Imagine giving this guy a jet black solar 8 string and 300 metal zones and watching him play a stevie ray vaughan lick and complain that its not bright and chimy
He's using plenty. Most metal tones arent as distorted as you'd expect. Lower gain will sit better in a mix and bass will really beef everything up. Whenever I record metal bands, I pretty much always have the gain around where he's sitting. Maybe a tiny bit more but not much.
Having a shit ton of distortion never sounds good because you lose all the expression and muddies the sound. Alittle over half way is plenty and believe it or not the master volume effects your sound the most when it comes to distorted tones
@@rybo0072the thing is he doesnt have a “shit tonne” of distortion. He barely has any ever. Theyre not saying he needs a bunch of it just some at least, he has like the weird sounding clean metal in this.
I doubt he would survive Blood Mountain as well. Songs like Circle of Cysquatch are way too heavy (or "noisy") for this guy forever stuck in the '60's-'70's (big exception for RHCP, which he probably calls the GOAT)
@djay6651 this is going to sound dumb af but I'm new to playing guitar but how to I get my fender strat to sound more metal I guess for lack of a better word ? I've got a cheap amp with overdrive but it still doesn't sound like legit metal. Sorry I know that sounds dumb
@tristansteiner7076 It all depends on your effects chain, and your amp will affect the tone as well. My personal effects chain currently is Rocktron Compressor >TC Electronic Rush Boost > Dolamo D-8 OD > Danelectro Fab Metal > Danelectro Fab Chorus > Joyo Vintage Phase > Azor Analog Delay > Peavey Bandit Red Stripe 112. That's the only chain I have set set up, but I have at least two more I can put together. My current one, depending on what pedals I have on, can do blues, 80's clean/glam metal, punk/alt rock and straight heavy metal. Fortunately, my Bandit is a dual channel amp, so I can switch between a clean and dirty channel. If I want a LOT of hairy distortion, I'll run into the dirty channel, with one of my drive pedals stacking into the dirty channel's gain.
Uhm...people who play blues or classic rock. I know its very hard for you to grasp but some of us prefer the feel of the guitar rather than mindless shredding.
We would go that route. I was a Gibson teenager and never looked any further than SGs and Pauls. Now as an adult, I switched to Fender just like my dad (he was a blues musician) and I cannot be more confident with the way I can improve my skills now than when I was only into distortion and humbuckers.
I’m not 100% sure what they played in the 80s but i know now they play strats with the pickups swapped out for single coil size humbuckers like the seymour duncan hot rails for example
Tony iommi used single coil p90’s for the first album plus a strat on one song. Jimmy page used tele’s as well. Metal can be used with an acoustic if you have the drive haha
What Malmsteens Strat has humbuckers? First lve heard... scalloped fretboard... You can buy a Malmsteen replica, 3 hot single coils. It's a Strat thru a Marshall.
@@mudfightmaster4275 i have a squier 70s strat and if you crank it through a plexi or jcm 800 its a screamer also a classic vibe 50's i usually use them for solos in studio because they are snappier and cut through the mix better usually.
Jimi Hendrix is the perfect example of anything can be metal. It may have been psychedelic but his performance of wild thing at Monterey just feels heavy.
Gotta use more distortion. Single coils can be great for metal because they have something of a glassy sound to them. Just gotta crank up the distortion
Yeah, pickups really don’t matter as much as people think. People like Blackmore and Malmsteen are remembered as greats of the genre, but they exclusively used single coil strats.
I mainly just got a humbucker guitar because I can’t really afford to get the good equipment right now so my gear consists of a mini orange amp, a karaoke machine, and a sawtooth amp, and to achieve heaviness I use a Yamaha HSS fed into the mini connected into the karaoke machine as the mini has a 8 ohm output jack. Using my single coil guitar still sounds heavy but the humbucker pushes it.
I mean, there's Loathe, that play on P'90s, and yet have absolutely jaw-breakingly heavy songs(apart from couple more atmospheric ones, such as Two Way Mirror)
I feel like it kinda matters what you're using it for since, for me, humbuckers sound a lot better in the mix for distorted rythm parts, and single coils sound a little more articulate so good for lead parts but you could pull it off however technically. I just feel like it's easier to get a decent metal tone on humbuckers vs traditional single coils
I think single coils can work, especially if you use them as a stylistic choice, but I think that a lot of people, myself included, prefer the sound of humbuckers
I think if you’re playing a melodic lead solo over a metal song, there’s nothing wrong with single coils and they might actually cut through great in a mix where rhythm guitar and bass are going to have so much low end. You just CANNOT do the low end rhythm stuff with single coils or it sounds like ass. EMGs are good too
@@Augrills I’d argue the opposite, the mids of a humbucker cut through a mix much better most of the time, you actually want as full a sound as you can get.
