So I've been working on some metal demos. I think the composition is alright but the tone is absolute ass. I think it's my amp.https://youtu.be/pPU3D7O5CSc?si=YRDQOLymMDPgQ9v4Recommend me a tube amp please?
picrel is my amp btw
>>124208448Budget?
>>124208658Keep it under $1k please
>>124208665That's quite a lot. I used a peavey vypyr for years and it sounded great for metal, not tube though.Orange is supposed to make good, relatively cheap tube amps suited for metal like the dark terror.Judging from the clip you sent you could maybe get by with a distortion pedal though
>>124208732Checking out the orange head. Looks good on first glanceSorry the clip was a little repetitive, still trying to find something to put in place of that second section
>>124208448Under a grand? Prs mt-15 and get a cheap 1x12
>>124208732>Judging from the clip you sent you could maybe get by with a distortion pedal thoughYeah I was unable to work with rhythm much at all because if I'm not constantly strumming the distortion goes away. I'm trying to make this amp do something that it clearly wasn't designed to do.So far in terms of metal I've only gotten the most banal kinds of black and doom out of it.
mesa transatlantic ta-30 and 12" cab
What about getting a digital interface and producing with a DAW?
>>124208665>Blackstar HT-5RHpure kino. takes pedals very well in the front. fx loop in the back. built in reverb actually sounds great. have personally recorded multiple albums-worth of material through my blackstar>picrel
>>124209879How are you recording exactly?
>>124209931i usually get the performance perfect using DI on my usb interface, then route it back out and record with either an sm57 or an sm7b.
>>124208665Peavey 6505 mini + your choice of 1x12 cab
>>124209938I'm not clear on the whole modern guitarist setup. Personally I have a digital interface and an electric guitar currently, and I've owned a combo amp in the past, (no pedals). I see that you've invested a lot into amps and pedals, but you say you're recording in a DAW. When you say 'USB interface' do you mean 'digital interface' like a scarlett 2i2?Also, are you recording a clean signal, edit perfect takes into a full composition etc. and then play the recording from the DAW through your pedals and amps for effects, and then record that through a mic?not op
>>124210052>When you say 'USB interface' do you mean 'digital interface' like a scarlett 2i2?yes. any usb interface with 1/4" outputs will do the trickAlso, are you recording a clean signal, edit perfect takes into a full composition etc. and then play the recording from the DAW through your pedals and amps for effects, and then record that through a mic?depends on the song. some songs i do a 1 or 2 take and leave it raw. other songs i chop and cut and paste until it's computer-perfect. it really depends on the song. the biggest reason i do this is because if you were to spend all that time perfecting a guitar track through an actual amp with specific tone settings (which i've done many times) and it turns out that the specific tone you dialed in on the amp sounds like garbage in the overall mix (which i've done many times), you can't change the tone much past EQ-ing. if you get a DI track to sound good, all you've gotta do is pipe it through an amp at your desired tone settings. you don't have to worry about re-playing that shit 100 times (which i've done many times). if the tone doesn't sound good, you delete the track, adjust the amp, and re-try.
>>124210105Thanks for explaining. I guess you have a good reason to not go entirely digital, I'm currently using stuff like pic related and it's overall pretty good me, even though I'm dealing with latency because I haven't bought studio monitors yet. Would you use something like this with monitors, the tone the plugins and amp sims produce sound good to me. I've done some recordings but I'm mostly focusing on playing and practicing.
>>124210376>Would you use something like this with monitorsbro to be honest, trying to have real-time monitoring with digital CPU tone is very hard to do. i've got a pretty sick gaming computer, and even i can't do it with zero latency. that's just me. maybe some people have figured it out, but not me. i'm so used to recording DI, that i don't need monitoring for reference. if you MUST have realtime guitar tone in your ears, i'd recommend getting a roland microcube or boss katana and using an aby box to send one of your cables to the little amp (for monitoring) and the other cable going to the DI usb interface. again, this is my preference, but i've been doing this for 15 years, so i have a bit of XP
thanks for the recs guys, appreciate it!
>>124210456I'm pretty new to this, thank you. Basically "play / practice for enjoyment with your amp with FX; record clean in a DAW, listen with cans in direct input" is that about right?I've been playing for 6 months with 40ms+ latency via media speakers with the gimicky ASIO4ALL driver, and even though it's pretty atrocious I've kind of gotten used to it. I figure if I get monitors like M-Audio BX4 or Kali LP-6, the ~4ms latency with the right setup would be heavenly in comparison. I'll look into the aby box, thanks, first time hearing about this little thing.I have a dilemma of sticking to this route, getting monitors, or getting an amp, knowing the latter is something I can't really afford with all the pedals and heads and so on at the moment. I guess you can send your digital signal from the DAW to your amp with FX and some latency?, but I I'm a greedy bastard, because I'd like to be able to play along anything I put on the computer, asio4all kills all audio other than DAW, as well as keep producing electronic music. And listen to music with the monitors, I guess playing music through an amp would suck. I see a lot of guitarists on youtube with this studio monitor setup and they have like an AXE FXII or whatever but a lot of the processing seems digital, and they clearly play through the DAW with a few ms lag, apparently insignificant, which seemed great for a poorfag like me.Sorry for having to read my blog, I guess OP can benefit from what I wrote, looking into the digital route because those sims and VSTs are pretty damn good. All those ODs, dist pedals and amp sims cost $0.00
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>>124208448Peavey valveking is 200-300 bucks
