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I use GP5 to tab out drums then export the file as MIDI, I then use the MIDI file with Superior Drummer 2 (EZDrummer's big brother) for a pretty realistic drum sound (after specific compression, reverb and EQ on each drum).

This is what it sounds like (unmastered): https://soundcloud.com/corinthianofficial/the-corinthian-instrumental

Thanks! Glad you like it. You can purchase an album here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Scytherium-Mother-Death-CD-2011-/270832090915?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item3f0ed9bf23#ht_500wt_1156

If you live in the US, it's $10 flat. Anywhere else in the world is $13 flat. Unfortunately, eBay is our only way of selling it at the moment, as we have no distributor and just mail it ourselves.

Edit: The album is a full length album, and includes 10 tracks. Not just the 4 that we have up streaming on our media players.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?rt=nc&LH_BIN=1&_nkw=bbe+sonic+maximizer+362&_sc=1&_sop=15&_sticky=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m301

As low as $50 used. I bought mine new for $82.97 new on eBay years ago. Oh, and thanks, glad you enjoy it \m/

Here are the DIs for this song: https://soundcloud.com/niexs/call-of-the-void-1 It's not death though, it's sort of thrash/power. Tuned to E flat, tempo is 130 for the intro and 195 for the song. I'd love to have an actual drummer play along.

http://ge.tt/9p9AlnU/v/0?c

Pallormortis - Fall of the Decadent
Joined these guys as a 2nd guitarist after they recorded this. Unfortunately never got to play any shows with them as they were still trying to find a replacement drummer when I joined them, and not long after that people started moving away from the area etc. so everyone just went their separate ways.

My band just released an EP that you can download for free off our Reverbnation, and we could definitely use a bit of publicity. Give it a listen and see what you think! First and last tracks are my faves. http://www.reverbnation.com/seraphintravail

When you say all-digital, are you looking for the guitar to be synthesized, or do you just want the amp done digitally?

The former I can't help with, but the latter I can. Rakarrack is one of the few VSTs that work well, and it's free on top of that.

It doesn't have as nice of a sound as many of the other VSTs for Windows, especially the paid ones, but if you can splurge some money, some of them work well in WINE if you take your time to set up wineasio. I've been running both Guitar Rig 3 and 4 through WINE with the use of JACK, and it runs well enough that I never booted into Windows.

Alternatively, does your amp not have a line-out jack? Most of the higher end amps do, and even if you don't, you should be able to use a DI box for it (but that's not something I've touched before.. at all). That way you can just use an input without having to use a VST.

Here's my VST amp and impulse library. http://www.sendspace.com/file/29jran Just make sure you select the right download button- hope that helps. Crow 8505 is very middy, it isn't my favorite since it can get muddy. The TSE is good for solos and rhythm, I use it is a recent song I wrote and I really liked it. Enjoy!

I have a significant amount of instrumental tunes at http://www.soundclick.com/mechanisma - let me know if anything in particular strikes you. Scheduling etc has prevented me from completing any of my own vocals or collaborating on them with anyone.

I have heard good things about this one: https://www.amazon.com/This-Business-Music-10th-Definitive/dp/0823077233/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=V2ZFYM2QRGA6&keywords=this+business+of+music&qid=1647020162&sprefix=this+business%2Caps%2C119&sr=8-1

I get this all the time since I got the POD. Tone matching is very easy for rhythms with the POD. I got the same criticism for one of my other covers (All The Heavy Lifting) and made a comparison having my guitar tone on for 10 seconds with the same levels as the recording, then just the master, so on and so forth. Here it is. The difference is pretty obvious! Thank you for checking out the video though!

This video has a short little thing that I did that showcases listenable production, and here is my soundcloud which has some songs I wrote that I'm pretty happy with, except the production is pretty bad. I've upgraded various things in my recording setup since recording both of them, so if I hypothetically record anything for you, it will sound better.

here it is

https://soundcloud.com/outland_official/heritage

Sorry I had to use guitar pro for this, Garage Band wasn't working for me and I don't have place to properly record yet. If you cant work with this, then i'll see if I can get a better recording.

https://soundcloud.com/logandawson/zombie-apocalypse

Something I recorded a few years ago out of boredom. Don't know what you could do with it, but feel free to play around with it. The sound quality isn't the greatest, and it was all improvised in real time.

