Originally posted by Axl_Rose
Yea but the first post asked how to sound good at high distortion and played cleanly. You need to equipment to sound good in the first place, and then compressors n noise gates can further the sound quality. Fair enough its hard to sound amazing on crap equipment but with good equipment you dont have to be that good.

No, you do have to be that good. If you cant sweep on a $100 guitar, you wont be able to sweep on a $3000 guitar, and vice versa.

Those guitar players are good because they have great technique. If you're a bad player and you have good equipment, you'll still be a bad player. I know a buddy who has a Les Paul standard, a marshall stack, and well, he sounds like a$$ through them both. Why? Because his technique is not good.