@garyg199 do you have anything uploaded that we could have a listen to, at all?

Here's a clip of what I'm working on right now:

It's still a work-in-progress. This is using Heavier7Strings with Pod Farm. Well, the guitars, at least. Everything's programmed.

I've been trying to find a way to make the notes slide into each-other with H7S, but so far, no luck.

 

about eq before hitting the amp, i found that the "Grind" Pedal is basically low shelf cut up to 750Hz

 

Trent Reznor's pedals. There is another older photo while he was making Fragile [or Downward Spiral - memory tends to fail you more often as you grow older ], with a huuuge heap of pedals on the studio floor. Man, that photo is memorable, shame I couldn't find it. Pedals are the really great shit. I love them although I don't use a real guitar any more. I'm doing things similar to Xupito, ITB guitar, but with a combination with OTB FX if I think that's needed.

Great advices in this thread. Especially when working ITB you should use a LPF and a HPF, EQ cut 1 octave at around 2-4kHz a few decibels to make some room for vocals, snare, and kick transient in the mix, before going to pedals and amps sims or hardware.

Cheers!

 

Good God! With this many pedals, I'd be as lost with them as I am with plugins. I'd forget I had certain gear too.

I'm always on some never ending Chex Quest rediscovering old plugins as if they are new going "hmm I forgot I bought this months ago, lets use it now because I bought it"