How Not To Dial A Metal Sound

Don't fall into the trap of thinking 'All The Gain!' sounds good.
Dial in your metal sound with confidence and make sure your audience can hear you with this tutorial.

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[ScienceofLoud]

Don't fall into the trap of thinking 'All The Gain!' sounds good.
Dial in your metal sound with confidence and make sure your audience can hear you with this tutorial.

#metaltone #allthegain #csguitars

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[TheKingBJ]

2:06 "Yu won't son beg, yu won't son hevi, yu wull just not be herd"
Love your accent

[raaustin]

"As a guitarist, you're always the most important person in the band."
Truer words have never been spoken!

[Techoftomorrow]

LOL Learned that long ago, but hearing a Scot do it was worth the watch I subbed...

[Excaidus-Metal]

What this guy is talking about is frequency placement with the guitar blending into the rest of the instruments so they all can be heard. AND HE IS 100% CORRECT!

[ScienceofLoud]

Having recently witnessed some metal bands where the guitars were completely lost due to super saturated over processed distortion, I decided to address the topic on youtube.

[etherlords]

Even after all these years, whenever I dial the gain knob, his voice keeps ringing in my head "ALL THE GAIN" ... BWAHAHA

[DaRealApollo]

Thank you for helping me. now I'll really be haired at my next gig

[facedspaced]

"As the guitarist you're always the most important person in the band" lol.

[timothyjay]

Ive been saying this since 1987 when I remember watching a local band do a couple Ozzy songs and the Guitarist was using a top shelf Marshall 2203 head and 1960. The problem began as soon as they started playing. The singer starts saying between songs I can't even hear the guitar. Well thats because the guitarist was running a Boss distortion pedal into the 2203 Clean with all the midrange and presence turned off!! I listened to 3 songs and couldn't take it any more. When they stop to start the 4 th song I was standing beside the guitarist and I said!! " IF YOU DONT TURN THE MIDRANGE UP ON THAT AMP AND ADD A LITTLE PRESENCE YOU MAY AS WELL STOP PLAYING NOW!!! NO ONE CAN HEAR WITH THAT EQ SETTING"!!! The singer agreed and off they went to fix the problem. I couldn't take it and normally wouldn't say anything but it was tonal suicide!! Good job dude great Videos! Keep them coming!

[AAVince]

"Get EMG pickups, roll off your mids and raise your gain." - Every metal tone video.

[MobileDecay]

No actually you have to chain 5 death metal pedals into the amp with maximum drive. Throw the drive on the amp all the way up. Not only scoop the mids but also the highs and everything but the lows. The you have to raise the volume till the guitar starts clipping. You have to run all that through a compressor. Once you do a lead you have to make the volume even louder and throw wah wah on it and make everyone def with there ears bleeding. Because blood is metal and so is DEATH!!! @.@

[Chavorrucosbarandgrill]

20 years playing and you just opened my eyes, mind blowing.

[richhenk]

Thanks CS, I'm a live sound engineer and you are doing me a favor by informing the metal guitarist on tone and clarity. Thank you.

[joshuacuevas]

This video changed my life no joke. I owe so much to this guy for helping my live tone

[tobiastk]

As a bass player with two guitarists both boosting the low end. i'm not being heard, i'm the one who gets lost. i tell them everytime to cut the low end a little bit and bring up the mids, but they forget everytime, every practice day. so annoying.
the gear they use: Guitarist 1: lead (Ibanez rg 7 string emg pickups, mxr fullbore metal) Guitarist 2: rythm (Schecter 7 string also emg pickups, Boss metal core pedal)

[Aaron_LH]

This was a much needed PSA. HOWEVER! Your "superior" tone was hardly any better. Perhaps it was bad mic placement or an issue with the head itself but that tone was pure midrange in the worst of ways. Mids are essential, but you need a careful amount of high end or it's going to sound like you're running card board speakers.

[gNatflaps]

I want to be haired like you but im still growing mine out.

[RoyChayanne]

No shave November or not, we always wanna be 'haired'

I'm enjoying this.
Drummersjokes*

[Rudsmanthe]

I’va always seen people say “this has such a nice scooped sound.” I’ve always hated scooping the mids and I felt like boosting the mids makes it so much more brutal.