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Originally Posted by cortisol  Flying_Dutchman I am an ATG nut. They were my favourite band. I'm coming to Europe around the time of the festivals so well see if I can make Wavegothic Trefen, Download and Wacken! It's gonna be fun!
Sinister Blade - we're reworking things at the moment by changing our songs from 7 string to a new 6 string. So the songs are being adapted as we speak. This new guitar is giving us the exact tone of early Testament which we don't wont! Ha! So... new guitar > 5150 mkII > Senn 421.
We're playing with the equations at the moment.
vernier I find that guitar sounds are so closed mic'ed and not part of the acoustic environment that I find them sythetic and unreal. I can pull every other instruments sound much better than guitar sounds. The best heavy guitar sounds I've ever got where using a Marshall JCM900 1x12 combo amp an SM58 and some desk EQ mainly reshaping the mids!
Drums vocals bass synths I can do... clean and overdriven guitars easy but I'm yet to get there with heavy stuff to my satisfaction. 
Thanks for the recommendations so far. I'm going to ask around and see if I can get to hear some ribbon mics working their magic on a distorted quadie.
Peace,
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the red in the sky is ours :-)
What guitar are you using?
Marshall JCM series are great, i really like the JCM800 jubilee. 900s are kind of harsh imao. Move the mic more to the left or right of the speaker... Boost it with a tube screamer to give some more mid crunch, it works. Also Engl Straight is a great amp. Actually i use Krank Rev1 and Dual Rectifier and JCM 800. Layering the Amps really helps. But there are many great amps out there. On ervery amp its about finding the master volume magic, not too much pregain. In my opinion you can get a solid performance with the most tube guitar amps out there.
Testament rules :-) Ok, you´re not going for that guitar tone....
Royer 121 takes EQ very good, thats true. They offer much low-end and are on the darker side (ribbon), which you can easy lift up with an eq, cause the royer likes eq. I thinkj its in style to use ribbons at the moment and I´m quite shure that many records we like havent used a royer. So better spend your money on sth else in my opinion. For rock/blues guitars the royer is amazing, but i dont need it for metal. I know that many use it and are fine, thats fine, but im not happy with the royer in this application.
If the close mic signal doenst fit in the mix, i dont know why??
PM me and send me an example if you want.
Try VTAPE by virsyn, its magic.
Have fun!