Oct 24, 2009 3:51 AM
OMG I'm An Idiot ... New Mix and New FFaF Song!!
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Hey Everyone,
So I had a revelation yesterday ... since I started using impulses almost a year ago, I could never quite figure out why my guitar tones didn't have that high-end bite and the "air" I heard in impulse demos. I would boost between 8-10kHz to add a bit of high end and it still didn't have that sound I wanted. No matter what I did, it would sound too muddy for my taste and lacked "that sound" I was going for.
So I went back and tweaked my tone again (the Chunk Chunk/Big Bottom dual tone) ... messed around with the volume and presence knobs on the POD X3L to get the right amount of mids, turned down the gain a bit, boosted the trebs, and started recording again ... AGAIN, it still sounded like *** imo and just put me off form recording anything for my CD.
I started mixing a song for a band last night and loaded up everything to create their sound. I loaded an instance of Voxengo Boogex as I normally do when I add impulses and I realized something ... this whole time I had high and low pass pre's on in Boogex. I adjusted the sliders and BAM!! The bite and high end was there ... the guitars shined without being peircing!
So I went back and redid my old song "Omega" and decided to post it so you can here my brand spankin new guitar tone and new mix using impulses ... the right way haha.
Unfortunately this means I'm rerecording all the songs I've done so far for the CD and they probably wont all be done before the new year because I'm starting to get everything packed up for my move back to Washington DC in December. As SOON as I get back I'll finish everything up and start setting up an actual roster of musicians for FFaF. I'll also be starting up a side-project with Mark Holcomb from Haunted Shores so get ready for something amazing coming at the beginning of the new year. Maybe we'll get Bulb to play the skin flute for us or something haha.
You can find the song at http://www.myspace.com/friendforafoe2 or http://www.soundclick.com/friendforafoe
Hope you guys like it!
Cheers,
Chris
Hell yeah, sounds awesome man. Much better. What impulses are you using?
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Glad you liked it man! I'm actually using Recabinet's Ghandi IR's ![]()
Checked out those IR's, good stuff man. Alot better than what I've been using.
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ffaf,
A bit long for me, but the playing is very good! I know virtually nothing about impulses. Any links or anything that gives an overview of that?
Go to http://www.guitarampmodeling.com. They have a whole forum section dedicated to speaker cabinet impulses down near the bottom. Should be able to learn about them there. Be sure to read the sticky posts in that section.
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Insidian,
Thanks! I learned something today!
Wow! That's awesome man! Love that bottom end "bounce" on the lower riffs! Very good production! I usually get bored of instrumentals but I listened to Omega all the way through.
Keep it up!
Superb Production and perfomance ![]()
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