"Perfect guitar sound"

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Alright I have been reading up on the "perfect" guitar sound for a while now so I finally feel like I have a decent idea of whats going on. So I tracked a simple little metal riff, then double tracked the rhythm part twice and the lead part twice and blended them together. It was pretty tight sounding and had a very good feel to it. I should say that at the moment I do not have any acoustic treatment which I know is a huge no no and I have the BX-8s,(no no as well, haha). But I was close micing the guitar so I didn't think it was going to matter that much. The sound coming out of the amp was amazing and I was very happy with the final result. The problem is that when I bounced it into a .wav file it sounded awful. The bass was distorting really bad, it sounded like it was fizzling out. Now I checked again to make sure and it was a good sound coming out of my monitors, I even put a hi pass on all the tracks to prevent the bass boom and still the same result with that. So is it my space, my placement, or what? I was very happy with the sound going into my computer so what gives? Any help would be great.
 
Sounds like you have some clipping somewhere. My guess is that you are overloading the master buss during mixing.
 
And let us know what DAW/multitracker you are using.
 
Sure got no problem with that, how exactly would I go about throwing it in an mp3? I just started so all I have been doing so far is just trying to get better sounds out of my guitar so far, so haven't made it this far yet, haha.

I am just using Pro Tools LE on a 002 rack going from mic to digi.

Thanks for responding guys, I really appreciate it, so just let me know what I have to do to post it up here.
 
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