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1st off, my rig:
esp ec1000 custom (emg 81s)
boss sd1
jcm800 50watt 1x12 combo (4010 one)
Ive played and played around but CANNOT find a good sound. This might sound strange but ive never managed to find a sound im totally sold on (only just got the jcm, used to have a yamaha dg60 which was just as bad).
I can get decent sound for slow chugga chugga grinding stuff, but anything for things like hammerfall where you need fast picked powerchords and single notes in the same riff, i just get muddy crap.
Also solos are a no go, just get endless ghost notes sounding and all kinds of excess noise :/
Itd be great if someone could post some basic starting points for the rig i have, i know most members on here have FAR much more experience\knowledge than i do, and i dont have any guitar playing friends or the cash for a tutor (which i need cos i suck :|) to bug for advice.
It seems to me that playing amped is a skill in itself, unplugged i can play fine, but ampd i sound terrible, so bad i just unplug and get annoyed.
Its even worse when i remember going into my local guitar shop and the guy can nail almost ANY sound out of his ltd m-50 straight into this 50watt solid state peavey thing.
ps my guitar\amp\pedal are all fully working and serviced so it IS the fact im crap at this guitar lark holding me back [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
esp ec1000 custom (emg 81s)
boss sd1
jcm800 50watt 1x12 combo (4010 one)
Ive played and played around but CANNOT find a good sound. This might sound strange but ive never managed to find a sound im totally sold on (only just got the jcm, used to have a yamaha dg60 which was just as bad).
I can get decent sound for slow chugga chugga grinding stuff, but anything for things like hammerfall where you need fast picked powerchords and single notes in the same riff, i just get muddy crap.
Also solos are a no go, just get endless ghost notes sounding and all kinds of excess noise :/
Itd be great if someone could post some basic starting points for the rig i have, i know most members on here have FAR much more experience\knowledge than i do, and i dont have any guitar playing friends or the cash for a tutor (which i need cos i suck :|) to bug for advice.
It seems to me that playing amped is a skill in itself, unplugged i can play fine, but ampd i sound terrible, so bad i just unplug and get annoyed.
Its even worse when i remember going into my local guitar shop and the guy can nail almost ANY sound out of his ltd m-50 straight into this 50watt solid state peavey thing.
ps my guitar\amp\pedal are all fully working and serviced so it IS the fact im crap at this guitar lark holding me back [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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