Expectation VS Reality: Guitar Distortion
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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Black metal fans probably love the reality of this video
Yes i do
yes
Yes. This does please my inner satin.
Black metal fans can love?
@@adambettinger only this and vlad tepes
Every 12 year old guitarist at their school's talent show.
yup. thats me rn
@@andra_syawwalrock on mf, doesn’t matter if it sounds like shit. practice until you’re happy with the outcome lol
sus
Me except im not 12 years old anymore and I can't even be in a school talent show
@@jeff4r533 go back to bed little timmy
LMAO NOT THE FEEDBACK I hated that tone and feeling
Its not feedback its just hiss right?
@@Hello_there_obi Its hiss from the distortion and gain yeah. feedbacm has more of a squeal. the hiss is the distortion
@@guitarplayer1495 ethier way it can be a pain the arse some of the time
Jesus Christ is Lord. It is all true. Please take your salvation seriously. Read the Bible and do what it says.
@@jamesmayle3787 My ass needs a good eating if you find a minute between your sessions shilling for the church.
Expectation: Your neighbor thinks you’re cool.
Reality: Your neighbor files a noise complaint to the police.
And the police arrest the neighbor
because you complained about his drums
Funny since my neighbors know I play music and they actually like it.
😂😂😂😂
As someone this happened to this is true
LOL. Every distortion pedal should come with at least 1 gate. Some need 2.
What does that mean?
@@Mantorok noise gate to reduce the static noise
@@pussilamous1998 Does more than 1 help?
@@Mantorok I’m assuming more gates the better
@@Mantorok Some use 1 gate before the amp and another in the amps effects loop if the amp is noisy.
So fucking accurate and this is what demotivates me
20$ silent cable and a 30$ noise gate should deal with it, though it’s always a pain in the ass no matter the gear…
@@whitestripe484 I was searching for this kind of info for some time, thx my man i will try those
It's really common for guitarists to think they need more distortion than they actually do. Even the heaviest bands probably use less distortion than the average bedroom rocker. Also run a tube screamer type pedal into a noise gate, then into your amp and turn on the overdrive on the amp. Turn the gain down and the volume up on the pedal and use the gain on the amp to dial in adequate distortion. That's how I do it. I'm running a joyo bantamp zombie (it's supposed to sound kinda like mesa boogie) and a cheap overdrive pedal and I get pretty good results
@@gabrielcapella3645 did it fix the issue?
Same :/
"Laughs in noise gate"
😂
Man not everyone can afford a noise gate
@sparkeentertainment503 I heard behringer makes a really good one with the same circuit and controls as boss for only 30 dollars
@@jerryketamine Never ever buy behringer.
@@Skelterbane69 how so?
DOMINATION!!!
PUSHED INTO LIVING HELL
That’s what it was! It was driving me crazy
@@user-ni7ui7hs8c What tab is your username?
@@user-cj4fu8qq9b OOOOHHHHHH DOMINATION
@@Bela_Vampyre1931WAHAHAAHAHAHAHAYAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
For anyone that wants to know, Ground hum can be reduced if you know electronics! First check your guitars wiring, caps etc. Direct solider your ground leads to your potentiometer's Heat shrink as much bare metal as you can, use good quality pickups (Anything with wind information is a good start) get pickups that tell you how there wound, its a simple way of knowing that they were made for reason. Check your jack!!! Jacks are usually the main problem for ground hum, Contact is everything, Make sure your cable end is getting perfect contact with the inside of your jack, unscrew the jack and plug in the cable, is is touching the right spots? Is there gaps? If there is gaps, close them, no harm in re bending the contact points. And remember, don't use a guitar cable you don't need, if your going to an amp with no gate, or a PC connection make sure to keep your cables the length you need, with any cables that are excessively long you'll end up with hum, if your sitting still close to your amp, you don't need a 35ft cable. Your not on stage. And if you were on stage you would be using the correct equipment re reduce any noise you don't intend to make.
Ngl I love the scary ominous sound of ambient feedback
Same I tend to use a lot of that whenever I make music
Yeah, it's characteristic of metal music to me.
I feel like you could sample that shit and make something to throw into the song with everything else
Yeah
Expectations: Pantera
Reality:PanTerrible
To be fair, I liked some of his later tones and I'm not saying it was bad...But Dime had a very specific tone, and many guitar players including myself think him sticking with solid states by randall or whoever was a mistake...
