Let's Talk About Tone!

I'm just rambling on about tone and its subjective nature.
I did not do any post EQ on the guitar sound. This is the direct sound as recorded by the SM57.
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[@matdemaz]

Pickups are a pretty big factor. I hate stock pickups, they sound so damn muddy unless you end up scooping your signal to death 'til it sounds like shit anyway, lol. My B.C. Rich Jr. V I got recently has Rockfield Mafia pickups, and they sound kinda meh. I dunno why they are putting those pickups into their Vs now. Those BDSM pickups sounded better. I'm probably gonna put SDs or EMGs in them. Fishman Fluence sounds great too. My Jackson KVXMG I have sounds perfect. Same with the KVMG I tried out last week. Perfect tone for thrash metal and death metal with heavy strings. I've had luck in the past with a 5150 and Duel/Triple Rec'. Sometimes I like the sound of a Dual more, like, it's more deeper. If I wanna go for more of a Slayer tone, I'll probably fire up Amplitube 4's Marshall packs. I'm not made of money. For pedals, I don't really go crazy. I just use overdrive to push the gain of an amp. Everything else, I'll just do in Reaper, like fine-EQing and adding reverb. I don't go crazy with my cab either. I could get a MESA, but the cheap HB cab I have has a certain sound to it that I love. Besides, sometimes I like to use cab impulses, anyway and just record direct. This is pretty much what I use right now: Tuning: Drop A/Drop C/Drop D Guitars: B.C. Rich Jr. V Standard, Jackson KVXMG & ESP LTD EC-256 Amps: Joyo Bantamp Zombie/Peavy 5150/Dual/Triple Rectifier/Amplitube 4 Pedal: Maxon ST9Pro+ Cab: Harley Benton G112 Vintage/Impulses Mics: Shure SM57/Rode NT1 I made a half-assed tone video here if you want a gander: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ_FqWdrgZmXmKc

[@StusWorld]

Money isn’t everything. Some people seem to forget that and think that just because they expensive gear means they play/sound great. Not true. The Randall cabinet I play out of sounds real good to me and I have that thing for 16 years. It’s been all over with me and I am going to jam it till it if/when it dies.