What would you consider your biggest tonal realisation that has made an impact on the way you dial in gear?

[rstites]

Playing metal, turn the gain down and the volume up to the extent possible. All the gain at practice levels is there to emulate the natural sustain and compression of the amp at volume with it's natural acoustic properties and compression. Also, gain when playing solo produces a thickness that is an attempt to emulate the sound of multiple takes blended together when recorded, so again back the gain off and play as clean as possible for recorded tones. ....you can always reamp it for more if you really need it, but you probably won't.

Finally, getting good heavy tones is far more about attack and aggression when playing the instrument than the equipment.

 

[thegame]

Different guitar players sound different.

The point is, I can emulate a farty sounding palm mute by changing up a bunch of things with my technique, just for demonstration purposes.

 

[Simon Dorn]

The point is, I can emulate a farty sounding palm mute by changing up a bunch of things with my technique, just for demonstration purposes.

Sure.

 

[nightlight]

The point is, I can emulate a farty sounding palm mute by changing up a bunch of things with my technique, just for demonstration purposes.

I hear smearing shite on guitars has the same effect.

 

[DanTravis62]

The point is, I can emulate a farty sounding palm mute by changing up a bunch of things with my technique, just for demonstration purposes.

Sure.

No Gary is definitely correct about this, I just demonstrated it to a student when he was asking me why my palm mutes sound like shots firing and his sound like theyre pregnant with taco bell

I think like with all "tone" conversations were starting with the assumption that everyone knows what they're doing enough to overcome technique issues; if we didn't, we would never talk about the gear at all, because otherwise we'd be correcting every hobbyist's personal idiosyncracies

 

[anomaly]

Sure then buddy, I'm glad that worked for your dimebag cover band but that's not going to be salient or pertinent advice for people who are trying to get their own sound and find their own way

Because even dime used layering of other amps and massive amounts of studio and live EQ to make that sound work

It's bad advice, and it lead to thousands of local bands with shit tone that sounded like a can of bees, and if you want to pretend it works more power to you

Obviously, my tone at the time didn't sound like a Pantera recording. It sounded closer to how they sound live, which is different. Anyways, it worked for me and no.. it was no can of bees tone.

 

[Fusionbear]

For me it was learning I didn't need as much bass as I thought in the overall sound. Less bass gave more punch and clarity....

 

[anomaly]

For me it was learning I didn't need as much bass as I thought in the overall sound. Less bass gave more punch and clarity....

That 240 slider on a Mark series, I call that the punch slider. That seems to really bring it out, but too much and things will get muddy and boxy.