Here is the DI : (ignore the slubby playing ^^)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/109030753/di.wav
Mmhh, imo it comes from your pickups. I reamped your DI to compare. EMG81 are fine yes, but they have a poor dynamic and aren't not as mid heavy as the black hawk. Ask nolly for more infos
Sounds awesome!!
I can never get mine to sound as good though... even using your amp/cab configs. Tried adding a gate and EQ and I get super boomy tone with heaps of amp noise
Actually the tone, drive and mid freq of the T808 drive block are important parameters. Sometimes little tweaks give big changes of the tone. Try this maybe ^^
Tones are great !!!
I would like to ask something about pickups. I have got an ibanez rg2550z and i play this guitar with passive pickups (stock) which is ibanez/dimarzio. So are these pickups suitable with these high gain tones? Or should i use active pickups much as EMG, Saymour Duncan etc.?
It all depend of your taste, your playing style, and the genre of metal you're into.
For metallica style, those emg works great.
But in the modern metal, like djent (sorry) or prog metal, the (great) passive pickups like those bareknucles or dimarzio are into that research of "mid heavy" , "good low end" etc...
BUT Tosin Abasi and Chimp Spanner use EMG808 on their 8 strings, so it depends of your taste !
Ask nolly for infos, he'll probably kindly respond to all your interogations on his formspring
Is it weird that I'm more interested in your bass patch/chain?
Haha, absolutely not ! But this is not MY bass chain, it's nolly's !! I just reamped his DIs haha, so HE made the backing track with bass and drums !
Here is the originals :
Black Hawk 7 - Alnico vs. Ceramic by Nolly on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free
And here is the backing track you (will) love. Dat bass = Instant boner :
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/790683/Nolly - Alnico VS Ceramic Black Hawk.zip