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the playing is done because i recorded clean on cubase. just adding distortion to that clean tone that stab me on the back. I think i might need to borrow a friend's amp and mic it to see the differents ......

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='1228721' date='May 12 2011, 01:08 PM']+1000 I think amp modellers / emulated distortion / digital effect distortion just sounds terrible in 99% of cases. i went through a phase of using them until I decided to mic up my 5150. Would only use digital for the very roughest of demos - certainly never for anything else.[/quote] So i guess I'm wasting my time to get it right ........ unless i buy a guitar amp and mic it up to record?

So i should stick with using guitar rig to record clean than mess around with guitar rig effects later? I think i need to try record the distortion guitar only and try it on the sound system before mixing everything else together. if the guitar sound ok on its own but loss in the final mix, then is a EQ problem i guess. If the guitar sound is bad on its own than is the distortion effect, EQ that i'm using making it bad.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='1228608' date='May 12 2011, 11:55 AM']When you listen to the mp3 with headphones on the PC, it sounds fine, but when you take it to the ipod you can't hear distorted guitars? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. an mp3 should sound the same on every system using the same headphones.[/quote] First I'm using Guitar Rig 4 for the distortion/overdrive sound. Sine I'm a bass player so i won't have guitar amp stuff to record. Apart from Guitar Rig 4 which is software base effect, I've got a studio rack effect. the rack unit is Boss GX-700 guitar processor which have amp mod, distortion pedal, delay , rev etc. I could line out the rack to my audio interface but I only get 1 take to get the effect right ....... Reason to use Guitar Rig is so i can add effects later. In term of ipod problem, I don't quite get it myself, but you can't hear the distortion guitar when playing on the ipod with ipod headphone, but I can hear it on the pc speaker/or my dads sound system using the same ipod headphone. No compression or effect was apply on the ipod, so I don't get it. This is the first track i making that have distortion guitar. Other track i recording was only clean electric, acoustic guitar, bass, piano and drum.

[quote name='51m0n' post='1228469' date='May 12 2011, 09:51 AM']You are rendering this as a vrey high quality mp3 before listening on the ipod arent you?[/quote] I've render the final mix to *.wav because i can't render mp3 on my cubase LE unless i buy the license thing which i may consider doing it. I import the *.wav file to adobe media encoder and convert it to 128 mp3 ........ either 128 or 256 i can do on adobe media encoder ......

Yeah i gonna do it tonight cos at work atm. but I've try this last night. I've done some testing last night again. Like I said, it sounded ok on monitor speaker and pc speaker. Thats a good start already. Sounded ok on my dad's bose sound system but on ipod you can't hear no distortion at all except some more nasty bass added to the song. I thought is the headphone that is bad so i use a different set of headphone instead of the ipod headphone. The result is even worse. So I tried the headphones again on my pc speaker and my dad's sound system, it sounded ok. So is not headphone problem. Only thing I've not try yet render the track with distortion guitar only and try play it back on the ipod to see can i hear the track or not. If it doesn't, i think i got some problem here .....

I've try layering and EQ for each layer etc and reduce the distortion and it sound much better....... but when i mix the song out in cubase and play it back on my ipod with headphone, the distortion guitar sound completely loss in the mix and become muff. It sounded decent on the monitor speaker and pc speaker .....

Hi, I'm kinda new to recording and mixing etc. The main instrument I'm using a midi drum which play in toontrack ezdrummer, audio track bass guitar, mic acoustic, electric guitar clean and distort electric guitar. I'm having so much trouble with distort guitar because I just realise you need to layer the distort guitar and pan them as well to get a good distort sound without being too muddy or thin in the mix etc. Was wondering what else do I need layering and pan? Only the distort guitar need layering?

Hi guys, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post but I ask anyway. I've got a chance to buy a Fender 1967 maple precision neck, and the condition is kinda all beat up type but still useable. The guy ask me to give him a offer, not sure how much should I pay for it.

Hi guys, I needed some advice here. Which mic can get the job done better for capturing the whole band sound in a rehearsal room. I've got a macbook pro with garageband. Here is the omni mic i been looking at so far: 1) Samson go Mic (£40) 2) Samson C03 USB (£83-£99) 3) Samson C03 (£59) and is a standard XLR mic I've got around £150 to spend so I need to spend the money wisely to do the job. With the Samson go Mic is cheap and it claim it can capture the band room sound. The samson C03 is a better version of the go mic due to the quality different for both. With the USB mic i can just plug straight into the laptop and adjust the mic position in room to get good sound. With the standard XLR C03 i need to buy a small usb mixer to record onto the PC. Not sure shall I buy the usb mixer and the standard XLR C03 or buy either the USB condenser. Consider i will do some solo recording at home, so maybe buy the XLR C03 and the mixer? or Go Mic plus mixer?