Spiritbox Guitars Are INCREDIBLE 

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Great guitarrist + Great tracking = No pain to (fix)mix it.

Thank you for talking about this aspect of re amping, I think it's essential. Amp distortion is a dynamic effect and the player will directly influence the sound with their playing while listening back to the sound, and if you change the amp, you take away what the musician was hearing when playing and that wrecks everything. They instinctively react to the sound that they're hearing and play accordingly and this shapes the sound in a way that can't be replicated. It's much different than a static effect like eq or reverb or delay. Whatever you played through should more or less stay the same start to finish, re amping might work for some people but i have never gotten good results from it for this very reason, I always re-record the part through the new amp.

Archetype Nolly!

This is so amazing to see, I know I don’t have a professional studio, but I know I can get similar results using these Tipps

Incredible value. Thank you!

The reason is sounds different after reamps, is because the guitarist is responding to the reaction of the amp that he is playing through. Like driving a responsive car. We dig deeper or less deeper on palm mutes based on how the amp and speaker cone breaks up a certain way, at a specific threshold, that enhances the overtones in the way the player hears it in the room. By replacing the amp you remove those interactions and change the threshold at where the intention (or sweet spot) was, and in some cases, remove the "soul" of the performance.

The timing of those pick scrapes makes the riff IMO

Very informative, thanks! Obviously, these are not unknown techniques but it's great to hear from the producer himself.

I was actually watching this one yesterday!

Im getting some shoot to thrills vibes from that chorus. Sounds sick.

At 14 mins when you have the pitch shift up, what are you doing to the clips themselves? Looks like the copy waveform is dynamic, and then it becomes clipped after you press something. Is just the pitch shifter clipping them out and making the waveform squared? Or are you pressing a key command commiting some other process that is clipping them which we can't see in the video?

Hell yeah! You touched on a great point early on. You actually have to play the instrument well for it to sound good.

Lundgrens always crush. Love Mike's guitar tone forever :-)

What’s your master fader volume at when mixing?

It just helps me realize newer guitar tones are touched up a lot with the advent of DAW. Then add IR and Amp sims on top of it, I’m surprised people still use tube anymore. If you want to chase a tone 50% you’ll have to touch up the recording of it just to sounds the way you want VS dialing it in at the amp.

Dan is a genius 🧞

Yeah we totally respond to the amp’s tone. Full circle

I can definitely put my finger on what you're talking about when you switch a guitarist stamp on them. I HATE it when it happens to me. You play to the tone, you played to the amp, every amp has a different feel a different response when you hit the strings in signal goes to the amp comes back in reverberates three there's a room or headphones that you're wearing and that to change the feel whether you're listening to the room or headphones. Even when you take the same amp but change the tone a bit, like roll back to treble or something like that it makes a huge difference. When I'm playing, especially a solo, I'm hitting notes just hard enough to get what I want out of it based on how the amp is set, you change the settings the plane changes as well. My drummer has made my pinch harmonics totally disappear by screwing up the tone. That's why some people like old amps because they can "dig in;" now imagine if they were "digging in" like that changed it to like a gained out & compressed 5150, it'd be uncontrollable sounding. It matters

Can we talk about what load boxes everyones using :')

I want to see a song that has even more layered guitars

The comment about guitarist vs amp relationship while recording is spot on, when you hear yourself play through an amp you always adjust your hand location to get the sweet spot for palm mutes, on every amp it's just very slightly different. Sometimes you switch the amp sim and it just doesn't work unless you re-record the take.

So why didn't he use his own Mike Stringer mixwave amp sim ?

tracking great takes is 90% of the problems i deal with when working with others . if only hardcore rehearsal was still relevant to this new breed

Lemme get that Nolly/Sporitbox patchhh my

Neural DSP for the win.

When he says, "he plays his guitar right". What do you think he is speaking about? Actual technique? knowing the parts? what say you?

man i have alot to learn :(

The guitars tones are bigger than my income

Love hearing a metal producer that knows theory and is calling out add9 and sus2 chords

Man. Lot of complaints on this video from people who probably don’t do this for a living. These are lessons and pointers. Take it as such.

Wouldn't be the input signal even cleaner if the guitar was programmed? Asking for a friend...

why isnt he using his own plugin? Its more than capable of this sound.

I know, "use your ears", but is there a benefit to clipping the EQ (fabfilter, SSL), the mb comp? Like, do those plugins have a clip sound that is desirable? Is there a *reason* to push into red?

THAT is a wall of sound.

fck the guitars :D but that bass and drum sound!!!!!!!!!!!!! and that's coming from a guitar player...

10:57 this guitars doing this type of chords could be easily from a Linkin Park Song lol..

What do you mean he plays his guitar "properly"?

'Mike plays his guitar properly" id love it if he iterated what he meant by that

Aristides makes the best sounding guitars right now and it's not even close.

those DIs have zero low end. lol

Overproduced guitars are really just starting to sound like dubstep instruments

I know exactly what he is speaking of regarding tone.... Evertune is great for keeping you in tune, but any guitar I have played with the evertune sounds sterile and and thin.... Something about that big chunk of wood missing and being replaced with a bunch of metal in the body of the guitar.

subjective...

Why does every one overhype this band so much?

Spiritbox just does nothing for me lol its so uninspired and boring music. Nothing new whatsoever. Pretty pedestrian shit. Don’t get people’s obsession with their tone either lol

Can we actually get an audible fucking riff in metal music anymore?

I mean... is it fair to say this is OVER production?

it couldn't possibly sound more generic than this. 300 EQ points and curves to do almost nothing.

Sleep Token sounds like something AI would create. Generic, overly digital and over hyped.