I’m getting frustrated playing Slash

[Jeronimo]

You need to produce ONE song first before handing out advice. Honestly, you come across as a joke on this forum. You talk the talk but you don’t walk the walk. You need to produce more!

No need to post any of my playing here, my own skills are mediocre at best. I don’t pretend being a rockstar, that is more your thing.
That all does not discount my listening skills.

 

[duriehill]

My insight - I think it's about 'listening context'. When the brain listens it tries to make sense of what it is hearing. With a close mic recording, there is no environmental ambience or in this case backing music or other instruments to contrast with.

Don't give up on your goal, this audio engineer stuff takes a lot to get a real handle on.

For your recording, either capture in addition to your close mic a room microphone(s) or simulate through a reverb/delay blocks or post production. This gives placement context, helps the brain interrupt.

Also, EQ will help as there is a build up of frequencies surrounding approx 350Hz, try a ~6db broadish cut as a starting point.

 

[RevDrucifer]

You need to produce ONE song first before handing out advice. Honestly, you come across as a joke on this forum. You talk the talk but you don’t walk the walk. You need to produce more!

Here ya go, I’ve produced a lot more than one song and it’s me on each instrument/vocal/mixing.






And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some of my influences tones-



It’s your playing.

Guitar tones are surprisingly boring and generally don’t sound awesome in isolation. 98% of what makes a guitar track pop out of a song is the playing itself and maybe the final 2% can be credited to some top end, depending on the mix.

Every single guitar player who gets into recording goes through this, we spend years thinking we need the best gear to make these sounds we’ve heard for years but we don’t, we need to make our hands actually do the heavy lifting because you can have the greatest tone on the planet but if your fingers aren’t doing the heavy lifting that tone will not mean a thing. We’ll keep turning knobs as if that’s going do anything but change the sound while the playing remains in a stationary state of dullness.

There is no magic device, EQ or compressor that’ll make a poor performance sound awesome. End of story, do not pass go, do not collect $200. There is no conspiracy keeping great tones away from people and they are more often than not so fucking simple but because they playing is so impactful we impart our idea there’s more to it than there really is.

You’ve got to dig in and OWN the notes, be confident that you’re going to bend to the right pitch, that you’re going to finish a run on time to start the next run on a downbeat in time, and if it’s not in time it’s because there’s an intentional swagger or slur that’s repeatable by the performer. Happy accidents DO happen all the time and can make things AWESOME, not all accidents are happy and when they aren’t happy, they’re creating that dull/lifeless guitar recording; a note not bent to pitch, uneven vibrato, not paying attention to note value (how long you hold notes before going to the next one), these are all the things that make for a compelling guitar recording and if they are not in the performance, you will not get what you want.

Spend a month playing that one solo and only that solo, get it to the point you’re playing along with the actual song and you’ve got the notes and timing DOWN, then re-record it with all the confidence you’ve gained in that time and I promise you, you will see a difference.

That said, if your refuse to accept any of this information, you will see no differences and you’ll be spinning your tail for years to come.

 

[Purplestrats]

Here ya go, I’ve produced a lot more than one song and it’s me on each instrument/vocal/mixing.






And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some of my influences tones-



It’s your playing.

Guitar tones are surprisingly boring and generally don’t sound awesome in isolation. 98% of what makes a guitar track pop out of a song is the playing itself and maybe the final 2% can be credited to some top end, depending on the mix.

Every single guitar player who gets into recording goes through this, we spend years thinking we need the best gear to make these sounds we’ve heard for years but we don’t, we need to make our hands actually do the heavy lifting because you can have the greatest tone on the planet but if your fingers aren’t doing the heavy lifting that tone will not mean a thing. We’ll keep turning knobs as if that’s going do anything but change the sound while the playing remains in a stationary state of dullness.

There is no magic device, EQ or compressor that’ll make a poor performance sound awesome. End of story, do not pass go, do not collect $200. There is no conspiracy keeping great tones away from people and they are more often than not so fucking simple but because they playing is so impactful we impart our idea there’s more to it than there really is.

You’ve got to dig in and OWN the notes, be confident that you’re going to bend to the right pitch, that you’re going to finish a run on time to start the next run on a downbeat in time, and if it’s not in time it’s because there’s an intentional swagger or slur that’s repeatable by the performer. Happy accidents DO happen all the time and can make things AWESOME, not all accidents are happy and when they aren’t happy, they’re creating that dull/lifeless guitar recording; a note not bent to pitch, uneven vibrato, not paying attention to note value (how long you hold notes before going to the next one), these are all the things that make for a compelling guitar recording and if they are not in the performance, you will not get what you want.

Spend a month playing that one solo and only that solo, get it to the point you’re playing along with the actual song and you’ve got the notes and timing DOWN, then re-record it with all the confidence you’ve gained in that time and I promise you, you will see a difference.

That said, if your refuse to accept any of this information, you will see no differences and you’ll be spinning your tail for years to come.

Epic mic drop.