I love drop A tuning appreciation's thread

[zimbloth]

actually they use....


peavey 6505 plus. two of them.
dunlop zakk wylde wah
2 whammy pedal.
some other stuff too

atleast for there live setup.

Actually no. I said pretty clearly that I was comparing Pass Out Of Existence with Resurrection. I'm not talking about live.

They used several high-end tube amps on Resurrection, different ones for leads and rhythm. Their 1st record like I said was recorded with solid state Marshalls.

 

[Mattayus]

Their 1st record like I said was recorded with solid state Marshalls.

Haha ok then no wonder it sounded sludgy

 

[soldierkahn]

Me personally, i think Chimaira's best tones were from their Self Title record, the one preceeding Resurrection. Like for instance, the song "Inside The Horror" and "Save Ourselves" had just this massive "Wall Of SOund" in my eyes (well, ears).

just my 2cents

 

[Mattayus]

Hell yeah it's one of my fav tones of theirs. I think Impossibility of Reason was too EMG-ish, like too generic, too sterile and digital sounding, but still better than Pass Out, and Resurrection was too thin sounding, although incredibly dynamic and still cool in it's own weird way.

 

[Dave]

Dunno about drop A, cause I tune to A standard so gotta go down to drop G... though tuning to F C G C F B D is a fun tuning... you just don't want to play an open low F5 cause it sounds crap least to me.

 

[Mattayus]

That's what i figured about the 8 strings when i first saw one. I thought "if you were to play that low F# in a chord it'd sound shit!". I've only ever heard ppl play it as a single string so far, so i'm yet to be proved wrong.

 

[TomAwesome]

If your rig can handle it and is set up right, and if your strings aren't too thick, power chords can work that low.

 

[Dave]

Well F# sounded ok to me, lol.... guess it varies a bit from person to person where you can't hear the really low bass.

 

[wes225]

Haha ok then no wonder it sounded sludgy

yeah the distortion sounds exactly like my MG10 practice amp....sad....

 

[Mattayus]

Although it's off topic slightly, I can't help but feel this video would sum up what we're talking about quite well... oh for shame ...

 

[MikeH]

SUPER -

I need some ideas for Drop A songs. I know I saw a thread somewhere about it but couldn't find it when I searched.