@@TheLeadG That’s not really the opposite, friend. I think everyone can agree for rhythm playing in heavy metal, you need humbuckers. And for lead playing, most will prefer humbuckers but single coils can work. A tele single coil might work for rhythm cause it’s pretty beefy, but that’s more the exception than the rule
You need a lot of drive going into an amp with the gain dialed back a ways. Keeps the distortion tight while still sounding heavy. Also, listen to Loathe, a lot of their sound comes from the squier jazzmaster baritone and that clanky sound from both the pickups and the fact that they tune an octave down (and lower sometimes)
It was good and i also have a strat and love to play metal. Both riffs sounded good but the first one was in the wrong strat position. I think it was 2 or 4. For metal i would recommend 1 and sometimes 3. The others give a more funky feel that does not match.
@@MasterMojo85so true. Die hard strat fans tend to forget that any guitar can do anything. There simply are better and worse choices for different genres.
Dave Murray of Iron Maiden has used a Strat for decades; mostly with SSS configuration, but a few with HSS. In fact, he used Paul Kossoff's '57 Strat from Maiden's beginnings until the early 90's.
Strats sound awesome when you actually use an overdrive pedal that doesn’t sound crunchy lol and if you are worried about humming all you gotta do is use a noise gate
bro, put one humbucker on your strat with the two single coils so you can still have the chime of the single coil but you can switch to the humbucking sound when you need to. that’s what i did.
He doesn’t even really need to, single coil metal usually sounds awesome when done right, he literally just needs a little bit of extra gain. Not like a Rat or anything like that, a boost pedal could get him there.
“Metal music doesnt sound good with Single coil pickups” My guy Metal was INVENTED on single coil pickups (tony iommi’s p90’s, jimmy page’s tele, ritchie blackmore’s strat)
I am metal head, but I love strats. They do not work in most of metal riffs, but I loved the tone I archived when playing "Crazy Train" with strat and "Fender super Sonic" amp.
you want a heavily boosted sound with a scooped or heavily mid focused EQ. that sort of equalisation helps give the tone a snappier and more aggressive sound, which is ideal for most metal settings.
fun random ass fact my grandpas best friend was really good friends with pantera and his song used to go and hang out at their practices when he was my age
Nice work pulling out a deep CKY cut - I love that track! Sadly, though, you didn't get the job with the metal sound 😂... you need way more distortion, and you'll need to look to your amp for that.
People use noiseless single coils or split coils in metal all time now either for cleans or for the distorted spanky tone that you get for certain applications and it also depends on the pickups themselves if you get a seymour duncan quarter pounder single coil it will sound beefier than a regular single coil
if you do this again add a preamp pedal to help to beef out the single coil and max out the gain, another way is to blend the middle and bridge pickups
CKY interesting and Nice choice in metal! Fucking love cky and that riff sent me back so fucking far idk how to describe the feelings then when I first heard it
It doesn't require loads of mods or even setting the guitar up any different from how you'd normally have it set. An EQ pedal set with a wide mid-hump and possibly a compressor and you're good to go. Short of that for years my high gain lead tone for Strats was an early triangle era type Big Muff stacked with a tube screamer into it with the gain down and the volume set just a hair over unity. If I told anyone that it was a Gibson or PRS with humbuckers running into a high gain amp, there'd be no reason to doubt it. And that was with early 60s single coil in the bridge, which are as bright and thin as any pickup, but in that context it sounds huge.
Given your style, math metal like Animals as Leaders might be an interesting thing for you to try if you can get your hands on a bigger guitar. It would be interesting to hear you give Song of Solomon a crack!
a HSS strat is actually amazing for metal, but tbh, i kinda like that single coil "twang" with distortion sometimes, especially with punk stuff, i use a SSS strat for punk gigs personally
I feel just the concept of a 7 string would atomize this guy
Imagine giving this guy a jet black solar 8 string and 300 metal zones and watching him play a stevie ray vaughan lick and complain that its not bright and chimy
@@drewseverson1816lmfao mz's are kinda shit tho
@@drewseverson1816lol
9 string 💀
@@KidnapTit’s like when a brit eats a hot cheeto for the first time
“stacked up on distortion” uses a slight overdrive
maan i agree but you gotta ease into these things, he's still new to metal give him a break
he’s terrified of overdrive
@@festiveFurry not really. Its not like its a mental battle to turn up distortion and play some chuggs. Bro just doesnt want to.
