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tomas_carrizo,

I used to keep my ears open fo rnew metal acts as well. My problem was that most of the ones I really dug I would found out were broken up by the time I'd heard of them. Check these out.

Conquering Dystopia - Instrumental Death Metal. It's nearly a supergroup of death metal musicians. Alex Webster on bass, Jeff Lumis on guitars, the dude from the Faceless on drums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4yPG32ybi0&index=6&list=PLIcRyuM36YNoUphk5Y9PdPjrKOcTUWl37

Blotted Science - Instrumental technical metal with a lot of jazz fusion, also featuring big names. Alex Webster on bass again and Poitnoy from Dream Theater on drums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkn-YjYmCA

In The Midst Of Lions - A christian death metal band. One of the few I'll bother with. They aren't soft metal like Demonhunter, they are true, brutal, death metal. Their lyrics check out biblically as well. They don't sing about things that deter from the bible like a lot of the other christian acts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2IvHFPU4d0

Howdy

Neck pickup -> Roger Mayer Octavia -> Dallas Arbiter Fuzz face -> Vox Wah -> Binson tape echo ( on the solo part with the slide and the next solo part ) into a Marshall 100w Superlead head. He used a cigarette lighter for a slide.

Marshall 100 Watt Settings: Gain - 4 Treble - 5 Mid - 5 Bass - 8 Reverb - 5

Those are supposedly the amp settings he used.

Nikki Sixx needs to have "Sixx A.M.", "58" and "London Sister" added to his band list.

Nickleback, Nirvana, and 311...... bwaaaa haaa haaaa waffles.

Just kidding. I'd have to drink bleach if that were true.

I believe you're right.

Let's see pics of yours.

I'm pretty sure that isn't a GRX20, but that looks awesome man!

What makes you think it isn't?

You may be onto something here. When I bought it, I asked the guy what model of guitar it was. He said he couldn't remember the name, but that it was the cheapest ibanez guitar. I assumed he meant the GRX20. After comparing my guitar to the Ibanez catalog there is more evidence to show that it's a form of RG series, mainly due to the control cavity placement, neck joint, and string through holes. I can't place which exact one though.

I took the control cavity cover off and checked inside to see if there were any clues but all the low end Ibanez guitars are now coming with the same pot system so no help there. Ibanez usually puts the Serial number on the back of the head-stock but of course this guy took after it with sanders and such.

Never the less, I don't think our models would be too far different. You should post picks of yours.

James Lomenzo Needs to have Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne, and David Lee Roth added to his list of bands.

The only thing further I would want on it is to change the color of the fretboard. Maybe drop some bleach over it or use some deck stain on it. The effect is lost a bit when you see a perfectly new fretboard.

I'm usually a big advocate of not buying entry level gear, but I figured this would be worth the art value if nothing else. Surprisingly it sounds amazing with the EMG's and all the changes he made. Beats the crud out of my Epiphone Sheritan II and my Takamine GX-100TB. Beefy. Whenever I need to record a guitar rhythm section I use this one. Strings are really hard to bend on it but again, rhythm only anyway.

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/KaiNHooD/media/20150609_173505.jpg.html

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I have a custom version that went through a Relic job. A local here in town made it to look like a barn door so, he called it the "I-BARN-Nez". It's the best sounding 6 string I own so far. He dropped in some EMG HZ's and put on some high gauge strings. It only cost me 150 bucks and I'm a sucker for true one-of-a-kind instruments.

I'll post some pics of it later tonight.

Only Jack White material I dig are 2 songs from Raconteurs.

My Solution Alabama Drama

Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and Christopher Guest need to have "The Folksmen" added to their band list.

Rob Chapman needs to have "Dorje" and "The Rob Chapman Band" added to his band list.

Tough call. I've had a different band for each stage of my life. Tool, Metallica, Rush, GWAR...

I guess I'd have to say Megadeth. I've never been ashamed of them like some of the others, they've had a strong christian influence since since the early 2000's, and they are worlds more talented than a lot of other musicians.

I just watched an interview with Kerry King where he mentioned that he was intimidated by Dave Mustaine's ability back when he played in Megadeth because he'd be soloing, singing, and looking at the audience and not his fretboard.

Who's your fifth spot reserved for?

Vengeance and Gates were the first 2 guys who's sound taught my ear how to harmonize guitar parts. Took me forever to discern exactly what they were playing to each other. Vengeance always plays a 5th higher. I dig it.

