H13
Inspired
Hooooooookay. I know I'm opening up a big 'ole can of wormies here. But hey, sometimes you've gotta use other people's ears and unfortunately I'm only blessed with the one pair.
I've been developing and tweaking the noise my guitar makes for a while and while it's getting CLOSE to what I want, it's not really there yet.
Basically, I like the overall timber\tone but I don't like how it sits in a mix. I haven't been able to get much punch out of it and sometimes clarity is lacking a little bit. There's always solutions here (less gain, more mids) etc. but I've kinda...got the gain and the mids where I like them, so my horribly biased ears need somebody else to look at it and go: "Dude, you totally need <X> to make it punch" or whatever.
What I'm Going For:
Yeaaah, it's a metal sound. But I hate djent. In fact, I kinda want this to be anti-djent. I hate keyboard sounding guitars and ice-pick high mids. I also love saturation rather than super clean. But I also hate scooped mids. The mids I tend to like are the rich low mids moreso than anything else. I also don't like SUPER TIGHT metal tones. I want size more than I want aggression.
So the guy who wants size moreso than aggression complains that his guitar sounds have no punch? I know right? But surely we can get a happy medium somewhere yeah?
So here's the tracks:
Les Paul:
Explorer:
Bass:
Full Mix:
Note: Soundcloud compression has done some fuckery with these samples. There's some artifacts and it sounds like there's a bit more saturation than what there really is.
So if this was your patch: What would you do to it to make it punch more and get a bit more clarity?
I've been developing and tweaking the noise my guitar makes for a while and while it's getting CLOSE to what I want, it's not really there yet.
Basically, I like the overall timber\tone but I don't like how it sits in a mix. I haven't been able to get much punch out of it and sometimes clarity is lacking a little bit. There's always solutions here (less gain, more mids) etc. but I've kinda...got the gain and the mids where I like them, so my horribly biased ears need somebody else to look at it and go: "Dude, you totally need <X> to make it punch" or whatever.
What I'm Going For:
Yeaaah, it's a metal sound. But I hate djent. In fact, I kinda want this to be anti-djent. I hate keyboard sounding guitars and ice-pick high mids. I also love saturation rather than super clean. But I also hate scooped mids. The mids I tend to like are the rich low mids moreso than anything else. I also don't like SUPER TIGHT metal tones. I want size more than I want aggression.
So the guy who wants size moreso than aggression complains that his guitar sounds have no punch? I know right? But surely we can get a happy medium somewhere yeah?
So here's the tracks:
Les Paul:
Explorer:
Bass:
Full Mix:
Note: Soundcloud compression has done some fuckery with these samples. There's some artifacts and it sounds like there's a bit more saturation than what there really is.
So if this was your patch: What would you do to it to make it punch more and get a bit more clarity?