Theres one thing that is really, really, really hard for me.
With the DFH software, I can create really awesome drum tracks. But instead of thinking in the sense of all instruments, I get into the one instrument I'm working with, and create something way out of my skill on whatever other instrument thats left to record. So while I have a really amazing and really awesome drum track, I can't come up with anything just as awesome and amazing for the guitar track.
And when I do come up with something, its hard to sync everything up, and getting the tone and sound of the guitar perfect. Right now, I'm still trying to figure out how to get as great of a sound as any average metal band out there, but so far, I can't.
If I make a Guitar track first, I have to make a click track first. Then once I have the whole guitar track down, I have to either come up with a crappy drum track using that Handpro thing, or spend hours matching drum samples with the DFH to the guitar track. And I can't have a straight forward Double-Bass riff throughout the whole song, It has to go DB+Snare, DB+Snare+Crash, DB+S+China, Then go into a DB+Snare+Every frickin' cymbal, and then into a moderate chug of Bass, snare, and closed/open Hi Hats all the way through, then back to the whole DB crap. And when I have the drum track down, and a good Idea of what I want for guitar, I press record for the guitar, and it doesn't sound right because I still can't get the perfect metal sound I want. What I get, though, sounds like an extremley turned up distortion pedal with alot of reverb, and this horrible white noise in the background. I do everything to try and remedy it; Compression pedal, SmartGate, turning the Distortion/Gain down, hum reducer, yet all I get is the same damn thing: A horrible tone, a horrible sound, a bunch of CRAP!
So I record anyway, and it still sounds like crap.
Then I get ticked off, hit save, lay down on the bed for a while and think to myself "Who the Funk cares?"
And then i get on the internet, and look into buying a Pod XT3. I see videos, and I think "Awesome, now THATS the tone I want!" but I know, that despite whatever I do, I will not get that tone because my idea of tone is Distortion all the way up, Bass all the way down, treble at 10, and Volume at 10.
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