Short Henning PlexRod comparison clips

[Anonymous]

I was messing around with my amp and testing some new studio stuff (mics, pres, etc.) and I made a two clips. These are basically identical with one minor mixing difference. Which one do you like better and why? Can you tell what is different? I'll let ya know how I recorded this and what is different later... I wanna se if it is obvious to others or not...

PlexRod is in the Plex (low gain) channel, Frankenstrat clone I made with EVH humbucker. Recorded LOUD:

Clip 1
Clip 2

Steve

 

[Mailman1971]

Listened to each clip twice.....
I cant tell a difference.

Sounds good though!

 

[Chubtone]

Clip 1 sounds a little more "in your face".

Clip 2 sounds a touch warmer maybe.

I think this is splitting hairs to the degree that only we lunatics on gear forums do.

 

[samtheman]

I was messing around with my amp and testing some new studio stuff (mics, pres, etc.) and I made a two clips. These are basically identical with one minor mixing difference. Which one do you like better and why? Can you tell what is different? I'll let ya know how I recorded this and what is different later... I wanna se if it is obvious to others or not...

PlexRod is in the Plex (low gain) channel, Frankenstrat clone I made with EVH humbucker. Recorded LOUD:

Clip 1
Clip 2

Steve

Clip 1 has more *low mids* ...a bit more beef, just minor?

/sam

 

[rupe]

2nd clip sounds a bit fatter and smoother with a slightly better midrange presence. I didn't like the base tone much...this amp sounded much better in the shootout IMO. It had a certain hardness going on in these clips that almost reminded of my old MXR Distortion + through a clean amp.

 

[Vrad]

I liked clip 1 a bit more. Both sound good. Clip 1 sounded thicker and rounder. Clip 2 sounded more cutting. Alone, I like Clip1 in a mix Clip 2 might cut better.

 

[killertone]

I don't know, man...both sounded good but the difference between the two IMO is negligible.

 

[Neeklaus]

Clip 1 sounds a little more "in your face".

Clip 2 sounds a touch warmer maybe.

I think this is splitting hairs to the degree that only we lunatics on gear forums do.

my thoughts EXACTLY

 

[Gitfiddler]

I concur with Chubtone.

On another note, I thought your amp sounded better than most and hung in there with the best of them at the ampfest James posted on here. Very cool

 

[Anonymous]

Ok - the only difference between the two clips is that Clip 1 has stereo micropitchshift (+9 cents L/-9 cents R, 5ms delay L/10ms delay R) from my Axe-FX Ultra mixed in. I can hear it, but it is just slightly there in the mix. It sparkles it up a bit to my ears... I wanted to see if anyone would hear it, but I guess it would need to be higher in the mix.

This clip is actually 5 mics/pres mixed together:

Heil PR20/Great Rivers MP-2NV
Beyerdynamics M-160/Seventh Circle Audio A12
Beyerdynamics M-500/Great Rivers MP-2NV
Sure SM57/Seventh Circle Audio N72
Audix i5/Seventh Circle Audio J99

I was hooking up some new mics and pres and just recorded them all at once for the hell of it. The mics were just randomly positioned around the front of the speaker cab to test them, but I thought it sounded interesting even though I hadn't tried to position the mics properly. I now have each of them positioned well for recording.

I actually think this sounds kinda cool... what do I know though...

One the Axe - since I haven't found a micropitchshifting plugin to replace SoundBlender when I went native, I wanted to try using my Axe-FX since it does what I want. I got it routed right through my interfaces and Logic and finally was able to get the Axe-FX processing on the track, but every time I bounced down, the effect was gone. I spent hours trying to figure it out and finally posted on the Logic Pro Forum. I had been bouncing offline, which of course, does not send any audio to an outboard unit. When I bounced real-time, of course it worked fine. I spent like 3 hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong... What an idiot!

Steve

 

[Neeklaus]

my head asplode

 

[IHateRap]

Neither one will load for me. I'll try again later...

 

[Anonymous]

my head asplode

my thoughts EXACTLY

Steve

 

[Digital Jams]

Will listen later, building my pedal board now and watching the SpongeBob movie with the runt.............

 

[Anonymous]

Will listen later, building my pedal board now and watching the SpongeBob movie with the runt.............

Time better spent!

Steve

 

[Digital Jams]

ok, done with what I can do with the pedal board due to only 5 loops but all self made cables work and yes Steve vid of board will be coming as I am pretty impressed with it.

I did read the micro pitch shift before listening so me being a test rabbit is shot.

The results on monitors is VERY minimal imo, maybe a tad fuller but imo too suttle.

The amp sounds great though, got to love Stranglehold

 

[wheelman]

Neither one will load for me. I'll try again later...

Same here.

Ok got it to work I had to click on it and slide the time line bar back and forth then it worked.


Sounds cool forgot what I was supposed to listen for. Clip 2 sounds more open and spacious. Clip 1 sounds more choked like when you downgrade your clip to a lower mp3 form ( barely though).


Edit: I just went back and read what you did maybe that's why I was hearing what I was hearing. More stuff being piled on makes it less pure I guess. Either way cool stuff gotta love that riff.

Edit again: Ok now I don't know listening to it again and again. Sounds great the other way too its a different kind of spaciousness around the guitar tone. Where as clip2 the core guitar tone was more open maybe. My brain hurts.

 

[Anonymous]

ok, done with what I can do with the pedal board due to only 5 loops but all self made cables work and yes Steve vid of board will be coming as I am pretty impressed with it.

I did read the micro pitch shift before listening so me being a test rabbit is shot.

The results on monitors is VERY minimal imo, maybe a tad fuller but imo too suttle.

The amp sounds great though, got to love Stranglehold

OK, cool - I'll look forward to seeing the pedalboard!

I'll try mixing in more shift...

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

Neither one will load for me. I'll try again later...

Same here.

Ok got it to work I had to click on it and slide the time line bar back and forth then it worked.


Sounds cool forgot what I was supposed to listen for. Clip 2 sounds more open and spacious. Clip 1 sounds more choked like when you downgrade your clip to a lower mp3 form ( barely though).


Edit: I just went back and read what you did maybe that's why I was hearing what I was hearing. More stuff being piled on makes it less pure I guess. Either way cool stuff gotta love that riff.

Edit again: Ok now I don't know listening to it again and again. Sounds great the other way too its a different kind of spaciousness around the guitar tone. Where as clip2 the core guitar tone was more open maybe. My brain hurts.

HA! Thanks for listening man...

Steve

 

[jasonP]

Both sounds awesome and I love that song. I think clip 2 is warmer or smoother sounding.