Amateur's Gear Guide to Metal!
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gsonique
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...for those on a budget ...LTD guitars cheap and good for heavy stuff.
Then get a Roland Cube ...putz it on metal mode:twisted: annoy your neighbourhood cats and other small animals.
That should be enough to make you a Metal Hero...then when your music starts paying you get all the more expansive stuff....look for endorsements too.
Finally when you retire then can sit around talking about exotic wood, paint, tools, flower pots...etc etc
Then get a Roland Cube ...putz it on metal mode:twisted: annoy your neighbourhood cats and other small animals.
That should be enough to make you a Metal Hero...then when your music starts paying you get all the more expansive stuff....look for endorsements too.
Finally when you retire then can sit around talking about exotic wood, paint, tools, flower pots...etc etc
PatheinRaindropMoe
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oh my gawd!!! I dont want to be metal anymore. My metal doesnt conform and rebel against mother! How can there be a guide!!!
I aint doing metal anymore!
I aint doing metal anymore!
MadWerewolfBoy
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Heads refers to amp heads. These are the rectangular boxes you usually see placed on top on amp cabinets. Simply put, they are amplifiers - circuits that colour/boost signals coming in through the jack. Your combo amp has an amplifier circuit inside as well, just that it's connected to the box where the speaker is installed (thus, termed combo amp)
http://www.laney.co.uk/show_prod.php?prod=tt100h
cabinets are wooden/ply boxes where speakers are installed in. Usually, the standard large sizes we see are 4×12" (reads as four by twelve inches). This means that there are 4 speakers of 12 inch diameter.
http://www.laney.co.uk/show_prod.php?prod=tt412a
So, a 2×12" combo amp is: http://www.laney.co.uk/show_prod.php?prod=tt100-212
Godspeed64
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What Shred said is true..
And Goose and Path always finds a way to steal the show.. Now that's metal! Hahahaha
And Goose and Path always finds a way to steal the show.. Now that's metal! Hahahaha
PatheinRaindropMoe
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heh, its just disturbing bit and there. Like how i love to kacau shreaddy! But then, i still love him!
Canst I dates you Pathein my hero?
Might be able to answer that for him... Check out their artist rosters, it's dominated by metal artists, well, I for one can easily see why, owning 2 guitars 1 from the respective makers.
Jackson guitars, sound and look aggressive with little tweaking, it's the natural factory setting, I know for one my WRMG sound like SHIT on cleans, so does my Ibanez Iceman (ok this one's because I swapped in an Dimarzio X2N). They sound great driven, but on clean, they sound naked and empty and weak and puny... Personal observation. Anyway, who the hell buys pointy guitars to play the blues anyway!
PatheinRaindropMoe
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pointy geetars might be suitable for blues, if only those exist during Robert johnson era..
I agree...
I agree...
And dude, tell me about your X2N experience. I've always got a soft spot for the X2N... I keep wanting to return to that pickup even though it just ... slays.
Whitestrat
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Godspeed64
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It's reasonably sensitive, it's very screamy, picks out high frequencies very well. Suits cutting through the mix. Sounds dead on clean though, but when driven, it will capture everything you put into your fingers and your strings. I'm thinking of slapping the D-Activator X bridge and neck into my jackson as well, since the D-activator X is an offshoot of the X2N
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Eh no fair. Everytime I come out with a pointy guitar statement you fling that guitar at me! Ok lah, I was referring to the really pointy shit like the jackson warrior and kelly
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Amp modelers are best for metal guitarist in Singapore IMO, they are more cheaper than the real things and gives you the chugga chugga sound even at low volume (perfect for HDB flats). Nevemind they don't really sound like the amps they are supposed to model and sounds digital, metal guitarist never really care about warmth anyway. Even pro players go for modelers for thier gear, digital distortion sound has vastly improved over the years.
Ized
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Another area most fellas lack when they wanna play metal is TECHNIQUE. wanna play metal and be the next metallica and cant even palm mute properly, the blame gear guitar pedals their mom and dad.....what a joke :lol:
I would recommend a good starting point all metal players have to go through is learning how to play metallica's master of puppets, downstrokes only. Welcome on board thrasher!
I would recommend a good starting point all metal players have to go through is learning how to play metallica's master of puppets, downstrokes only. Welcome on board thrasher!
superpotato_30
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Very interesting!
This is a similar experience I had when I owned the X2N and a guitar with an X2N. It was a pretty wild experience but beneath all that power, you really gotta play it right - every mistake shows.
Have you tried it split and stuff? It can do cleans much better that way.
Oh, and when you get the D-Activator, lemme know what you think of it? Let's use the X2N as a reference.