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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZombieHunter" data-source="post: 2096042" data-attributes="member: 5791">You should check out <a href="http://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">CloudKicker</a> if you have never heard it, just one guy doing everything, full instrumental, freaking kills. Ya Andols is in Cleveland, but he has a deal with Ben Schigel who did most if not all the Chimaira Albums to record at his studio for a flat $150 a track however long it takes him, so Andols makes $300 out of that $450, and you get a SUPER professionally recorded drum track, in a studio designed by an acoustician, versus average drummers with home studios in a treated room with mid level gear for the same price, its almost a no-brainer to go with someone like Andols, or even Navene Kopperweis formerly of Animals as Leaders.Ya I am using a POD HD PRO rackmount right now, using just the pres and Impulses for final product, mostly God's Cab and Sneap Impulses, clips above are just the POD tho, as writing with impulses in the box gets messy. I have an AXE-FX II on the way but it's gonna be another few weeks until it even ships, not too worried about it as I can get super close to an AXE sound out of the POD HD PRO and impulses, those things are a GODSEND compared to the sterile "wet blanket over the cabinet" sound of digital amp sims in the studio back in 2005 even. Usually use a Fireball and Triple Rectifier pre-amp combo and the above mentioned Sneap or God's Cab Impulses, the Sneaps are a vintage Marshall 1960 Greenback mic'd with a Neumann U87 on the one's I use, also the standard Shure sm57 on a few, just use LeCab for impulse generation and layer inside of that, one Stereo track and you can have 6 different cab sounds all in phase and good to go, so freaking awesome, throw a Low pass on it and usually all you need, I am in the school of recording the BEST possible tone period, and if NECESSARY, removing troublesome frequencies in the mix as needed, not record then EQ and shape to suit....yucky! For the AXE-FX II incoming I actually got a hold of a few artists I admire patches through Misha Mansoor of Periphery...before Periphery had a 2nd album done, I have all of his, Animals as Leaders as well as Born of Osiris's personal patches, not the one's they release on axechange, I have mentioned that in passing on sevenstring.org and was just swarmed with offers of hundreds some thousands of $ just for a USB key with these patches, as if it will make them intantly able to produce the same finished product. Needless to say I swore to never do that when they were given to me as well as never give them out period, so I dont mention it too often, I can point people in the right direction for their tone though....Less Gain more Mid throw a tubescreamer in with a FEW gates for good measure...figure it out....there is too much to factor in with pickups and guitar/wood type, I use most of the same pickups that those above mentioned do which is Bareknuckle or Lundgren or nothing at all.I am on a few waiting lists now for my first ever custom guitars, right now I am doing most stuff on an original Ibanez RG 7620 7 string with bareknuckle aftermath matched set, Ibanez Steve Vai Universe 7 String with Lundgren M7 matched set and a Jackson SLSMG 6 string with Bareknuckle aftermath in bridge only. The customs I am getting is a Mayones Regius 7, and a Strandberg  similar to <a href="http://strandbergguitars.com/production-boden-prototype-tosin-abasi/" target="_blank">THIS</a>, but its a 2 year wait on the Mayones when I paid for it back in November, and almost 3 on the Strandberg, sucks because there are alot of great production 7's from Jackson and 8's from Ibanez this year at Namm that I would love to have but dumped too much into the customs.What do you use for a DAW? I use to be tied to Pro Fools and Logic but when Reaper hit 4.0 I made the switch and haven't looked back once. Full Functionality in the free version with a nag on open, but $60 for a license with a full two X.0 upgrades cant be beat. That is mainly how I was able to afford the AXE-II and custom guitars was selling my Pro Tools HD RIG, PCI-E card and 192 I/O sold for more than I paid for them, but I got them when I was at Berklee College of Music and the Recording Dept. bought  too many systems so I got them for WAY less than retail at the time...definitely nowhere near the $6,000 something the cards were retailing for, And I am glad I got rid of it when I did as I was not about to upgrade to the new HDX system, and shell out more than I paid for it in upgrade cost, AVID is all that is wrong with the industry to me, MASSIVE marketing budgets and no innovation, where-as with Reaper you can request features on their forums, and it might take some time, but usually if its useful and they can, will implement it.</blockquote>

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