Yeah, they are great guys, I enjoyed the whole process just as much :) Thank you for your kind words and your great efforts in recording this album!

You can find Tooth & Nail's isolated guitar tracks here on youtube - it's rather low quality, but it was enough to get in the ballpark. Then I had the guys play that main riff for me as well and so the matching could begin :)

Danke für das aufmerksame Ohr :)

Thank you so much!

Agreed! His dedication really pays off :)

Thanks, may you achieve your dream tone :)

I hope the other kits included in this pack won't disappoint either!

Thank you!

You're welcome! :)

Thank you, much appreciated!

Das freut mich sehr!

That's exactly my take on this. While I do enjoy recording the real deal, I love, as you perfectly put it, the infinite options and the freedom I gain from being able to explore whatever a band could desire :-)

That's much appreciated!

@@hellforgestudio how many hours did it take you to figure out all these eq over eq over eq and then again, more eq tricks until you felt that you have really nailed the sound the band was trying to achieve? (I do like the result, but it looks like the way that lead to it was super complicated)

P.S. Also, if it wasn't a case when the guitar tone reference is someone famous who even has a signature amp, but someone you have no idea which gear he used, which ampsims would you choose to start experimenting with? Would you attempt to use Amplitube for an actual album, or would you consider one of Neural DSP's products a safer bet?

It did take quite a while! We had a soundcheck session where we tried a few "real amps" before, couldn't get anything pleasing and then decided to go with a prepro-guitar sound during recording to not waste any further time. During mixing we tried several different setups just to return to the previous sound, re-doing everything... it was the third revision where we finally were satisfied with the guitar sound. Final mix was done within the presence of the band - because we still weren't satisfied with the guitars and had to do another soundcheck. Can't give you an exact number of hours, haha, but it was about a week worth of work span over the time of several weeks during the full production (starting during pre-production and finishing during mixing).

If I don't know where to start, I like to go with my gut feeling or with the band's for that matter. Often times someone in the band has some personal preference, so I like to start from there (if possible). Funny that you ask specifically about Amplitube as it is the single one amp sim suite I personally dislike, haha. I bet it works great, but I don't like it in particular. As you can see in this video I like to use different amp sims, preferably THU since it is so flexible and has a lot of options - plus I simply like the GUI. But I do love Neural DSP as well, there are so many great manufacturers, can't go wrong with either.

Thank you, much appreciated!

For the amplifier it was Overloud's TH-U featuring the Randall Lynchbox and for the cab we used the output section from Softube's SilverJub2555. I'm thinking about doing a rundown of the full setup in the future, since it's quite complicated (in my humble opinion at least).

@@hellforgestudio Randall, out of all of them? That's unexpected, but definitely did the job. And yes, a full rundown would be cool! Danke once more!

@@sergeipismeny I agree. But if I remember correctly the George Lynch signature model is designed after his original Plexi, so it at least resembles an old Marshall 🤭

I don't want to spoil anything, but I think you won't be disappointed 🤫

Thank you, this is much appreciated. I'm planning to do more of these, yes!