wummms Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 lol never saw jeff playing a les paul... that's a cool one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bram Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Eh' date=' I don't know about that so much. IMO, anything with humbuckers will do fine for metal and you can always swap in different ones. After you crank up the amp so that's overdriving like crazy, differences in pickups become less noticeable anyway. [/quote'] Every guitar sounds different. The trick is to play every individual les Paul with the right amount of (amps) distortion. The nature of the beast will always shine through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCI Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Every guitar sounds different. The trick is to play every individual les Paul with the right amount of (amps) distortion. The nature of the beast will always shine through. No argument here on that but the amp still plays a larger role than the guitar in when it comes to heavily overdriven tones and the differences in those guitars become less noticeable as distortion is increased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bram Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 No argument here on that but the amp still plays a larger role than the guitar in when it comes to heavily overdriven tones and the differences in those guitars become less noticeable as distortion is increased. Or you can say: different amps bring different 'flavours' to the tone of the same guitar, while you can still hear the guitars character shining through. For example: a DS-1 distortion pedal from Boss will sound different than the MI Audio Crunch box distortion pedal...that's fine, but it's still the same guitar that reacts in its own way to these pedals. You wouldn't say: 'The DS-1 is the better pedal'. You'd say: 'The DS-1 works better for my guitar'. 'It gives it that little bit extra compression'. Stuff like that, you know?! You don't want to play a dark sounding Les Paul through a dark amp, or a bright/harsh sounding Les Paul through a very bright amp. I think the only thing a player wants is to have a 'balanced tone' (both clean and distorted), unless you need an extremely bass heavy or extreme trebly tone to make your band happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion of conformity Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Daron Malakian from System of a Down used an unmodified Les Paul Standard, and he gets a pretty heavy sound. Dan Donegan from Disturbed used to use unmodified Standards too, but he switched to Washburn guitars. Bjorn Gelotte from In Flames uses a Les Paul Custom, but he might have changed the pickups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeVeeWee Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 My lester standard into my Blackstar HT-5 ministack(5 Watt) and I'm turning into a metal monster... It's not the volume that makes a great metal sound... The Fulltone OCD does a great job as well.;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bram Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Some Les Pauls are just made for the heavier stuff; those rock hard through almost any amp. Think about those Norlin era Les Pauls with their maple necks......Some Les Pauls sound sweeter, more woody and are awesome for blues, but less for the heavy stuff. Most Les Pauls are something in-between; they don't really beg for ONE music style, but they're most versatile; from pop, blues, classic rock to convincing hardrock/metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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