Dan G Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Ok so here's my first attempt to recreate the guitar tone of an album that cost infinity billion pounds, with a POD xt.It's a small section from Holier Than Thou:SoundClick artist: Dan Weapon - page with MP3 music downloadsIgnore the average bass sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_Victory Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 its been along time since iv listened to this album so i cant quiet remember the sound, but your recording does sound pritty good guitar wise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 Funnily enough I was just annoying fellow bus passengers by listening to The Black Album yesterday.Sounds pretty good to me but (and I'm not being cheeky here, I really don't know anything about metal tones except it involves "scooped mids"), is this not a relatively easy tone to mimic anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan G Posted June 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 haha, no! It's one of the most holy grail guitar tones ever achieved. It was a ridiculous recording process involving mesa mk IIC+ amps (which went out of print years ago). and using so many different types of expensive mics to capture the tone. Added in the mix is hetfield having such his own playing style, it's hard to replicate perfectly. I'm not really there yet like... but I am trying to do it using just my Line6 POD rather than my fancy tube amps.Cheers for having a listen though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 Doesn't Hetfield achieve the thickness of the tone by overdubbing the same rhythm parts over and over, around 8 times or so? That's what I'd heard he did on Master anyway. You seem to have captured the playing style quite impressively, but the tone lacks the presence (whilst the sound actually seems bang on), which you could possibly achieve if you overdubbed a few times possibly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huw Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 Doesn't Hetfield achieve the thickness of the tone by overdubbing the same rhythm parts over and over, around 8 times or so? That's what I'd heard he did on Master anyway. You seem to have captured the playing style quite impressively, but the tone lacks the presence (whilst the sound actually seems bang on), which you could possibly achieve if you overdubbed a few times possibly?Aye I heard he does that a lot. He is also the master of down stroke playing. Playing MoP all downstrokes is probably one of the most painful musical related things I have ever done. I think I only did it once, but then again I'm not very good. I do notice it sounds so much worse it you alternate pick though, them upstrokes just don't sound the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan G Posted June 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 Doesn't Hetfield achieve the thickness of the tone by overdubbing the same rhythm parts over and over, around 8 times or so? That's what I'd heard he did on Master anyway. You seem to have captured the playing style quite impressively, but the tone lacks the presence (whilst the sound actually seems bang on), which you could possibly achieve if you overdubbed a few times possibly?I did actually track my small section 4 times, panned 100% left and right and then 2 panned slightly further in at 80%. Puppets was done tracks 3 each side but 2 of these were just playing the open E chugs and missing out the rest of the riffs. I read a massive long thing written by flemming rasmussen on that.Huw: have you heard my cover of master of puppets? I did that all down strokes a la hetfield (I tracked 4 guitars takes again) Johnology: I tracked all my metallica stuff with a Gibson Explorer with its stock passive pick ups.... not the EMG 81/60 combo that hetfield uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 Pretty damn close!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeid Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 Sounds good Dan, try it with EMG's though, it might get you that bit closer.I assume you're testing this out for the next Clipping Death track?What patch/amp sim are you using on the Pod? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black_matter Posted June 27, 2009 Report Share Posted June 27, 2009 YouTube - Michael Jackson-Beat it performed by MetallicaWhat does everyone think of this, just out of curiosity?i would personally be quite disappointed if i paid to see Metallica and they played that weird medley but maybe some of you guys will appreciate it.I remember sitting up and waiting for that metallica icon show to come on mtv a couple of years ago and absolutely loving that medley. It was just a one off that they performed it and there was a load of average musicians absolutely pissing all over metallica classics a la avril lavigne playing fuel.Try searching snoop dogg sad but true. Funny as fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Sum 41 did For Whom The Bell Tolls. It was mint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sloth Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 I think you captured the general sound, pretty good...would be intersting to see what difference the EMGs would make, since they're put into pretty much all his stage guitars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 My mate brought me back some guitar mags from America and one of them had an advert for Diamond amps with Bob Rock on it.I thought it was Rick Parfitt out of Status Quo until I read the caption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 In fact, here it is. A veritable Parfitt doppelganger if ever I saw one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 I like it (ad infinitum) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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