Myriad_Rocker
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I have two songs that we did the reamping on over the weekend. Quality wise, things were great. From what I have read on here and many other places, you use less gain when recording distorted guitars than what you think you need. Since we had lots of doubled parts, I figured this was especially important because we don't want too much gain stacked on top of too much gain.
When listening one of the songs that night, the guitar sound was great. I was super excited about it. After listening the next day, I was kinda disappointed. It was a "heavy" guitar sound...but it didn't seem "hard rock" enough, if that makes sense. It's like there wasn't enough gain used. Am I going crazy?
On the second song, we recorded with more gain because the song had more of a Sevendust feel to it. There were plenty of doubled guitars...6 guitars to be exact. 4 Playing the regular part and 2 playing a higher part. When we got the guitars tracked and let it rip, it was heavy, but the guitars didn't seem "big enough" or "in your face" enough.
So...on these two songs...what should I do?
Here's some of the amps we used:
Mesa Dual Rectifier
Marshall JCM 800
Peavey JSX
Soldano Hot Rod 50
Twist Custom 50W All-Tube Head
Twist Custom 50W All-Tube Rack Head
The mics:
Audix i5
Shure SM7
Senn. e609s
Cascade FHII
We used the i5 and the SM7 on the rhythm tracks because that mic combo sounded best. Lead guitar work got the i5 and the FHII because it rocked on that combo...lead guitars sounded good. No worries there.
The pres:
RME FF800 Pres
Great River NV - used on the FHII
When listening one of the songs that night, the guitar sound was great. I was super excited about it. After listening the next day, I was kinda disappointed. It was a "heavy" guitar sound...but it didn't seem "hard rock" enough, if that makes sense. It's like there wasn't enough gain used. Am I going crazy?
On the second song, we recorded with more gain because the song had more of a Sevendust feel to it. There were plenty of doubled guitars...6 guitars to be exact. 4 Playing the regular part and 2 playing a higher part. When we got the guitars tracked and let it rip, it was heavy, but the guitars didn't seem "big enough" or "in your face" enough.
So...on these two songs...what should I do?
Here's some of the amps we used:
Mesa Dual Rectifier
Marshall JCM 800
Peavey JSX
Soldano Hot Rod 50
Twist Custom 50W All-Tube Head
Twist Custom 50W All-Tube Rack Head
The mics:
Audix i5
Shure SM7
Senn. e609s
Cascade FHII
We used the i5 and the SM7 on the rhythm tracks because that mic combo sounded best. Lead guitar work got the i5 and the FHII because it rocked on that combo...lead guitars sounded good. No worries there.
The pres:
RME FF800 Pres
Great River NV - used on the FHII
