Well as far as I see it, there's gotta be a reason why pretty much everything nowadays has a lot more mids than the days of Pantera and And Justice for All and Master of Puppets and all that.
Whenever I listen to Ride The Lightning, I just kinda get disappointed with the guitar tone on AJFA, because RTL just sounded bigger and warmer and more pleasing to my ear. And fuck for 1984, that was some fucking tone man.
To me, really good guitar is stuff like KSE's End Of Heartache, This Godless Endeavor, Dead Heart, Watershed by Opeth, the Way of All Flesh by Gojira.
Just a few examples there. All have much more mids in the guitars than Vulgar and to me it sounds warmer, fuller, more lively and more balanced.
Fuck, I even like the Rust In Peace tone a lot better, and that wasn't the greatest tone ever, such is my dislike of the tone on Vulgar.
No where did I say it's easy to get a good tone, don't put words in my mouth dude. Read my post, it didn't say that at all.
All I was saying is that I think it's a terrible tone and it's because of those kinda tones you walk into guitar stores and some kid is sitting there with the Line 6 Spider with the mids on zero and everything else on 10, because they heard Pantera and thought it was brutal tone.
Anyway, it's like that whole Kirk Hammett argument too "Oh, you bash his lack of good vibrato, but you're not the one on stage playing to millions of people".
Just because you don't have someone's level of success or whatever doesn't meant you cannot be critical of something.
I loved Dimebag's playing, hated his tone, purely and simply and personally I'd love to see Pantera songs reinterpreted with a more mid rangey tone.
Agree to disagree cos we are just gonna go around in circles.
And shit, I am actually nearly 21
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