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What plugins are you using for the guitar tone?
What monitors/acoustic treatment are you using?
This article on gain staging might be useful:
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/gain-staging-your-daw-software
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Why not stick a mic in front of the Princeton and feed it thought an API or Neve unison preamp?
Otherwise this is how I start my guitar EQing process.
Cut everything below 80hz.
3db boost at around 200hz.
Cut between 300-500hz (mud).
Cut 3-4k to let vocals in.
I push some of the electric guitar tracks back in the soundstage by cutting above 5k, perhaps even low pass at 5k.
If recording stereo guitars I'll often boost one side by the same amount that I cut on the other side to give them some variation.
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I ended up hooking up the rec out of my amp into the back of the Arrow and was very pleased with the tone that I got. I lowered the volume on amp and upped the master a bit to avoid what sounded like some sort of scintillating clipping.
The guitar tracks are straight from the amp, no fx, just eqs.
Very rough, but just an idea.
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Here's the clean track, no eq
The UAD Line in was set to 29dB. @octatonic, is there any difference or reason to plug the rec out of the amp into the HiZ (guitar) input in the front vs the rear inputs of the Arrow? I presume that the rec out of the amp is probably only sending the pre-amp and not power stage or is it the whole signal (forgive me if this is a dumb question)?
How the amp was set:
Maybe @ICBM knows?
Anyway, assuming it is a line level signal it is sub optimal to connect it to the Arrow's Hi Z input.
Definitely connect it to the rear line level (1/4") input.
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"Beck chose not to go with his usual Marshalls when recording Guitar Shop, opting instead for a pair of eighties Fender combos - a Princeton Reverb II and a Twin. "The Princeton took care of tonal qualities that the other amp didn't have. It has an overload channel, so you can get midrange distortion. I tried recording using just the Twin, but without the Princeton the sound just vanished. (The engineer) noticed it right away and said "The sound isn't as good. You've got to put the Princeton back on". "
(ed. Jeff Kitts, Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, page 178)
I've got PRRI style amps which don't have that feature so never tried it.
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Again, nice work. It shouldn't sound that good.