I was really surprised by Bad Religion. Not a lot of people are familiar with them. I used to have a car air freshener of their logo and people just thought it was an atheistic statement :)

Don't be shy lurkers. Post an opinion ;)

Only tone I've not been able to replicate is due to hardware. The Wal Bass tone is a nice sound and there are a couple of bands that utilize it, but the reason why I can't get the tone down pat is because of the Wal circuitry inside their pickups.

Wal was trying to be unique in the then flooded british market so they played around with their pickups and preamps. Wal basses are only good for achieving this one tone and because of that, its very hard to get a duplicate sound out of other basses. Certain models of Rickenbachers with mudbuckers can get close but I don't have one of those.

Hurt - Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's original

It's a good tune for beginners to learn on due to have very little chord changes. Everyone feels strongly about the section of the chorus that says "And you can have it all.... my empire of dirt".

The chord played during this as well as Cashes vocals are the same as the beginning of the chorus 4 measures earlier, but for some reason it has an intense emotional effect to it. I think they might have put in some kind of audio stenography here because the NIN fails to bring out the same feel for the same section.

If it's just in general, I would go for the new ISP BETA pedal. It has distortion, compression, and the $250 G-Strin II noise gate circuite built in. If you know how to change up your eq, I'd say this is the best buy for covering a lot of bases. I have the Theta and will soon be trading it in to go for the Beta.

I thought the "THIS" was supposed to link to an example somewhere. What sound were you talking about?

you forgot the link bud

I've been learning a wrestler's theme for a cover and I've been digging the lyrics to it. It's basically talking about how horrible television, including wrestling, it garbage and only encouraging violence and deceit. it's call "I walk Alone - Saliva"

Let's say you have 5 spots open and you can have whoever you want in the band. If you choose a person who can fill 2 rolls at the same time while playing live, then you can have an extra roll open.

What living people would you pick and why?

My Pick______________________________________________________________________

1. Drums - Danny Carey of TOOL

I don't know if he could play things like Death Metal the way others do, but he's such a busy drummer and makes tons of fills. This and his ability to create and keep tempo on really difficult time signatures makes him my drum winner. I think he would find a way to make any genre's drums interesting.

1. Vocals - Randy Blythe of Lamb of God

He's my favorite lyricist and he has one of the best vocals in metal. He can Growl, Screech, and do melodies all the while being 100% understandable. So many other vocalists growl in a way that you'd never be able to understand what they are saying. He enunciates every word perfectly.

1. Bass - Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse

My absolute favorite bass tone and a very good player. There are bassists who can play faster or more technical and more of a variety of styles, but I don't think there would be many times where he just COULDN'T play the parts. His work on Frantic Disembowelment is enough for me to feel comfortable in his abilities.

1. Guitars - Chris Broderick formerly of Megadeth

Smoothest, fast hands on guitar. Plays every bit as fast as Petrucci, Malmstein, and Bato but has a soft sounding technique that almost eradicates transition noises. He has one of the fastest and cleanest sweeps I've ever heard. He is also classically trained and is well versed in multiple genres including classical, flamenco, and jazz.

1. Keyboards/Synth/Moog pedals/Backup vocals - Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater

The man who will tie it all together. Singing backup for Blythe, soloing along with Broderick, bass battling Webster, and playing intricate, unusual time signatures that harmonize with Carey. He's always been my number 2 favorite keyboardist until recently. My number 1 was Janne Wirman but, he is a one trick pony. Rudess shows he can play the simple, the complex, and use every tone, channel, and technique you can need from classical to progressive metal. This spot was really hard to pick because you can shift the direction of the band greatly with just this last spot. Rudess gives you more options and fills multiple roles.

Alright. Let's hear ya'lls.

I believe you are right. Zooming into the logo on the top, it looks more like Oxygen than Korg.

I wasn't able to get an exact match, but looking through sweetwater, musiciansfriend, etc I found a brand that seems to build the board the same way with the keys going all the way to the left and 2 large rollers in the top left corner. Maybe Pharrell is using an older model or just a more expensive version of a Korg.

Korg Triton

The "Bernie" OST I love up-tempo hymns and Jack Black really breathes some new life into my old favorites.

Toxicity - System of a Down I was planning on covering the whole album on my YouTube channel but I'm in a very busy summer class for forensics and looking for a job. Everything else is taking a back burner for a few weeks.

