“I’m Broken” by Pantera
Not gonna lie I struggled pretty hard getting the tone on this one and I’m still not entirely pleased with it, but figured something’s better than nothing and maybe by sharing here could get some advice to refine it. I think my issue can basically be boiled down to overthinking + insistence on using SOMETHING where NOTHING would be suitable- IE, trying to find the right flavor of distortion when I could simply use gain from the amp sim. Either way, I wound up using the built in compression on Logic at 6:1 with a fast attack and medium release, into the Darkglass Ultra B7K (free trial of course) with drive at about 20%, into a Logic Bass Amp with the gain hammered at 10. This of course after playing with the numerous options offered by Guitar Rig 7 and probably listening to the song 7645 times and recording 36 takes before arriving at the “finished” product.
I did also mess with the timing of my recorded track against the backing track, so there’s a couple of spots where I feel like I’m half-a-beat ahead, buuut… oh well.
Definitely open to input on this one if anyone has any ideas for nailing the tone with a bit more accuracy.
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