Metro Plexi 50 watt with NOS EL34 Mullards

[FortinAmps]

Sounds great and killer playing

 

[thegame]

Sounds incredible. Awesome playing too. I'm a big fan of ambient miking, you like did here.

Thanks! Ambient mic works great for Blues stuff. I just purchased the Royer 121about 6 month ago and I love the Mic, the midrange is great and a good mic to mix with the Shure 57 which is bright. The way I get around phase issues, I record a couple staccato hits on the guitar and zoom on the waveform from bothe mic to make sure they match. I move the mic back and forth until the waveform lined up. The sound sounds thicker once the mics are in phase.

Yeah, I'm always amazed how certain mics color and distort the original source material more than others.

 

[eljodon]

I'm curious what you think about the Aracom?[/quote]
I love the Aracom Attenuator, Jeff is a great guy. I tried the new protoype that's coming out and it smokes the old one! It's going to have a couple of features that will be very helpful for live playing. Right now is confidential. I tried many attenuators and his is the best so far in my humble opinion.

 

[Rogue]

I love the Aracom Attenuator, Jeff is a great guy. I tried the new protoype that's coming out and it smokes the old one! It's going to have a couple of features that will be very helpful for live playing. Right now is confidential. I tried many attenuators and his is the best so far in my humble opinion.

I use an Alex but I'm really interested in an Aracom. The new one is even better? I'm curious, how so?

 

[eljodon]

Can we see some pictures of your studio? How about a video tour? This last clip was awesome and i have to say, so much better than the Axe FX clips.

Here is a picture of my workstation. I use 3 Mac Pro's, a 12 core 2.66 Ghz with 48 gigs of RAM an 8 core 2.99 Ghz with 24 gig of RAM and the other is a 2.26 Ghz with 12 gigs of RAM. One Mac is for my ProTools HD4 rig, another Mac 8 core is for my Logic 9 rig and the 12 Core is for all my orchestral samples. All my Macs have a internal 4 Tb raid except for the 12 core which has 4 600 gigs Velociraptors 10,000 rpm drives. I use Apogee converters. I use Chandler Limited preamps, API compresor(2500), a SSL rack which I use for my mixes that had 16 busses out of my Pro Tools rig. The SSL X Rack has 2 SSL eq's and 2 compressors.I'll post more pictures. the one you see when I post on the left is my amp rack

 

[eljodon]

This is my live rig, I only use it at big gigs, but at smaller gigs I use only the Axe Fx, I switch between the amps with a Voodo Lab amp selector. I use the attenuators as dummy loads because I would have to bring 4 diferent Marshalls and I'm to old to log around all that gear. In the big system I use the Axe Fx as my effect unit and for power amps I use a Mesa Boogie 2 90 for the dry signal and a Crown D class for the wet signal. I use the Fractal MFC100 as a switching system and l also use bunch of different pedals depending on my mood that day. The main ones are the OCD, Ko Ko boost, Tech 21 XXL, Boss SD 1 and many othe ones.

 

[eljodon]

I love the Aracom Attenuator, Jeff is a great guy. I tried the new protoype that's coming out and it smokes the old one! It's going to have a couple of features that will be very helpful for live playing. Right now is confidential. I tried many attenuators and his is the best so far in my humble opinion.

I use an Alex but I'm really interested in an Aracom. The new one is even better? I'm curious, how so?

It's brighter and you can select the level of brightness you want, the other features I can't talk about but it's going to be great for live situations. I haven't tried the Alex, but I heard great things about it. There's a bunch of other companies coming up with their own attenuators, but I've been using them since the Altair days. I'm getting a custom build dummy load that can accomodate 4 amps so I can switch between them with their own independent levels, so I don't have to bring 4 Marshall cabinets or use only 2 speakers per amp in a Marshall stereo cabinet because the Celestion can't handle the power with 2 25 watt greenbacks.It also helps so I don't have to use 4 mics plus 2 more for the effect cabs.I'll need only 3 mics. I'm waiting for the prototype.

 

[mapat]

That sounds awesome!

Great playing too!

Can you post a clip of this setup, only with a humbucker instead of a single-coil?

 

[eljodon]

That sounds awesome!

Great playing too!

Can you post a clip of this setup, only with a humbucker instead of a single-coil?

I can't because I sent the amp to get a David Bray mod 1 plus. I now use a Groove Tube Soul o 75 for this type of sound which sounds better or my Aracom PLX100 custom amp which is a Marshall plexi clone in one channel and a JCM800 on the 2nd channel. I'll post some stuff later once I get caught up in my studio. I couldn't work for a month due to a nasty ear infection! I have a bunch of stuff I haven't finished in which I'm demoing the Aracom Attenuator with different amps.Thanks

 

[eljodon]

Sounds great and killer playing

Thank you Sir!

 

[Bluplirst]

Awesome plexi tone! That middle section was sick. Any chance you're going to flesh it out with real drums?

 

[kiff]

I use 3 Mac Pro's, a 12 core 2.66 Ghz with 48 gigs of RAM an 8 core 2.99 Ghz with 24 gig of RAM and the other is a 2.26 Ghz with 12 gigs of RAM. One Mac is for my ProTools HD4 rig, another Mac 8 core is for my Logic 9 rig and the 12 Core is for all my orchestral samples. All my Macs have a internal 4 Tb raid except for the 12 core which has 4 600 gigs Velociraptors 10,000 rpm drives.

damn, you ain't screwing around

 

[Jason_86_951]

Sounds great!

 

[jcmlespaul]

Loved the track

 

[Chubtone]

Great tone, great playing, great rig.

Filed away for future reference: "Listen to eljodon advice".

 

[megamike]

Awesome tone and playing!

 

[MichaelG]

Great tone, great playing, great rig.

Filed away for future reference: "Listen to eljodon advice".

Absolutely. Loved that tip about how to get the mics in phase!

 

[eljodon]

Awesome plexi tone! That middle section was sick. Any chance you're going to flesh it out with real drums?

I would love to use real drums, but since I have to write many cues, is not economically feasible. When I have a client that wants to record real drums, I go to a pro studio since my studio was built for mixing, scoring and recording small instruments.I did play this song live when I visited my brother in MS, he's a drummer. It went well, but I had to re learned the solo because once I record the music, I move on to another project, so I forgot what I did!

 

[dstroud]

That was awesome dude!!!!!!

 

[eljodon]

That was awesome dude!!!!!!

Thanks! That's a nice instrumental you did on your video. I wish I could do videos like that but I'm too camera shy to do them!I admire people that can do that, I would be so nervous!