Turbo Chainsaw
Bring on the saw....
I am posting this because I was frustrated for nearly a month trying to get a good tone that didnt sound muddy with my seven string guitar. Line 6 does not really cater to 7 string players as much, especially not ones who turn up the gain and rip it off all while tuning their lowest string down to drop A to rock the bowels of an unholy hell.
Thus I give you....... THE KEY TO AWESOME DEATH METAL TONE.
there are a lot of amps you COULD use hypothetically with in the gear box program, but DO NOT USE GEARBOX. You are going to need podfarm to get the sounds I am talking about. Download it through the line 6 monkey.
Once you have pod farm, open it up and set your rig to dual amping. You will see a button in the upper right hand corner of the window.
this is how I have it set up. On your top channel Set up a noise gate, adjust it so NO extra sound bleeds through. Actually set this up on both channels along with a screamer on both channels too. Dont go too crazy with the gain. on the top channel, I run the spinal puppet with a flat eq. Drive set at about 6. Now THIS is where it gets funky. Go to the cabinet setting under the pannel for the spinal puppet. You want to switch your cabinet to the 2x2 mini T model miced with the sm 57 on axis. All done? Good.
So now we go on to channel two. You should already have a screamer and noise gate set up. the amp you want to use is the Brit J-800. Stick this sucker in the loop. Also with a flat eq. (note that the flat eq is so you can geta decent tone for recording.). once you have this set up, the big suprise comes in. Go to the cab sim just like before and pick out the Classic 8x10 bass cabinet. miced with the tube 47 close setting. For SOME STUPID REASON, this works WONDERS for teh low end in your tone. it may take some tweaking to get a good sound, perhaps even lower the gain a little bit...but using this setting to record into reaper has gotten me some CHUNKY tone dude. Very heavy, very metallic. If you like cannibal corpse, monstrosity, morbid angel, and all the good florida death, you should not be displeased. Also note that I did this using a stock Ibanez 7 string with stock dimarzio pickups. I have not tried it with EMG's so i am not sure how that would sound. Mess around with it and let me know what you think. thanks!
Jack
Thus I give you....... THE KEY TO AWESOME DEATH METAL TONE.
there are a lot of amps you COULD use hypothetically with in the gear box program, but DO NOT USE GEARBOX. You are going to need podfarm to get the sounds I am talking about. Download it through the line 6 monkey.
Once you have pod farm, open it up and set your rig to dual amping. You will see a button in the upper right hand corner of the window.
this is how I have it set up. On your top channel Set up a noise gate, adjust it so NO extra sound bleeds through. Actually set this up on both channels along with a screamer on both channels too. Dont go too crazy with the gain. on the top channel, I run the spinal puppet with a flat eq. Drive set at about 6. Now THIS is where it gets funky. Go to the cabinet setting under the pannel for the spinal puppet. You want to switch your cabinet to the 2x2 mini T model miced with the sm 57 on axis. All done? Good.
So now we go on to channel two. You should already have a screamer and noise gate set up. the amp you want to use is the Brit J-800. Stick this sucker in the loop. Also with a flat eq. (note that the flat eq is so you can geta decent tone for recording.). once you have this set up, the big suprise comes in. Go to the cab sim just like before and pick out the Classic 8x10 bass cabinet. miced with the tube 47 close setting. For SOME STUPID REASON, this works WONDERS for teh low end in your tone. it may take some tweaking to get a good sound, perhaps even lower the gain a little bit...but using this setting to record into reaper has gotten me some CHUNKY tone dude. Very heavy, very metallic. If you like cannibal corpse, monstrosity, morbid angel, and all the good florida death, you should not be displeased. Also note that I did this using a stock Ibanez 7 string with stock dimarzio pickups. I have not tried it with EMG's so i am not sure how that would sound. Mess around with it and let me know what you think. thanks!
Jack
I don't have a 7 string at the moment, but I'll try it out. Sounds interesting! I have some pretty good tones right now, but I'm using a different cab setup. 4x12 Line 6 cabs with the "newer" looking mic. I can't remember what it's called.
