How to record heavy guitar 2 - Dialing in your amp | Spectresoundstudios TUTORIAL
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- Part two of my series on recording heavy guitar. By request! How to dial in your amp for recording.
A simple, easy to follow how-to guide that can be applied to any guitar amp, tube based, or solid state.
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Funny enough, in my band, the bassist is the tech-savvy one. Then again, he's not actually a "bassist" he's a multi-instrumentalist that happens to play bass, amongst other things, in my band.
You guys are fortunate
@@robjobse8860 I play bass, poorly, but I started out as a trumpet player as a kid. I guess the jokes only apply to pure bass players lol
Hey that's me right now!
@@jasonschannel9526 I've known so many bassists over the years that played horns in school, specifically trumpet.
@@feebypeels2883 I did as well. Weird.
I'd like to see a series of how a basic guitar track becomes something that sounds like something you would hear on a professional recording or CD. I can never figure out to turn something I record into something listenable without instantly recognizing the lack of quality
Mixing and mastering are the things that will determine a semi-professional sound, and something from a basement musician. Also, guitars on their own will sound a bit amateurish, but blended into a mix they will sound much better.
@@gamer263 Sometimes it's just lucky mic placement and lucky volume level (tube or solid, speaker doesn't care, it must move).
Happened to me only once, didn't even need any processing, it was miraculous.
I must add, i covered my speaker with thick cloth to only get the speaker and to also not blast my ears with high volume and high frequencies.
Sometimes you just need to push your speaker for maximum efficiency and potential.
I'm drunk at the time of writing, sorry if i left in mistakes. Not a native eng speaker.
“You can lean on the cleaner side and quad track your guitar for thickness”
That just helped me a lot with recording with my shitty little setup, the distortion on my amp sucks and I don’t have the cash to spare for amp modeling on my computer, so I just record it from the amp to the mic and I cannot for the life of me get a heavy, clear sound with it. It sounds better with lower gain but it lacks punch. This is going to help. Great video.
About freaking time. I have watched so many videos on recording/dialing in an amp sound and this is the first one that goes beyond "Okay set this knob about here or this one about here" and details what you're trying to get. Much appreciated.
These two about setting up tone and levels really helped. Son-in-law says thanks! He records backing tracks for himself and others.
Would be cool seeing the soldering tutorial, I wonder how much you can do with diy. Great video as usual!
+1 for the soldering video
I'll put it on the list!
SpectreSoundStudios ditto for the soldering. Your videos are bad ass dude! Greetings from Az! Watched all of them since the beginning, first time commenting. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Glenn
As a computer support administrator that plays guitar strictly as a hobby for my own amusement, I'd love to see a soldering tutorial.
Also, what do you recommend for someone like me as far as equipment to practice on and ways to improve?
+connect2reality already did one!
lol, I posted the comment before I read the comment below. Will watch as soon as I can.
My favorite amateur, shitty guitar tone setting, that some people actually think sounds good goes like this.
Gain - 10
Bass - 10
Middle - 0
Treble - 10
Volume - 11
Its amazing how many guitar players can't get a decent tone from even the simplest set ups.
***** I've learned to balance tone a lot better. I basically dial in my tone the same way Glenn does, I find I usually end up with the Gain around 6, Bass around 3, Mids around 4-6, and Treble around 5-6 and Presence around 5. Depending on the amp, its usually around that area.
Matt Newman I find most amps don't give me what I want with that kind of scoop, but when you do it with a 5150/6505/many other Peavey amps, it actually doesn't really sound "scooped" to my ears, just tight. I talked to a Peavey tech about it once, he told me that with most Peavey amps, turning the bass AND mids down, treble up some, you are really only "scooping" lower mids, and the treble knob drags the high-mids up with it. This allows you to avoid mud, keep your "chugs" tight, have a decent nasal upper-mid bite, and not have the vocals and guitars competing for the same place in the mix. But a Marshall with the mids turned way down sounds muffled and hollow to me. Except the Valvestate amps, they seem to have the mid control centered lower too.
Adam Rainstopper I find to get a good clean tone you wanna scoop it a lot more than a dirty tone. To me the best way to find the sweet spot for every frequency is to turn the dial till the bass, mids, or treble sound like its "too much" then dial it back a tiny bit.
Matt Newman Yes, with the exceptions of certain reggae/ska clean tones. I actually like a fairly flat eq for high-gain stuff, but I do dial the bass back a fair amount, because I don't like having to use post-eq. It just doesn't sound as natural to me.
Adam Rainstopper I use bass amps usually to run my Pod through, so at higher volumes I have to dial back the bass a lot, the amp usually makes up for it.
Glenn, you are SO entertaining! Sometimes tutorials can be kinda boring. Not yours! I'm learning a lot from your vids,thank you! 🤘🏻
Awesome, thanks Glen.
It would be great if you did a video that focused on the proper way to capture a guitar di that will be used for reamping later.
The proper gain staging and min, max levels and what type of di to use with active/ passive pups.
