Thomas Obester
Experienced
would you say those s5x are best from all those HP you tried ?
would you say those s5x are best from all those HP you tried ?
I've been trying to match tone with some Robben Ford tracks, and some Steely Dan as well the past couple of days. I find myself surprised at how little high end there is in a lot of the tones I'm hearing on the recordings...almost like there's a rolloff in the EQ that starts around 3kHz. Those tracks seem to sit just fine, but those are really different tones. They seem to rely on mids and high mids a lot more to cut through, and leave the high end to the vocals, cymbals, etc.
Fizz is easy to ID using a spectrum analyzer. It appears as one or more narrow boosts somewhere around and/or above 5K. I've never found an example of fizz that couldn't be identified using an SA. In isolation, it usually sounds like, well, fizz, hence the name. It's simple to remove and I haven't found a guitar track that can't be made to cut through a mix better without it, but I'm open to examples.
It's true that a lot of real amps do have fizz, but that doesn't mean I want it in my mix. Unless you intentionally want fizz as an effect, it simply adds unnecessary noise and clutters the high-end of a studio mix, in my opinion.
No, it wouldn't be easy to ID if it were ubiquitous. Fizz is visibly obvious and stands out in an SA.
If anyone wants a (very) lightly used pair of Ollos, PM me. They didn't really fit my ears well enough to work comfortably.
I prefer them over the HD650 as well.
I mean the guitars were ok but WOW that snare sound, that’s NEXT LEVELI agree..just listen how “de-fizzed” are guitars on St. Anger albumreally dark and it works
Maybe strange, but that st. anger guitar sound is one of my most beloved ones
this debate about st.anger snare will continue even after extinction of the Universe
We'll be debating the trashcan snare up until the moment the sun goes nova.this debate about st.anger snare will continue even after extinction of the Universe
Cool, those guitar tones were far from fizzy, pretty serous tone , at least the final.recording was obviously multi- platinum material and beyond, so when someone produces mixes , records anything that goes multi platinum with all this glorified technology, by all means someone let me know. Anything platinum in the last decade is crap vocoder, pitch correction, digital verb...etc etc etc... unbelievable I even care to comment. Ed created a guitar tone in the 70s that has not been even considered a step-up, and look what he had to work with. No one has even come close even with all this digital computerized technological advanced gazillion gigabyte software. And if they do it will be to late cause someone did it last week.
Fizz is a high-end issue that's been around for over 4 decades. An early example (c. 1982) would be Scorpions No One Like You.
Okay, but what's your point? I was responding to the claim that fizz is essential for cutting through a mix and that it's what well-mixed guitars sound like. There may be examples of well-mixed guitars with fizz, but there are plenty of examples without it, hence the list.
