Hi everyone,
So, I come to the forum on the advice of Jochen, after exchanging a few emails with him and not succeeding to fix my little problem.
It is about the sound I get in a recording situation with the axe plugged directly in the audio interface.
I need smoother/cleaner distortion tones than what I could get until now. The part of the sound I try to avoid is present in any single patch I create, but the more gain there is, the more "it" is present. Obviously, in any metal sound, since it is what I'm playing, "it" is here, and I can't find how to get rid of it. ( I can't really describe the problem differently as I feel that any other word would be misleading )
I have two recordings ( very short, about 5 seconds each ) that I made for Jochen where it is easy to hear the "unclean/not smooth" part that remains after I cleaned the tone by reducing the drives and the master of the amp. The problem is, there's apparently no tool on this board to post audio files ... ( As I write this post I don't find anything in the options. Possibly, I can send them to you via emails. it's 1Mo for each file )
The last useful thing I can say is that there's one way I can have a tone which looks like what I want. It is when I plug the Axe in my combo with the cab sim ON. Because of that, my first idea was to put two cabs in the patch, or to explore the equalization, but it was a dead end. The thing I want to avoid seems "in" the sound and only when I play through my combo without changing anything in the parameters it disappears magically.
Any new idea is welcomed, thanks.
Edit : The two recordings
So, I come to the forum on the advice of Jochen, after exchanging a few emails with him and not succeeding to fix my little problem.
It is about the sound I get in a recording situation with the axe plugged directly in the audio interface.
I need smoother/cleaner distortion tones than what I could get until now. The part of the sound I try to avoid is present in any single patch I create, but the more gain there is, the more "it" is present. Obviously, in any metal sound, since it is what I'm playing, "it" is here, and I can't find how to get rid of it. ( I can't really describe the problem differently as I feel that any other word would be misleading )
I have two recordings ( very short, about 5 seconds each ) that I made for Jochen where it is easy to hear the "unclean/not smooth" part that remains after I cleaned the tone by reducing the drives and the master of the amp. The problem is, there's apparently no tool on this board to post audio files ... ( As I write this post I don't find anything in the options. Possibly, I can send them to you via emails. it's 1Mo for each file )
The last useful thing I can say is that there's one way I can have a tone which looks like what I want. It is when I plug the Axe in my combo with the cab sim ON. Because of that, my first idea was to put two cabs in the patch, or to explore the equalization, but it was a dead end. The thing I want to avoid seems "in" the sound and only when I play through my combo without changing anything in the parameters it disappears magically.
Any new idea is welcomed, thanks.
Edit : The two recordings
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