away for 5 mins and guitarist chaos breaks loose!!!!
 

I'm having to go away for a while after puttin a cap in the guitarists.... :lol:

Anyways back on topic - thanks for all the tips so far, i can really nail those snarly sounds now

The sound i cant seem to though is the really screachy metallic sounds. any patch i make thats high pitched has a 'cheap' feel to it - that is, if my old PSR (or pisser as its normally referred to) was a synth i would expect it to make these kind sounds. How the hell do you make high pitched stuff sound decent? I thought the filter key follow would maybe help but doesnt seem to unless im being a spanner and usin it wrong!!

your help is much needed!!!

Badly detuned FM will do evil metal noises :)

And I'm sure abusing the Sync function wont leave you unnoticed. ;)

That sound IS a guitar though (run through an Envelope Filter and a Wah pedal - I know because my mate plays guitar in a Prodigy tribute band!).

My advice is = run your synth through a Marshall stack (I've got one for sale if you're interested, lol). Check out 'And the Cradle Will Rock' by Van Halen to see how this could sound :)

Personaly, if your guitarists are all sounding abit distorted then its no real suprise that your fighting for sonic space. My advice would be to approach it totally differently.....get some warm analog bass, pads and sync leads in there.

If they've cranked up the amp to 11....then crank yours upto 15 and make the others realise that they're pissing against the wrong tree

DS

I call my TI a "little twat", it gets REALLY agressive then !

There was an interesting article in SOS this month that might explain why guitarist allway crank it to the same rediculously high level.

Anyay - the secret is to use threats of lethal force to make them ditch there annoying squarky little amp and go out and buy a guitar amp modeller instead so they dont have to have it so loud to 'get the tone' for micing the damn thing.


Shooting them still sounds like less hassle, or at least beating them over the head with their guitar (as per avatar).

I think they say that sounds above 95dBs are loud enough to travel directly into the inner ear, bypassing the middle ear to an extent, but that it also excites the part of the inner ear that controls your balance (ie. the bit that tries to keep you on your feet to stop you from falling over).

The loud music directly affecting the inner ear (and its balance function) in this case gives the same perception as if you were "flying", a euphoric feeling, which is why some music appears so much better when pumped up, especially rock concerts, nightclubs, and even walkmans (health and safety aside, walkmans can go up to 100dB).... and I guess this includes standing next to amps which are turned up to 11. :)