amp settings

yomama410

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guys i just wanted to know what amp setting would be needed to play-

1) Oldies like GNR

2) Punk-Rock like Blink182 blah blah blah.

and recently i played around with my amp and zoom 505II and my distortion is like suddenly super screechy.
anyone knows how to counter this problem?
thanks
 
not sure abt GNR but for punk rock.. i normally haf high treble, low mids and high bass to get the fat warm sound.. i'm using a smarvo so u haf to play around with ur own settings.. use mine as a rough guide.. and dunt be afraid to fully max out any eq if it sounds good...
 
high treble, low mids and high bass is usually known as the scooped mids setting and is good for songs with a lot of heavy riffing or palm muting because it can give that bassy chugga chugga sound.

I'd recommend setting all your EQ to middle first then adjusting them to suit your needs.
 
Vaiyen said:
almondx said:
i normally haf high treble, low mids and high bass to get the fat warm sound.. .

hmm..I think your definition of fat, warm is kinda different..

to each his own =) and different gear too anyway.. for me raising my mids realli makes my tone too shrill..

anyway here's my eq: treble 1.30 mid 10.30 bass 2 o'clock

not a great deviation from everything to mid actually..
 
A guy with an aluminium body Talbo once told ciel and me that his guitar sounds very warm, when we asked him how it sounded.

Then he played it, and it sounded how we thought it would.
 
yomama410 said:
guys i just wanted to know what amp setting would be needed to play-

1) Oldies like GNR

2) Punk-Rock like Blink182 blah blah blah.

and recently i played around with my amp and zoom 505II and my distortion is like suddenly super screechy.
anyone knows how to counter this problem?
thanks

Simple.

1 x Marshall JCM 800 Head
2 x Marshall 4 x 12 half stacks
1 x Gibson Les Paul

Most importantly

1 x Slash.
 
ok i was a bit mean.

My point is, we don't know what amp your playing through, we don't know what guitar your playing.

Even if we did no one can tell you how to sound like it unless he has the same setup as you.

The thing is to experiment with your settings till you find something that you think sounds like what you want it to sound like. The Zoom can prolly get you somewher in the ball park of the kind of sound u want, you just have to experiment theres no rulebook on what tone to use for wat.

As to the screeching problem just fiddle it back to the setting before you fiddled your amp to the setting that caused it to be screechy.
 
alright if you wanna use the zoom 505II, then use it on the amp's clean channel.

I use a Zoom 606, somewhat similar to the zoom 505 , i can get quite close the gnr sound. Just set the drive to MS, the gain about 18, and loads of hall reverbs , amp set to stack or bright.
 
Perhaps the Q on the mids are leaning towards the high mids, and so get a little piercing when combined with a guitar with tonewood that emphasizes the highs. Maybe you could up the bass with the mids and lower the highs slightly. And it would help to say what amp and guitar you are using.
 
here's a tip on getting happening drive sounds: less gain / distortion, turn up the mids and lose a bit of your high end. keep the bass between 6-7. IMHO mids help to fatten up the sound, i can remember reading james hetfield admitting that mids did help to give oomph to his guitar sound, and he no longer scoops his mids. try it.

multifx tend to sound a bit tinny and "screechy" - if the pedal has an eq section, try neutralizing the eq settings - maybe set them at the median setting.

also, try using the OD settings rather than distortion. i've learnt that a great punkrock guitar sound doesn't need heaps of gain, just balls to the wall OD and lots of attitude and authority in your playing :) try it. your palm muting might sound a bit weak at first, but remember - when you listen to punk rock bands, you're listening to a BAND. the bass guitar helps give the low end punch, whilst the guitars handle the higher end. don't try to cover all the sonic territory. what sounds happening when you are playing on your own may not sound happening when you are in a band.
 
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