But I wasn't looking to reproduce an 808 or an OD9, I was looking for a different tone altogether from an overdrive that was designed to make that possible, which is why i gave the protone a try. That's actually why I do prefer the protone to the axe fx drive blocks though is because they are so good at doing their job reproducing those stomp box drives perfectly. So no point in adding another piece of hardware to accomplish the same thing the axe fx can reproduce 99.999991245499999% accurately. I would use the Axe-FX 808 drive block way before i used an actual 808 in-line any day of the week because tone-wise they are, for all intents and purposes, identical. So my compression is extremely mild and serves only to prevent clipping.Īs far the built-in Axe FX drive blocks are concerned, I still believe they're a better idea than using their stomp-box "real life" counterparts. Sometimes you want that, sometimes you don't, but while (when used on "main guitars") compression stabilizes it's volume levels, it also removes all dynamic aspects from your guitar playing.
I rarely compress guitars as-is simply because you're choosing between "dynamic" or "leveled out" when you add compression to anything. The most objective response I can give is "in my experience, yes". Thanks a lot for listening and I welcome any and all comments or questions about the specified gear, or whatever.
#PROTONE VARIABLE ATTACK DRIVE FULL#
Please ignore the fact that I'm not very good at playing guitar and concentrate only on my mixing and mastering skillsĪlso i don't know why youtube makes things quieter so if you want the full definition, checkout the sound cloud after. If you listen to the track on soundcloud, I guarantee it'll be one of the loudest (yet clean) metal mixes you've ever heard. I even had enough space in the low mids to ADD bass guitar there without adding mud which is nuts.Īnd since less mud almost always equals less RMS, I actually got to increase the overall loudness of this track with no audible artifacts. The bass needed no high-pass at all after this since it cut itself at 30hz anyway, which is perfect. With some automated EQ i could have probably cleaned up the clean lead a little better during the galloping riff later in the song, but the fact you can gallop at G using this gear in itself borders on divine intervention. I'm not joking, what you're listening to right here is a 7-string guitar in Drop G with a high-pass filter of only 40hz.
Anyone who knows what they're doing in mixing and mastering knows that "less cuts equals more information" and thus "more information equals more definition", which is why i plain don't scoop mids in anything ever. The guitar and bass now don't fight for space and thus you can back off the high pass on your main guitars and enjoy 20% "more guitar" than before. Using these two together was one of the rare times in life I've gotten exactly what I wanted. Don't get me wrong, it still sounds amazing on even a standard-tuned guitar, but if you want to make something otherworldly deep, you absolutely can. When you think about it, detuning your 7-string to Ab is pretty low as is, but the Protone literally reacted like it was having too easy of a job with it, so I dropped it down another half step and found out that is where this pedal lives. At least it does for me.Īlthough I swore I'd never drop down any lower than Tosin Tuning, I couldn't resist the urge to give G a try and shit.
It's just missing a few more of the knobs from the B7K but if what you're getting it for is to increase definition in your low end, The B3K will make a world of difference. Nolly from Periphery uses a B7K but the issue is, I'm not Nolly from Periphery and even if i had $400 to spend on one pedal, I wouldn't. In G, you can hear the guitar just ring out this totally awesome "WAOmmmmmmm" sound that I was always for, but unable to obtain because the innate addition of mud once you get that low.Īnother tool that is generally used to "tighten up the low end" and it definitely does it's job. It tightens up the low end so much that you'll change the way you play now that pretty much all of the flub is gone. I struggle to describe how much of a difference it makes when paired with the Axe FXs superior amp and cab tone, so you'll just have to listen for yourself. I have further detail info about what settings I used on my Axe FX 2 in the details on both the youtube and sound cloud pages.
I decided to do a little demo song of the results. So my xmas gift to myself was two items actually A Protone "Bulb" Attack Overdrive and a Microtubes B3K for the bass.
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