Hey,
So I've been working on recording a song and I am trying to get a solo tone similar to the kind of long, sustained, gain-y yet clean sound that The War on Drugs tends to use.
Any suggestions? I'm mostly recording direct input through my pedal board into a tascam sound card. I've fiddled around with my overdrive pedal (Soul Food) but the tone gets too distorted and muddy to give that clean sustain.
Is it time to get a sustain pedal? Apologies in advance if what I'm asking about gear doesn't make much sense..
I'm using Ableton, so there should definitely be options to play around with compression. I hadn't thought of using compression to achieve that kind of tone but now that you mention it, it seems reasonable haha. I'll give it a shot!