The Aftermath
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Hey all! Got my Axe. I'm very impressed by it, but not 100% sold on it yet. Surprising enough, I've got some amazing bass sounds out of it, but not convinced with my guitar sounds.
I'm going for a high-gain metal tone. Along the lines of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAQQujgSxQ
I'm a big fan of Jens Borgen's stuff
Now I'd post a sample of what stuff I've been getting, but I've ended up chasing my own tail and utterly over-processing everything. End result, when I return to the Axe after half an hour, I realise that what I have is utter crap and totally unusable. I'm gonna set a timer for 30 minutes each time I choose to fuck with something!
Generally speaking, here are the troubles I'm having in nailing an ass-kicking tone.
#1) There seems to be a lot of mud on the bottom. I spend a lot of time trying to get rid of that mud. Often I'll throw a high-pass filter on at around 75hz to try to filter it out, but that hasn't been doing much. Sometimes I'll use a filter block around 200hz, but then all the body of the tone disappears and I've still got some murkyness. What are some things I can look at when trying to get a bit more clarity?
#2) Generally speaking, I'm having trouble with oversaturation. I like a big saturated tone, but I'm having trouble controlling gain if I throw a TS808 in front of a Recto. This is the setup I run at home and I don't have the gain issues I do with the AFX. What are some things I can look at to control gain, but still get awesomeballs saturation?
#3) I would prefer to use mono patches. I prefer to record guitar tracks in mono and pan them where I like.
#4) I tried one of Ola's high-gain patches and it was so loose and not tight and it sounded absolutely nothing like it did when he was rocking it.
I'm aware of how big of a deal your guitar plays in this equation. For reference, i'm running an ESP Explorer, all mahogany with a set of Bareknuckle Nailbomb pickups.
Any suggestions?
I'm going for a high-gain metal tone. Along the lines of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAQQujgSxQ
I'm a big fan of Jens Borgen's stuff
Now I'd post a sample of what stuff I've been getting, but I've ended up chasing my own tail and utterly over-processing everything. End result, when I return to the Axe after half an hour, I realise that what I have is utter crap and totally unusable. I'm gonna set a timer for 30 minutes each time I choose to fuck with something!
Generally speaking, here are the troubles I'm having in nailing an ass-kicking tone.
#1) There seems to be a lot of mud on the bottom. I spend a lot of time trying to get rid of that mud. Often I'll throw a high-pass filter on at around 75hz to try to filter it out, but that hasn't been doing much. Sometimes I'll use a filter block around 200hz, but then all the body of the tone disappears and I've still got some murkyness. What are some things I can look at when trying to get a bit more clarity?
#2) Generally speaking, I'm having trouble with oversaturation. I like a big saturated tone, but I'm having trouble controlling gain if I throw a TS808 in front of a Recto. This is the setup I run at home and I don't have the gain issues I do with the AFX. What are some things I can look at to control gain, but still get awesomeballs saturation?
#3) I would prefer to use mono patches. I prefer to record guitar tracks in mono and pan them where I like.
#4) I tried one of Ola's high-gain patches and it was so loose and not tight and it sounded absolutely nothing like it did when he was rocking it.
I'm aware of how big of a deal your guitar plays in this equation. For reference, i'm running an ESP Explorer, all mahogany with a set of Bareknuckle Nailbomb pickups.
Any suggestions?