Bardagh
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I would agree except I also don’t find it listenable.Rage Against the Machine. His tone sucks and the vocals suck but all together it comes out listenable for me .
I would agree except I also don’t find it listenable.Rage Against the Machine. His tone sucks and the vocals suck but all together it comes out listenable for me .
I love type o negative , their productions always intrigue me because it's a big wall of sound , most times it's hard to identify what's what but I kinda like that .... so different.... I miss them , r.i.p Pete!
The big problem was everyone went FX crazy, as if there had been a prohibition on anything but tasteful amounts of delay and chorus that was lifted in 1993 and everyone went on a flanger and fuzz binge.90s GRUNGE. Don’t dig most of it, but I get it Fits. ‘Nuff said.
Ultimately I don’t think there are that many KILLER TONE kind of albums or bands. A lot of my favorite albums don’t necessarily have amazing guitar tones. They’re probably fine or pretty good or at least don’t get in the way of the song.
I would actually say Dimebag had a “great” tone even though I would never use it because it fit the material and his playing so well, worked great in the mix, and stood apart from what you heard elsewhere.
I was the biggest Death fan you could ever meet when I was a teenager but really Chuck always either had sort of bad or just passable tone. Symbolic is an amazing album and it has a GREAT MIX (seriously it holds up so well, the drums sound great) but the guitar tone when you focus on it is just kinda there. It’s serviceable and not BAD but it’s neither iconic nor ass kicking or anything else.
Especially on the UYI records. Just fkn awful all around.Guns n Roses comes to mind.
ITP is the worst tone of the latter-day Death albums IMO. Harsh and out of phase (Chuck’s love affair with phase and chorus on rhythm guitars ended after this thank god) also the whole mix sounds a little “dirty” like the master got a little trashed or something. Again as a whole it’s fine, it doesn’t sound bad especially by 90’s extreme metal standards, but if I’m listening critically that’s what I hear.I don’t know man, symbolic and individual thought patterns are two of the great metal tones ever imo.