Obviously not this 12 yr old kid tone problem
Just wanted to get that out there
DOMINATION WAS CLEAR AF BROO NICE TONE
me with a sss strat : first time?
Me with 1meg pots jazzmaster: My pickups can hear my headphone’s output!
Me with a ss tele: i dont use dist so dunno
Look up Kinman pickups, double stacked, no hum!
Me with emg 81 85s... that's not metal enough...
Me with Dimarzios.....what is that mesh of noise????
I like my emgs but that question is for the both of you lol...
Emgs are great, but they are a specific tone and generally not as versatile..
Put it in the 4th position, if you put it in between2 singles it is functionally a humbucker
*"Laughs in black metal"*
as a strat player, this is 300% canon
My sludge metal mind hearing that sweet loud feedback☺️
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
@@maidenfresno YEAAAAAAAAHH
@@GrungeMan8 I bet you know where the screams from
@@maidenfresno I'd make an assumption that this would be eyehategod. It feels like what mike did with every song
@@GrungeMan8 on the song Blank yeah
now imagine that but on an SSS strat and there’s me
You are evil
Lol nice
Reality: trying not to crank everything to max level (impossible challenge)
Active pickup gang: what is feedback? 😎
I got retroactive pickups hardly any feed back if any at all I know mine doesn’t have feedback
for some reason my emgs just don’t distort at all and they have hella feedback
@@connordrysdale5333 is it a grounding problem cause I definitely had that problem until I went back and wired all three ground cables up, and also it could just be the pick up model cause it’s almost impossible for pick ups to go bad what kind of emgs you got?
Whoa active pickups don't do that? I wasted money on a noise gate!
@@jay-pi5gn it could be a grounding problem, but idk how it would’ve happened because i followed the diagram. they’re the zakk wylde emg 81/85’s, it’s odd tho because when i plug into rock smith i get all the distortion i want, just not with my amp and pedals
The harmonic screeches after you stop playing is the most accurate thing
Ahh the boss metal zone MT2 tone. Love it!!
Worth picking up? I have the MXR fullbore metal but these MT2’s are cheap by comparison
@@opgkoyote7989 Yeah you can get some killer tones. watch ola englunds "will it chug mt2 metal zone"
No problems here with my metal zone. Prefer it over many other expensive pedals I've owned. No feedback whatsoever.
@@opgkoyote7989 get the metal muff by electro, its way better and has a boost option
@@BlakeriffinHalstead It needs that boost. It's an absolute mudbath. Pass.
the disassociating while listening to the feedback is the realest thing ever
This hits different when you’ve had a old school amp with an overdrive setting on top of it 😂
that domination tone is so damn clean
“What would rock be without feedback”-David Gilmour
i finally got my big muff to the right level so you can still understand the guitar
I'd pay to see your big muff Jack
Gain: 10
Bass: 10
Reverb: 10
Mids: -10
Basically the go-to black metal setting (in my humble opinion)
This man speaks the truth.
I didn’t know what gate was until today. Now I can use distortion lol
explain me
I don't know shit about effects
Yeah but at least in my experience, gating a distortion too hard seems to remove a bit of the tone of it, so you really have to find the specific sweet spot
Doom chair is a nice touch
Domination by pantera came out clean my favorite song it’s DOMINATION
i feel it so hard, in every damn cover i do.
The breakdown at the end of domination goes hard as hell
This is why noise gates are so important. And why it’s also a good idea to use as few pedals and shit as possible. Remember kids, a clean signal chain is a SIMPLE signal chain.
Also: Please use the effects loop in the back of your amp (if your amp has one). It exists for a reason.
That was my exact reaction to my first use of distortion 😂
playing a tele with distortion be like
oh 100%
I have an strat and use amplitube 5 😭
I figured out how to get rid of it and i actually enjoy playing with distortion now
This takes me back to my first 10watt Marshall amp lol
My first amp was a 10 watt Marshall also lol.
A properly connected Boss NS-1X fixes all of that. It gets inserted into the signal chain at two separate points with one pedal.
When your mom tells you to turn the guitar down but you have distortion on
As a black metal fan, I love this.
