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phil, and anyone else,
ive been workin furiously trying to obtain a better
tone ! can you please check out sample9b.mp3 in the
NealCraptar folder in the files section ? let me know
if its more workable, or if i should go back to the
drawing board.
thanks !
neal
--- Phil Dirt <> wrote:
> Neal, a quick listen displayed a really dead and
> colorless tone. The
> word that comes to mind is "brittle." Strings?
> Pickups? Amp?
>
> A quick look with EQ and you have almost no low
> frequencies (where the
> beef is) and no highs at all (harmonics and color).
>
> A quick monkeying with reverb pointed out making it
> sound powerful and
> rich requires solving the problem with the
> guitar/amp.
>
> Since you said that sample 2 was virtually direct, I
> am assuming that
> the guitar is the problem, either strings or pickups
> or they was you
> set your controls. If by direct you don't mean
> direct, but just mean
> ampo flat, then the amp may still be the problem.
>
> I can see why you're troubled. The only other time
> I've heard this dead
> a tone was once with Leslita of the Neptunas. With
> major doctoring, it
> only rose to marginally acceptable.
>
> Here are links to quickly doctored version. This is
> NOT what you'd do
> to fix this, but comapre to your originals. Even
> with the extreme bass
> boost I used, there's little beef here.
>
>
>
>
> Phil
>
> --- "Neal S." <> wrote:
>
>
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> alright phil and others,
>
> please help me out. there are 2 samples in the FILES
> section on this yahoo group. the folder is called
>
> "NealCraptar"
>
> sample 1 : is with head and cab modeling.
> sample 2 : is pretty much just DI without the amp
> modeling
>
> both were recroded with fat strat, some EQ ( that i
> always use ) and a behringer mixer as a pre amp ( to
> match up impedence ) and a little reverb. Also they
> were run through a tube amp compressor, but with
> unity
> gain.
>
> now, ive never been in a studio, and have just heard
> the guitar coming through the monitors. how do my
> samples differ ? would you suggest i work on the
> modeled sound, or the strictly DI sound. or scratch
> both. and anything else you can think of.
>
> thanks, i appreciate this
>
> neal
>
> --- Phil Dirt <> wrote:
>
> > that's novel - let's try it.
> >
> > --- "Neal S." <> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > thanks phil, i can try most of these, viturally of
> > course ! if i post some quick riffs of just
> guitar,
> > can you tell me how they compare to more
> > professional
> > recordin
> gs and how you might go about adjusting them
>
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