I really don't know what I do different? If anything? I can tell you that it's not a 'one shot' deal. It's a long process sometimes. I do some research and try to find out what was used on the original recording. I listen really, really close to the track to see what I can pick up. I've been doing that all of my life and have gotten pretty good at picking things out through the mix. Stem tracks really validated what I thought I was hearing.
I run the tone match dozens of times, trying different settings in the tone match block. When I get something that sounds good, I temporarily save it in the tone match 'block library', then audition them all and pick the best one. Sometimes I use a cab block before the tone match block and use the tone match block 'graph' to tell me where I need to EQ the amp block and then use the tone match as a final EQ tweak. The less the tone match block has to do the better the results sometimes. A few time I have applied EQ to the 'source' track that I'm matching.
Sometimes I do the hole tone match process, save it as an IR, load that IR into a cab block placed right in front of the tone match block, with that cab block active, re-tone match it again, save that one as a final EQ IR, then load the two IRs into two cab blocks in series, run a sine wave sweep through them into the tone match block to make a new single IR (I made a couple of 'IR mixer' presets for this before the days of 'Cab Lab')......................There's more
I would like to do a few videos of my tone matching processes someday
I run the tone match dozens of times, trying different settings in the tone match block. When I get something that sounds good, I temporarily save it in the tone match 'block library', then audition them all and pick the best one. Sometimes I use a cab block before the tone match block and use the tone match block 'graph' to tell me where I need to EQ the amp block and then use the tone match as a final EQ tweak. The less the tone match block has to do the better the results sometimes. A few time I have applied EQ to the 'source' track that I'm matching.
Sometimes I do the hole tone match process, save it as an IR, load that IR into a cab block placed right in front of the tone match block, with that cab block active, re-tone match it again, save that one as a final EQ IR, then load the two IRs into two cab blocks in series, run a sine wave sweep through them into the tone match block to make a new single IR (I made a couple of 'IR mixer' presets for this before the days of 'Cab Lab')......................There's more
I would like to do a few videos of my tone matching processes someday