the guitar i used is a seven string dean avalanche, running through a crate combo... low gain distortion... the distortion that the amp has built into it... no effects at all other than distortion and now that i think about it, i don't think i did anything to either of the raw guitar tracks as far as EQ or anything.
one guitar panned about 30% left playing basic power chord stuff, palm muting most of the way through, the other guitar panned about 30% right is playing the more complete bar chords to give it a "prettier" sound getting all the third-notes into the chords.
i have a samson microphone sitting about six inches in front of the amp, pointing at a spot directly in between the center of both speakers. the microphone is sitting on one of those tiny mic-stands that's only about six inches tall.
the microphone is running directly into a four track, which is running into a duel-cassette deck (the cassette deck has an input knob, and i like to have as much control over gain as possible) and the cassette deck is running into the AUX2 jacks on the external part of my soundblaster audigy.
i run windows XP and cool edit pro. after i mixed down, i used steinberg's freefilter, which will apply the EQ settings of any song to any other song. in this case, i used blink 182's "aliens exist" as my source EQ. after EQ i applied waves ultrimaximizer to boost the volume to a volume comparable to several blink 182 and green day songs that i used for comparison.
lol... i hope that answers your question. if you need more details, i'd be happy to oblige.
and thanks for the comments, both good and bad.
