Fuzz doom vs. distortion doom

[KaosCill8r]

DIY Meathead clone on dark settings into a custom fuzz built by ILFs own johnnyc (Anarchy Audio) So heavy. So fuzzy.

[braaandooon]

I think I learned to play guitar just so I can palm mute. I remember feeling very inspired the first time I heard Slayer's South of Heaven, I begged my mom for a guitar, and it took me damn near a month to learn that song.

Ended up running into problems as the music scene I came up in was inspired by stuff like Bad Religion, and old AFI, and was subsequently booted from my first band as my chuggy palm mutes were more than they were looking for, anyways fuck'em palm mutes for the win.

I keep a combination of overdrive/distortion/fuzz on my board at all times for gain staging purposes, and will run a 5150 in stereo with my traynor when in need of something crushing.

[whiskey_face]

the correct answer is running a high gain tight amp and a loosey goosey fuzz fuck in stereo.

[braaandooon]

I dime the resonance on the 5150, which loosens up the bottom some, and eq it up to take care of my highs and high mids, the traynor handles the rest.

Have a beat sunn concert lead I just got, gonna be in the shop for a few weeks, but gonna run all three and see what kind of wall of massive I can create, initial problems exsist as I don't have enough cabs at this time, but the holidays are upon us and I've been good this year.

[pelliott]

Yep. I learned how to palm mute just about as soon as I learned how to play guitar. Because of that, I don't really get along with mushy drive pedals or anything low gain.

ditto

People play guitar with anything but palm mutes?

ftfy


Right now I'm very much enjoying running Quantum Mystic > Butcher and Pharaoh > VT-22, so it's still a huge, foggy, thick fuzz sound but I can palm mute and it comes through pretty well. I also really like just boosting the Butcher's hi gain input but that's more for crusty stuff.

crust

[archlilim]

Fuzzzzzz 1000%

But also palm muting 1001%

[sonidero]

This topic has my interest...

Also is Palm Muting an integral part of playing a plethora musical genres, or an actual genre in and of itself???

[KaosCill8r]

I think palm muting is just another technique that can be found in a lot of music genres. Same with pinched harmonics or any other playing technique.

[Barracuda]

I think palm muting is just another technique that can be found in a lot of music genres. Same with pinched harmonics or any other playing technique.

Palm muting was invented by Matt Pike in the 1800's when he wrote Beethoven's 9th symphony.

I like muffs boosted with a black forest, tube screamer, or rat for something saturated and fuzzy with some kachunk to the mutes.

[KaosCill8r]

Palm muting was invented by Matt Pike in the 1800's when he wrote Beethoven's 9th symphony.

[samzadgan]

I use squeaky clean amp and use Distortion (QM) because like most others i like the down stroke palm mute stuff too much...no matter how slow and doomy i play, that down stroke stuff still makes it into my stuff.

I like fuzz for low gain stuff, like bluesy or proggy solos...much prefer it to overdrive.

and yes...Matt Pike invented palm mutes...i'm pretty sure when i was young, I read in a the Encyclopaedia Britannics that Matt Pike invented the Riff...

[Blackened Soul]

Really it doesn't matter how you get there as long as you get there.

[HeavyXIII]

Really it doesn't matter how you get there as long as you get there.

Simple is as simple does. Sound advice, albeit poetic.

Sometimes my buddy gives me flak for not using enough distortion. I bet about half of the sounds that come out of my amp are basically Hex era Earth sounds.

[christianatl]

ODs for palm muting, fuzz for the big big gnar gnar

[Iommic Pope]

Gnarwhal.