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Ordered!! Now it will be interesting to see which arrives first the JP-2C or AX-8!!
I hope Mesa Boogie has Petrucci sit down with Doug West and do an in-depth, mic'ed demo, like the one they did with Andy Timmons for the Mark Five: 25:
Or if not, at least another of these "fly on the wall" style demos:
Whatever the case, can't wait to hear it.
True that, I am one of them! As much as I love my Axe and as little as I'm playing my Mark V, I'm probably never going to sell it.You could argue Petrucci has sold more amps for Mesa than their sales staff combined.
Yeah it's the mic technique. I believe that's three mics blended together and one is a Royer which has a lot of low end.
Well I'm a huge fan of Petrucci's tones. He always sounds good. I think his best guitar tones start from the Liquid Tension era (Acid Rain tone is amazing!) and forward. I love that he's always changing things up and coming up with new tones. It just so happens that lately I've felt like I miss his older tones a bit. I loved the Recto era although after A/Bing a Roadster and Mark IV side by side I ended up preferring the Mark series a lot more with it's flexibility. Systematic Chaos is one of the best guitar sounds ever. "Forsaken" and that second verse punch is just unmatchable. This is one of the reasons I even create "Alloy IR's" which is essentially me trying to create that similar nice roaring phase with playing with the microphone distances. On that album JP had so many different mic ups and they all sounded really good. Constant Motion is a lot brighter than f.ex. TDEN. The latest two albums were not my cup of tea musically nor tonally sadly. It might be a part of me growing out of that genre but I feel like many people feel the same, right?Right, someone on another forum I post on replied pretty much the same thing to me.
I Re-watched/listened to it on my TV/surround sound system via my Roku and it just sounds like there's too much low mids, which are overpowering the rest of the tone and make everything sound "cloudy", for lack of a better word. I wonder how much better it would have sounded if the 250Hz slider were lowered some and maybe the 2200Hz & 6600Hz raised a little and/or it was only miked with a SM57?.
Out of curiosity, what do you think of the tone, and in the Ernie Ball ones I posted?
I feel like it has everything to do with the mic technique. Many JP fans ask me to create IR's with the Shure KSM mic but I think most of us agree that JP had better sounds using the SM57 or SM57+MD421 combo right? Now he stopped using that mic and did something different once again which obviously I wanted to see happen but I feel like the low end is a bit uncontrollable. I love more balanced tones personally.
Do you guys agree?
Well I'm a huge fan of Petrucci's tones. He always sounds good. I think his best guitar tones start from the Liquid Tension era (Acid Rain tone is amazing!) and forward. I love that he's always changing things up and coming up with new tones. It just so happens that lately I've felt like I miss his older tones a bit. I loved the Recto era although after A/Bing a Roadster and Mark IV side by side I ended up preferring the Mark series a lot more with it's flexibility. Systematic Chaos is one of the best guitar sounds ever. "Forsaken" and that second verse punch is just unmatchable. This is one of the reasons I even create "Alloy IR's" which is essentially me trying to create that similar nice roaring phase with playing with the microphone distances. On that album JP had so many different mic ups and they all sounded really good. Constant Motion is a lot brighter than f.ex. TDEN. The latest two albums were not my cup of tea musically nor tonally sadly. It might be a part of me growing out of that genre but I feel like many people feel the same, right?
I feel like it has everything to do with the mic technique. Many JP fans ask me to create IR's with the Shure KSM mic but I think most of us agree that JP had better sounds using the SM57 or SM57+MD421 combo right? Now he stopped using that mic and did something different once again which obviously I wanted to see happen but I feel like the low end is a bit uncontrollable. I love more balanced tones personally.
Do you guys agree?
There was a rumor that they used a Dual Recto on Forsaken but I doubt it. There's a studio video where you can see a Recto on the background but I think people misunderstood that it was being used. It might just be a part of the gear that was tested in the studio. The phasy growl of it sounds very Mark IV esque to me at least and honestly I don't know why they'd use the Recto for that one song although it's a different tuning. Anyways the mic up is more important and until this day I haven't been able to find a good spot in that song to try and measure the spectrum of that guitar sound. The closest IR I have for that tone is one of the preset IR's in Cab Pack 7. It was named accordingly to make it obvious that it's close to the "Systematic Chaos" tone but it's closer to Constant Motion.Systematic Chaos is by far my favorite DT guitar sounds, but I don't really like much of the album outside the first two tracks. The Forsaken tone in particular is up there as something I have been trying to recreate in the axe fx and line 6 Vetta before that. Is there a Recto in there? Or just Mark IV?
In the Presence of Enemies Part One may be my one of my favorite DT songs and I have been trying to play it ever since it came out.