Hey,
"I absolutely agree with you 'bout the "chugging" on metal guitars. I've been listening to the raw guitar tracks of "Piece of me", and it seems to me that the guitars could've had more natural "chug" if that makes any sense."
I struggled a lot to record a good guitar tone back when we recorded those songs, mostly because I wasn't sure "if it is good." And after a couple of months of going nowhere, I took my kemper and made a matchmaking profile of the guitar sound from "My Curse" and used that profile for most of the rhythm guitars on the first album. It was an almost exact copy from the guitar tone of My Curse, and if you want, you can listen to a comparison between the original sound and my profile in the attachment. The riff runs four times and is changing between the original riff (1st & 3rd run) and me playing the same riff on my old Kemper Amp (2nd & 4th).
I was delighted with the result back then, mainly because I didn't have a lot of confidence in my mixing skills because of a lack of experience. The good thing about copying Killswitch's guitar sound was that it taught me how much of the fat guitar sound on the Killswitch albums came from the bass and not from the guitar. Nowadays, I just grab a good amp sim like Archetype: Nolly or the Nameless Suite and dial in a tone that I like.
"Couldn't find the track on Spotify, so I took a quick peek at a useless Youtube version, so I didn't find much help there."
If you search for Darkride on Spotify, the album should show up. Or you can use this Soundcloud-Link, but the quality is a bit meh: https://soundcloud.com/darkridemetal/09-...-1/s-Qfgfo
Keep up the good work and stay healthy, Krabbe
"I absolutely agree with you 'bout the "chugging" on metal guitars. I've been listening to the raw guitar tracks of "Piece of me", and it seems to me that the guitars could've had more natural "chug" if that makes any sense."
I struggled a lot to record a good guitar tone back when we recorded those songs, mostly because I wasn't sure "if it is good." And after a couple of months of going nowhere, I took my kemper and made a matchmaking profile of the guitar sound from "My Curse" and used that profile for most of the rhythm guitars on the first album. It was an almost exact copy from the guitar tone of My Curse, and if you want, you can listen to a comparison between the original sound and my profile in the attachment. The riff runs four times and is changing between the original riff (1st & 3rd run) and me playing the same riff on my old Kemper Amp (2nd & 4th).
I was delighted with the result back then, mainly because I didn't have a lot of confidence in my mixing skills because of a lack of experience. The good thing about copying Killswitch's guitar sound was that it taught me how much of the fat guitar sound on the Killswitch albums came from the bass and not from the guitar. Nowadays, I just grab a good amp sim like Archetype: Nolly or the Nameless Suite and dial in a tone that I like.
"Couldn't find the track on Spotify, so I took a quick peek at a useless Youtube version, so I didn't find much help there."
If you search for Darkride on Spotify, the album should show up. Or you can use this Soundcloud-Link, but the quality is a bit meh: https://soundcloud.com/darkridemetal/09-...-1/s-Qfgfo
Keep up the good work and stay healthy, Krabbe