Baby steps...
That was definitely enough distortion.
“Stacked up distortion”
Uses the high end distortion equivalent of the crunch setting on a boss katana or line six spider
On 3
@@sashabagdasarow497 putting at 4 would just be TOO INSANE guys! Everyone knows that ! 😅
Idk but my line six crunch is really good
@@Questtangy Nobody said it's bad. It's just not hi-gain metal
He also used Boss pedal, so you're not that far off
Bro's humbucker metal tone is my single coil metal tone
"Stacked up on distortion"
*Adds boost at 9 o'clock*
yeah this guy has no clue what hes talking about
@@spaghettisauce445he really doesnt
Yo I understand this all too well
I feel like I'm going crazy and realized somehow my dial on my ts9 moved a while 60 degrees xD
You also don’t ever use enough distortion
maan i agree but you gotta ease into these things, he's still new to metal give him a break
@@festiveFurrynah like he NEVER has enough distortion lol not just this
He's using plenty. Most metal tones arent as distorted as you'd expect. Lower gain will sit better in a mix and bass will really beef everything up. Whenever I record metal bands, I pretty much always have the gain around where he's sitting. Maybe a tiny bit more but not much.
Having a shit ton of distortion never sounds good because you lose all the expression and muddies the sound. Alittle over half way is plenty and believe it or not the master volume effects your sound the most when it comes to distorted tones
@@rybo0072the thing is he doesnt have a “shit tonne” of distortion. He barely has any ever. Theyre not saying he needs a bunch of it just some at least, he has like the weird sounding clean metal in this.
The tone from any mastodon song pre blood mountain would kill this dude
mmm... "March of the Fire Ants". Crushing. It'd straighten his REO Speedwagon hair right out.
I doubt he would survive Blood Mountain as well. Songs like Circle of Cysquatch are way too heavy (or "noisy") for this guy forever stuck in the '60's-'70's (big exception for RHCP, which he probably calls the GOAT)
March of the fire ants
The tone of early obituary too
White whale holy grail
bro when he realizes u can go over 5 on the distortion knob
“Stacked up on distortion” using the hard rock tone on garage band
Accurate
nah I put my acoustic through that and it literally sounded like some shoegaze shit like it was all noise even with the gate lmao
The hard rock tone sounds way heavier than this
Really gotta learn palm muting. It’s essential in most metal songs
True story. It's crucial for metal
Exactly. How am i supposed to play breakdowns without palm mutes haha!!
Problem is how he holds the pick and plays would all need to change to compensate. He needs to basically re Learn his form essentially.
Cant do that on a vintage fender trem. The saddle screws will chew you up
@@daniellowry660 I have a 2012 Strat, and it feels fine for me. Although, it was uncomfortable at first
Newsflash: you can play any music on any guitar, it's all about what gear you put your guitar through.
Even then, it’s like 90% of the tone in just cabinet, more specifically, the speaker.
Exactly. It's all about the effects chain. I play metal all the time on my Squier Mini Strat.
@djay6651 this is going to sound dumb af but I'm new to playing guitar but how to I get my fender strat to sound more metal I guess for lack of a better word ? I've got a cheap amp with overdrive but it still doesn't sound like legit metal. Sorry I know that sounds dumb
@tristansteiner7076 It all depends on your effects chain, and your amp will affect the tone as well. My personal effects chain currently is Rocktron Compressor >TC Electronic Rush Boost > Dolamo D-8 OD > Danelectro Fab Metal > Danelectro Fab Chorus > Joyo Vintage Phase > Azor Analog Delay > Peavey Bandit Red Stripe 112.
That's the only chain I have set set up, but I have at least two more I can put together. My current one, depending on what pedals I have on, can do blues, 80's clean/glam metal, punk/alt rock and straight heavy metal.
Fortunately, my Bandit is a dual channel amp, so I can switch between a clean and dirty channel. If I want a LOT of hairy distortion, I'll run into the dirty channel, with one of my drive pedals stacking into the dirty channel's gain.
@djay6651 awesome man thank you helping out, I gotta get some more stuff and upgrade my amp for sure as well
Walk made me shit myself laughing 😂
Single coils most definitely work with metal, they just require a bit more distortion.
Soooo something he doesn’t use?
