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Setting up my pedalboard

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cryoscar
cryoscar|85

Hi there! I want to set up my first pedalboard. It should support the natural sound of my current equipments distortion and make it sound more brutal. (Pls have a look at my board, for that)

pope
pope|8195
In reply to cryoscar:

Hi ! It'll depend on a lot of things, and I can see your gear... Metallica fan ? ;)

I think we'll get a lot further if you cite the kind of sounds you're looking for, especially if you can mention some examples (guitarists or just songs).

You've got a solid all-tube amp, most of us will agree that most of your distortion should come from your amp. But you can indeed boost the distortion and make it sound grittier or smoother with the right overdrive pedal. That'll depend on the examples you give.

Of course, you might want to use pedals for other effects than overdrive and distortion : all kinds of modulation (chorus, phaser, flanger, vibe, ...), wah, delay, reverb, fuzz, vibrato, etc... If you're into Metallica's kind of metal, you might want to highlight phaser, delay and reverb, though some others might be able to help me here : I'm more into early Muse stuff, and Matt Bellamy around Origin of Symmetry and Absolution used a lot of fuzz and phasing, but also pitch shifting, delay, and all kinds of crazy stuff just for the sake of making weird sounds. I'd say that in that regard, bands like Metallica are more "conservative". All effects are fun, and they can all serve a song in different ways. But I think the most natural - and probably the best - way to approach pedals for the first time is to get a few pedals while aiming for some specific tones, and then exploring other weird stuff that inspires you.

cryoscar
cryoscar|85
In reply to pope:

I am a huge metallica fan, also of their sound, but i´m looking for something more deathmetal. I really like the guitar sound of the "torment" album (if you need an example, listen to "skeleton"). the same with the actual wendesday 13 album (especially the sound of the lead guitar on "bloodsick") or the lead guitar intro on "chess with the abyss" from dimmu borgir. other examples are the guitarsound from septic flesh on most of their albums (here i recommend "dogma" from "titan", "sunlight/moonlight" from "communion"), vomitory ("the voyage" from "the voyage", "nervegasclouds" from "raped in their own blood", "the carnage rages on" from "carnage euphoria"). you see, i can do this all day^^ but i think, i allready mentioned my biggest influences. i dont wanna sound exactly like one or all of them, i still want it to be my own, personal sound. i also have other big influences, but they are more in a softer kind of tone going and are ment for some other pedalboard. i think it makes sense to splitt them in genres...

but one after another, not 100 things the same time ;D

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