Sylosis 'Deadwood' - Tone Recreation

[@Slug-Anderson]

Dude... you are an absolute beast! I've lived by sylosis since conclusion of an age. Tightest playing, sickest fucking solos, and lately, the most brutal vocals. Seriously man! You are fucking Killing it!!

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Really appreciate the kind words! Thank you!!

[@benelmermusic]

These tones are outrageous man, plugin is sounding unreal 🔥

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Thank you!

[@ronmuhleisen7117]

Your tone is awesome.your playing is outstanding keep up all the good work all the best of luck to you

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Appreciate it! Thanks

[@mycoachknowsthesheriff]

Lovely tone

[@mattcat5668]

Yo josh you helped me fatten my guitar tones alot with this video. The detail you go into about the adjustments are a life saver. Especially for someone New to STL tones

[@ivangaminara4504]

el hombre hace todo bien, canta, toca, produce, es una bestia de la musica, no entiendo como no son mas grandes en el mundo, saludos.

[@HugoWelti]

Don't scoop out the mids, tho! Or else the forum tone police who have never even opened a DAW that think they know better are coming to get you! J/K. Killer tones as always, Josh! Your IR's are my go tos.

[@bradylasserre9320]

So happy to see you do that Robb Flynn tone. Been looking for something like this for years. That green channel sounds fantastic. Now I can jam along to "The More Things Change" 🤘

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

I might try and emulate that tone in the future too. One of my favourites. TMTC is two 421 mics on the cab

[@bradylasserre9320]

@JoshMiddletonOfficial To be honest I think what you did in this video is super close. I think leaning on that 421 is the key.

[@TOTO-nr8vu]

no sm57 ???? curious to see that@@JoshMiddletonOfficial

[@theemmanuelguzman]

Hi Josh! I am a huge fan of your work with Sylosis. Thank you so much for doing these tone videos. I purchased both of your plugins. I think by far your newest plugin is one of the better guitar plugins I have worked with. Thank you so much for giving back to the guitar community, and I hope to see you perform live someday over at the United States. I wish you all the best! Cheers!

[@josh_lv4268]

Beeeeeautiful. I love your tones, man! Especially the Cycle of Suffering guitar tone.

[@MnMSounds]

Josh, you are doing us a service. We appreciate the in-depth info and attention to explaining the why behind everything. Keep on keepin on brother. P.S. the STL is nice representation of you, but we both know it's not moving the same air that we all want to feel lol

[@DimKAt21]

Happy new year! Thanx for analysis, keep on!🤘

[@yurita1984]

Sylosis's guitars are one of the perfect heavy guitars tones these days! I got this plugin and loved❤ more than Neural's few

[@Darkoholic]

Deadwood, one of my favorites! 😍

[@wagglywizard6700]

It would be amazing to see some more production-centred videos/tutorials from your end because the production on the sylosis albums is spectacular! I'd love to learn and incorporate some of the stuff that you do in my own mixes

[@gnchrtd]

Each time I played with EQ I just made everything sound worse. This short video just hits the bull’s eye - I finally realised what I was doing wrong. Thank you Josh!

[@judasxchrist]

Yeah, Josh teaches us to get some life to tone. Nice EQ tips, thank you! I'm so bored of all those dead mids in modern metal guitars. Bring back the light!

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Mids have gone too far the other way in modern metal. Time to scoop again 😎

[@Camaro4726]

Love you for making this video! Can’t stop smiling at the tones I’m getting out of the plug in now!

[@lordmorgoth7]

Sounds amazing! Thank you Josh!

[@bburritt666]

Love my tonality. My fav combo is blending the 5150 and Rectifier as well. XXX for solid cuts like a knife. Love it. Great video Josh! Keep up the great work.

[@ArrynJess]

This is such a good video. Useful!

[@joeylizotte7537]

Just a note about Robb Flynn's tone.. He always used Marshall 1960BV cabs (with the 70 watt Marshall G12-Vintage/V30-MF speakers). He did record using his block letter 5150 (Crunch channel, with a Boss SD-1), adding a 300 watt Line 6 head for blending tones and effects (after "The more things change").. Although, since switching to Kemper, he uses a 5150 profile for the older stuff, and a Randall Satan profile for the newer stuff (and he has always used an EMG 81 in the bridge, and an HA in the neck, when applicable).

[@metalheadblues]

Wonder if he still uses EMG

[@berkayvs]

4:11 I was waiting for an important message and felt a short-lived excitement...😅😆

[@uta_kun1538]

Hey Josh, thank you for the incredible content you are puttiing out. This is extremely helpful! One question though, could you also make a video on drum/bass/vocal mixing aswell?

[@TheJuice4K]

Just bought your JM-II. Gonna attack this solo once it comes in 🤘🏽 recently got exposed to Sylosis and have become a huge fan

[@olivermoller8133]

Thank you ,Josh !

[@phantasma669]

great content...i d like to see how you mix with your kemper profiles

[@awrely]

Suprisingly lots of brilliance. Usually one would cut , not boost

[@karterestill]

I would love to see you capture Peter Wichers tone from Warrel Dane's first solo album "praises to the war machine " it might be my favorite guitar tone of all time😊 stand out song "When we pray"

[@init-crioxica]

Really like videos like this, Thank You !!!