@@OuchMyHoovesyeah
@@OuchMyHoovesyeh
@@OuchMyHoovesyep
Nah
i've never had to say this before but that tone needs more gain
I showed this guy Dying Fetus and he instantaneously imploded
you should try turning on the distortion pedal, it usually works better that way
💀 yea and plug the guitar through it as well.
i would hardly call 96 bitter beings a metal song
I know right? The closest thing is probably punk
Hard rock maybe? I think the singer kind of growls at times and the lyrics have a dark nature, but def more hard rock than metal
I agree
Nobody would
@@commie22it’s skate punk it’s not metal at all
More gain bro, “stacked up on distortion”
Who in their right minds vows to not play metal 😂
Good point
Me before I started playing RATM
Ppl who dont like metal
Uhm...people who play blues or classic rock. I know its very hard for you to grasp but some of us prefer the feel of the guitar rather than mindless shredding.
@@aniketsengupta2332”mindless shredding” you don’t know shit
Bro just called 96 bitter beings metal
cky is most def metal imo
not enough distortion
They both sound good but the humbuckers sounded better on the first riff but the second riff the single coils sounded better
probably because the second riff is kinda bluesy? As far as metal goes at least
I thought 96 actually sounded closer to the original when he used the humbuckers though.
Billy Corgan always used big muffs for his massive strat sound. i'd go that route
We would go that route. I was a Gibson teenager and never looked any further than SGs and Pauls. Now as an adult, I switched to Fender just like my dad (he was a blues musician) and I cannot be more confident with the way I can improve my skills now than when I was only into distortion and humbuckers.
So many metal bands from the 80s played metal on strat-types that have single coils. First band that comes to mind is iron maiden.
I’m not 100% sure what they played in the 80s but i know now they play strats with the pickups swapped out for single coil size humbuckers like the seymour duncan hot rails for example
@@mixar4457Standard strats are what they started with (the first atudio album uses a Les Paul, but Stratton left)
nobody cares
Tony iommi used single coil p90’s for the first album plus a strat on one song. Jimmy page used tele’s as well.
Metal can be used with an acoustic if you have the drive haha
This dude makes Iron Maiden sound like Morbid Angel
Yngwie Malmsteen is a metal god that use a Strat.
But He was the lead guitarist I believe
yeah a heavily modified strat, his pickup is single coil thats winded like a humbucker, so no, itsnot a strat at all😊
What Malmsteens Strat has humbuckers?
First lve heard... scalloped fretboard... You can buy a Malmsteen replica, 3 hot single coils.
It's a Strat thru a Marshall.
@@mudfightmaster4275 i have a squier 70s strat and if you crank it through a plexi or jcm 800 its a screamer also a classic vibe 50's i usually use them for solos in studio because they are snappier and cut through the mix better usually.
Scalp the freatboard too
“Metal music doesn’t sound good on single coiled guitars” Loathe and LANDMVRKS would like you have a word with you
Tony Iommi famously played an SG with p90’s and practically created the blueprint for heavy music. Single coils are great!
What is cool is that Daron Malakian recorded the self titled soad album with a strat I believe
He did!
They def work, they're just a bit thin sounding
Try Iron Maiden
@@jaredpalmer7953Steve Harris is what makes them sound so loud, not the guitars themselves.
@@RichardDeBerryOfficial As an Iron Maiden fan, and a Steve Harris style bassist, I can confirm he's the mainframe for everyone in the band
Jimi Hendrix is the perfect example of anything can be metal. It may have been psychedelic but his performance of wild thing at Monterey just feels heavy.
Ohh he certainly had heavy songs, no doubt.
Not only there is not enough distortion, but also not enough sustain.
Gotta use more distortion. Single coils can be great for metal because they have something of a glassy sound to them. Just gotta crank up the distortion
Yeah, pickups really don’t matter as much as people think. People like Blackmore and Malmsteen are remembered as greats of the genre, but they exclusively used single coil strats.
I mainly just got a humbucker guitar because I can’t really afford to get the good equipment right now so my gear consists of a mini orange amp, a karaoke machine, and a sawtooth amp, and to achieve heaviness I use a Yamaha HSS fed into the mini connected into the karaoke machine as the mini has a 8 ohm output jack.
Using my single coil guitar still sounds heavy but the humbucker pushes it.
