This is just a short metal song that I put together with the main goal of finding a good metal rhythm guitar tone. Given the fact that I have a Blackstar HT Club 50 Mar 2 amp head and a 2×12 cabinet loaded with the infamous Celestial Seventy 80 speakers, I was wondering if it is possible to try and find a decent or better yet good metal rhythm guitar tone. Upon further experimentation, I found the frequency that produced this rather annoying honking sound to begin with. This happened to be around the 700-730Hz and the only way to rectify this problem was to cut it at around -7-8db with a moderately narrow bandwidth with a parametric EQ, in the mixing stage.
Overall I was pretty happy with the result and I hope to continue experimenting with it down the line. Let me know what you think of it.
Equipment Used for the recording of the short piece:
Guitars: ESP LTD EQ100M with Seymour Duncan Nazgul Passive Pickups
Pedals: MXR Noise Clamp, Ibanez Tubescreamer TS808 Overdrive
Amp: Blackstar HT Club 50 Mark 2 Amp Head
Cabinet: Blackstar 2×12 with Celestial Seventy 80s
Bass: Peavy Milestone 4 String Bass
Bass Amp: Randall RX35GM Bass Combo Amp
Drum Programming: EZ Drummer 2
Hey bro, the guitar tone sounds super tinny to me. I think its something going on in the midrange maybe around 500-1200 hz?
Yes, around 700-730hz.
During the mixing process, I was assessing the guitar tone without the eq and as mentioned in the description, there was this honking, “whistling” frequency in the mid range that the guitar cab was producing that I found rather annoying so had to cut -7-8db, with a moderately narrow bandwidth of that frequency , and maybe that is why the guitar tone is super tinny to your ears.
Remember, I was dealing with the Celestial Seventy 80s guitar speakers and these speakers are not really the most popular guitar speakers to record high gain metal guitar tones, as opposed to the Vintage 30s and others of a similar calibre.
If we’re looking only at the guitar tone, I really like it. It’s something a little different than the standard metal tone, and I like being different. Nice job! 😉
Thanks I appreciate that. I still got some ways to go and I have got some ideas of other mic techniques to try out to make the metal guitar tone better, if possible. Thanks again for the critique.