Removing some major fuzz from guitar track

I'm a total newbie and was wondering about this question myself.

What about the possibility of EQing the fuzz out?

i may be trying that if worst comes to worst but I doubt it will work unless someone knows a special technique.

haha aight man

if you record DI with a distortion pedal (not designed for specific DI use) you will almost always end up with pure fuzz. its cause natural (?) ways of capturing guitar result in the sub and 5k+ rolled off, which is a combo of the amp's tone, the cab, and the mic (mostly the cab). i mean these pedals ARE designed to be used in an amp, so of course theyre going to sound different because theyre expected to come out of that cab.

but theres hope. i was messing around with this one song this guy recorded purely with a DOD metal petal and it was nothing but bass and fuzz. i ran it through an EQ, then a guitar amp sim with low gain (like cranking to 1 on an amp, not enough to distort clean sounds) then more EQing and such. dont remember if i added verb but it can generally be a good idea since the parts will likely be dry and can add a sweeter sound to the mix, try lowish decay (under a sec, maybe 500ms) and if possible mix the decay lower (some verb units have volume for each part, such as trueberb). mostly the ERs will add a lot of smoothness to it. great for lead or centered parts since they can be very artificial sounding.

only EQing the signal will just make it sound flat. i really dont understand how mics and cabs and such alter the signal like they do, but i know you cant do it with just EQ. yes, ive tried, everything, to spruce up DI sounds (and continue to do so).

oh, using a bass amp simulator also can add character to it if you have one. i used that with a sansamp knockoff and it.. helped, even though it still sounds fuzzy.

wouldnt I need a reamp box to do that?

just a guitar amp plugin to run it through. honestly you will get crap sounds at best, and you are actually better off recording the guitar DI clean and using an amp plugin (like native instruments') than fixing a fuzzy DI.

I'd definitely re-record it. It will take FAAAarrrr less time than trying to fix, and will give you infinitely better results.

Also, I'm completely with stickers. Metal-heads often think that scooped mids = killer metal tone. Not so! Use some of them mids to your advantage.

If you DO find that you need to scoop (I recommend keeping a bunch of mids anyhow, BUT every now and then it works!), you can always do it later. Mid boost pre-distortion followed by mid cut is a well-loved and well-used technique. :D

Greg

Yah, I'll just rerecord it.

BTW any setting on that DOD Death Metal Pedal will sound like total garbage, mids or no mids (thats why it costs like 20$ now). I keep my mids up though on my Metal Zone pedal.

Thanks for all your insight.