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Feb 4 2012 07:54pm
Anyone know the settings i can put my amp to to give me the heavist sound? August burns red, asking alexandria, attack attack sound

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Feb 4 2012 09:01pm
My fav heavy sound is that one :
try it

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Feb 4 2012 09:46pm
crank the pre gain, balance the lows and highs, cut the mids...for the rhythm tone anyway. There're more mids in the leads obviously
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Feb 4 2012 10:05pm
What type of guitar and pickups do you have?
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Feb 4 2012 10:32pm
Quote (Derkaderk @ Feb 4 2012 08:46pm)
crank the pre gain, balance the lows and highs, cut the mids...for the rhythm tone anyway. There're more mids in the leads obviously



Whatever you do don't crank the pre gain, or cut the mids out..... that's how to get shitty fizzy metal tone that will never cut through a mix and result in massive amounts of feedback. I use a mesa triple rec and I get amazing heavy tones with this set up
This is with the knobs ranging from 1-10

Gain - 6, Bass - 6, Treble - 7, Mid - 8, Presence - 8

As you can see you don't want to get too extreme with any eq'ing, especially in a live setting where the bass is going to be carrying a lot of the low end, your guitar is going to be playing a big role on how "heavy" your tone will sound as well as a lot of the heavy tone is with palm muting and strumming technique, it's not some shitty thing people say to be douches but a lot of the tone is "in the fingers". Here is my band and you can hear the guitar while not very technical in this song sounds very heavy and I am using the exact settings posted above which a lot of people wouldn't believe. http://www.facebook.com/GrimmMusic

Now also your equipment is going to make a HUGE difference in how to make it sound heavier, so some details would be killer.
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Feb 5 2012 11:06am
the rhythm guitar in those bands uses a recessed mid tone. it's a common thing with two guitarists. one cuts the mids to fall back in the mix, and the leads boost them to stand out. then you pump bass to taste to get that chunkachunka sound, and balance it out with highs.
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