Ashes of the Wake - Lamb of God This might be my favorite album on the planet. There aren't a whole lot of albums that I can say I like every song, but this is one. Always gets me pumped. Randy Blythe is one of like 4 people on the planet who's lyrics I actually care about. He writes so deep and writes to fit the music perfectly. It's weird because I think the quality of music on this album is their best but the production quality isn't there best. As the albums went on their music got worse and worse but it was produced better and better. The last song I learned was "Now You've Got Something To Die For". As a former conspiracy theorist, the song One Gun is my favorite on the album.

I listened to a few different parts and it did sound major to me. I found this on a forum about his music, I think a particular song.

"Abmaj7 - Cm7 - Fm11 Abmaj7 = Ab C Eb G Cm7 = C Eb G Bb Fm11 = F C Eb G Ab Bb The chords are often revoiced and may be inverted in other parts of the song to create tension, such as the harp arpeggios in the first chorus. The hook melody contains the notes Eb, F, G, Bb, and C. I won't tell you which order, I'd rather find out that you used your ears and got the hang of it."

That M83 song is in minor scale. TABS HERE not sure if accurate

The song "Goodbye To A World" is in minor though. Anything that sounds sad, melancholy, creepy, etc is usually a minor scale but you can trick the ear sometimes with what progression you use it with.

I do not have experience with that pedal.

Can you list a song or band that has the tone your trying to reach?

Oh, I was just naming the one's I covered.

Do you have a song in particular that has the scale you like? Maybe I can put a name to it.

I actually cover a lot of older video game music. Simon's Quest, Zelda, Doom, Pokemon, etc. Most of these are all in Minor scales though. Only major scale in a video game song that comes to mind that had an uplifting proud kind of vibe for me was this one. Especially right at 1:36

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYidb1LvMs8

Nevermind lol. I just realized it's a minor scale as well.

I don't know if all concerns go here, but I noticed that when we get a reply, even if its from a Mod in regards to a submission, the notifications doesn't show an alert. I think any communication a moderator or above sends you just be flagged as an alert.

It's perfectly normal. The emotion of a song is made up of the scale, the progression, and the harmonies involved. An instrument may be playing 4 notes of a major scale and it seems happy, but the bass may play a note or 2, utilizing the same notes the first instrument used, but adding a minor note, changing the entire feel of the music.

I think its a little odd that major D does it for you though. Normally the music that brings a tear to my eye or causes goose bumps to run up my arms is nearly always minor scales.

This kind of goes back to our discussion on words VS music and the importance of them on us. The words can be swapped out with rubbish and the music still makes an emotional impact. Take Weird Al Yankovich for example. He can take the exact words of a song that was originally depressing and by singing them in a major scale with a faster tempo the words lose all influence and the music takes over, making you feel happy, up beat, etc.

Howdy from Texas low

I've noticed that there's a lot of material with reviews and such that have nothing or little to do with pedal boards and rack gear. Rifles, Cell Phones, sun glasses, tennis rackets, etc.

Is this encouraged?

What credentials do you need to be on as a mod? If you don't need past experience, I'd like to throw my name in the hat to help get the site caught up. It's looking like were about a week behind.

the Page for Reginald Arvizu needs to have the stage name "Fieldy" incorporated into his name somewhere. A lot of fans are not going to know his real name.

Paul Gray (#2) needs to have the following bands added to his page. Slipknot - Roadrunner United -Reggie and the Full Effect

Rex Brown needs to have these bands added to his page. Kill Devil Hill - Crowbar - Rebel Meets Rebel

I love your knives and cocoa.

Can't help with guitar, but I can offer some advice for Bass and maybe that translates?

Any quality EQ will be a must. Most country bass players use high bass with low mids and treble. The Sansamp VT is sought after.

A compression of some sort would be very helpful but technique trumps it if cash is tight.The main purpose of a compressor is the even the volume of all your notes. 3 of your strings usually play louder than others and there are sometimes those dead notes on bad necks. The compressor helps. Technique can do what the compressor does and more though.

A nice touch would be to buy a steel finger slide. Always get's a crowd excited to hear that steel guitar slur/twang.

Country music isn't well known for guitar solos so most of their audience isn't listening to closely to it. Vocals, Steel Guitar, fiddles, and rhythm acoustic is what they are accustomed to listen for.