This subject seems to be a big mystery to many people and i remember reading something you wrote about it years ago that was very informative.
Thanks for being a productive member of the online music community.
I'll put it on my list!
Glen you always make some of the most informative and honest videos. I would love to see the soddering video. I have been wanting to replace the pickups in one of my guitars.
Omg this Glenn is so much calmer than nowadays, understandable with the current heavy metal panorama.
I would love to see that soldering video.
me too!!!!
Glenn your videos are excellent. I learn so much from these. I really appreciate the work you put into your videos and the knowledge you share.
Hey Glenn, I followed these two tutorials pretty closely and got really good results. This is the first time i have ever Mic'd up my 6505 and I usually just play through amplitude on home recordings but it sounds so much better with a real amp. Watching your videos helped me a whole lot man. Thanks and please keep posting good shit!
Record your own IR. That's what you're hearing. I did it cause I was too lazy to find an IR using Mojotone Greyhound speakers; something that was probably more time consuming but was allot more fun.
Wow, so much info and no blah blah. I wish all videos were like this LOL. I love how this was done. Like you had 5 minutes left before your next impending bowl movement took priority. The way it oughta be!
There's a reason for that. I really need to do a video on the subject :)
ive learned so many of these specific little terms like "transients" and "excursion" from you glenn, your the best. thank ya thank ya
One tip that I've learned from experience is to test your tone to see how it will sound double tracked panned L+R before you start recording. So many times I thought I had the greatest tone and recorded the whole song only to learn later that it didn't mesh well when I tracked the 2nd guitar track. So if you have the chance, do a few test riffs double tracked to get a better idea of what it's going to sound like.
this is one of the best channels I've found here. Greetings from Argentina!
Yes on the soldering demo. Keep up the good work!
Thank you pal!! You are very clever and the explanations are super clear.
Any tutorial for home studio is more than welcome.
Blessings from Costa Rica
Sure thing! Hope the weather's nice down there.... It started snowing up here yesterday :(
Extremely helpful dude. Thank you
My dad helped me build a patch cord from scratch it is a very good skill to have in the world of music tech. Thank you for an awesome tutorial!
This video is not only very helpful but funny as well!
AWESOME definition on the guitar. So much of the time, the guitar players I'm working with just dial up mud; it just becomes a wash-out of undefinable noise. Great vid.
love your videos man. thanks for doing these.
Having read all your drum guides on the Sneap forums, I can't wait to see them updated in video form. Keep up the good fight pal!
You're really giving away the family jewels here. I appreciate it. Thanks!
Man i love at the end when you kick into that riff, sounds awesome!
Dude, your tutorials are absolutely awesome.
Nice riffs at the end. I love your videos!
Can't wait for that drum video!
i used this for dialing in my amp on BIAS! thanks Glenn! :D
Love to see a video on wiring and soldering.
Thanks Glenn
You're videos are great dude!
glenn. muchas gracias por esta leccion. a parte de saber enseñar, inspiras la intencion de los que te seguimos. te deseo la mejor de las inspiraciones.
glenn. thank you so much for this lesson. besides of being fully aware of how to teach, you inspire the intention of us who follow you. i wish for you the best inspiration.
Dude, you're well and truly back on form with the bass player ribbing on this one. Top notch!
:)
Overtime I had wandered so far away from my 'tone' and kept adjusting the mics a hair. One day I muted the monitors, cranked the amp and was like WTF!! NOWHERE NEAR. This video serves as an excellent reminder to dial in the amp. THEN go after it with mics. TH-cam recommended this video to me, intuitively... so Thanks great internet controller God.
Thanks, these tips are really helpful!
Love the videos... keep them coming!!
Really great content brother. Much appreciated.
Love your videos man, good job keep it up!!!!
This is one of the best youtube channels.
This really helped a lot because I’m wanting to start recording once i get the software and the gear thank you!
always insightful. Thanks for all the tips. Looking forward to the drum tutorial. I'll reference you in my album credits, it's like you're looking over my shoulder in my diy studio. Super helpful. Cheers bro
Great tutorial! thank you very much!
very cool some stuff i never thought of Thanks!
It is about time somebody made a video like this! Good work brother man.
+SuperJiggawhat thank you very much!
Awesome tutorial.
Cool that you are sharing knowledge :)
Awesome video and information brother!
:)
thanks! you're a great teacher.
Great vid again, Glenn.
Thanks for watching!
im not a metalhead,but your advices are between the best ones avaible on youtube, keep up the good work!
Awesome man !!
That schecter sounds amazing at the end there. I have a C1 Hellraiser and really like the 5150 sound, I'm gonna have to save up for one.
Dude! Awesome videos. Do a studio tour!
A video on soldering would be very much appreciated Glenn!
Dude. That guitar tone is heavier than my mom. I REALLY mean that! Keep it up
:)
Recording Metal (properly) is an art, and you sir are an ARTIST \m/\m/
Good info, man.
thank you! huge help!
Awsome video!
Very cool tips.
