SpringGaruda

I’m currently trying to record some guitars direct using an interface and GarageBand.

The music I’m writing is black-ish death metal, the tone I’m looking for as a starting point would be something like Entombed or Bolt Thrower.

I use a Joyo British amp pedal and have been pretty impressed given the very low price. However I also bought an HM-2 to make the distortion more extreme and it sounds like crap.

I assume because it’s not running through an amp? I can’t get it to sound usable at all, it just sounds like a weak bee buzzing and nothing like that brutal crunchy death metal soundI want.

In fact, I get better sound by just using the Joyo only, with the gain on max. However, it sti

Bought a coat from China, but took ages to be posted out so I cancelled order and bought a different one. seller then said “too late, already posted sorry”

As soon as item arrived I returned it unopened back to sender.

It made it back to China but according to tracking it continues to be held by authorities. It’s been a few weeks at this point. Seems like it’s just stuck and I have no way of contacting Chinese C&E to find out what the issue is.

Is there anything I can do? Am I just never going to get refunded for this?