[@RyTube996]

Awesome help as always man, for someone like me who struggles with finding their tone these are so helpful Do you have any tips on getting that "dry" tone? followed a hunch and the Robb Flynn extra works great with earlier LoG stuff but they sometimes bring in what i can only describe as a drier tone. Black Label for ref

[@MASTERRIFFS]

⭐⭐⭐COOL Josh Middleton⭐⭐⭐🇧🇷

[@DeathSpellStudio]

Awesome tone, any chance we can see a video about those drums?

[@worshipdecay]

I would love to see your take on a HM2 tone using the stl plugins and whatever else you deem necessary

[@daleonov]

This tone!!

[@trumancarter1299]

I'm a huge fan of your tone..have been since the Conclusion days..these eq tutorials have been awesome..you're straight raw tracks sound incredibly powerful before any eq do you do any DI pretreatment or is just a combination of clean playing and pick attack?

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

I don’t do anything to the DI tracks. Just fresh strings and dig in with the pick attack. I recently mixed a song for someone where the engineer got the guitarist to track the DI through an Avalon U5 with some EQ on and it sounded SO weird. Was impossible to get the usual tones I like. I tried to undo the EQ on the U5 but it was a struggle. Never do anything to a DI on the way in. If you want to EQ a DI, do it at the start of the chain if you reamp

[@danielwieten8617]

I’m curious about the low end range the bass is occupying since there is considerable low end in the guitar. Would love to see you do a bass video!

[@theacegio]

Is there a way to do get the same with the Kemper with one of your profiles ? Also could you recreate the conclusion of an age tone ?

[@lorenzocambria7089]

Great tone ! Are the pickups active pickups ?

[@SICRoosterKido]

Sick!

[@JoaoVitor-nq1bu]

Another great vid! I notice you have a Pentakill Kick sample in your project. Is that from Riot Games' Pentakill band? They make some sick music! Were you involved with the project?

[@ThroughTS]

curious if you see this at all as to what your live tone settings are for alot of these songs. you seem to be able to capture alot of these tones in a live setting very well

[@AcidEnemaBand]

Love these tones !! Still interested in "I Sever" or "Apex Of Disdain" kind of tone...Seems like they don't have a lot of gain but the sound so full.How do you achieve that ? Does it have to do with the picking style,or the tone knob of the guitar ? Because it sounds so full but not harsh.

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Tone knob is always up full on the guitar. Solid pick attack helps. The CoS guitar tone was a 6505+ on the green channel. Tbh, I was trying to emulate the thick midrange of a block letter. This was before I got my block letter 5150. Getting this tone from this plugin is doable. The main element is always the cab. The impulse response on the bottom right speaker of “Cab 2” in my IR pack is the 2005 speaker I used on Cycle of Suffering. Again, just a single SM57 mic on that record

[@AcidEnemaBand]

@@JoshMiddletonOfficial Thank you so much for the reply Josh.I think this tone is one of the best guitar tones of all time.Really !!

[@millerandall4102]

🐐

[@El_Suertero]

Josh, could you share some DI exerpt(s) of some of your track for tone creating and mixing practice? (like up to 30sec of mixed drums plus DI's of Bass and Guitar tracks)

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

They are available through my Patreon already www.patreon.com/JoshSylosisOfficial

[@chasethompson6149]

Hey Josh! Do you offer these presets for download on your Patreon? If not, that would be a great incentive for people!

[@BrainDeadTX]

Badass tone! I wonder what guitar tuning you are using?

[@adammotter7430]

C# standard tuning!

[@Brandon-RZ]

How loud do you typically aim for your guitar tracks to be? I feel like I always try to hit the -6db level. Sounds killer!

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

In terms of the tracking level, I usually aim for most things as loud as possible but maybe a couple of DB below clipping

[@Brandon-RZ]

@@JoshMiddletonOfficial thanks for the insight!

[@paulosilva8200]

Like a bit more on mids for my taste. But great tone.

[@Ryandoyle666]

Is there much difference in the lead tone apart from the obvious reverb and delay and maybe eq?

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Yeah I barely do anything different. Usually just use the same tone but boost mids in the mix. You could turn the mids up on the amp a little too

[@rudycastillo6369]

u should save the preset and give them out is there any tips u can give me about how to use the plugin

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Im not at home at the moment to make a preset of it. But you can just copy all of the settings you see in the video. Just take a few screen shots because I show every setting I use in the video

[@rudycastillo6369]

@@JoshMiddletonOfficial have u thought about getting stl to update ur plugin with all the new stuff u have done on it

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

All the presets on there are pretty much what I’m doing here. There are so many presets, most of these tones are covered

[@blackhornet62062]

Why am I watching this if the last album really upset me? Everything has changed so much... A scream? No. Speed and thrash? No! Even the lettering on the cover has changed. Does this mean that it's time to stop with you?

[@WholeLottaBulldog]

Seek help, boyo

[@blackhornet62062]

@@WholeLottaBulldog well, you listen to women's snot, for example absent🤮