First Attempt at Recording my Mark IV

[EvoLove 34]

Well, I decided to try to record my new Mark IV for the first time to see how it would sound. Admittedly I'm a bit of a newbie at digital recording so don't really know what I'm doing but thought I'd give it a shot anyway.

I've never really been a huge Dream Theater fan but have been listening to them more since I decided to get the Mark. So, it made sense to take a stab at doing one of their songs. It's pretty rough and I didn't really try to nail the song perfectly but I was just trying to capture the feel.

Anyway here it is. Let me know what you think.

Forsaken... kinda

care to share your settings?

 

[newfinator]

ya, the lead tone, in particular is pretty thin, but I guess that's what I get for recording as such a low volume. Even though it's a very popular thing to do now-a-days I don't often use the neck pick up for leads. I usually stick to the bridge for anything with a reasonable amount of gain and stay away from it for cleans.

As far as settings I think it was:
Lead Channel:
Gain: 8 and pulled
Treble: 7.5
Bass: 3.5
Mid: 5.5
Drive: 9 and pulled
Presence: 6
Volume: 1
Master Volume: 1
EQ: typical "V" pattern

I don't know what the tuning was originally but I just used my guitars with d-tunas and went with a dropped D. The rhythm was my 85 Kramer Imperial with Evo's and the lead was my Wolfgang Std.