Originally posted by thechicken:[..]
You are welcome. I love heavy music and heavy distorion, what I was saying is that I didn't like your distortion on that part. It sounds a bit artificial. It's a matter of taste obviously. I happen to be old school.
Okay - I understand. No offense taken.
For your info: I played through the Lead channel of my Hughes & Kettner Tubeman direct recording workstation. Gain at 11 o'clock, Voicing at 1 o'clock, bass eq at max, mid and treble at 2 o'clock. So even it sounds artificial to your ears it's still full tube preamp saturation. The other guitars were recorded through the clean and crunch channels of the same unit. I also used a Promeek recording compressor on every track and finally some master compression (actually too much but I didn't want to redo it considering it's only a demo).
As you said - it's a matter of taste. I can make the Tubeman sound completely different if I want to. The Voicing control gives it a great versatility. I even use it live - I bypass the speaker emulation and plug it into a small 18 Watt Class A power amp head, so I have a three channel full tube amp. I haven't used distortion stomp boxes in ages.
Alex
Nice bass playing! You should put an album out. 
) but I'll definitely get around to that.