What to you is modern tone

[Techdeth]

Like is there something new that makes the 2010s amp tones seem old ?

 

[japetus]

Mesa Rectos or 5150s

 

[Metalhex]

The absence of chorus effect on ryhtmn?

 

[japetus]

The absence of chorus effect on ryhtmn?

I fucking hate chorus so much.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

Old tone = V Twin 4 stroke motorcycle or V8 muscle car
My era tone = I4 Sport bike/F1 Car or 2 stroke single cylinder.
Modern tone = Jet engine, electric/hybrid or exhaust under water.

Whatever that means.

 

[Techdeth]

What’s a song that has it ?

 

[braintheory]

The more filtered, clinical sound. Lack of warmth. It tends to be the direction in many styles. Not just rock and metal

Each successive decade seems to have gone further and further in this general direction as has society overall. I think the artforms are just an inevitable reflection of all of this as that's what art really is: capturing the emotions/feeling of the time and place they're in. It's not a good or bad thing. Just a flavor

 

[Techdeth]

The more filtered, clinical sound. Lack of warmth. It tends to be the direction in many styles. Not just rock and metal

Each successive decade seems to have gone further and further in this general direction as has society overall. I think the artforms are just an inevitable reflection of all of this as that's what art really is: capturing the emotions/feeling of the time and place they're in. It's not a good or bad thing. Just a flavor

Well some like me is annoyed af with modern production . So clinical and compressed . And all the bands do it . Same drum and guitar tones .

 

[Braden717]

For me it's a very tight rhythm, high gain and extremely dark. Very quick clamping noise gate. Like whenever I think modern tone I'm hearing quick staccato riffing and a tone that would not work for leads what so ever.

 

[Techdeth]

Here’s what I consider modern tones . And production . Love the song but man it sounds like a digital mess

 

[Smash]

 

[RaceU4her]

 

[Soundstorm]

The modern metal tone has as much to do with the recording/mixing/mastering techniques as it does with the actual gear IMO. Modern tone is some kind of headless 7/8/9 string through a boosted 6505 or amp sim, then hyper OCD edited and grid aligned in Pro Tools and finally, slammed relentlessly into a brickwall limiter at the mastering stage.

 

[Smash]

I like modern metal a lot. But i dont emulate the tone. It isnt for me. But it sounds great in a mix

 

[RaceU4her]

The Loathe mixer does all sorts of shit like multiband saturators and processed layers I know nothing about to get that modern thing they got going on

 

[stratjacket]

I think it has more bass, fuller sounding, probably dropped tuning. And agree, it’s probably more about the mix than the stand alone guitar sound.

 

[Greazygeo]

More than three gain stages, tight bass, but no low end or midrange.

 

[VonBonfire]

I already mentioned t in another thread. Polyphia with the angry bee swarm pissing inside an empty soda can doubled is pretty much modern metal tone. Or anyone using a Hughes and Kettner. Those things have a knob for everything on them, I'm pretty sure Doc Brown had some of that circuitry in the flux capacitor.

 

[lespaul6]

compressed metal tone and thats all you get..

 

[SpiderWars]

Like is there something new that makes the 2010s amp tones seem old ?

Could it be that Polyphia tone? It's new and I don't like it but...well I don't know where the fuck I was going with this. It's a shitty tone, no defending it, nevermind.