Perhaps some of my favourite all-time Geddy tones come from Exit Stage Left, and the crushing power of his Rick through the double (or actually was it quadruple?) SVT stacks. Tons of natural amp break-up, but not the hyper compressed gain that his studio tone at the time had (notably Moving Pictures and Permanent Waves). I want it! But I also don't want angry neighbours LOL. So, I may not have the SVTs... but I do have an old B-18 fliptop, and the instrument DI on my Audient interface is surprisingly amp-like going into the computer.
Feels like my best bet for trying to re-create his live rig is running the neck p'up into the DI, and then putting a mic on the Ampeg running the bridge p'up. Just got my stereo Y cable a couple days back, so I tried to rig up a test run yesterday. Thought I'd share the results with you folks, and would greatly accept any feedback on things to consider! I'm very new to doing my own recording still, and of course not close to Geddy's level of skill, so tips/tricks for a better capture and mix would be appreciated. What do you do to get your version recorded that I could learn from? I'm already aware this is the not the route to money, fame, friends, or girls, but it's a little personal journey I'm hoping to achieve.
Separate compression and EQ for each pickup, as well as some moderate overdrive (via plugin) on the bridge. Feel like the "simple" route would be to hi-pass the bridge, and lo-pass the neck, and that was the *general* principle I followed, but there's a lot of interesting stuff happening in both channels which doesn't stick to that script, so I tried to be a little judicious about where I was cutting on each. I also tried to EQ the original song as surgically as possible to remove Ged's bass (and enhance the kick/cymbals a bit to compliment my take), but some of the buzzsaw gain was beyond my modest skills to eliminate. Wanted to make the bass sound in this video as much of my own as possible
Feels like my best bet for trying to re-create his live rig is running the neck p'up into the DI, and then putting a mic on the Ampeg running the bridge p'up. Just got my stereo Y cable a couple days back, so I tried to rig up a test run yesterday. Thought I'd share the results with you folks, and would greatly accept any feedback on things to consider! I'm very new to doing my own recording still, and of course not close to Geddy's level of skill, so tips/tricks for a better capture and mix would be appreciated. What do you do to get your version recorded that I could learn from? I'm already aware this is the not the route to money, fame, friends, or girls, but it's a little personal journey I'm hoping to achieve.
Separate compression and EQ for each pickup, as well as some moderate overdrive (via plugin) on the bridge. Feel like the "simple" route would be to hi-pass the bridge, and lo-pass the neck, and that was the *general* principle I followed, but there's a lot of interesting stuff happening in both channels which doesn't stick to that script, so I tried to be a little judicious about where I was cutting on each. I also tried to EQ the original song as surgically as possible to remove Ged's bass (and enhance the kick/cymbals a bit to compliment my take), but some of the buzzsaw gain was beyond my modest skills to eliminate. Wanted to make the bass sound in this video as much of my own as possible
