Tone Test on metal-ish/electronic/symphonic thing

[AMTA]

Not sure if people do this in the MP3 clinic or the Guitar n' Bass section, but whatever...

I haven't finished recording the song yet, so it's just a little bit of it. This is also just a rough quick mix, so some of the levels are off and other such things. For now I'm only looking for opinions on the guitar tone itself.

Click Me.

 

[Jouni]

Quite a generic Death-metal distortion.
Sounds like a pedal, transistors in progress. It's good enough for rhythm, if that's the type of distortion you're after, the leads, though, are not "singing" or "searing" as much as squeaking. But that too is common in the genre.

I'd say, play another set of tracks and try out layering them on top of eachother for even "bigger" wall of sizzle.
I have to admit, though, that type of a sound seems more easy to mix, than the all-over-the-place overdriven-type of gain??
..lack of mids contribute there I'd presume?...

Compared to sound I'm after personally (This is slowly getting there:

) Yours is much more in "focus", and dryer, as mine is allover the place and "airy"...

 

[AMTA]

Quite a generic Death-metal distortion.
Sounds like a pedal, transistors in progress. It's good enough for rhythm, if that's the type of distortion you're after, the leads, though, are not "singing" or "searing" as much as squeaking. But that too is common in the genre.

I'd say, play another set of tracks and try out layering them on top of eachother for even "bigger" wall of sizzle.
I have to admit, though, that type of a sound seems more easy to mix, than the all-over-the-place overdriven-type of gain??
..lack of mids contribute there I'd presume?...

Compared to sound I'm after personally (This is slowly getting there:

) Yours is much more in "focus", and dryer, as mine is allover the place and "airy"...

Yeah it's a solid-state amp...lol. I can't really hide that (as much as I would like to).

I have double-tracked already, so you're suggesting I quadruple track the rhythm? There's no lack of mids here. Both tracks have the mids at about 11 o'clock. I'm not one for scooping mids. It's hard for me to squeeze a good tone out of this amp, and I've had it for three years now (Peavey Transtube combo).

 

[Jouni]

Come to think of it... That clip of mine has 4 layers, I played 2 tracks with quite dry-minimal gain left and right, then another two with higher gain left and right, mixed those in the tracker into 2 tracks-->stereo mp3.
Not unheard of, but needs accuracy in playing or it'll turn into a mush. I track with lots of mids, they're easy enough to remove in mixing with an EQ, or otherwise shape them, when you got them.

Guess there are a couple of schools; Track perfect right-away (preferred here at HR I think) and track as much as you can, and then remove by EQ.(what I tend to do)

Borrow all the pedals of your friends and try them out, some might be better than the combo's own distortion. An Epi VJ sounds good with pedals, gives out slightly "tubey" sounds, and is cheap enough.

With ss amps, it's hard... a tube preamp would help, but if money is scarce, I think you can work with that too. I've heard worse.