
Myriad_Rocker
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Too bad, I already have it. And there's no take backs.Do it now or I'll take my advice back. Go home and try it.
Too bad, I already have it. And there's no take backs.Do it now or I'll take my advice back. Go home and try it.
Too bad, I already have it. And there's no take backs.
Meh, I'll just reamp another track with more gain. Better than modeler distortion.
Personally, I am of the school that if the performance kicks ass, the rest will take care of itself. If it doesn't, no amount of processing will help on that ladder.
Now that I have gotten that out of my system knowing that nobody here cares about that old person stuff, try this: grab the Blowfish VST compressor and start messing with the saturation knob.
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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?
would it be possible for you to supply several clips of heavy guitar tones that you have recorded.
back to the subject at hand... none of the recommendations that I've read so far will make a vast improvement. get the tone right at the onset. learn where to place the mic. learn how to EQ it post tracking. I have a lot of clips available for you to take a listen to. some are a lot better than others, tone wise, because I always try new ways for virtually every clip.
there are several peeps here that can track very good heavy guitar tones and there are a lot of peeps that talk. seek out those that put up their work and consult them. they'll be glad to help you.
The performance itself is tight and I'm happy with it. I'm going to work a bit with some delay and compression and see what I come up with. I'm thinking it'll be good to go. I just haven't had the time to try those things and it will probably be the weekend before I get the chance to.Personally, I am of the school that if the performance kicks ass, the rest will take care of itself. If it doesn't, no amount of processing will help on that ladder.
Great post. I share your views.I don't put up my work here because 1. I don't want anything to be ripped off 2. I don't generally like to share my mixes voluntarily with audio nerds, because they can't handle that it's not 100% conventional in every way and 3. I don't want some of the mother fuckers on here ripping on my mixes just because they have a problem with me personally (it's happened a couple of times...with the same people)
Showing off your work doesn't mean anything in the way of how much you know, or what your ability to help is. I know all the rules and choose to often break them, and I don't really feel like hearing about it from more "engineer" boy wonders, who think they're going to record the next white album by following mix by the numbers pop-up picture book published by Hasboro. That's why I PERSONALLY don't post my work on here, not because I don't have anything I'm not very proud of.
Everyone who responded had very good advice for the OP, and all of those methods will help. There's no one way to do things, and the people who think that there is, generally make very uninspired overly conventional mixes that don't stand out beyond anything else in the market.
I don't put up my work here because 1. I don't want anything to be ripped off 2. I don't generally like to share my mixes voluntarily with audio nerds, because they can't handle that it's not 100% conventional in every way and 3. I don't want some of the mother fuckers on here ripping on my mixes just because they have a problem with me personally (it's happened a couple of times...with the same people)
Showing off your work doesn't mean anything in the way of how much you know, or what your ability to help is. I know all the rules and choose to often break them, and I don't really feel like hearing about it from more "engineer" boy wonders, who think they're going to record the next white album by following mix by the numbers pop-up picture book published by Hasboro. That's why I PERSONALLY don't post my work on here, not because I don't have anything I'm not very proud of.
Everyone who responded had very good advice for the OP, and all of those methods will help. There's no one way to do things, and the people who think that there is, generally make very uninspired overly conventional mixes that don't stand out beyond anything else in the market.
I don't put up my work here because 1. I don't want anything to be ripped off 2. I don't generally like to share my mixes voluntarily with audio nerds, because they can't handle that it's not 100% conventional in every way and 3. I don't want some of the mother fuckers on here ripping on my mixes just because they have a problem with me personally (it's happened a couple of times...with the same people)
Showing off your work doesn't mean anything in the way of how much you know, or what your ability to help is. I know all the rules and choose to often break them, and I don't really feel like hearing about it from more "engineer" boy wonders, who think they're going to record the next white album by following mix by the numbers pop-up picture book published by Hasboro. That's why I PERSONALLY don't post my work on here, not because I don't have anything I'm not very proud of.
Everyone who responded had very good advice for the OP, and all of those methods will help. There's no one way to do things, and the people who think that there is, generally make very uninspired overly conventional mixes that don't stand out beyond anything else in the market.
lol like id rip you off
Hum, I have a totally different view about this...
Just talking about it isn't enough for me... I need to hear it.
giving someone advice has nothing to do with throwing your work in everyone's face.