so i got bored and picked up my guitar

[Shin666]

wasted closed to 30 mins of my life, i'm happy

[OmegaMatrix]

That's pretty good. If it's a cover of something, I haven't heard the original, but I'd let up on the distortion.

[CrvyloOo]

Dude, that's the Storm Eagle theme from MegaMan X, some of the greatest MegaMan music ever.

[Indefinite]

The rhythm guitar is a bit too loud, when compared to the lead part.
It sounds good, though.

[Shin666]

heh, i'm used to playing death metal, cuz i suck at just about everything else, but i had a megaman momment ^.^

also i'm suriously surprised no one knows this song, like every track from megaman X is epic

[Shin666]

so yea i'm still bored and lord knows i need the practice so i made some more crap to listen too, this time it's my own stuff and a style i'm a bit more used too so hopefully it sounds better.

[Indefinite]

Originally Posted by Shin666

heh, i'm used to playing death metal, cuz i suck at just about everything else, but i had a megaman momment ^.^

Kinda weak excuse about playing death. The suckage part is still ok. ;)

If you need practice, go find some fine (melo)death to play. I might recommend you some, if you're having a hard time finding them.
You'd also do well, if you'd learn some melodic phrases, 'cause it looks, like you're kinda stuck. Here's something I'd look into.

Oh, and when you're going to toy around with the effect next time, try boosting up the bass and/or switching to another pickup.
What you've played recently is fine (maybe sounds just a little annoying with all the high notes being ephasised). It seems like it needs some bass boost.

[Shin666]

thanks for the tips indefinite, i was messing around with the recording and crap and got a decent sound coming from it. i'll prolly post another clip i'm working on tomorrow.

[cala4]

You are good

[Shin666]

so i picked up a metronome, tweaked the bass and settings, made a new song and redid the one i posted previously... i think it sounds a lot better now

[Indefinite]

Rawr. Big good fat sound. Indefinite likey.
These are actually nice for being backing tracks.

There's some small crackling sometimes, but noticed that it's a lot less frequent/noticeable when you're recording in stereo.
You might also try testing out the settings volume/distorion-wise before actually recording, so they won't just hit the maximum straight away, but rather flow just a hair below max. May fix the issue, perhaps provide even better sound quality.

How are you recording your tracks, anyway?

[Shin666]

don't laugh. ****ty half broken amp, 2way jack cord, and an adapter for plugging into the amp. got a metal pedal to help lower some of the gain cuz the knob is broken on my amp, which is why there are crackling sounds, i can't lower it well enough but keep decent distortaion.

heres a diagram if you can't understand crap i saw btw lol

|laptop| <--jack---> =jack adapter=> |amp| <--crappy cord--> pedal <--decent cord--> (guitar)

also forgot for the mixing i just take the recording loop the 2way jack from microphone to headphone port, find a good setting using winamp equalizer and jammix plug-in, and rerecord it lol

edit: Using Audacity to record btw, good stuff

[Indefinite]

Well, for such a configuration it's awesome anyway.

Don't laugh, but I have a half-broken amp as well. Bought it with a screwed up effect box, but it turned to be at least 50% cheaper. I have a multi-effect pedalboard anyway.

However, my config looks a little bit more 'sophisticated'. The guitar is connected to a pedalboard (now it's a GT-6 with a screwed preamp knob that likes to play suprises on me occasionally; will have to look at that some time later). From that point, I have the left channel plugged into the amp and the right channel plugged into my box. Here's how it is visually:

                /--[left]-> the amp 
guitar -> GT-6 <
                \-[right]-> the box I sometimes record on

You might want to cut out the amp with a crappy cord part and go straight from the pedal to the laptop. You'll figure some way with a splitter to hear what you're recording.

Another thing is the cable: I've simply resoldered one of my jack-jack cables into a jack-minijack. Cheap, effective and kinda more reliable than passover adapters.

[Shin666]

hmm thats pretty interesting, i didn't know you could just straight plug the pedal into the microphone jack... also i just unmute the speaker volume using the volume master in windows so i can hear what i play while i record. also use headphones