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Midwest emo and Math Rock Fans, how do some of you have such good tones?

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produrstruly
produrstruly|62

Hello, I've been into midwest emo and math rock for years now, and was just looking for some pointers on how to make my tone better without having to spend a ton of money. I've tried to play around with my amp some, trying to dial in a good tone, but none of it is as great as a lot of people I see. Thank you in advance :)

0marenllamas
0marenllamas|104

use some reverb, a delay with modulation or some sutile chorus pedal. Get an overdrive pedal and use it more like a clean boost, maybe dial some gain to dirty your signal. works better if you play a telecaster with both pickups

narcist
narcist|17214 MODERATOR
In reply to 0marenllamas:

Overdrive as a boost is the way to go. If I remember right, the way that tone's treated for math rock from what I've seen is to get as close as you can possibly get to distortion without actually distorting. That fine line leaves you with something that sounds loud and hard and ready to break up, but you really have to go hard at your guitar to let it distort at that point. I like to quote the opening riff of They Speak With Strange Accents as the sort of tone I'd personally go for, but do experiment

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