Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Players => Topic started by: Nolly on January 03, 2008, 03:13:14 AM
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Hi there,
I'm fairly new to this home recording malarkey..
This is just a few riffs I came up with for some of my guitar pupils, bunged end on end (plus a little bit of Future Breed Machine at the end:)). The joins are far from seamless. Each riff was double-tracked and panned hard left and right.
I used my Ibanez PGM301 with its custom Nailbomb set into a Line6 PodXT. The whole clip was recorded using the (ceramic) bridge pickup.
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6129327
Hope you enjoy it!
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Zakk Wylde would envy you so much if he heard that. In fact he'd drop to the floor, enter a fetal position and start trembling, sobbing and weeping, sucking his thumb. That's how freakin' metal that sounds.
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Haha, cheers mate!
I'd forgotten just how many squeals I'd put in...
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that's awesome
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This is what I need to wake up everyday.
Squeals, lovely. :D
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Those harmonics are huge!!
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VERY GOOD STUFF
I loved it.
Q:P
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Woah! This clip has just made me decide which pick up to buy.
That was amazing. Cheers for that.
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Pick-Harmonic-Tastic!
Seriously meaty sound.
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Cheers for the comments guys!
Rich78: The ceramic Nailbomb is an awesome pickup, but do run it past Tim before buying. One of the other pickups may suit your setup better, and there are several other modifications that can be done.
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Thanks for the above advise. I will contact Tim.
My set up is a Washburn Mercury into a Randall RG200.
With the Washburn, I down tune to drop C.
I also have a Maverick X1 with ceramic humbuckers-but they sound amazing. I dont think Ill be swapping them...
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Sounds really cool man! I really like the tone, but on the mp3 it is doing this weird pumping thing where it goes up and down in volume.
Nice one!
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Its the output of the line6 which is responsible for the clipping i think, probably normalizing the track will deal with that, afterwards you can increase volume again if needed.
Very nice playing, ive had a similar sound in a trashband years ago, solid state distortion is brootal :twisted: .
By the way, it would be interesting to know how hot the NB bridge was wound, and neck offcourse, did you pair it with a AV neck nailbomb?
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Awesome tone, any chance you could upload the patches for the pod? :-P
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Thanks for the comments guys!
Unfortunately I've lost the little leaflet Tim puts in the box with the ratings. I believe, however, that the bridge was very similar to the quoted 16k for the alnico version (possibly a little lower - 15.8k springs to my mind, but I don't know where from).
It's paired with a standard AV Nailbomb which is incredible. Very underrated imo.
My copy of the mp3 doesn't do the volume thing, but I'll normalise all my future stuff just to make sure.
If anyone wants the POD patch, PM me with an email address and I'll send it over.
Cheers,
Nolly
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Nolly, I think I speak for everyone here when I say WE WANT MORE!! :D
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Thanks for the comments guys!
Unfortunately I've lost the little leaflet Tim puts in the box with the ratings. I believe, however, that the bridge was very similar to the quoted 16k for the alnico version (possibly a little lower - 15.8k springs to my mind, but I don't know where from).
It's paired with a standard AV Nailbomb which is incredible. Very underrated imo.
My copy of the mp3 doesn't do the volume thing, but I'll normalise all my future stuff just to make sure.
If anyone wants the POD patch, PM me with an email address and I'll send it over.
Cheers,
Nolly
Cheers, thanks for the info!
Audacity recording software does a normalize on mp3's too, you can download it for free. Probably it would prevent the clipping if you either set input or output volume(dont know the pod) to a lower setting, would increase dynamics too. You can always increase volume afterwards.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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I didn't realise you were in Red Seas Fire. That stuff sounds really cool man, can't wait till you guys get a full line up.
I noticed it on my headphones, it basically sounds like its compressing really heavily. You got a compressor turned on the Pod?
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I'll do some more recording when I'm next home - I don't have my POD up at uni at the moment. Working on getting my Cobra recorded, it's sounding ridiculously good at the moment!
If you want to hear some more of my playing, there are a couple of other clips up on my soundclick page (http://www.soundclick.com/nollysriffspace), but hopefully I'll be adding stuff more often in the future.
Also, my youtube page is in my sig. I seem to be making a lot of videos of myself out of boredom at the moment.
Thanks for the advice Henk, I've got Audacity, but only really use it convert wav files to mp3s. Think I'll have to explore all the different stuff you can do with it!
Dez: Cheers mate, Pete and I are both big fans of you guys, would be awesome if we could gig together sometime when we've got a vocalist! Let me know when your EP is done, definitely want a copy of that!
I think I've got a compressor on in the clip. It definitely sounds overcompressed now when I listen back through headphones..
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Definitely man! Sounds like an absolute plan! How is the vocal search going?
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I think if we can't find an apt vocalist by April I'll just do my best to get some vocals done myself on it, just so that we can get a demo out there and that we're not a complete standstill.
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*drools*
FIT!!
"Ethereal Chords" sounds very Buckethead-y to me and that can only ever be a damn good thing.
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Definitely man! Sounds like an absolute plan! How is the vocal search going?
Nice one! As Pete says, we really want to shave [freak typo, but I'll leave it in because I find it rather amusing] a vocalist by April, otherwise we'll have to endure Pete singing... :)
"Ethereal Chords" sounds very Buckethead-y to me and that can only ever be a damn good thing.
Cheers, that's high praise indeed!