Thanks guys!
The sound is pretty muddy, but the guitar I'm mainly using is muddy to start with so I'm embracing that sludgy texture. I like to call it "CHUNGE" because it's like
chugging slathered in a grungy filth... Chug + Grunge = CHUNGE. haha
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Originally Posted by kindafishy
Are you planning to do more with accents as well? Vocals maybe? It gets a little repetitive (main 'verse' parts get really repetitive), so it needs quite a bit more to happen to stand on it's own.
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^^ YES... very repetitive. Trying to figure out a melodic overtone for it in the similar vein as the Chorus... And the reason I do this is because I don't sing, and finding a singer that will sing MY melodies and words just never happens... instrumental is my only option btu I'm not a fan of Steve Vai type sh*t. He's a great player and all, but solos start to finish is more boring to me than a riff repeated one too many times
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Originally Posted by VikingGuitar
Yeah, this tone is rad. A bit muddier than I usually go for, but absolutely PERFECT for this type of music. Kinda reminds me of Isis and Steven Wilson. Really good. Mind giving a rundown of what gear/mixing you used?
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^^ Glad you like the tone. Now I have to go listen back to a few of my Isis records to see if I hear the resemblance!
Gear/Mixing Rundown
Ibanez RG827Z 7-string tuned down to A-Standards (but the tuning probly fluctuated off of that) - The nature of this guitar + extra low string + low tuning = Muddy tone to start with... Why fight it? Embrace it.
USB interface/Amp Modeling: Fender Mustang II with a tweaked Fender Bassman preset + a 4x12 Greenback cab model (All in the amp and Fender Fuse) with some round crunch.
Mixing: I'm finding that low gain/vintage crunch comes out gainier in the mix and high gain presets tend to sound processed and TOO gainy in the mix causing a loss of character, tone and life... So I turn gain down now.
Crunchy Guitars panned hard right, hard left (I play two matching tracks with different amp settings). Clean parts are at about 75% Right/Left. The Left clean guitar is a Fender Telecaster + a Mooer Analog Delay. Solo bits have the Mooer Ana Delay and I think possibly some Fender Twin preset + Bassman preset. Tried a Les Paul, Strat, Telecaster etc for the solo bits but for some reason, the Ibanez just sounded better/cut better.
Bass is a cheap GK P-Bass copy running through an Ampeg preset in Amplitube 3 + some light "tube" compression.
Drums are EZ Drummer - hence why I gotta go in and swap the stock loop with proper drum parts and fills. That's usually sitting in a stereo track straight out of the plugin.
It should be noted that I have ZERO education or real-world experience with engineering/mixing... so I have no clue what I'm REALLY doing, just go by what sounds good to me, and on my cheap labtec speakers haha