If anyone knows how Adam Jones got such a great tone on Lateralus and how he gets such a great tone live. .Please enlighten me!

I'm mainly trying to figure out what he uses for distortion. whether it's a pedal or amp dist.

-J

I was trying to lay down some guitar, the tone out of my amp was great. I have tried running the guitar through a pedal straight into the M-Audio interface and also from the amp into it, both times the tone of the guitar sounds really staticky/dirty...especially on higher notes. Does anyone know why this is?

I have had Monster cabels in my studio for about three years now! I have 2 pairs of 1000 series for instuments (guitar,bass,keyboard) and 500 series on all outboard gear and my 2 eight tracks. I have a few 1000 series for mics and 500 series for the rest.

Lately i've been considering buying a new guitar head to record with because my current one just isn't cutting it. I've been toying around with a Marshall JCM 2000 which has pretty good distortion and superb clean tone and a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier that has excellent distortion and pretty descent clean tone.

Is running my cheap-ass mackie's mic preamps at unity gain going to reduce the affect they have on the tone of the input in any way?

Naturally, I'm going to avoid this whenever I can, but how close does leaving a preamp at unity gain correspond to a true bypass scenario?

Does anyone happen to know where the Mid and High tone nobs on JBL model 4312 are set in order to be "flat"? I believe it is not an obvious/sensible position (such as "5")... I think its more like 7.5 or 3.5 or something crazy like that. Thanks!