YEEESS!!! HOME STUDIO TUTORIAL OR HINTS PLEAASE! i could really use that....
Great stuff! Got my sub!
So useful, thank you
Cant wait for that drum tutorial.
Same here.
this is awesome dude
Those are some dank riffs m8 also hope the third 'How to get your band ready for the stage" will be out soon
Hey thanks for the tips i was having a hell of a time dialing in this B52 Transistor amp, and just couldnt get the right tone, used your settings and tweaked it a little and chug a chug a!!!!
Sorry for my English, I'm from Poland (the land of Vodka).
About bass players, I know your pain. I play punk rock with a band, so one of the most simple music genre ever. We had 4 or 5 bass players and everyone sucks... They couldn't learn the songs and the worst part is that they didn't even hear that they are playing something that sounds bad with the rest instrumenst... Different scale etc. Now we have great bass player. Becouse it's our old guitarist. I'd love to create a metal band (becouse I'm bored with recording my s**t lonely at home) but I think it's impossible to find bass player that won't kill my music...
Actually finding a bassist in Poland for metal isn't the worst part, at least in Warsaw. Most of bassist that actually do tackle metal know what they are doing.
But guitarists, now this is a fucking pain. It just seems impossible to find someone responsible with decent skills and little to no ego, as most of those that we tried to get when we searched for the other guitar were simply cunts in different departments so to say.
Also drummers - these fuckers are like unicorns, finding one that is good in what he is doing (as in playing in time) and got time to put effort into your band is literally next to a fucking miracle.
Awesome helpful videos.. you rock.🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
Awesome video! :D
Thankyou! Ill use this next time
Thank you so much!
Thanks Glenn that was really useful, even a bass player could follow that procedure - I should know because I am one!
After watching this vid I went out to my garage and tried those tone settings on my 5150 2X12 combo. I don't scoop the mids (i turned them up to about 4 or 5) but I turned up the highs and presence to your recommended settings as well as the bass and resonance, and holy shit did it make my sound better! I never thought to turn the high frequencies up that high and it made a huge difference. Thanks!
It works like that with the green channel, maybe not so much with the Red.
SpectreSoundStudios
Would someone be capable of achieving the same results with a Marshall jcm 800 2203 head? Curious because the features on the amp are simplified but its a split channel amp. Thanks.
Theoneandonly88able It's a different voiced amp, it's not going to sound the same, learning how amps and controls affect your amp is far more useful than copying presets. As a British voiced amp the mids are pretty prevalent too but it's nt going to sound like a 5150 no matter how hard to mess with it.
Dude, love your videos. You're also freakin hilarious, please keep making more.
Funny but great info
Nice vid bro, some tips I've never heard elsewhere
:)
hell yeah I want a soldering video! do a vid with pedal effects vs digital effects would be awesome too!
i told myself i wouldn't dislike a video by Glenn but that "no beer here" has me reconsidering
WOOO DRUM RECORDING TUTORIALS!!!!
Awesome, please make a soldering video. Please make sure that it is simple enough to follow along for us bass players.
Thank you, keep the awesome vids coming....
A video on soldering would be awesome!
Following your vids.....good stuff
been looking for this 4 yrs.
I would love to see a video covering soldering! I have basic skills regarding electronics, but I am always afraid to attempt it for fear of ruining my pedals and/or guitars that I own.
A tutorial on home and studio soldering would be awesome! I've done a little myself with changing pickups and pots on a guitar, but it's only a self-taught thing I've been doing. Hearing from a pro would be great.
Brutal Tone
Thanks!
Very cool video. Super consistent with some stuff I read on Slipperman's "Recording Distorted Guitars Thread From Hell", I think. Keep up the good work Glenn.
Thanks glenn!
I have the same guitar, nice man. Also, please expidite the recording drums video as I am having huge debates with my drummer on how to properly record drums. Thanks for the vids and keep them coming!
i have a crappy 150 watt 212 line 6 combo from the early 2000's. I run it on the recto setting with the drive a little behind noon, I also run a ts9 as my clean boost and it is godly to me. I want a tube amp like you wouldn't believe but for 300 dollars I have a pretty good amp with a really nice sounding drive. this amp is super trebled though so I set the drive as low as I can get it with it just breaking up enough to be considered crunch, also mids at about 3 past noon is the only way it pops in a mix the amp on its own either sounds like a power drill in slow motion or one of those wet farts that you could probably cut a recliner in half with. Anyyyywayyysssss I'm happy
Thank you so much for making this, I’m buying a used 5150 212 tomorrow and haven’t really bought tube amps before and wanted what the nobs should do incase the sellers trying to burn me and not telling me if there’s something wrong
Yeah man, do a video on soldering for the home studio!
I would really like to see a video on vocal recording! Is that possible? My second most wanted video would be one on mixing a complete track.
Great channel with information from someone who actually knows what he is doing.
Great video as always, i'm very interested i the video about soldering
Nice! Upload the whole song!!!!
Yes to the soldering! Pickups, pedals, cables, ect