Meaty guitar tone!!

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Wee bit muddy to me,but I am not good at explaining. I like the overdrive sound, but would like to hear the highs more clearly within it I like where you are going with this very much. This of course is my weird ears opinion. :D
 
Sounds kinda muddy and has a very brittle top end.
Might be a good tone for some industrial type of stuff, which may be what you're going for. Sounds like DI, definitely. Perhaps too saturated...again depending on the style of music.
Seems to be lacking in the midrange area where it would really need it in a mix. Hard to tell on my little PC speakers at work and also being a solo'd guitar sound with nothing else to hear with it.
Also, I am used to hearing metal guitar tones :D
 
No, not more highs...it's got plenty of that. The real meat of any tone generally lies in the midrange...which is almost absent from that tone.
 
Cheers all. I agree with all yous have said pretty much.
I am trying to get a semi decent tone from my GT6 (yeah direct) into my computer so when i go into the studio i have a rough setting to start from.
I am going to retrack and try with less distortion, but at the moment it is only at like 40%.
I played about with the EQ adding some mids and killing some hi and lo, so take another listen if your ears havent been brutalised by the last tone!!

Song "NEW TONE"
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/seratonescotlandmusic.htm
 
I didn't listen to the original, but the New Tone is very busy sounding. It's squeezing the mids right out. Like others have said, not knowing how you're going to use this tone I can't say if it's good/bad, but it's definitely not lacking in distortion.

Is this uncompressed?
 
Pinky said:
I didn't listen to the original, but the New Tone is very busy sounding. It's squeezing the mids right out. Like others have said, not knowing how you're going to use this tone I can't say if it's good/bad, but it's definitely not lacking in distortion.

Is this uncompressed?
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Yeah its only been EQd.
Did you mean busy or buzy because it is sounding pretty buzy to me now!
Not sure what you mean by squeezing the mids right out. Too much mids?
Im using the tone for heavy rock melodic band. I have some full songs on the same link. Its at the bottom anyway.

Cheers for the listen.
 
Ok i re-recorded the parts again with different and less distortion and i added an amp sim in my GT6.
Song "TONE 3"
Link at bottom.

Is this one better?
 
I had a listen to the two new tones. The new tone had some great lows I thought, although to 'buzy'.
The tone 3 had great highs, but lacked the lows. Maybe combine the two new tones for a different sound????
 
Im not bothering about the lows too much since it isnt in a mix at the moment. I was concentrating on the mids and highs. So the highs are nice? cool. What about the hi mids? maybe a tad too much?
 
I only listened to the latest one, num 3, but it sounds pretty good to me. Highs and mids seem to be where it's at. You seem to have captured a good sound. I don't have the GT6, but how is it set for this? I have a POD, but haven't set it up properly yet.
Ed
 
does'nt sound like it will leave room for anything else in a mix, just my opinion.
 
Dogman said:
I only listened to the latest one, num 3, but it sounds pretty good to me. Highs and mids seem to be where it's at. You seem to have captured a good sound. I don't have the GT6, but how is it set for this? I have a POD, but haven't set it up properly yet.
Ed
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Cheers Dogman.
I used the American DS distortion, you might have something similar to that on the POD. The lo and hi controls were pretty much left alone. I also used an amp simulator on my GT6; TW Clean setting, again you prob have something similar on your POD. I cut the low end a little, boosted the mids and boosted the highs a bit so that there was no buzzy sound but it sounded like it had enough hi end. I used a PRS Mcarty Soapbar with the selector set to hi tone setting with a tiny bit of tone rolled off on the tone knob.
 
BRIEFCASEMANX said:
how are you recording this?
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Yeah as you might have guessed direct.
Guitar -> GT6 -> soundblaster audigy 2 -> Cubase VST.

I aint into direct recording really as i prefer the tone of a nice tube amp, but i was just experimenting to see how close i could get. Not that close to the real thing really! but nice tone i suppose.
 
TravisinFlorida said:
does'nt sound like it will leave room for anything else in a mix, just my opinion.
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Theres plenty room honestly. I might have to cut some lo end from the guitars, but its all good.
Could you explain how you think this please, as I aint too sure how you mean it.
 
ecktronic said:
Cheers Dogman.
I used the American DS distortion, you might have something similar to that on the POD. The lo and hi controls were pretty much left alone. I also used an amp simulator on my GT6; TW Clean setting, again you prob have something similar on your POD. I cut the low end a little, boosted the mids and boosted the highs a bit so that there was no buzzy sound but it sounded like it had enough hi end. I used a PRS Mcarty Soapbar with the selector set to hi tone setting with a tiny bit of tone rolled off on the tone knob.
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eck, thanks for the info. I'm still learning my way around the POD, and have been micing my amp, but sometimes, I have to be quiet. This gives me more ideas to play with.
Thanks.
Ed
 
No prob. Distorted guitar is a nightmare to get right, for me anyway. I just hope I can get it right in the studio as im going to try and get as good a sounding mix as i can, and that def starts at the sources.
 
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