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Quiet Loud Quiet Loud Loud

By Nyarlos on March 27, 2022 9:12 pm

Becasue I dont usually do the whole "standard song structure" thing I realised I hadn't ever done a WB with the old standard of quiet loud, quiet loud. And add that to the fact I have to get through a whole bunch of mid gain distortion peels that I won't be able to do full on metal songs with, there's going to be a few of these mid paced, mid gain rock songs. But also, I have a bunch of compressors to get through, and Im not super into any of them, my first thought was "country style" finger picking, but Im even less country than I am Jazz lol, so used them both for the finger picked stuff, but also into the front of dirt pedals sort of like overdrives, but worse, because they kill the feel a bit. I really should have used them in the FX loop, because I particularly don't like how they iron out my lead playing, but oh well.

Also first WB track with my Ibanez Fireman, which was my Xmas present to myself, which is a banger.

Pedals for today:
1: Way Huge Saffron Squeeze. Full featured guitar comp, all the mini knobs and stuff.
2: Dazatronix BSIAB2. Really weird but cool pedal, weird because its "Brown Sound in a Box" but looks like a mesa boogie design scheme, but the Brown Sound was a Marshall, so who knows.
3: MXR Custom Comp. Very good at the country picking thing, makes your clean sound that way instantly.
4: MXR Carbon Copy Bright. Used before, just needed delay. Actually already out of delay pedals!
5: Boss DS-1. Sin in pedal form. These are just awful, and I can't believe some people enjoy them. Took ages to get a tone, and still its only "meh". If the best you can do is average/boring then its a failure. And it is incredibly boring to me.




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Wild looking guitar. That's a pretty neat mic setup you've got on the cabs. I've switched over to using IRs. Still haven't found my goldilocks settings, but I do like the repeatability.

Cool song. I need to play around with compressors on guitar more. I usually think about it more in a mix context than a pedal context, but I do dig that clean sound you have going on.

Rock injection of the week. Your tracks are always a festival of tasty guitar tones. They have bite, yet they are not overdriven to the point of losing their organic breath. Super cool sounds and riffage!

Doooooooiinnnn, the eagle rock!

The break at 2:45 is awesome, the bass line killer. I don't need to tell you how tasty that sweep is *drools*.
(Bee approves, she's bopping along whilst playing banished haha)

blighters_rock wrote:

Wild looking guitar. That's a pretty neat mic setup you've got on the cabs. I've switched over to using IRs. Still haven't found my goldilocks settings, but I do like the repeatability.

Cool song. I need to play around with compressors on guitar more. I usually think about it more in a mix context than a pedal context, but I do dig that clean sound you have going on.

Thanks dude! I think compressors on cleans are rad, they give that bell like tone really easily, but not a fan on gain, I think I should have done FX loop comp for that, but hey, you have to try these things.


haleja wrote:

The break at 2:45 is awesome, the bass line killer. I don't need to tell you how tasty that sweep is *drools*.
(Bee approves, she's bopping along whilst playing banished haha)

Im glad you didnt notice how my sweeps arent the cleanest out there lol, but I keep chucking them in anyway!!

That's a fine setup this week, and a fine composition too.

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