build your own

Ricochet~kun · 06-28-2009, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

You have to remember that using a bigger speaker won't necessarily make your sound good. It'll reproduce lower frequencies in greater amounts, but the larger the cone, the more you lose fine control over it, which may well hurt your midrange performance, which is where the guitars voice really is.

Make sure to tune the cab if you can. A cab that is too big will produce too much low end and you'll end up stepping all over the bass in a mix.

(BTW, As a note, I really can't stand it when people assume that more bass is the answer to all their problems. If you listen to any well produced record, you'll find that even heavy bands use a much more high and mid frequency based sound than you'd think, because too much bass from the guitars just turns everything into mud.)

*writes all this down on notepad*
*loves advice from more skilled musicians*

GuitarBizarre · 06-28-2009, 04:13 PM

I suggest you try and listen to and seperate out the guitar tones from your favourite songs. Listen very carefully to exactly how much of the signal you're hearing is bass, how much of it is a single guitar track, and how much of it is actually one guitar part, double tracked.

You'll find yourself consistently surprised by one thing - Those huge meshuggah and Gojira-esque guitar sounds are very rarely as bassy as they sound in a mix, and they very rarely use as much gain on them as you'd think. Seperated out of the mix, they sound remarkably thin.

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