I've come a long way with this unit. When I got it I didn't click with it at all. Now I love it and wouldn't trade it for anything. But, I still feel that I'm not getting the tone that I want out of it.
Maybe you guys can help me once and for all to get me close to some of the tones that I want.
These are the three guitars that I use mainly.
A Fender CS 59 Strat With Custom pickups - I believe these are not very high output.
A Fender CS 51 Limited Edition Tele - again, low output.
I have a Gibson Les Paul 59 Reissue - medium output humbuckers.
I want a heavy single coil sound, Nirvana/Radiohead etc (although I know that Nirvana also used humbuckers) and I'm happy to spend money on profiles to achieve the sound and send you/anyone the DI so that you can put it through your rig. I feel that with my LP I can get the kind of snarling humbucker sound that I want, mainly double tracked, but when I want that grungey, heavy, single coil sound I'm struggling a bit and it all sounds a bit lacklustre to what I want. If I use Logic Pro X VSTs I can get closer, but I expect that's because they process the sound digitally.
Could it purely be my pickups?
In this song I'm working on, this is the closest I could get to that snarling, single coil sound and it's not the same. If I went really overdriven it just sounded too distorted and muddy. (Skip to 2.30 for the heavier part)
https://m.soundcloud.com/farce_bandit/take-me-home1
In any case, Here are a couple of tones that I'm looking to achieve, or something in the same ballpark. Are these double tracked?
Radiohead - The bends. The guitar sound is great in the beginning and has a real snarl to it. They use Strats and Teles mainly and I believe that a Strat was used here, possibly a ProcoRat OD.
Nirvana - In Bloom. Kurt used single coils and a DS1, along with Marshall Superleads I believe, but again, the snarl isn't there for me.
Could it be something as simple as the output of the pickups? Thanks.