I mean, there's Loathe, that play on P'90s, and yet have absolutely jaw-breakingly heavy songs(apart from couple more atmospheric ones, such as Two Way Mirror)
Try using some high gain hums like damarzio gravity storm pickups
Or Seymour Duncan Nazgûl’s
That cky song quite bitter beings brings back so much memories.😢 i feel old now
“Belly of the beast” chooses Pantera Blues shuffle
You LOVE that CKY riff. Lol
At least I'm not the only person thinking that!!
I feel like it kinda matters what you're using it for since, for me, humbuckers sound a lot better in the mix for distorted rythm parts, and single coils sound a little more articulate so good for lead parts but you could pull it off however technically. I just feel like it's easier to get a decent metal tone on humbuckers vs traditional single coils
Thank you so much for putting Pantera in your video you make the best videos
The hum must be unreal
I think single coils can work, especially if you use them as a stylistic choice, but I think that a lot of people, myself included, prefer the sound of humbuckers
I think if you’re playing a melodic lead solo over a metal song, there’s nothing wrong with single coils and they might actually cut through great in a mix where rhythm guitar and bass are going to have so much low end. You just CANNOT do the low end rhythm stuff with single coils or it sounds like ass. EMGs are good too
@@Augrills I’d argue the opposite, the mids of a humbucker cut through a mix much better most of the time, you actually want as full a sound as you can get.
@@TheLeadG That’s not really the opposite, friend. I think everyone can agree for rhythm playing in heavy metal, you need humbuckers. And for lead playing, most will prefer humbuckers but single coils can work. A tele single coil might work for rhythm cause it’s pretty beefy, but that’s more the exception than the rule
@@Augrills my point is, can it work? Kinda. Does it work well? Not really. I’m saying it’s not optimal, it won’t cut as well or sound as good.
@@TheLeadG depends on the guitar, the day, all kinds of stuff, but I’d agree it’s usually not the best choice
You need a lot of drive going into an amp with the gain dialed back a ways. Keeps the distortion tight while still sounding heavy. Also, listen to Loathe, a lot of their sound comes from the squier jazzmaster baritone and that clanky sound from both the pickups and the fact that they tune an octave down (and lower sometimes)
It was good and i also have a strat and love to play metal. Both riffs sounded good but the first one was in the wrong strat position. I think it was 2 or 4. For metal i would recommend 1 and sometimes 3. The others give a more funky feel that does not match.
Ive been playing heavy metal on a strat copy with only a distortion pedal and its been serving me very well
What is the second song? It sounds so familiar
96 Quite Bitter Beings. I think it was in a Tony Hawk game
To all the metal heads, stratocasters can do anything!
you're absolutely right
as a metalhead
you’re absolutely right tbh
Especially buzzing with too much gain. :D
@@MasterMojo85so true. Die hard strat fans tend to forget that any guitar can do anything. There simply are better and worse choices for different genres.
idk man i dont think it can handle my 8 strings
I have a humbucker as the bridge pickup in my strat which can be fun at times, but I do prefer the single coil sound though.👍🏼
"Stacked up on distortion" basically one step up from edge of breakup bro lmao
single coil metal sounds so unhinged and awesome
Bro just called 96 quite bitter beings a “metal song”
because 96 quite bitter beings is a metal song
@@SubContraBass_no
@@slammetalgirl well then what the fuck is it
it is most def metal
@@slammetalgirl it is metal
Dave Murray of Iron Maiden has used a Strat for decades; mostly with SSS configuration, but a few with HSS. In fact, he used Paul Kossoff's '57 Strat from Maiden's beginnings until the early 90's.
now I'm completely convinced that the tone being thin as paper problem is caused by the strat itself rather than the pickups
This dudes guitar face “😏” I jus can’t
I think I might have to buy a Electric guitar to play Steve Vai solos and not use the $20 ukulele i found in 7/11
Just buy an ibanez
nice joke🤣🤣
I finally understand why people hate Mikey at this point.
This guys channel always brings the phrase “all the gear and no idea” into my mind lol
You can make any music you want with any gear you have, and I will stand by that
Strats sound awesome when you actually use an overdrive pedal that doesn’t sound crunchy lol and if you are worried about humming all you gotta do is use a noise gate
bro, put one humbucker on your strat with the two single coils so you can still have the chime of the single coil but you can switch to the humbucking sound when you need to. that’s what i did.
He doesn’t even really need to, single coil metal usually sounds awesome when done right, he literally just needs a little bit of extra gain. Not like a Rat or anything like that, a boost pedal could get him there.
The humbuckers sound less distortiony tbh.
Quite bitter beings was one of the best songs to play while grinding on foundry
But have you taken it off any sweet jumps Napoleon?
