) that still lacks a guitar solo (because I have to compose one that I can play at this speed! ):It's kind of a '70s-ish "proto-metal" kind of thing. A little too fast and punky to just be '70s hard rock, but not into '80s NWOBHM or thrash territory, either.
I actually tracked the guitars/bass last autumn (2020) using AmpliTube 4; I went back in the last week or so and remixed using AmpliTube 5. This is all done in Logic Pro, so there are some stock plugins and some 3rd-party plugins used in the overall mix, though all basics of the guitars and bass are done with AmpliTube 5. (And there are some T-Racks, plugins as well ... like there's the Space Delay on a bus for the guitar intro, etc.).
Guitars are all done with my old '90s Les Paul and are actually quad-tracked. Two of those tracks are the main ones, louder than the other two. These main tracks are panned left and right; one uses the JH Gold with the Treble Booster from the Brian May collection and the Satch Green cab from the Satriani collection; the other is the OR120 with the matching PPC412 cab. Then, the two other tracks (also panned left and right, lower in the mix) are both done with the HiAmp head and cab model set cleanish (for a little more presence and "low jangle" behind the other guitars. The Uni-V pedal comes on for these during the bridge section, though it's not explicitly audible, but just providing a little more movement. So, basically the guitars are a festival of vintage "Brit-type" amps.
The bass is my Rickenbacker 4001 (retrofitted with HB1 pickups) and it's all done with a single bass track -- it's not split out into multiple tracks for the high- vs. low-end -- but I have sort of imitated that kind of processing within the AmpliTube 5 plugin. The chain is one amp and cab path (and OR120 and matching cab) which is just for high-end dirt (mids/lows are wiped off from about 500 Hz downwards) and there's a DI path that has a rack EQ to most everything above 200-250 Hz, and this is heavily compressed to provide the low end. So, the approach is a bit modern, but otherwise this is another vintage "British-type" amp. (The OR120 provides pretty good "clank", though, of that modern heavy rock/metal bass style.)
That's it! OK, there are also the drums (done basically with the Logic Pro "Drummer" feature) and a little synth pad in the intro (a Logic Pro soft synth) ... but, other than those, that's it!
