Gallien-Krueger bass amps

is that one of thsoe boss amps that's trying to compete with quilter?

Yep. I actually really really like it, it has every Boss effect ever in its programming. I'm a huge Boss fan so it works for me and my buddy. We use it with a BD-2 and a RV-6 and sometimes we turn on a CS-2.

soa re those the 2 amps on your recordings?

Not yet, these members just hopped on. On my recordings I'm using GarageBand amp sims, right now.

no shit, I thought they would sound better... no offense, just saying, the plugin amp stuff, evne the bare bones free stuff, is getting a lot mroe convincing... but I was like "whoa, what's that can of bees? hmmm, nice vocal!"

Hahahaha.... yeah, no, I get you. I know what you're saying exactly, it was the Mesa Boogie sim on the second track. All the amps sounded WAYYYYY better when I was recording, but idk.

they're not mixed well... but maybe its also that a real boogie doesn't actually sound that good, so maybe apple's simualtion is just like a pale imitation of soemthing that's kidna stupid to begin with.... eople will ahte more for this, but there are ahrdly any mesa models I like in their whole hsitory and I've tried almost all of them! there will eb a handful of soudsn I like in tehre if I dig, but nothing stellar and with all the options on their 90s designs and the more recent stuff I'm so voerwhelmed I lsoe itnerest and plug into soemthing else ebfore I find soemthing I like. in the 90s I would sit and fiddle with them at the stores for hours though and be like "why doesn't this do a clean sound like my old fender and how come the dirt doesn't sound much better then a tubescreamer?" People will flame me, but that's where I'm at, so flame on!

Ha! I like their gain, and I did distort that one to high heaven, so maybe that's not the best representation. But yeah, my mixing was less than on point.

you're rhythm tracks have more gain than a death metal sound, they're compeltely blown out

Some of them do. It's something I'm fixing, hopefully this time around I can get some actual mics that we cn use on the amps, they sound much better that way.

you have a lot of repconceived notons about how guitars fit into a recording versus live... for your style of music you might wanna look up Joe Baressi... he's in some pensado's palce videos and does other youtube stuff. he's a good starting point for loud/heavy guitar people to elarn about getting that modern gainiac thing to work on records... the first thing I always do when i'm working for someone with a huge gainy sound is that i get the gain down as low as it'll go on their stage gear without turning into a different sound altogether, where its still their sound with all the chugging, grinding whatever, just not so washy and we'll do some band recordings and I'll elt 'em hear them and if they really want tos tart turning the gain abck up, tis their record, but usually they sound way heavier and more muscular then they expected to (unelss they're emtal acts, i don't usually wanna touch that genre these days, tis gotten so niche) and if I did a pass with their original tone I'll let them A/B that shit in context and really hear how once thigns are a little comrpessed and int he mix all that extra gain made their guitar osund smaller, not bigger forcing us to turn it up louder and sap the ower of the drumming to get it to sund as loud as it really was, right? So from tehre I itrnoduce people to soem of my stuff. Master volume players and epdal guys can see what its like to just turn up an old ampa nd ahve at it and then see what they think of that, getting a ton of dynamic distortion from the pwoer tubes and not the repamp so much with all that tinny, buzzy bee distortion that sunds big from where the gutiarist is playing ons tage but usually sounds small ona recording (or even through a PA live, trust me)...w e ight still eb pretty damned distorted in the end, but you get the idea.... tis not just a droning wall.... and if the band is going to have a dronign wall sound I'll encourage them to play sparse aprts to give space for those square waves to decay so tis not just like a droning synth pad.... you think of like siamese dream as being the big album that rhought in teh droning wall of fuzz, but those guitars are way mroe dynamic then you think ocne you start lsitening to them carefully! same goes for like weexer etc.... and you look at a green day? that first album is just like an acdc sound pushed up a little... I would say stay away from extreme mesa settings gain wise unelss you're going to play REALLY controlled like the guys from say, Helmet... or at elast as much muting control and billy joe. Everything's gotta be controlled from the right ahnd or the amp with distortion because the mroe cotnrol i have to exert at the desk the worse it'll sound if its high gain

okay, rambling, gotta hit it, think that all over, look up joe baressi... also look up eric valentine! he's using pretty fancy gear but with tried and true methods and his videos just kill it for ideas about capturing distorted guitar well.

Got it, thanks for the recommendation. I'll definitely see what I can do in terms of production value on the second one, as I'll hopefully have more resources available to me.