Improperly sealed plastic layer would be my guess. Moisture somehow gets in, mold starts up. Someone with a bit more knowledge on the might have a better idea. I probably chose the one and only dodgey one from that batch to burn my tracks to.

Here's a bit more about how cd's aren't always as great as we'd like them to be. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/cds-truth-cddvd-longevity-mold-rot/

Hmm, whats your budget? Do you already have a cab?

If you don't i would seriously consider just getting a lower wattage tube combo instead. For the amount you would spend on that (~500-600? im not sure)

My experience with solid state half stacks has been very mediocre (randall included, although not this specific model so maybe i'm just being closed minded).

If you do already have a cab then i would just get something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-RANDALL-RT503H-Guitar-Head-TUBE-Amp-50-watts-/110751588127?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c94f1f1f - used

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/randall-rt-series-rt503h-50w-tube-guitar-amp-head - a little bit more than that the one you were talking about

You may scoff at a measly 50w but, 50 tube watts through a standard 2x12/4x12 cab is PLENTY loud for most practice and small gigging situations. Anytime you would need to be louder than that you had better be micing your cabs anyway if you hope to have even a halfway decent sound.

edit: im bad at typing

This sounds like something I would have recorded 5 years ago.

My suggestions get some virtual drums that you can program with midi so that you don't actually have to play the drums. Something like Steven Slate Drums or Drumkit From Hell.

Get something like Guitar Rig, its perfect for recording.

These are things that I use and you can check out my recordings here: https://soundcloud.com/spud1114

I used to use a line 6 to record my guitars they always came out fuzzy sounding. I purchased Guitar Rig Kontrol and it made a huge difference.

Its great for both guitar and bass.

For drums I use Steven Slate VST and I write all of my drum tracks in Guitar Pro 5. You can write them out as tabs, so once you memorize the numbers for the drum parts it because really quick and easy to write drum parts. You can play them back in Guitar Pro as well. I then export them out at as midi.

Anyways take a listen to my recordings and see what you think, the things I am recommending are fairly cheap. Guitar Rig Kontrol being the most expensive (I think its like $300-$350).

https://soundcloud.com/spud1114

You are clearly a better guitar player than me, but I think you are losing alo of it in the production. Anyway those are just my thoughts.

Good shit man! I like Me and my Amygdala, and Big Metal Robot the best..and I love the Transformers reference. If we're ever out your way, or if you're ever out ours (Philly/NJ/NY) area, I'd love to get a show together. Here's our Reverbnation page as well. Tell me what you think!!

If anyone would like to hear the other tracks that are available, here is our Reverbnation profile, and our Facebook page.

We wrote and recorded the two songs for a new promo in 8 weeks, you can listen to both tracks on reverb nation. We're re-starting the band with two new guitarists and loking to come back harder than ever

Absolutely! I've currently got 1 DSBM song out Named "Solen", and a cover of Freezing moons vocals on my bandlab account. I have a ton of unfinished tracks as well as riffs, DM me and we can discuss more!

Solen - https://www.bandlab.com/band/band7123810328468875/psykfall-solen-b6b933e7-b99e945e

Freezing Moon (Cover) - https://www.bandlab.com/band/band7123810328468875/psykfall-freezing-moon-cover-bad2f711-5839b3c6

I use samples for drums (kicks, snare, cymbals, no loops) and ambient or weird noises, sequencing is done in renoise (tracker type software for linux/mac/win). And a while ago I found a whole lot of Mellotron wave files and -after some pitch correction- I could use those create a multi-sample xrni file for use in renoise.

I don't think sampling or tracking is dead, on the contrary, just that the count of samples used per instrument has increased to make them sound more natural and less repetitive.

