1A2- Yeah, that intro is really thick in the lows. I think I need to cut some of the lows just a touch there, and hopefully warm up the guitars some when I retrack them. Thanks for checking it out man!
Pedullist- And thank you. I'm lucky to have someone with your skills and talent to help me. You bring life to my bottem end. Or something like that.
CanopuS- Hey, I prefer "Tom" over "sluice" any day. I've actually been thinking of switching user names.
Ya know, the first version of this I posted, I was pretty sure that
that section was the only part of this song anyone liked. LOL. I'm glad you liked the song. My preference is usually clean guitars too, but I'm hoping to get my heavier gits to the point where they are strong, but not so harsh. In fact I'm quite obsessed with it. As for the drum question
shhh...they're not real.
Cheers man.
B.SABBATH- Hey Sam thanks for stopping in man. Yeah someone else mentioned that fret noise earlier, then i heard it in the truck. Pretty brutal eh? I'll just retrack it. It's a stupid simple part that will take 3 minutes to set up and 37 seconds to track. I'm lost on the crackling though. I'll give it a listen later, but if you get bored maybe you could give me a time code. Thanks again.
boydrj- Awesome man, thanks. It's good to hear when you're progressing. And I'm pretty psyched about Tjarko's bass playing and tone as well. It really has become the glue in my music. Thanks for the comment about my brother. He's fine now. Was just a bit shaken up and angry. Take care!
tubedude- Paul, you're killing me. You've got me dreaming about gear I can't get.
But I gotta tell you I have to agree 100% that the next step is a good pre. I loved these $200 boxes when I got them, but my ears have learned to hear the significant differences. The single channel API's at Merc are between 625 and 750 or so. I just can't swing it with everything else going on. Maybe I can find some place near by to rent something better to record the guitars, cuz I have to admit after listening in the truck this morning, they sound fucking harsh. You can call it my "mid-range signature" all you want, but it's not at all what I want. I'm not looking for Rectifier either, but I would definitely like a set of balls there.
I was saying to M. Brane (above) that I'm getting some rumbling from the amp at bass settings of less than 2 and above, so I had to keep it down for these tracks. This maybe account for some of the apparent exaggerated midrange. But I suspect it has a lot to do with my recording chain and tactics. I've tried running the 57 through both a VTB-1 and an Art Tube MP with various gain structures. I've also tried the Studio Projects C3 out in front of the cab. Not bad, but kinda artificial sounding (that mic also hypes up the 2-6k like a nightmare- must replace that as well). So I'll try the MD421, probably Monday and I'll change the tubes out today. I tracked this with 5881's on the ends before I swapped them for STR 430's (6L6). But they only had the one pair so i'm waiting for more. Today I'll swap all the 12Ax7's and see if that helps with the rumbling. No clue. And along the way, I'll think about whether I want to sell my Korg Triton to buy a better pre. Goddamit, I just want to finish my CD. LOL! But, hey I'm laughing.
As for your questions, the delay is Cakewalk's stalk FX plugin, comes with Sonar. The reverbs on this one are Waves Rverb on the vocals and Trueverb on the guitars and drums. I can't tell you the settings for the intro now, because I processed it offline to free up CPU resources. But if I had to guess, I'd say a predelay of about 50 ms, time close to 2, decay around 1.5 and a mix of maybe 25-30%. Also, bare in mind that it's an acoustic and clean Paul Reed Smith playing in unison. It's a sound I've really grown to like and adopt. I've toyed lately with
the Waves Supertap, and it's kinda cool, but tricky to use. Everytime I've reached for it, I end up going back to the Cakewalk FXDelay.
Anyway, i promise I will have a great guitar sound if it fucking kills me. I'm a guitar player for God's sake. Why can't I get it right?
Cya Paul.
