Against The Wind (melodic hard rock)

Mesh
Wow....just Wow!! Absolutely Pro stuff here from the performances to mixing/production!! Excellent stuff here LT. This is fantastic to see that most of it was done within Sonar (IMO, Sonitus is a totally underrated plugin).

 
It truly is. I think a few other guys on here have remarked that if you put a fresh GUI on it and marketed it as a boutique plugin, people would be raving about it.
 
I really love the Pro Channel stuff but I find it really clumsy for copying stuff between tracks or saving presets, as opposed to plugins in the effects bin. The stuff you can do in there, barring things like the tape sim and console emulator can be easily replicated with the Sonitus suite. And what you can't do with Sonitus, you can do with the Blue Tubes suite or Perfect Space. Quite amazing the stuff we get for free bundled with SONAR - it's really world class quality.
 
 

Mesh
I also have Pod Farm 2.5 and would love to know what your setup is for this song? The tones are fantastic (like the playing).....

 
I can do better than that - here you go, have our rhythm, lead, clean and bass tones: https://www.dropbox.com/s...0Farm%20Tones.zip?dl=0
 
There's a couple of tricks with Pod Farm.
 
The first thing is to realise that its emulation of most amps completely sucks. If you've played through a JCM800, don't expect its model to sound anything like it - it won't. But that's OK, if you like the sound you get from Pod Farm; it doesn't have to sound like a real world amp. The end result, in context of the mix, is all that matters, full stop.
 
The second thing is that out of the box, all of the presets in nearly every Pod device or plugin are terrible. Fizzy, plastic, overly processed rubbish. You need to keep it really simple, and think abut how a speaker would react to things. In my dirty patches, I've gone basic - Tube Screamer into a JCM 800 + quad cab, SM57 off axis mic, EQ and a bit of compression to even it out. That's it. The key with this, though, is the EQ. I've done some serious high end roll off to get rid of that fizzy mess you get with amp sims, and boosted the upper mids to give it presence.
 
I'll typically double (or sometimes triple) the rhythm parts, wide pan them, and run them into a guitar buss which is further EQ'd to give it more cut in the mix (usually upper mids), sometimes some lows dropped to clean up the sound, and almost always high passed to give space in the mix to the bass and kicks. I'll run some slapback spread over that to bring in a bit of HAAS effect, which makes everything seem a bit wider and thicker, and a bit of reverb for gel.
 
Sounds like a lot of stuff going on but at the core of it, it's a really stripped back, basic sound. Hope you can get some use out of the tones! 
 

Mesh
you guys should do a world tour!!   

HAHA! Well, we're already locked in for ProgPower USA next year, so we'll see how we go!