Nailbomb bridge clip, bothclean and HEAVY. (My first clip!)

[Spleen]

I promised I’d do a clip when I finally received my Nailbomb and so I wrote the following specifically for this purpose.  My intent is to show the clean sound as well as the metal crunch of the Nailbomb bridge pickup.  The clean part in the beginning was done on the fly in about 45 min, but I got writers block for the heavy part.  A couple days later I came back to it and hacked the rest out in about an hour.  Please note, every track was done on the first take and like I mentioned earlier this was written on the fly.  Considering that, I’m quite happy with it, warts and all.

Please tell me what you think!  


Here are the pertinent specs of the piece:
Guitar is a 1982 Greco Les Paul Mint Collection ’59 replica with Nailbomb bridge.  All guitar is the Nailbomb.

All amps are done in Guitar Rig 2 run through an Art V3 tube Preamp voiced for “ElecGtr”.  Clean parts in the intro are done using the “Twang Dang” setting (Fender Tweed), high bent note harmony in intro uses the “Texas Toast” setting.  Distortion guitars are “Graty High gain” (Mesa Rectifier) panned 15% right, and doubled with “Grind Crime” (Plexi with Rat pedal) panned 15% left.  Bass is my nephew’s Samick using the “Ballsy Bass Rig” setting.  No post EQ or mastering of any kind was done.

The intro samples and drum loops are from Future Music magazine’s buyer’s guide 2006, which I just picked up.  The guitar riffs were wrote around the drum samples.  

All tracks were recorded into Sonar, which I barely know how to use (but it’s great).

[Searcher]

That sounds great, man!  But you'll have to get your mom to stop washing dishes next time you record. :P

The clean tones are good to hear.  It's not often that people record clean Nailbomb clips.  I liked the sound of them clean, which is good, since I'm already planning another guitar and was thinking about putting a Nailbomb in the bridge.  

The sound is impressive for amp sims, too.  Do you have an amp you play through as well?  If so, how different would you say it sounds through the amp compared to the recording?

[WITH FULL DISTORTION]

$%&#gin Hails Man, Awesome PLaying
BUT you need Lots more distortion, this amount sound weak.. dial in MORE distortion and it will be 100% Unholy Great!
Hails and thank´s for the clip
J.P

[SonicGator]

Are you a member of the Scott Stapp band?     That intro reminded me of a Creed or Scott Stapp song....


Anyway, good job

[Spleen]

Are you a member of the Scott Stapp band?     That intro reminded me of a Creed or Scott Stapp song....

Gahhhhh!!!  Bite your tongue man! :gib:   I'm... not a fan of either Stapp or Creed.   :)

WFD, I'm not sure that the track needs more distortion but perhaps needs a better production job of the distortion that is there.  The 2 amp settings i used are very high gain, and the Nailbomb is no slouch either.  I'm just learning how to do this home recording thing so I hope to zero in on an even more in your face guitar tone.  In the past when I've tried to make the guitars sound bigger and more heavy than this I inevitably end up making it somehow sound smaller.  (Mic polarities perhaps?)

However, calling it "weak" is perhaps a tad strong.  I've listened to every Nailbomb clip on here and I'd say the "heavyosity" of the distorted guitars is at least in the top 5.  Lepermeesa's version of Laid To Rest,  and Chrisola's Nailbomb Mayhem are the only 2 that readily come to mind as being heavier.  The SG track that was just posted has awesome heavy guitar tone as well.

Searcher, I absolutely LOVE Guitar Rig.  It gives me such a huge variety of great tones.  I do play through a different amp when gigging but, it is also a modelling amp, a Line 6 Flextone.  The Flextone is great and has been a total workhorse for almost a decade, but... I find that Guitar Rig sounds more authentically tube-like.  Maybe the tube pre-amp I have makes the difference, I don't know.  I've been solid state my whole life, and I'm seriously considering a jump to real tubes for my next amp.  I may be too addicted to the huge variation in tone that a modelling amp gives me though.

Thanks for the replies guys!  I really appreciate it.

[Ratrod]

Nice one.

The clean intro reminded me about Creed too. The dirty part sounds like Ian meets Hetfield. Great!

[Searcher]

I've been solid state my whole life, and I'm seriously considering a jump to real tubes for my next amp.  I may be too addicted to the huge variation in tone that a modelling amp gives me though.

Do it!  Do it!  And buy a PodXT Live or something if you really feel the need to vary your sound that much.  Or buy one amp for cleans and one for overdriven tones, along with a boost pedal or three.  ;)  Definitely not the cheap option!  :lol:

[Johnny Mac]

Sounds great and for a novice on recording its ffing great!