“Plays the expectation”
The key is to use as little distortion as possible and let the amp provide that extra kick
My distortion has loud feedback but only when I’m not playing, once I start playing the feedback goes away
It could be that there’s a grounding issue and you basically act as the ground when you touch the strings
This hits home when the only amp you have is a 30-watt Peavy from like '95. At least it works for black and doom metal.
LOVE your Solar Guitar!
Thanks for the highlight there, my dude. Was thinking about black metal again and maybe trying some techniques on my guitar that I have tuned to standard c. (I know that’s not what you used. But oh well.)
Ah yes the good ol Dimebucker/metalzone combo! Love it!
Sounds awesome
How to fix ground hum is something I'll never figure out.
Same
Playing guitar barefooted in my backyard solved that issue
Your power supply (if it’s not isolated) or type of pickups might be the places to look.
@@gloomsdoom649 I just had a setup done on the thing, and the power supplies are all brand new. I discovered it's the DS-1 I got. Any of Boss' DS products seem to have a coherent ground hum to each of them. Probably using cheap ass chips because I just got a mega distortion and that shit sounds tight.
@@isuckatnames2659 Thanks for the tip, I was planning on buying one too
I just got my first foot pedal and finally got a power adapter for it and put in the right connector just to turn it on to an ocean of interference noise. I found out though that turning off the distortion on your amp first will get rid of that.
unfortunately my Marshall and ESP jh-600 guitar are very reality😔
Remember kids: Noise gate pedals are super affordable. Always get one when working with distortion of any kind. (Azor has a decent one on Amazon.)
Aka the metal zone tone
At first I played using a Behinger distortion pedal that was horrible with a guitar without grounding, it was a nightmare. In the first rehearsal there was so much noise that we had to stop playing. I leave a piece of advice, NEVER IN YOUR LIFE use the Behinger OD300!
Relatable lmao , my friends actualy started complaining about my distortion, but I dont actualy know how to fix it properly.
One cause is my Phone microfone, since I use it to record and the other one was Delay and Hall, I love these effects but I cant play with them if I would want to record.
Jamie, I just have to say it's nice to see someone else playing the domination riff with slides. Every time I post a video, everyone tries to say they're open notes because of the monsters of rock concert, not slides. 🤦♂️😂🤷♂️
HM2 gang with the high pitched screech: B-)
Oddly enough, I actually don't get that. Even without a single noise gate, I don't get much background noise, if any at all, unless I have it dimed. Then again, I have an HM-2W, not an original, so that may be part of it.
The good ol' swedish buzzsaw. Love that lil' black n' orange monster.
That's why I prefer overdrive over distortion pedals, though both need dialed in along with the amplifier. Many of the latter were designed to be ran in the effects loop to sound good (I'm looking at you, Boss MT-2).
Getting a good distortion sound from guitar is one of the hardest things I've tried to do in my life, and it never gets any easier.
I'm so confused. I've been able to get good distortion sounds since I was playing on trash equipment. My guess is your gain is too high and the mids are too low, or else the source of your distortion is crap (bad amp, bad distortion pedal).
This is MY PROBLEM! It frusturates the hell out of me.
You had a sad reality….lol
This is so real it hurts. Also your gauges being right next to your beard make it look like they're a window into some other dimension XD
How do I get rid of that what do I need to buy
Noise gate. Less distortion. Sit further away from the amp
I fixed it with some graphite spray and copper foil
Some speed
Depends. I love a lot of the garage/psych bands like The Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Fuzz, CFM, Naked Giants. Those bands utilize feedback quite alot and it sounds badass.
This is the type of playing that made me not like guitar till pretty recently
NS2 with a 5150 2, de marzzio tone zone humbucker. Works for me
Felt this one lol
This feels especially relatable since I tried to learn this exact Pantera song with a shitty ass distortion
Made me genuinely want to stick to bass
Put some soul in it. There’s more to playing an instrument then just doing it
Ok thank you :)
Lmao u stoooopid Jamie
Jamie "The god of guitar" P. teaching a man how to play in a video made for fun.
