Les Paul, Boogie,Marshall

[Tuckermonster]

I am getting ready to record a Demo for a record, I play a Les Paul Standard , that I love like my children!!! ahha
I also play through a MesaBoogie Mark 4 into a Marshall jcm 900
4x12 cabinet , I love the tone !!! Throw in the bad horsie wah and I zone out for hours on end!!!!!
Ok sorry, I started daydreaming .........
I also have a Marshall jcm 900 50 watt head that sounds great at low volumes ,but starts to sound thin as the db's rise..
I plan on using both heads on the upcoming recording, One panned lft ,one right.........
Any tips on this, and ,or opinions on whethter I should do it or not?
I would love to hear some opinions, honest , qualified opinions especially , especially from sound engineers........

The songs vary from soft to very heavy, lot's of ups and downs through out songs , so any tips on getting a quality sound would be great!!!
Thanks in advance Tucker

 

[Hard2Hear]

Cincinnati, eh? Do you play in one of the bands around here? If so, which one?

Sounds like you have a punk/nu metal setup. Do you do any clean tones? What amp do you use for that? I don't own either a Marshall or a Mesa, just not my sound. But I do have 6 Fender amps, 1 vintage AC30, and 1 Ampeg TriAxis.

If you're looking for thick tones, the more the merrier when it comes to guitar tracking.

Your fellow Cincinnatian.......for now,
H2H

 

[Tuckermonster]

No, not punk, nor Nu metal , if anything progressive rock, I do not crank the distortion on either head..... usually around 5 or so

Tucker

 

[Hard2Hear]

I'm glad to hear that, actually. Seems most people think that amps can only do one thing, like cranking the gain and scooping the mids on a Mesa. But I know they are capable of alot that people don't give them credit for.

Anyhows, If you're looking for a thick sound, no matter what the genre, double, triple, quadruple (!!) tracking the guitar is an often used (and sometimes abused) technique.

Are you doing the recording yourself, or in a studio nearby? And do you play out anywhere? Just curious.

H2H

 

[Tuckermonster]

I am not neccessarily going for the thickest sound ,actually I want it to be very versatile, using a lot of cretiondo's (not sure on the spelling of that) I was really looking for some micing technics and opinions on using the two differant sounds together... but thanks for the input...........
I am doing the recording myself, using a delta 10/10 and Vegas audio, I have recorded in most studios in Cincinnati ,and I can tell you that I never walked away happy at all, always feeling as though the engineers really didn't get what my (and/or the bands) intentions were, or they were just impartial and just on the clock doing thier job and that was all the emotional attachment that they had.
I myself feel extremely passionate about what I do now and have always done musically , so why bother with some guy who is just watching a clock waiting for the session to end so that he can go out to bw3's for wings with a fat chick from the east side?????
hahhahaha a little comic relief on a serious matter.....
As for gigging in Cincinnati, No not right now, I just returned from touring in April , Cincinnati really isn't the original music support kind of city anyway.
Thanks for the help Tucker