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My advice to you would be to ignore the tone for now, and just go with something that helps get your ideas down. However, make sure you also record a DI of the guitar on a separate track, so you can go back and re-amp it later (with a plugin, or a hardware unit, or through a real amp). It's often the case that when you separate the tone from the playing, you start to realise that it's better than you thought. Also, once you put something in a mix, you'll often find that stuff you thought was making it sound awful is actually helping.
For example, I used to try to avoid that fizz on top of my guitar tones that you often get from putting a mic close in front of a speaker (and thus when using similar impulses). That made the guitars in my mixes sound muddy and generally "dead", but because I was so obsessed with getting a good guitar tone in isolation (ie "a good guitar tone for demos"), I was totally oblivious to the fact that I was actually removing all the frequencies which bring the guitars to life.
Another mistake is putting too much low-end in the guitars, which again makes guitars sound great on their own, but is just shit for a mix (too many low-frequency sources turns your mix to mush).
I'm using Lepou's version of a Marshall, and the Ignite IR host, the impulses have a huge effect, and I found the 7 deadly sins pack online--which is huge. I am trying to decide how they all sound, but I stick a 57 on one cab, and a expensive sounding condensor on the other ( stereo IR VST), I seriously think it doesnt really matter what you use, with eq and reverb you can get there with anything--its all trial and error, which is why I am trying to get a template for the basic stuff in place--where I can try and make good decisions in the mix. There is no magic thing that will give the sound you want--you have to make it with what you've got.
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I’d like to persevere with Helix but whether I’ll fix the problem (Logic hangs on startup with Helix installed) in the 15 day trial period is doubtful.
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Headphones are another area that can create problems, the acoustic imaging is very exaggerated and things can sound a bit weird played back through speakers, and unless they are good mixing headphones ( ie expensive) there will not be enough detail to allow the frequencies to be balanced.
The more mixing you do, with the same equipment, you will learn how a sound translates across different monitors, just by experience, and I find it is worth going back to old mixes to see where things have improved--they will, it just takes practice, and knowing what you want to achieve.
Carry on doing what you are doing--- nothing is ever really finished anyway.
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I don't really enjoy using headphones, although I guess unless I'm sat in an acoustically treated room then they're probably more 'accurate', for want of a better word, than nearfield monitors.
My headphones are quite expensive but their intended use certainly isn't mixing so they're probably not the best tool.
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Ah, so I'm not alone then. I'm quite glad, in a way, that the issues I'm having aren't isolate to just me. I've had to remove the plugin file from $/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components or Logic just won't start!
The internet doesn't seem to offer anything on the issue either, but then it is quite new I suppose.
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I have been using a website, called loudness penalty report, which tells you, and shows you the effect each of the main streaming sites have on your track.
Our mixes have to 'fit' a very specific set of criteria for them to sound 'right', most of what we like is in the mid-range, so that area gets pretty congested--which is why good mixes tend to have carefully crafted eq on all the mid-range sound. I look at my own stuff with SPAN on the output, frequency analyser, which lets you see each instruments range, surprising how much bass and middle there is in a cymbal, which can be cut out--leaving room for the stuff that needs it.
Its hard to make good mixing decisions based on MP3 and I tunes, because the conversion is a bit vague, but its useful to compare these things.
I did a 5 min track yesterday, that Reaper converted to a 320bit MP3, which came out at about 12 mb, which I thought was a bit big, but I think it was because I chose one of the more accurate conversions-hence a larger file.
Also, when converting to Mp3, you need to allow for some distortion that is introduced, so leave more headroom on the mix bus-at least -3DB.
all good fun anyway.
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