@@freewayross4736 actually I was quoting the late great Dimebag when I went backstage and partied with them. He brought a guitar that someone won off a radio contest or something like that but this guy tried showing off and was playing one of their songs and that’s close to what he said he actually said you can be the best technically sound guitarist but if you don’t have any soul in it then you’re just playing with it, as he pointed to his private area. So you can take that and put it in your pipe and smoke it because I was only commenting not trying to be a DICK like your trying to make it sound
@@medusa6491 you know Medusa he actually commented back and said thank you 🙏.
So with that being said I guess there’s always a jackass in every comment section. And I’m thinking that it’s you and one other guy who thinks I’m STOOOOOOOPID . And who’s stupid here when you spell it stopped 🤔
If you hear this, do two things.....first make sure your gain or gains aren't too high....every metal guitarist I think goes through that phase, don't need a ton of gain, or bass for a guitar to sound heavy.....if that's not your problem, check cables, pedals, and finally actual connections whether it be guitar, amp, or pedal
Imagine if rock/metal was still appreciated and not plagued by false perceptions! Would be an amazing world 🤘🤘🤘
The moment you know you are way to good is when ur Expectation becomes reality
Aight but that flawless Domination lick tho 👌
That’s when you turn on the noise gate pedal simulator on the Positive Grid’s $100 Spark Go Amp and keep playing with minimum effort 👍👍
As a noisecore fan, I think the reality version is honestly good.
Toca tremolos con esa distorsion y ya tienes un riff noventero de Black Metal
Noise reduction does wonders for distortion along with setting up a mixer or if you lack a mixer toning the amp and any pedals you use to give less static and feedback. However, i still enjoy the local shows where gain and treble are at 10 and you leave with tinnitus, a headache, and multiple bruises.,😅
Came actoss thos video no 2 hours later then buying my first guitar and amp, couldn’t relate more.
What did you buy?
listening to the domination riff without the drums is torture
Dimebag's dad, Jerry, said that Dimebag liked to create music that people would air guitar to with a groove. Out of the many musician deaths, I think that Dimebag's death was the worst. Was he a rarity in Metal and he just kept topping himself and he kept contributing tabs to Guitar World. He was a hell of a guy to the fans and would treat you like family. When I hear someone play Pantera songs on the guitar, I think about what Dime might have gone onto as he got older. Maybe an acoustic guitar set and some singing ? Who knows. He definitely still had ammunition ready for more amazing electric guitar work. He had countless plans for Dean guitars and gear. His unfortunate death caused a huge rift that never could be mended.
Well fuckin said brother. RIP Dime, we lost a fuckin god when they took you from us. Way too fuckin soon man, way too soon. Cheers! (Holding up a Black Tooth Grin, & lighting up a big fat number) To Dimebag!
Trueee how to fix annoying static
Completely love the high amount of distortion to be honest and fair. It has its place.
The reality one actually sounds like a cool opening to a sound though like a fade in before it starts
the last 3 seconds in the video is my favorite sound ! it can be a nice intro for my upcoming song haha
Well, that's good, it sounds great, that's a part of it. You play a tone and it hangs forever!
Live, practicing with a band or recording this isnt really a big issue since when your guitar is super freaking loud then you need less gain to sound great.
At home however at low volumes people will crank that gain to somehow sound at least somewhat metal…
Literally my first experience with plugins
love the black dahlia murder shirt
Most true thing I've seen today.
Second part sounds like an entire different subgenre and imho sounds so much better that the first "expectation" solo. So much funeral black metal vibe \m/
Shakes the cord or twist it a little In order to make the static stop, good times 😂
Agreed. Because that's how guitars ahim seem to sound on recordings. But then you put the in my case a Fender Champion 40 on British Yellow. Oops that is too fuzzy and distorited from ahim what I remember the song sounding like. Things like Billy Idol's White Weading some 90s songs and so on.
Dealing with this today while trying to balance the DS1 against the Plumes OD. 😬 Distortion + Gain... Too much static.
Me: Hey pal, you just blow in from stupidtown?
My highschool friends with Boss MT-2 pedals:
That solar is gorgeous!
From Domination to Burzum 😈
That DBZ Funko collection is sick
Gosh, I really hate the distortion feedback, gives me a hard time trying to play something without it annoying the hell out of me. The frustration is real.
Odin bless you for explaining so much in such a simple video 🤘
and thats how burzum created the most creepy black metal song