What would you consider your biggest tonal realisation that has made an impact on the way you dial in gear?

[TheGreatGreen]

I see. I had thought about doing the other room thing. I never considered that i would be able to hear my guitar acoustically..i guess only thing you could do is have monitoring in the room. That is interesting. It would be tough for me to get really into it. Part of the fun is the reaction of being in the room and the instant feedback.

Yeah the real time interaction is tough to beat. Direct monitoring is also cool though because you can hear the guitar exactly as it’s going to sound on the track.

Also I usually do a whole bunch of takes to make a guitar line sound exactly how I want, and sitting right at the desk being able to hit “record > stop > delete > record again” etc without moving around makes the whole deal a lot faster and more seamless.

 

[Nigel]

1. Lower gain
2. Mesa V30's
3. 125K load on JB's
4. Pure nickel strings
5. Mullard long plate tubes
6. JJ KT77's

 

[Alpha Stryke]

The sum of the "total parts".

 

[nightlight]

Another thing that I can recommend is not blindly going with a frowning EQ smiley on Mesa or VHT amps. Might work a bit better with the Mesa, but with the VHT, much better to use your ears to decide what to boost and what to cut or leave midway.

 

[anomaly]

Dimebag had some of the thinnest guitar tones ever. On album, the engineer would fix it and make him sound better, but left to his own devices, he is all hiss and mud. It there was a second guitar player in Pantera with even a Cannibal Corpse scooped Rectifier tone, you would never hear Dime in the mix. When I think "huge guitars", I don't thing hiss and shrill.

The Cleveland metal scene from 20 years ago taught me that. Scoop the mids only works if you're the only guitarist and can afford for someone to fix it later.

Well, I disagree with you. A song like " Becoming" from FBD sounds pretty fat to me. That whole album has a great tone IMO.