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03-15-2008, 05:19 PM
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anyone notice the amount of metal guitarist nowadays with tons of mids and less scooped tone? |
03-15-2008, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by diechris  anyone notice the amount of metal guitarist nowadays with tons of mids and less scooped tone? |
Good. They need to keep their tone away from frequencies 200 Hz and under .
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03-15-2008, 06:47 PM
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03-15-2008, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound Anyone notice that this thread is in the wrong section?
lowsound | yeah...
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Dang, now it means we have to thing of more inventive ways than to jsut turn up our mids to cut through...
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03-15-2008, 06:51 PM
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03-15-2008, 06:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Calgary, Canada | | | Mids are very important for a good live sound. Scooped guitar tone sounds very bad live. Ever notice how at some metal shows the guitars are very loud yet you cannot actually hear anything? |
03-15-2008, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by metalstorm Scooped guitar tone sounds very bad all the time. | Fixed.
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03-16-2008, 10:28 AM
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03-16-2008, 10:32 AM
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He won't want to turn up his mids to cut through.  Maybe thats why you couldn't hear him as well on the untitled album. |
03-16-2008, 10:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | | Not really. Most of the metal bands I have seen lately and metal guitarists are still scooping with the "California Smile" on their EQ. Drop tuning with inadequate strings and scooping the mids is part of why I left metal. |
03-16-2008, 10:53 AM
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03-16-2008, 11:11 AM
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i really dig my tone and i have boosted mids, 12 o clock bass and a little cut highend |
03-16-2008, 11:17 AM
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03-16-2008, 01:37 PM
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03-16-2008, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by CrazyArcher Any reason to cut mids in guitar, especially in metal? |
It's got that death metal type of tone. It works for what they do, but I don't dig how it sounds. As stated, live, it just turns to mud.
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03-16-2008, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound Anyone notice that this thread is in the wrong section?
lowsound |
Yep. Moved.
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03-16-2008, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till It's got that death metal type of tone. It works for what they do, but I don't dig how it sounds. As stated, live, it just turns to mud. | Meh. Never cared too much about the eq setting of teh guitar players in my band, probably now I will.
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03-16-2008, 07:25 PM
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the reasoning is the opposit
2 guitars with boosted mids creates noise in the mix.
IMO the best 2 guitar setup for metal is a smile and a frown. generally with the lead guitarist boosting the mids.
it creates about the fullest sound possible.
also Kirk Hammet's tone in metallica is hardly muddy. he has a very very radical scoop.
most guitar pickups are also voiced with the mids cut back. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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