Recording Guitar: Sweeps

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Hi everyone! So im recording my band at home after spending too much money with little to show for it at a "studio" and the sound is turning out better than we had and for that it feels great! only one my guitarists has a moment in one of our songs that he does sweeps for about 40 seconds behind what the other guitarist is playing. were using distortion and it sounds muddy. very muddy. im using mixcraft 6 and were recording through a saffire pro 40. any advice or tips on this would be greatly appreciated! thanks!
 
Hey man,

That is a tough/impossible question to give advice towards, without a audio clip of the part in question. Only you know what you are hearing. Nobody can guess what it is you are trying to ask.


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Welcome to the forum man!

I assume since you mentioned sweeps, that it is somewhere near metal. I'm down with that. \m/

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figured as much. thanks for the welcome dude. ill get the recording mixed down with that audio clip in it. so with a link i would have to upload the demo onto like bandpage or something like that first? i should probably read some of the noob threads first... haha, thanks for the quick reply though.
 
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muddy sweeps

im hoping this uploaded right... if it did this is a soundclip from the song with the "muddy" sweeps coming in momentarily...
 

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It is the tone that is overly distorted. It sounds like it was way over-driven/distorted/clipped, before the mic hit the amp. There are some ways to help what you have already recorded, but it IMO, it really comes down to getting a tone that allows you to hear what is being played there. I would call that a tone that is not working for the part. Or any part really. Sorry, that was mush to begin with. Might sound good in a room, really loud. Not going to find a way to make it work in context of a mix the way it is.

Again, my opinion.
 
understood. i was using VST plugins for the tone and (being very new to the whole recording process) just continued to use the same tone that was being used for the prior part. i thought the part beforehand sounded good so why wouldnt the next part sound fine as well? i tried looking for some other plugins, do you recommend mic-ing an amp? i have been watching youtube videos on mic positioning for that as well. and no need for apologies, i asked for your opinion and i appreciate it. thanks! (plus im not the one playing guitar so my feelings arent hurt. hahaha)
 
Im on my phone right one, so I can't listen to the clip, but you need compression to make sweeps sound right. The trouble people run into is that they try to get the compression out of the distortion and end up with an overdistorted mess. If you are using vst's, I would suggest using a compressor sustainer pedal vst in front of the amp vst, then back off the gain on the amp until you can clearly hear all the notes.

The common problem with amp sims is they have a hard time going from clean to distorted in a natural way. You get to a point where its not quite distorted enough, you touch the gain control, oops! Too much. The compressor sustainer pedal gives you the compression necessary to stay in that small crunch zone where you can still hear all the notes, yet it sounds smooth.
 
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