Hone Your Tone - Episode #2, get some tips on how to improve your tone Options

[Darius Wave]

Hey there all you guitar maniacs!

Wellcome to the second part of "Hone your tone" series.

Main purpose

...is to get feedback on your current tone - tips how to improve it, where to search for tweaks, how to match to the backing track etc.


How to enter

Post your sound samples (raw guitar part and the same part in the mix). Make it downloadable so I could import it to my DAW, have a while for analysis and post some possible tweaks that could have been done with quite simple tools (for example free plugins or buil-in eq from the DAW). Quality does matter. For simpicity of import and potential playback on different systems I recommend 16bit 44.1 kHz wave files. It would be most "universal" but of course do not hesitate to post your samples, even if you are not able to deliver recommended quality.



Subjective

...things are anytime we speak of tone or music itself. We all have particular expectations and we might not agree on some changes, but you risk nothing. See what I might suggest to try. You can get some tweaks ideas and approve it or not. Sometimes those could be very tiny tweaks that will not change your tone so much in your rehearsal conditions, but might do a lot of good for people listening to your recordings on different gear, in other places. Because...


Your tone is yours...

...but only in the place and on the gear you adjust it on. World's finest sound engeneers are the ones who spend a lot of time to make recordings sound very similar on different playback devices, spekaers etc. Of course part of this job is on the mastering guy side, but some tweaks has to be done already at the recording and mixing stage. Very often we reasonable quickly achive the level, where we are able to get satisfying tone on the stuff we use at home. But how many times have you experinced disappointment, when your friend has played your track at his place? Are those thoughts familiar to you?

1. "It wasn't sounding that boomy at my place"
2. "Guitar should not stick that much above other instruments
3. "I thought I've removed all the ahrsh treble"
4. "Why the guitar hurts my ears while listening on high volume? It wasn't like that at my place"

If any of above does happen in your life, you can try to get some feedback here.



Why me?

I've been through all this many times (more than 15 years now) and I've learned some solutions that will help you at least to get closer to perfection. What I mean by perfection is to make people hear your guitar the way you want them to hear it. I think there is no perfection in any other meaning on the field of music production. Even a lot of top notch
sound engeneers keep repeating "MIX IS NEVER DONE, IT'S ABANDONED". What they actually mean is you can never get to the point you can say everything sounds perfect, everywhere. Usually it's just a deadline you have to finish the job or the moment you keep tweaking things so hard that you loose the sense of what you've wanted to achive. List of similar reasons to abandon mixing (tone shaping) is much longer. Recording electric guitar does involve all those issues as well, but it's worth to keep developing and being able to get better and better with this as much as with playing skills.



AWAITING YOUR SAMPLES!

No genre limitations - post whatever style you like
You can use a backing track from a lesson of your choice if you like, or your original composition

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