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im new
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Joined: 01/22/05
Posts: 12
08/29/2005 1:50 am
I am having a bit of difficulty getting the right kind of tone from my
guitar and setup. I am looking for a heavy distortion sound similar to
Metallica, but being able to switch to clean and it sounding good.
I have an Explorer with 2 EMG 81 active humbuckers fitted, a Boss MT-2
distortion pedal, a Boss CS-3 compression pedal, and use Marshall amps of
varying ampage.
I cannot seem to get a good distortion sound, it it either one extreme or
the other. Can you give some advice as to what I need to do to get it
somewhere near right.
Also when I turn the gain up, the guitar squeals and gives a lot of
feedback, again I cannot seem to resolves this, and I dont know how!
As you can imagine this is quite frustrating, any help would be
appreciated.