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In another thread we were talking about using Ozone (mastering software). I upgraded to Version 12 recently.
I thought it might be fun to give Ozone some guidance (you can do that in a more customizable way now in several respects), let it do its thing on one of my tracks from a few years ago, and then tweak its modules the way I would tweak one of my own plugin mastering chains. This is more Ozone-influenced than 'my usual'. The result is below.
What I liked:
The melody 'lead' guitars sound right; in fact better than I was able to do with my own mastering plugins. The EQ is out of the way.
What I didn't love:
The drums are too punchy, the cymbals a bit too splashy, and the rhythm guitars are somewhat exaggerated because the amount of compression brings them up quite a bit.
Notes on the guitars and amp:
The first melody guitar is a PRS 594 Soapbar, the second melody guitar is a humbucker 594. Both are on their bridge pickups. All the guitars ran through the same amp at the exact same settings. I just used the controls on the guitar to control gain.
The amp is a PRS DG30 David Grissom model and matching cab (pine, ported, with V30s) with a slight clean boost from a pedal for the lead parts. The rhythm guitars are the Soapbar model without the boost, on the neck pickup.
The bass is pretty well-controlled by the software and sounds about right.
Because I really liked the way it treated the solo guitars, I figured I'd print it and post it here for grins. I figured maybe you'd find it interesting.
A note about the playing: If I had your chops I'd call myself a guitar player. I'm more of a keyboard player. The track's named 'Messy' for obvious reasons.
I thought it might be fun to give Ozone some guidance (you can do that in a more customizable way now in several respects), let it do its thing on one of my tracks from a few years ago, and then tweak its modules the way I would tweak one of my own plugin mastering chains. This is more Ozone-influenced than 'my usual'. The result is below.
What I liked:
The melody 'lead' guitars sound right; in fact better than I was able to do with my own mastering plugins. The EQ is out of the way.
What I didn't love:
The drums are too punchy, the cymbals a bit too splashy, and the rhythm guitars are somewhat exaggerated because the amount of compression brings them up quite a bit.
Notes on the guitars and amp:
The first melody guitar is a PRS 594 Soapbar, the second melody guitar is a humbucker 594. Both are on their bridge pickups. All the guitars ran through the same amp at the exact same settings. I just used the controls on the guitar to control gain.
The amp is a PRS DG30 David Grissom model and matching cab (pine, ported, with V30s) with a slight clean boost from a pedal for the lead parts. The rhythm guitars are the Soapbar model without the boost, on the neck pickup.
The bass is pretty well-controlled by the software and sounds about right.
Because I really liked the way it treated the solo guitars, I figured I'd print it and post it here for grins. I figured maybe you'd find it interesting.
A note about the playing: If I had your chops I'd call myself a guitar player. I'm more of a keyboard player. The track's named 'Messy' for obvious reasons.
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