Doing a full strum on electric guitar

[gjtaylor]

Hi, I have been wondering how does people make their full strums on electric guitar with drive & distortion sound like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8uvW2HNZNw). Whenever i did full strums on my guitar, it gets very noisy, dirty and muddy. I'm using a TGM 10W amp + Zoom G2.1u. My guitar is with emg-esp pick-ups. Thanks guys.

 

[billthegeek]

I don't think the guy in the video is strumming all his strings, although it may look like he is. Judging from the sound, he is playing at most 3 strings only.

But I know some songs which uses non-power chords plus distortion tone, particularly the indie rock genre songs. You might want to try reducing the distortion, or else the tone will sound 'thin' and noisy.

 

[theunknown]

yeah the guys using power chords. doubt he is really strumming all 6 strings if not, he has a great pickup.. i have a fren who strums 3 strings in power chord, but he really looks like he strums all 6.

 

[bin4christ]

You might want to try reducing the distortion, or else the tone will sound 'thin' and noisy.

I beg to differ. check out paul gilbert. he frequently strums the higher strings n it still comes out nice.

 

[niteblade]

lol that song!

yup hes strumming 3 strings only

drop d tuning. sounds like hes using a heavy overdrive

and hes using a decent amp

*took down video; i'll record a proper cover tonight*

im running a distortion pedal into a overdrive pedal (both low gain)

 

[Aki S. Ian]

wah damn, why are your feet so close together. let them balls breath man... your suffocating them..

 

[niteblade]

HAHAHAHAH OMG

sorry la bro

bad habit

 

[zidane01zidane]

It's looks as though he's doing a full strum because he 'IS' doing a full strum but he's muting the higher 3 strings.