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If you can get a friend/teacher to show you proper technique. You really don't want to be developing bad habits.
Yeah I actually got a teacher a couple of weeks ago and I see him once a week for an hour. He seems good so far and the price is fairly affordable at $22.50/hour. He gives me some stuff to practice and I do that. I been practicing every day still and I think I've gotten better, but there is definitely a lot more to do.I couldn't agree more, bad habits can be easy to start, really hard to break, and cause your speed, tone etc to all suffer... get a good teacher and learn the proper techniques before you venture too far on your own. It's always good to have a teacher give you feedback on your playing (something a book can't do).
If you have POD Farm, run that sucker through a noise gate. Noisy pickups. My tone patch I use to emulate Bulb's tone has seven noise gates in the chain.
Input > EQ > Gate > Gate > Gate > Gate > Screamer > Gate > Compressor > Big Bottom > Treadplate 4z12 > 57 off-axis > Gate > Gate > Out
If you don't... stay away from super high gain.
For a beginer I would suggest taking your guitar into your local shop to get a tech to look at it and give it a good set up. These are all things you can do yourself but for now i would suggest focusing on learning to play as apposed to learning to set up the guitar, you will get a better understanding of this the more you learn / play.