Posts by nakedzen

I may be in the minority here, but I've always found profiles made by others lacking in some way. So I went the route of really spending time and effort profiling my own amp. Heck, no one knows your own preferences better than yourself, so you can really dig on to the smallest details. After a couple years I have two or three my own profiles that I use over anything else. ?

Quote from Dimi84

I am not sure how we would be able to quantify the percentage of cab, mic vs the amplifier when it comes to overall sound. But for sure people often underestimate how important cabs, speakers, mics are.

Yes I was being completely serious and scientific with the figure.

But the difference between a Diezel Herbert and an Orange Rockerverb with the same cab and guitar in a full band mix was almost imperceptible in my experience, when swapping back and forth between amps.

What I've been saying for decades already.

Cab makes 90% of the sound.

Most demos are put through a mastering limiter, which will affect the dynamics and overall tone.

You can A/B test this by putting something like a Waves L2 on a separate track, limit that heavily and match the volume on the uncompressed track.

You're getting the best possible sound out that way. If you don't want to use your speakers for music, mixing etc. that would need a recording interface between your computer and Kemper then go ahead.

Matamp makes a vertical 212. Very good cabs made in the UK.

Welcome!

Quote from Southdakota

Here's another one. Same guy. Charlie Robbins.

Sounds like he's mixing djent with flamenco which is pretty cool.

Quote from Bilinguitar

Thanks for writing. I will try the eq change.

As for my monitors, they are about 1 foot below my head level, but aimed at my head. I'd need to buy a new desk if I were to elevate them more as there is a shelf that blocks them from being raised. I am using rubber door stoppers under them to angle them toward my head. If I lower my chair though, where I am directly level with them, there isn't a big difference.

If I'm reading this right they're on the table, not raised off it? That will definitely give you some excessive low end reflection from the surface even if you angle them slightly. I'd recommend getting something like these to separate them from the table:

https://www.thomann.de/gb/mill…top_monitor_stand_dm2.htm

The tweeter should be at ear level on those.

You can try and see how much of a difference this would make, if you position your speakers on the edge of the table, so there's no table surface in front of the speaker.

Also a quick fix to remove mud is cut low mids around 300hz. But first, are your monitors elevated and aimed off the table? Preferably on iso pads as well. You might be hearing table reflections that cause a boomy/muddy sound.

The trick to getting huge pro sounding guitars is focusing on getting a good drum and bass sound.

But seriously, if your foundation sounds thin and wimpy, so will everything else by association.

And get your stuff mastered by a pro studio!

Never listened to this before. It's actually pretty great in a 'Priest way. Doesn't sound like glam to me at all, pure heavy metal.

Sure doesn't sound like Vulgar Display era Pantera.

Percussion for our next album.

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Nice work, man.

I've fooled around with Cinema 4D here and there (nowhere near at your level) so I know how labor intensive a video like that is.

As for YouTube compression, I pulled Talking Head Games (a comedy web series I did a few years back) off of YouTube and Vimeo and just host it locally on my website using MediaPlayer's css and simple html5 tags. I'm getting significantly better quality because what I rendered is what I get versus it being processed yet again through their own render engines.

Happy to share code snippets in a DM if it would be of any use to you. Not much to it, really.

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Thanks Chris! I know how to code websites so no need though. Probably won't make a site for this for now, way too much going on with just my day job plus running the label on my spare time.

Blender made my life hugely easier since there's so many ways of doing stuff procedurally. Like the ocean waves and most landscapes were just a couple button presses to do. The time to get into 3D animation is now.

Blender does 2D too now!

Thanks guys! I take commissions.

Blender 2.8 was just released. (FREE program, woohooo!) Been using the beta for months now. I've used Blender since 2016 for animations so not completely new to it. Blender is not a CAD program but some engineering/design understanding is a great help.

Trees and seaweed were done with the free addon "sapling trees" for Blender. You can't really see the seaweed since YT completely destroyed the quality on those parts, but there's around 1000 separately animated pieces of plants in the underwater scenes.

For most character animations I used Mixamo.

For the material to get the comic book look I think I used this and modified it for the different objects as I went along:

Character hair:

Video was edited and color graded with Hitfilm Express (another great free program). I don't think I used any Adobe programs for this video.

Different as in, it's not my music, but my animation.

Band is a post-rock/metal group from Greece.