Ronan Murphy

Originally posted by genesis3 ....I know the devil is in the details, The devil is not in the details. Its quite blunt. you need a real amp. Good amp, decent mic and pre. That's pretty much it.

Originally posted by Fletcher@mercenary.com The POD crap is fine for quick writing demos but No its not!!! You and I both know that many times demo tracks end up on the album, and now you are stuck with that F'ing awful guitar sound. Amp emulation is the single worst thing to happen to recorded music in my lifetime!!!!

Play into a good tube amp. Put a SM57 an inch away from the grill and move around to taste. If you have a little extra money get a nice mic pre and AD converter. This is exactly how tons of big budget records are made every day.

The Pod will do great for you if you want to have several different sounds that do not sound good. Really the Pod is awful, even the Vox Tone lab has made great improvements so its not awful, its just not any good. saying the Pod can emulate a real amp is like saying you have been to Italy because you went to the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. They sound nothing like the amps they claim to emulate and they sound just plain bad regardless. The biggest problem with all the amp emulators though is that they will make everything thing else on the records sound worse. Your drums, vocals, keys, acoustics etc will all sound worse because you used the Pod for guitars.

I hate doing business by the hour so I never do it, but I usually try and take one or two days off a month.

Originally posted by Coaster listen to EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH. the last disc has some severe edits on it that click and pop. a big dissapointment. The original 1970s recording is the most perfect record ever recorded. Curse you for dissing it!! The thing about production is that there is no such thing as over produced. Only good and bad production. I love the raw loose feel of old Neil Young records because it suits the music perfectly, and I also love the totally smooth and detailed productions of Seal's first couple records because they suit that music so well. All that said, I think modern rock records are usually pretty boring. Everything autotuned, drums lined up to a grid and guitar parts all flown around. You don't hear bands anymore, you hear studio product, and not very interesting ones at that.