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Post by Rubberneck on May 2, 2005 16:05:35 GMT -5
hey, check out my jazz-blues improv on my soundclick page. the track is called gmin blues jam. guitarists, let me know what you think of my clean tone. i am trying to squeeze every drop of tone out of my crate practice amp, seeing how i won't be able to afford a new one for a long time... www.soundclick.com/bands/7/fracturedprioritiesmusic.htmi'm still working on jazzier phrasing, but it is starting to come along a little bit. if anyone wants to take a shot at this jam, let me know and i can email or send you the backing track through AIM or something.
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Post by soniktruth on May 2, 2005 22:39:19 GMT -5
wow, that solo is the shit........very impressive, best one so far...who's playing the pianer??
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Post by soniktruth on May 2, 2005 22:39:55 GMT -5
whoooooaaaaa!!!!
space solo
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Post by Rubberneck on May 3, 2005 0:01:16 GMT -5
haha, yeah...it get's spacey at the end. that's my porn wah patch i made on my digitech. the backing track is so damn long that i felt the need to change things up somehow. the piano and the entire back-track were made by one of the guys on the guitar.com message board. they have jams like this on a pretty regular basis. thanks for giving a listen para, i'll try and record some karate stuff in near future.
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Post by Castro on May 3, 2005 10:33:19 GMT -5
freakin awesome....some pretty sick guitarrage there also how do you get such a clean tone? like how have you set up the recording stuff?
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Post by Rubberneck on May 3, 2005 15:41:42 GMT -5
thanks castro, i've really been working on getting a great clean tone and right now i'm pretty happy with what i've got. as far as the recording set-up goes, it isn't too complicated but i absolutely love it. we will start from the guitar and work our way down.
i have several different recording methods depending on what i'm recording, so here goes:
for clean electric guitar, like what i recorded here, i'm playing on a schecter diamond series elite. the strings add a lot to the tone, they are flatwound .11's and i fucking love them. the guitar runs into my digitech rp200. from the effects processor, i run into my piece of shit crate 15 watt practice amp (like i said, i was trying to get all the tone out of the thing i could, it sounds wretched without massive tweaking). from there, i mic the crate with a shure sm57 and run the microphone into my lexicon omega, conveniently built with silvertone mic preamps to keep the tone warm. i record live tracks with protracks plus 2.2 (came with the lexicon recording interface) and i don't really have to do much mixing afterwards. more or less i adjust volume levels because the tone is great and i don't need to adjust many frequency levels in production.
it may sound complicated, but more or less the lexicon omega recording interface is the cornerstone of the process. this thing is great, i can't believe how well it works, but do some research because it might not be exactly what you're looking for. it will set you back about $300 also...worked all summer to pay for my recording set-up as far as the new computer and the lexicon goes.
the other two methods i use...
for acoustic guitar, no amps are necessary, i just mic the guitar and record. unless i want to run the acoustic through the effects processor, then i use a cheap acoustic picup and send it through the processor and amp.
and for heavily distorted electric guitar, i run a male-to-male .75 inch cable from my amps headphone out to the lexicon instrument input, because micing the amp causes too much loss of that agressive tone.
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Post by Castro on May 4, 2005 10:17:21 GMT -5
right.....so what is this lexicon omega? does it have a line in?
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Post by Rubberneck on May 4, 2005 11:27:43 GMT -5
does it have a line in...hmm...i'm pretty sure that you could plug in anything short of a toaster : ] www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/detail/base_id/109839it has: - 2 phantom powered xlr silvertone mic preamp inputs - 4 TRS balanced/unbalanced inputs (for mixing board, effects processor, drum machine, or any other additional hardware if you want it to run through the lexicon) - 1/4" instrument input (here is the input you were wondering about) - SPDIF, which is supposedly joyous, but i've not gotten around to trying it yet. - 5 pin midi in/out - it has a host of other features. in all honesty, it's capable of a lot more than i ever intend to use it for. it records true 24 bit digital audio, so the quality is fantastic. it is very easy to use and it is so compact that it is absurd. i really recommend it as a first recording input box, it beats the shit out of a soundcard input jack : ]
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Post by Castro on May 4, 2005 12:18:40 GMT -5
it beats the shit out of a soundcard input jack : ] heh thats the only thing available to me right now so i'm hoping to get some sort of box soon thanks rubberneck
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Post by Rubberneck on May 4, 2005 19:21:54 GMT -5
no problem man. i'm still in the very early learning stages myself. i've only had this set up since i moved out for college...so since the beginning of this school year. you might also want to look into the digidesign MBox. it is a bit pricier, but it is designed and usually bundled with a version of pro tools and several plug-ins. i've never used pro tools but everyone in the home recording field seems to cream themselves over it, so there has to be something good about it.
keep me updated on your music and your recording purchases. i'll see if i can't figure out a way to maybe get a cleaner sound out of your soundcard configuration. what is the process for you? are you running from an amp into the sound card? what kind of amp/guitar/soundcard are you using? anything else? what software to record?
take it easy
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Post by Castro on May 5, 2005 12:06:27 GMT -5
my guitar is a peavey wolfgang which runs into my multi-FX pedal (which is a ZOOM) which in turn runs into my amp (30W Electrovision - the make speaks for itself). I then have a lead going from the headphone socket in my amp to the red socket on my PC.
the pc i use is windows 98 and the soundcard hasnt been changed ever so its not going to be good.
the software i use Kristal Audio Engine. What i do then is export what i've recorded as a WAV file, and i use CoolEdit Pro to remove noise and remove hiss etc etc and that usually makes the sound ok
did you get my message with the link? if so did it work? if not i can post it again
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