{"id":73,"date":"2008-04-18T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T03:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-11-04T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:49:38","slug":"continuing-the-guitar-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/continuing-the-guitar-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; continuing the guitar challenge &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day testing out the Axetrak on one of my more troublesome (guitarwise) songs &#8211; &#8220;Kaboom!&#8221;.  I could never sort out the tone.  Nothing I have tried has worked &#8211; so I&#8217;m thinking the part is just a little to dissonant.  Not pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>I even went up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradeupmusic.com\/\">Trade Up Music<\/a> and got a Boss EQ-20 to try and shape the tone a little more.  It didn&#8217;t do the trick.  I&#8217;m thinking that I&#8217;ll have look into getting another tube head &#8211; maybe a low watt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackhearteng.com\/bh5h.html\">Blackheart<\/a>.  There is just something that is too raspy in the Peavey Classic series.  It&#8217;s good for some stuff, but not all.  I could easily lose one of the Peaveys and get something way different.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_04_18_a.jpg\" title=\"coming soon to a Craigslist near you ?????\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I moved on to &#8220;Atlantis&#8221; and got some more usable tones.  I EQed the guitars in the mix.  Added some upper mids.  It seems that both my amps are just a bit dark and yet that preamp rasp persists.  <\/p>\n<p>Not the most productive day, but I&#8217;m making progress with the guitar sound.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the intro of the song (less the vocals).  Once again, the guitars are very dry and sit WAY up front in the mix to illustrate the tone issues I&#8217;m having.<\/p>\n[audio:atl.mp3]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day testing out the Axetrak on one of my more troublesome (guitarwise) songs &#8211; &#8220;Kaboom!&#8221;. I could never sort out the tone. Nothing I have tried has worked &#8211; so I&#8217;m thinking the part is just a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/18\/continuing-the-guitar-challenge\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; continuing the guitar challenge &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[10,118,120,121,32],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits-solo-record","category-music","tag-atlantis","tag-axetrak","tag-blackheart","tag-boss-eq20","tag-kaboom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}