There are exceptions, for example all the classic Mötorhead albums were recorded with singles (RIP “Fast” Eddie Clark)
Well your pickups could also be low output but if you got something like a dime bucker that dimebag used you’d notice it 👍great vids man
“Metal music doesnt sound good with Single coil pickups”
My guy Metal was INVENTED on single coil pickups (tony iommi’s p90’s, jimmy page’s tele, ritchie blackmore’s strat)
Damn glad to see cky getting some love
I don't know why I felt that Walk with single coils sounded like a bit aggressive rock and roll
Thank God. The man is branching out. This is honestly awesome. Won't ever sound as good on a single coil tho. Ever.
I am metal head, but I love strats. They do not work in most of metal riffs, but I loved the tone I archived when playing "Crazy Train" with strat and "Fender super Sonic" amp.
Who ever said Metal doesn’t sound good on single coils, clearly doesn’t like Maiden.
"Stacked up on distortion" Uses a blues box at 9 o-clock
If my homie here listened to Mortician it would probably give him PTSD lol
Your good don’t worry I use single coil Strat for Djent
I have an fender Stratocaster American performer as my first guitar bought for me so I will forever love it
That 96 quite bitter beings sounded great, Mikey
Playing Walk as your first metal song is like taking a 2 shots of crown royal as your first alcoholic drink
If you put a big muff on any guitar it'll sound huge
If you put mid-drive distortion on a strat, not so much
Baritone Telecaster has entered the chat...
Maybe single coil guitar that used for metal music will give shouting solo part
“stacked up on distortion” i wonder what this guy would think of the tone on bleed
That CKY riff is reaching wayyyyy back in the alternative catalogues😂😂
Iron Maiden uses singles strats all the time, and I don't think anyone would deny they're metal.
you want a heavily boosted sound with a scooped or heavily mid focused EQ. that sort of equalisation helps give the tone a snappier and more aggressive sound, which is ideal for most metal settings.
Omg I was so into CKY about 20 years ago!
Excellent, mature way to announce this sort of thing. The community appreciates the transparency and communication-excited to see what comes next!
Fun fact, 96 Quite Bitter Beings in the original recording it wasn’t recorded with a humbucker guitar, it’s a single coil with some distortion and mid
The single coiled has that jazzy tone but the humbuckers has that thick metal tone
Please make a video on jimi embellishments for how to sound like him. You do it so well!
fun random ass fact my grandpas best friend was really good friends with pantera and his song used to go and hang out at their practices when he was my age
The linger strat scale length means that it's also harder to get a good metal bend.
I prefer single coil pickups too, and they sound good for metal to me.
Single coils do work, you just need a tube screamer or transparent overdrive before your distortion, trust me, it really works (I play a Fender Tele)
Nice work pulling out a deep CKY cut - I love that track!
Sadly, though, you didn't get the job with the metal sound 😂... you need way more distortion, and you'll need to look to your amp for that.
People use noiseless single coils or split coils in metal all time now either for cleans or for the distorted spanky tone that you get for certain applications and it also depends on the pickups themselves if you get a seymour duncan quarter pounder single coil it will sound beefier than a regular single coil
if you do this again add a preamp pedal to help to beef out the single coil and max out the gain, another way is
to blend the middle and bridge pickups
While I prefer the humbuckers, the single coils don't sound that bad
It's pretty neat to see him slowly getting into playing metal
Bro turned on the overdrive in his first act Amp
CKY interesting and Nice choice in metal! Fucking love cky and that riff sent me back so fucking far idk how to describe the feelings then when I first heard it
It doesn't require loads of mods or even setting the guitar up any different from how you'd normally have it set. An EQ pedal set with a wide mid-hump and possibly a compressor and you're good to go.
Short of that for years my high gain lead tone for Strats was an early triangle era type Big Muff stacked with a tube screamer into it with the gain down and the volume set just a hair over unity. If I told anyone that it was a Gibson or PRS with humbuckers running into a high gain amp, there'd be no reason to doubt it. And that was with early 60s single coil in the bridge, which are as bright and thin as any pickup, but in that context it sounds huge.
Given your style, math metal like Animals as Leaders might be an interesting thing for you to try if you can get your hands on a bigger guitar. It would be interesting to hear you give Song of Solomon a crack!
a HSS strat is actually amazing for metal, but tbh, i kinda like that single coil "twang" with distortion sometimes, especially with punk stuff, i use a SSS strat for punk gigs personally