guitar treble fuzz removal?

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I am using pod farm, and I was wondering how to get rid of that horrible DI sound. I roll back the treble, gain, and yet, I still get alot of that horrible fuzzy treble sounds. I am trying to get a good death metal tone along the lines of The Black Dahlia Murder. If you guys have a suggestion, or a preset, that would be awesome.
 
I don't know what 'death metal' tone you are referring to, but are you building the sound path yourself from components, or using a pre-set? How are you monitoring the sound - headphones?
 
I want a good metal tone, I track with headphones, but I have a set of Behringer b2031a monitors that work wonders for the mix. I am using a custom preset that I made myself. I have heard some recordings that people have done with it and it sounds not so...digital I suppose is the word. The tone I am trying to avoid is that super trebly, fizz sounding garbage. I want a good solid high gain tone that sounds as if it were a real mic'd cab running through a 6505+ rig or something along those lines.
 
When recording, it's always a good idea to reduce the distortion, and if it sounds too trebly, apply some EQ ...
 
You won't get THAT sound from one guitar track & one guitar sound. It'll require layering of several guitars with different tones to build a heavy sound. There's a thread about recording distorted guitars - do a search for it, read it & use some of the ideas.
 
got the same problem

I've encountered the same problem with my UX1 using POD farm 2.5. All of you guys suggestions are good ones but don't seem to solve the problem.The fuzz Nathan1984 mentioned doesn't seem to have anything to do with the preset or custom tone you're using, as long as it has some sort of reasonable gain distortion. It is present in both guitar and bass tones. It is most obvious when you play down tempo, chugging kinda riffs. Every single note that you play long enough is followed by this springy, treble fuzz of a precise tone that stays the same no matter the note.

I've tried getting rid of it by using an EQ towards the end of the rig chain but the one in pod farm is very basic and you end up ruining the whole sound just to keep this fuzz under control. I tried using adobe audition to do the same thing but without much luck. I've also tried cranking up the noise gate in pod farm but then you end up with no sustain. In conclusion, can the fuzz be eliminated within pod farm itself or is post-processing in another software the only way? Whatever the case, please help me out with a solution.

Thanks
 
There's a parametric equalizer in Podfarm that you can sculpt fairly precisely. Can you post a soundclip of the sound you mean? I don't have the problem you are describing.
Also, list your Podfarm soundchain.
 
Thanks for answering my post.
My soundchain is nothing fancy. You can see it in a video I've uploaded. Just type /watch?v=E8X8xHHZS7w after ....youtube.com.
Sry for not just sharing the whole link, I haven't yet posted 10 times in order to be allowed to share links
The problem occurs even when using a basic Head-Cabinet setup .
For extra info, I'm using an Ibanez RG320 with DiMarzio D-sonic bridge pickup, Neutrik cable, Line6 UX-1
 
mjbphotos said:
When recording, it's always a good idea to reduce the distortion, and if it sounds too trebly, apply some EQ ...
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+1 reduce the gain/distortion - live guitar gain is not the same as recorded gain
rayc said:
You won't get THAT sound from one guitar track & one guitar sound. It'll require layering of several guitars with different tones to build a heavy sound. There's a thread about recording distorted guitars - do a search for it, read it & use some of the ideas.
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+1 its layered tracks

When I am trying to match a guitar tone, I get a sample of the song I am trying to match, loop a guitar riff, then A/B it to my amp until I get as close a match as possible.
 
Wow, I hear that at the start of the sample. It's like a cabinet or piece of equipment ringing from a too-loud harmonic. That is not normal!
Have you tried removing one component at a time from the sound chain to see if that makes a difference?
 
Yup, as I've said, the problem persists even when using just a head and cab without a screamer, compressor and all of that. So i don't think my sound chain is to blame here, perhaps something to do with my shitty PC: AMD 1.9 GHz, 384 of ram, Realtek integrated sound card (although that shouldn't matter cause from what i understand all processing is done by the UX1 ) ...or worst case scenario: something's wrong with my UX1. If you have any other thoughts, please share
 
Sounds like the spring of a floating bridge. Do you use a floating bridge on your guitar? Some foam to stop the spring reverberating could solve it. If you don't even use a floating bridge, then definitely a problem. =P
 
I do use a floating bridge but that's not the issue. I followed your advice but had the same problem. Anyway, you got me thinking, maybe the source of the problem wasn't pod farm or UX1. So i did some tests and discovered that the sound was made by the other strings vibrating. I normally palm-mute only the strings I'm playing in a particular riff. I didn't realize how sensitive this interface is, it picks up the slightest vibration. Before this, i used to record myself through a digitech stompbox and never had this sort of problem.
So for recording purposes,I figure I just have to adapt my playing style and mute all the strings or just use some cloth to keep the strings I'm not playing at that time from vibrating. Glad i sorted it out :D
Thanks to everybody who posted, you've been of great help;). HomeRecording forum rocks \m/
 
Oase said:
I do use a floating bridge but that's not the issue. I followed your advice but had the same problem. Anyway, you got me thinking, maybe the source of the problem wasn't pod farm or UX1. So i did some tests and discovered that the sound was made by the other strings vibrating. I normally palm-mute only the strings I'm playing in a particular riff. I didn't realize how sensitive this interface is, it picks up the slightest vibration. Before this, i used to record myself through a digitech stompbox and never had this sort of problem.
So for recording purposes,I figure I just have to adapt my playing style and mute all the strings or just use some cloth to keep the strings I'm not playing at that time from vibrating. Glad i sorted it out :D
Thanks to everybody who posted, you've been of great help;). HomeRecording forum rocks \m/
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In that case, you could use a noise gate. The vibration is fairly quiet, so you wouldn't need to set the threshold high at all. It is of course better to adapt your playing to do it instead, but for the sake of recording, it could make it sound a lot tighter until you develop that skill enough.
 
Turn the imput gain down a little on the UX1.

Anyway, glad you got the problem isolated.
 
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