I got an electric guitar for X-mas and i'v trying to tune it so i sound more Metal than rock. I cant seem to get the right sound. Is their somthing that i need or could do to make it sound more like Dime Bag Darell rather than a Kenny Rogers lol
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I got an electric guitar for X-mas and i'v trying to tune it so i sound more Metal than rock. I cant seem to get the right sound. Is their somthing that i need or could do to make it sound more like Dime Bag Darell rather than a Kenny Rogers lol
Buy a distortion pedal??
ooooooh iam new to guitars , thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by †Ð£MØц
Mess around with the tone until you get what you like.
Or try adjusting to some premade settings here.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum...d.php?t=688660
holy ugh is their an easier way?Quote:
Originally Posted by Raiyne
OMGQuote:
Originally Posted by Raiyne
Thanks for the link. I got a guitar for Christmas also, and I have no idea what bass, treble, and middle even do lol.
Still don't know what tone does though. I have two tone knobs on my guitar. Anyone wanna help me out?
wtf how come i don't understand this lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Syndicate
Muhaha now i can play like slayer and dethklok :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Raiyne
PS: I know this is pretty off topic, but do you guys think this is a good amp for a cheap/reasonable price? http://www.guitarcenter.com/Roland-C...0-i1169242.gc#
Those are the settings for the amps that the band uses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joker™
:( join the club :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Spirit
Haha. Anyone know if silvertones are good? My firned laughed at me when I told him. xP
told him what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spirit
That i had a silvertone. Its a black and white stratocaster. Its soo generic xD
lol its like a kiddie toy to him?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spirit
haha, probably
Idk, my cousin said that fender stratocaster are pretty good beginner electric guitars so yeah.
Well it depends what kind of Stratocaster you're talking about. A Fender Squier Strat is a good beginner's guitar.Quote:
Originally Posted by †Ð£MØц
But then there's the Fender American Stratocaster which costs nearly $1000, and it's omfg pwnage. Watch this to see.
Back on topic, is there any kind of special pedal you want?
i just want to sound something like Pantera anything that will make me sound like them. I wantQuote:
Originally Posted by †Ð£MØц
Boss pedals are pretty solid.
Get metal zone or something like that.
http://www.bossus.com/
Umm how much do you want to spend?
50$ 100$ at the most for nowQuote:
Originally Posted by †Ð£MØц
No, there's two of us....We can form a club, **** them guitar players!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kriff
You can probably get a boss distortion pedal for around $60-80.
Roland makes great solid state practice amps. Do yourself a favor and buy the Cube 15x and some sort of cheap Ibanez if you want to play metal. I'm gonna recommend the Ibanez GRX20.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...tar?sku=519417
Also for the metal sound, buy an Ibanez DS7 distortion pedal:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...dal?sku=150287
Try de-tuning for a more metal sound. Drop D, Drop C, things like that. Buy some larger gauge strings like some Ernie Ball's Not Evens to help you get to these tunings.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...ck-?sku=101121
Oh and by the way, if you buy a Cube 15x you don't have to worry about the pedal right yet. You get a pretty decent metal distortion setting from the amp. The pedal would be better but you're not playing gigs or recording quite yet so it can wait.
so it saves me money?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fender
how much is the 15x?
Yep should save you $40. You get the Cube 15x for $100. Pretty much any 15 watt amp is going to be around that price, but the Cube has a lot of effects built in and makes it a great value for the price. Fender and Marshall try to sell their own 15 watt amps for around $130. Never buy one of them, you're paying soley for the name.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...ELAID=37162677
Drop D is good for thrash and power metal with an edge.
It's good for making power chords easier than they normally are.
ok, now anyone know of any good cheap Tuners? somone told me my guitar sounded like a cat being ***** by a elephant.
Good cheap tuners? No. Just buy an electronic tuner at the store and tune it every 15 minutes like all us had to with our first guitars. Just go to your music store and buy a $20 Korg or something.
Putting in new tuners would be a lot of work for a beginner and you may end up messing up your guitar and not being able to use it. If you insist upon it though I'd buy some Grovers.
You can find online tuners that will play for you the individual notes that the strings should sound like.
EDIT: Here you go bro.
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/tuner/
drop B would be my personal choice. say goodbye to retuning your strings normaly after that though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fender
aside from that, the ibanez DS7 is great for the price. get it.
Dude I go down to B, A#, A all the time, my strings are fine and I'm in standard right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squallion
I tune it and retune all the time and I've just got a shitty squier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squallion
Drop B and E is my favourite. Then you have C Standard and for that grunge/metal feeling Drop D is the way to go.
Ever tried Drop A? Tonnes of fun for me because I can play that All Along The Watchtower cover from BSG. :).
A great amp to buy with distortion effects is the Roland Cube30x. You can get such clean sounds from it and with the great presets it has, metal sounds too :).