Overdrive/Distortion pedals suck!

[VitaminG]

If you want to replicate my tone, I've compiled some advice (seasoned by years on the road)

I haven't even heard your tone, but I'm thinking I DO want to replicate it.

- If you have separate 18 volt supplies for both the EMG 81 and Afterburner, CHANGE ALL FOUR BATTERIES AFTER EVERY GIG! Tongues are for licking pussies, not testing batteries.

excellent advice!

Here's my trusty ESP LTD that I use to push my Crate amp. This was a guitar and amp pack that I bought at Walmart and got a smoking deal on. This came pretty much ready to ROCK. All I had to do was route it for a middle pickup, install the EMG's (EMG 81/EMG 81/EMG 81), and totally rewire the guitar. With the dual FX86B's it's a pretty hot signal, but it is all very useable gain. I may change it to mini-switches so that I can have all three EMG 81's on at the same time.

Oh, I also darkened the fretboard with some shoe polish. You can't even see me when the stage lights go down!!

How LTD haven't offered you a sig model yet is beyond me

[BenoA]

Someone took their awesome pills today.

[Axewielder]

How LTD haven't offered you a sig model yet is beyond me

Yeah that deal won't happen because of their clueless marketing jagoffs with their heads up their asses. They would probably get hung up on the fact that I don't quote unquote "sell any records" nor do I have any quote unquote "name recognition" blah blah. Never mind the fact that I have designed the baddest Viper ever. Heads up asses!

I can tell you one thing, any ESP LTD Axewielder signature model is going to have the EMG 81/EMG 81/EMG 81 config and not those weak stock pickups. Our other guitarist plays an ESP LTD with stock pickups. I can't really hear what he is playing, but I can guarantee it sounds like shit. The previous guitarist we had in the band had less shitty tone, but he could only afford one FX86B pedal and I had to fire him.

[Cygnus X1]

Oh...chit...I needed a laugh.
Thanks Axewielder!

That gear list cracks me up.

[rattlehead74]

What settings? I use a TS9 with Level on 10 and Drive on 0 and I'm fairly sure it makes all my amps sound better for high gain.

Same settings, level 10, gain 0, and tone 0. Funny thing is I'll even use it with my small roland cube practice amp on the lower gain channel. I dont like the chainsaw metal channel.

[roodyrocker]

Yeah that deal won't happen because of their clueless marketing jagoffs with their heads up their asses. They would probably get hung up on the fact that I don't quote unquote "sell any records" nor do I have any quote unquote "name recognition" blah blah. Never mind the fact that I have designed the baddest Viper ever. Heads up asses!

I can tell you one thing, any ESP LTD Axewielder signature model is going to have the EMG 81/EMG 81/EMG 81 config and not those weak stock pickups. Our other guitarist plays an ESP LTD with stock pickups. I can't really hear what he is playing, but I can guarantee it sounds like shit. The previous guitarist we had in the band had less shitty tone, but he could only afford one FX86B pedal and I had to fire him.

What are you talking about, no name recognition? We are too familiar with the mighty Axewielder here at JCF! If only you added a Cockdragon to it, you'd get a sig model from ESP/LTD for sure

[Trem]

I never did like the sound of pedals in front of amps, more so playing on them, but when other people use it i may not notice. It's always different when it's you playing on it, but it just adds a layer of shit to an otherwise good sounding amp. A clean or volume boost is the only thing that works for me.

[PowerTube]

Meh. You guys just dontt know how to get a good pedal setup.

Here's my rig:

[Hellbat]

If only that LTD was made out of 9V batteries. Then you could run the EMG 675 Volt mod to really bring TEH BROOTALS!!!

[Axewielder]

Meh. You guys just dontt know how to get a good pedal setup.

Here's my rig:

[rattlehead74]

You forgot to sweep the mids on all those pedals!

[Axewielder]

So what happened to Billz? I'm afraid he's going to spank us for making a mockery of his thread!

[Vass]

So what happened to Billz? I'm afraid he's going to spank us for making a mockery of his thread!

He is spanking alright.

[Chief_CrazyTalk]

+1 on the Metal Zone...

[horns666]

Meh. You guys just dontt know how to get a good pedal setup.

Here's my rig:

Sorry guys for my absence..I was sliding further down voids of sanity forever lost. But, I'm striving for ANY type of stroke or cancer...and shit like that. Yes, my life is the lyrics to any random bay area thrash band...and fuggums.

Exactly..this^^ was the ONLY stomp combination to seem to work. The first one is mid sucked, the 2nd mids maxed, 3rd mids sucked back out, 4th mids maxed, 5th one ..everything 12:00..the last one is the clean boost..for fluid, smooth solos that just oozed Carlos Satanas stuff.

I ran mine in the FX loop, with no noise gate..just learn to control, and squeeze a bunny peep under the strings by the nut. Learning to control feedback and unwanted noise is as important as playing itself. I listen to lots of bootleg Hendrix and many indie "stoner" bands who mastered this bullshit.

Actually I did get a decent sound from the DS-1 today. The tone control has a G spot somewhere between 12:30 and 12:31 O' clock. I've spent more time finding this G spot than 25 years with my wife's elusive marsupial haven. Just to discover my Bogner/Marshalls/Peavey sounds best when I turned it off...