While in the meantime, I am sometimes able to call up a good overdriven / hi gain tone on my Matrix Q12a, these tones still do not translate well into my recordings (Cubase 7.5). I am not looking mainly for metal but rather slightly overdriven tones a la Dumble.
I have read and understand the basic concept of (guitar) mixing, applying EQ and compression to make room for the individual instruments and in particular in this case the guitar. I am also somewhat familiar (and have partially successfully applied) the concept of multi-tracking guitar to make it sound big.
What I am wondering now, especially in the light of some of those beautiful recordings here, if someone has advice on a "magic" channel strip, a combination of plugins or recommend particular VST plugins to tweak the guitar tone in the mix. Or does it not matter what plugins to use and it is rather the application of standard EQ and compression only?
Recently, I have bought EZMix 2 and this works ok for clean tones (no real problem to begin with here) but still sounds rather shitty for higher gain stuff IMHO.
How do you guys make your recordings sound so great?
I have read and understand the basic concept of (guitar) mixing, applying EQ and compression to make room for the individual instruments and in particular in this case the guitar. I am also somewhat familiar (and have partially successfully applied) the concept of multi-tracking guitar to make it sound big.
What I am wondering now, especially in the light of some of those beautiful recordings here, if someone has advice on a "magic" channel strip, a combination of plugins or recommend particular VST plugins to tweak the guitar tone in the mix. Or does it not matter what plugins to use and it is rather the application of standard EQ and compression only?
Recently, I have bought EZMix 2 and this works ok for clean tones (no real problem to begin with here) but still sounds rather shitty for higher gain stuff IMHO.
How do you guys make your recordings sound so great?