Guitar tone, component, and pedal advice.

[madman3]

Epiphones are actually pretty reasonably priced. Found a set necked, ebony fingerboard Goth SG for just over £200.
Squier sucks for lower range guitars. Further up you get their better Jazzmasters and stuff.
Anyway, this is a pretty cool and versatile Les Paul that you may want to check out:
http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Les-Paul/Goth-Les-Paul-Studio.aspx
Oh, and this rules too, has a brilliant neck.
http://www.samickguitar.com/products/view.php?lvl1=guitars&lvl2=jtr&idx=133
Can't see much wrong with your guitar, unless it's made of plywood or something:P

[cephalopod]

Anyway, this is a pretty cool and versatile Les Paul that you may want to check out:
http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Les-Paul/Goth-Les-Paul-Studio.aspx


Can't see much wrong with your guitar, unless it's made of plywood or something:P

Wow. A Les Paul I really like... o.o


And yeah, it's alright. Got it for £100 at Easter, and it's served me well (':

[Lupus]

Lol you can sit down with any V. You just need to have it classical guitar style, with the lower spike going between your legs.

Trems are fine once your used to them.

I went back to the guitar shop last week, and the flying v had the audio jack on the inner v , extremely dumb design.
I also found an epic guitar shop that sells much more up-market guitars not that far from me, saw the blackstar pedal their, gonna have to try it :D

[Lupus]

The audio jack was where the arrow is pointing.

Yeah I did do this in paint, problem?

[cephalopod]

Anyway, this is a pretty cool and versatile Les Paul that you may want to check out:
http://www.epiphone.com/Products/Les-Paul/Goth-Les-Paul-Studio.aspx

Thank you. :)

[madman3]

Good choice dude. How's it handling?

[smashysmashy]

Craaig. You play that guitar LIKE A BOSS.

I just hope it doesnt keep you away from GTM D:

[madman3]

Craaig. You play that guitar LIKE A BOSS.

I just hope it doesnt keep you away from GTM D:

He's been playing another guitar for a while so I can't see him being away any longer because of it.

And I'm totally more boss  /endpossiblesarcasm

[Lupus]

I was given a blackstar dist-x for my birthday, it's epic.
Any reccommended settings for thrash?

[madman3]

I was given a blackstar dist-x for my birthday, it's epic.
Any reccommended settings for thrash?

Treble/High-10
Middle-4
Bass-8

[Lupus]

Is that for the pedal or for the amp?

[madman3]

Is that for the pedal or for the amp?

Pedal.
You might want to move the ISF clockwise for a more Marshall-like sound, which is what most thrash albums had at the time.

[Lupus]

Why does my tapping sound so bad through any amplifier?
Is their a technique that i'm just not doing properly?

[madman3]

Treble/High-10
Middle-4
Bass-8

Smiley EQ's everywhere...
Am I the only one who sets his Mids to 10?

I do that occasionally, especially with lower tunings.

[madman3]

I play in a bunch of tunings from Eb to drop G# (drop bottom string to G#, drop 5th string to the same note an octave above). I general keep my settings like this;
Treble-10
Mids-4,5,6
Bass-7

[Lupus]

Why does my tapping sound so bad through any amplifier?
Is their a technique that i'm just not doing properly?

I think so. If your tapping motion is correct you probably need to improve muting - my left hand fingers naturally mute the higher strings due to the way I fret notes, the problem for me is muting the lower strings with the right hand. I pretty much try to palm mute in an opposite right wrist angle for this :P Same with sweep picking, which I don't feel motivated to develop anymore for some reason...

I wasn't pressing hard enough.

[madman3]

I'm not sure if this should go here, but I guess it should.

I don't really know why, but I've been practicing 3-string sweep picking lately. I can't seem to perform it cleanly no matter how much I focus nor how slowly I begin each "session".
A few minutes ago I noticed my muting technique is correct for the higher strings, and instead, the noise's coming from the lower strings scratching against my hand (the palm muting side), which is also why I only seem to hear that over around 150bpm... What am I supposed to do here? (aside from giving up, of course).

Don't ask me, I suck at sweeping!

[Lupus]

I'm not sure if this should go here, but I guess it should.

I don't really know why, but I've been practicing 3-string sweep picking lately. I can't seem to perform it cleanly no matter how much I focus nor how slowly I begin each "session".
A few minutes ago I noticed my muting technique is correct for the higher strings, and instead, the noise's coming from the lower strings scratching against my hand (the palm muting side), which is also why I only seem to hear that over around 150bpm... What am I supposed to do here? (aside from giving up, of course).

When you go faster things get sloppy (as always with guitar playing) build up slowly, and try a metronome
start a downstroke on every "click" , doing this constantly will improve your technique and get rid of sloppyness.
You don't really need to dampen the low strings because they don't ring out (on mine anyway).

[madman3]

Seriously, I have the most imprecise lead technique ever, save for maybe tapping which I still suck donkey balls at because all I do is basic chromatic moves. I stick very strictly to Rhythm because I'm quite good at it.

[Lupus]

Seriously, I have the most imprecise lead technique ever, save for maybe tapping which I still suck donkey balls at because all I do is basic chromatic moves. I stick very strictly to Rhythm because I'm quite good at it.

What do you mean by imprecise?