The Challenger

Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:35 pm

I got Reason 4, then this song evolved. I think the song need some ideas, but I'm creatively stuck, any suggestions besides vocals?

For 10 points can you guess the guitar amp or amps I'm playing my peavey wolfgang through?

I hope this doesn't turn into a 'why reverse engineering is pointless" thread.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=785803

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:55 am

I would probably enjoy listening to your guitar on a solo track but those drums annoyed me so much I stopped at about 30 seconds in.

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:32 pm

I liked it. Yeah, the drums are what they are, but that's not what you're really interested in getting comments about, are you?
I think the hook was catchy, the guitar sound is good, etc...leave it as an instrumental.

Guessing what you're playing your guitar through though? That's like me asking you to guess what color shirt I have on.

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:07 am

I'm no drummer, so making a good beat is tricky especially when you are programming every beat on every instrument. The only thing I know is that you can only have 4 separate drum instruments playing at once as that is what a real drummer has to work with. I'd be happy if I heard a comment like "Hey the drums sounded good, but the drummer needs a ton of lessons".

I was originally making a jam track but it just evolved into a song. Perhaps I should post it as a backing track.

To the question of guessing the guitar amps, I know I got some really great guitar sounds. I think if I gave away the name of the amp I'd get some biased opinions to how it sounds. I know it is very hard to reverse engineer, so maybe i'll go with this method, guess the amp or the price of the amp that the guitar was recorded with. I used a 57 on the amp.

I'm starting to think as I write this that i'm going overboard but I want to see if i'm getting good sounds and looking for input from the community.

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:35 pm

The guitar sound is definitely good. You also have a good guitar and play well...coupled with the 57, proper mic techniques and some decent equipment and you can do no wrong really.
I'll venture a guess then and say a Crate then?

I love it when people get great guitar sounds out of 'cheap' amps and guitars, it's gotta make you feel good about yourself. Or at least better than schmucks like me that pay a lot of money for boutique gear and get mediocre tones.

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:44 pm

Sounds like a Peavey maybe? Maybe coupled with an Epiphone Les Paul. Just taking a shot. Smile

Whatever it is, it sounds great, especially the solo tone.

Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:27 pm

I bought 2 tiny practice amps the Vox DA5 and the fender frontman. They were the cheapest amps in the store. The fender kinda sucks but is able to crank out thick lows, while the DA5 has the mids and highs. I had a line 6 duoverb before these two and have been been totally grateful i switched to these.

My fav tone in the song is the clean bit before the solo.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:52 pm

The song is catchy, the guitar is great, very smooth. But - I am not a reliable person to comment, though I think I will anyway Smile

I use Reason 4 also...I never try to get a "real" instrument sound from Reason. Reason for me is more geared to a quick approach to electronica stuff. For "real" sounds I lean towards samples or using Sonar 7 with various plugins.

I feel like to get a good instrument sound (hide the electronic sound) from Reason you need to add more effects. Which is great if you're me, maybe not so great if you are you.

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