Originally posted by WikkidGurl
hahahahahahahahahaha the Crate distortion is soooo dry.
It is awful. The distortion on the upgraded Crate sounds kool.
But mine sounds like ass.
hmmmm lets see crunch like ... Pain , Obituary ...almost deathy yet understandable in a Industrial setting.
True, the old crates are terrible, but if you get a crate head with their flexwave electronic technology, then it sounds great. i.e: crate gx1200h.
As far as getting that crunchy sound without the distortion saturating the sound, an easy way is to keep your mt2 cranked but turn the volume down on your guitar. Depending on your setup, you could get exactly what your looking for or too much of a classic rocklike sound.
Maybe what you mean by "crunch" is what I've heard referred to as "chunk"? Meaning getting that punchy sound that still will give you a low end boom yet you can pick out the individual notes easier.
Industrial.. I know a lot of industrial bands use mesas.. as far as KMFDM goes, if you get into that, he uses a mesa boogie dual rec head and a jackson guitar with I'm assuming seymour duncans as well. He gets his trademark "thin" sound with this setup, which is actually mostly due to the absence of a bass guitar in the mix.
Sorry about the disorganized random paragraphs, what I'd actually recommend you do if your having a hard time finding your sound is to goto a bunch of music stores and try out different pedals, try to run them through an amp similar to yours. You can either invest in one, or find what kind of setup or amp/amp head would give you the same kinda tone as that pedal does. Check out some of the other Boss distortion pedals.. "turbo distortion", etc. they are watered down versions of the metal zone basically, as far as saturated harmonic distortion goes. They'll give you more of a "crunch" or "chunk" sound then the metal zone will. Also, try dropping your lowest string to a dropped tuning (if you can, I can't with my main axe because its a floyd rose). It's the favorite of mainstream numetal acts in the US, which I despise, but its also used conservatively by a lot of different metal bands to get a different feel to a song. It really does lend a totally different feel to the song, as you can slide up and down the neck quite easily with the one finger barred power chords.
Ex: Colony by In Flames (drop A#)
Ordinary Story " " (drop A#)
