New studio preamp clip. Metal, chunk, leads, etc...

[FastRedPonyCar]

started with leads then as usual, the clip somehow ended up in metal chunky stuff. I've been fine tuning the low end trying to get the nice tight low end articulation. this clip I didn't use any boost, which normally helps quite a bit.

Controls going across the front from left to right:

5, 5, 10, 4.5, 2, 3, 7, 6, lead fat and bright up, graph in typical V shape.

I still think my valvemaster power amp section is holding be back. Dispite the new tubes, it's still loose when the amp is pushed really loud at band practice. :?

http://www.drewlankford.com/Music/Mesa_test.mp3

 

[mrd]

Hmm... Good core tone, I can hear it in there. It's buried in a layer of hissing and fizz though. Look at your rhythm playing under a spectrogram... it's so saturated. Which of those settings is your gain? Try turning it down a bit, and run the high-end of your EQ a bit lower to see if that helps.

 

[FastRedPonyCar]

Gain was at 7. I think my monitors may tend to be on the muffled side. They have a smoother sound than I think most speakers have and I tend to eq the amp brighter than it should be.

The lead bright is on, treble is at 10 and the 6600 slider is all the way up.

 

[mrd]

Holy christ sonny. Turn the treble down and that 6600 down too. That's way too high hehe. Try gain at maybe.. 6, treble 7-8, 6600 at 70-80%.

 

[FastRedPonyCar]

Here's another one with less highs and less gain and a little less delay. I think I had too much delay in it last time.

http://www.drewlankford.com/Music/Mesa_test2.mp3

At 1:20, the clip goes from the original amount of delay to a reduced amount.

Took the highs down to 7, gain to 6, 6600 slider is centered between the top and middle line, parallel with the 2200 and 80 hz sliders.

 

[mrd]

That sounds a lot better, especially the lead playing. It was kinda brittle sounding before, now it has a nice warm body with a sweet top end. The rhythm playing is still too saturated for my ears, but its better than the first clip. I would try turning down the gain even more. Are you running a boost or anything else in front of this? That seems like a crap load of gain for having your gain at 6. To me, you just wanna have enough gain that it can provide a throatiness and bite to your playing, as well as amplifying the small nuances of your playing, but you don't want it to blanket everything.

Try turning the bass knob down a little bit too, when you palm mute stuff the bass comes right out and it's a little bit too obvious. Like the palm muting at 1:38 in the 2nd clip, you can hear the bass come out as this kind of "drone" sound and it sticks way out, I think it's too loud. Turning down the gain will help that, but it will also reduce everything else.. I think just turn your bass down a touch and see if it helps that.

 

[RJ2213]

fastred, were you using that beautiful green carvin with the maple fretboard i drooled over on guitaristworks.com(imusicscene.com) on this?

 

[mrd]

Also, you might wanna try running your stuff through a high-pass filter to kill off anything sub 70-80hz. The low E string of a guitar is ~82hz, so any information below that is pointless. If you're tuned lower, then lower it down. D is 73hz and C is 65hz. But yeah, anything below that is just bad noise, try lowering the low shelf by a few dbs, it might help with the excess low-end and tighten up the overall sound image.

Even if you do dive bombs, lowering the low shelf shouldn't affect it too much, and you could always do an automation in the EQ to lax up the low-shelf for a sec while you dive down so it brings back the deep voice of your strings flapping against the fretboard :lol:

ps - Nice playing BTW! I'm enjoying listening through the tracks even though there's nothing else going on.

 

[FastRedPonyCar]

this one? Yup.

 

[Hailstorm350]

nice guitar, and I really enjoyed clip 2, keep up the good music

 

[sixstringmonk]

Hi Drew, Glad to see yet another Carvinite here.