Messing around with "old school" recording techniques. You know, barely any gain, dumping track after track over the top of each other. Got this one and .
It's pretty much just a palm-muted march (thanks, Scott Ian) until around 1:45 where it opens up and you really hear the "juice" of it. It's six takes of a 5150 emulator that's on the crunch setting, just enough gain to fatten up, not enough to really grind, but man stacked up like that it sounds so fat.
I know, it ain't "today" at all, but that's so close to the sound in my head it's darn near scary. I need to get a mix going with this tone at some point.
Yeah it sounds awesome man. That's how I like to record. Can't wait to hear it in a mix, that's where this type of tone really shines!!
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Sounds awesome, kinda like a lower gain Tool type of tone, and I've always loved their tones!
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Working on futzing with the real amps to get something similar to this and man, there's some chunk when the gain's so low. Getting excited to put together a full mix now. Even got me working on new riff ideas, which hasn't happened very often in the last couple years.
What worked for me as a guitarist was running as little gain as I could get away while still getting the sound I wanted, then compensating with as much volume as I could get away with to get the speakers really working. I think it's more percussive, and it leaves more character intact than rolling up the gain and/or boosting while keeping the volume low.
As a bassist, I get where others are getting the Tool vibe. I like that this track and arrangement would leave a lot of room for me to work.
screamingdaisy wrote:What worked for me as a guitarist was running as little gain as I could get away while still getting the sound I wanted, then compensating with as much volume as I could get away with to get the speakers really working. I think it's more percussive, and it leaves more character intact than rolling up the gain and/or boosting while keeping the volume low.
volume over gain. Which is tough to do a lot of times at home.
As a bassist, I get where others are getting the Tool vibe. I like that this track and arrangement would leave a lot of room for me to work.
Funniest thing with this arrangement, Anthrax pretty much just hammers the shit out of that same rhythm guitar / bass / drums, outside of a bit of color from the bass about three times through the whole thing. Granted, it's a great rhythm so why not?
Started working on a stacked tone for the DSLs this morning. Holy fuckin' fuck. I got a super scoopy tone through the mesa cab, then am layering in some brighter takes of the other DSL with the G12H30. It's gonna be a gat damned monster when I'm done. I'll need another couple days to get the drums programmed for this track I started this morning, since I only get like forty minutes a day to do anything fun anymore, but I'll get it and post it up.
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volume over gain. Which is tough to do a lot of times at home.