I'm using a pirated version GP5 so RSE is not available to me unfortunately. Here is a rough recording of one of our other songs to help you get a clearer picture of our sound: https://soundcloud.com/architeuthidae/skynet-08

Thanks! I record everything direct through my PodXT. The tone isn't that great compared to what my buddy has been working with lately. Check out the tone in this recording. It's just a quick bullshit riff I recorded using his latest tones.

I won't say I'm a master and mastering, but my buddy recently cranked out some killer tones from his pod that I've been using and they sound pretty good.

I made a soundclick page real quick, here's a bs riff I threw together using metal foundry and synth bass to test out the tone:

Sound Click Page

This is one of those topics where the answer is “it depends.” I took private drum lessons and thought the hands-on approach was great, especially since I was pretty awful at practicing. So, going to drum lessons forced me to practice by showing up.

Where I got really good was playing in a band and practicing that often forced me to challenge myself and try new things. Of course at this time YouTube wasn’t a thing. But, we used rock drumming books like this one: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1495083349/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_X2Q7PKEFB43SSPHQJVQR

Years later when I got into extreme drumming I came across this guy: https://youtube.com/user/Spikeydrummer, which is a little ridiculous in his Tigger suit, but I liked his teaching style and learned blast beats and other advanced techniques.

So the “it depends” part is purely based on how you like to learn and the teaching styles you like.

As for beginner sets, I don’t really believe in that concept. I’m honestly not sure what the difference is other than cheap vs. expensive, and the latter doesn’t always mean good quality. Your best bet is to go into a drum store or used music equipment and find one that feels and sounds good to you. Alternatively, an electric set is always a good idea so you don’t piss off everyone.

As already mentioned, you want to do the opposite of your setup. Use earbuds covered by over-the-ear muffs. Something like this works fine for ear muffs, and assuming you already have earbuds, a lot cheaper than spending money on isolation headphones from someone like Vic Firth.

You might check out The Zen of Screaming series. I've only seen the first one and as the reviews point out it's a little thin on the actual screaming/growling technique but more on general singing techniques. It looks like the second DVD has more metal-focused material, but I don't have any firsthand experience with it.

I use a blackstar amp 5w-r model. It sounds like what you want. It has usb for recording and it comes with built in over drive (though I find it too washed out at lower volumes a pedal is a better fit here.)

It gives a great tone for power metal and neoclassical metal, and if I run a cheap biyang metal-end pedal into it I get some awesome hair metal tones. Obviously it's not going to compare to ENGL or any high end gear like that but if you just need something for the bedroom that is the way to go.

My main complaint is its actually a lot louder than my previous amps and so pushing it is difficult. Perhaps consider a lower wattage depending on your situation.

The amp cost me around 400 or 500 I believe. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles but its a great tube amp that does its one job well.

edit: http://www.amazon.com/Blackstar-Metal-High-Gain-Tube-Combo/dp/B00DW3I4VO/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8

Here is the amp (I guess I got the limited White edition which makes me happy but an amp is an amp lol)

There was an older model without the reverb so make sure you don't get that one I guess.

let us know what you go with I am curious.

If you're just going to be using it to control random software synths I would go for something small and cheap, like these:

-Alesis Q25

-M-Audio Oxygen 25

Nah, I understand having low-rent equipment. It's a long process to collect all the right gear. Never-ending, actually.

First up I would suggest getting an audio interface to record your guitar directly into the computer. I've heard a lot of people recommend the Focusrite Scarlett. You can get some plugins to simulate amps and effects. There's plenty of free ones that should set you on the right path. There's probably a thread here with recommendations.

For the drums you should find better samples to start, and maybe eventually get EZ Drummer or something similar.

If you want more information about this, read This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel J. Levitin. Another cool one is Musicophilia by Dr. Oliver Sacks, but that one is more about brain disorders that cause very strange music-related phenomenon. Like the inability to detect pitch, or sense melody, and other weird stuff.

It's not that cheap, but I've been in love with the Schecter PT1 for a while now: http://www.amazon.com/Schecter-PT-Electric-Gloss-Black/dp/B00067R1R2

I will one day own one.

I like /u/LIBERTYxPRIME squier suggestion. But it's not that much cheaper than the Schecter.