Thanks to S2 I can finally get around to finishing some songs! I can’t thank you guys enough… I love S2!!!! I’m finally happy with what I can do at home.
I’m using the Preset that came with the set – “Black Beauty Big Room” – I think. I didn’t do any changes to the kit that I can remember, except maybe raise the overheads a smidge. I put “http://www.mcdsp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40&Itemid=271” from McDSP on the kit channel in Pro Tools. That fattens it up a little. Its just on a stereo instrument channel. I didn’t split the outputs of the kit to auxes.
I love S2! Man this changes everything for the guy at home!
Sure – funny thing about why it sounds kinda “The Edgey”…… I was mucking about on the Vetta II Combo, trying to make a patch for the U2 song “All I want is you”, and using a strat came up with this patch. I have a Carvin Bolt Plus with a H-S-H config that I plugged in, just to see how the guitar would sound on that patch, and this song just spilled out in about 15 minutes. I basically recorded the rhythm guitar & melody in 2 takes, and I kept thinking, yeah I should redo this with the strat and it’ll sound better. I tried the strat and liked the Carvin better (I was kinda surprised but I just went with the ears instead of the brand). The only thing I redid was the outro which I wrote about a week later.
So it’s a mic’d Vetta II Combo, using the AC30 model, with an e609 on one speaker & an SM57 on the other. I used a DIGIMAX D8 Preamp & went optical ADAT into a Pro Tools 96 i/o. Almost all the effects were from the Vetta (which isn’t the best idea but I did track a DI guitar too to re-amp later if needed). No EQ on the guitar tracks, but I did compress using http://www.mcdsp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133&Itemid=271 on the guitar channels.
I’m working up some songs with vocals, but they’re decidedly more rocky than this one. This one is more mellow than what I usually come up with, but it was the easiest to finish since there are no vocals. 🙂
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