How to get Dimebag sound!
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Damn Christians!
lol, so much for a guy asking for amp settings to play around with.
but with any tone, i believe its 90% Player,10% Equipment.
but with any tone, i believe its 90% Player,10% Equipment.
Oy...people always seem to jump on the tired old knee-jerk "it's not cuz he's technical, it's cuz he plays with feeling" response whenever I say I don't like a player/band, even though I made no mention of technicality (except to actually praise Dime's abilities, specifically his vibrato). So Tommy, respectfully, challenging me to learn one of his solos is totally irrelevant, because I made no comment about them being "too easy" or something to that effect. As for being able to write something "better," (however one defines that) personally I think I can and have, but I definitely don't want this to get personal so please no listening to my music if your intent is to rip on me for it. Also, busting out the bandwagon argument by listing a bunch of people who said Dime was great and implying that therefore I should think so too is hardly valid (and I actually have never found Randy Rhoads to be that incredible either; I much prefer the solos and style of EVH, George Lynch, and Neal Schon, to name a few from that era).
Anyway, all this, of course, is entirely an opinion, and I recognize that feelings to the contrary are just as much opinions, so I certainly don't wanna press this issue or anything. And I just listened to the Domination solo, and you're right, it's definitely not pentatonic - it still doesn't really do it for me that much, but it's pretty freakin' cool and technically undeniable. And I can see how this could've been misinterpreted, but when I said the soloing with no rhythm guitar track under was a "signature Pantera thing," I didn't mean that they invented it, but rather that it's something they very often do, meaning it's a signature part of their sound (as I understand it, I've heard maybe 7 or 8 Pantera songs in my life). Honestly, I think having a rhythm guitar track under would probably heighten my enjoyment of Dime's soloing a lot - oh well, too late now!
Anyway, all this, of course, is entirely an opinion, and I recognize that feelings to the contrary are just as much opinions, so I certainly don't wanna press this issue or anything. And I just listened to the Domination solo, and you're right, it's definitely not pentatonic - it still doesn't really do it for me that much, but it's pretty freakin' cool and technically undeniable. And I can see how this could've been misinterpreted, but when I said the soloing with no rhythm guitar track under was a "signature Pantera thing," I didn't mean that they invented it, but rather that it's something they very often do, meaning it's a signature part of their sound (as I understand it, I've heard maybe 7 or 8 Pantera songs in my life). Honestly, I think having a rhythm guitar track under would probably heighten my enjoyment of Dime's soloing a lot - oh well, too late now!
And sorry, I deny both of these things, but as said above (and as should be obvious), that's just my personal feeling.
Notuern
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Dimebag was mostly using E Minor(Aeolic?) with the occassional Major 3rd intervall ontop of that, and Diminished & Dominant 7ths.
And dont forget the use of playing the same frets over all strings, example:
E:------------------------------------------0-2-3-5
B:---------------------------------0-2-3-5
G:-------------------------0-2-3-5
D:-----------------0-2-3-5
A:---------0-2-3-5
E:0-2-3-5
And i have never heard of another guitarist that actually could do a real slide without a slide. ;X
So no offence, but learn more about the guitarist youre talking about before speaking like this.
I dont care if you like him or not, but you are so majorly wrong in what you just wrote that its really annoying.
Edit:
I forgot to say that he actually was know to be an unorthodox guitarist, while you seem to see him like a guitarist that sounded just like everyone else.
And I hope you understod that im not mad or anything.
You're right, I'm not qualified to make generalizations about him from what little I've heard, so I apologize for that and take the last part of the above quote back. However, while the majority of the floods solo is in a minor key (and it's aeolian, by the way), it still to me has a very pentatonic/blues-scale vibe with the chromatics and the general feel. What can I say, it's not a solo that does anything for me, but I apologize for my overly specific blanket statements about him as a player.
EDIT: Whoops, nevermind
EDIT: Whoops, nevermind
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Wow, generous
I could do it but its like 500$ in time and 50 in parts :zombie:
Really? I dunno, after all Jeff's (JBroll's) ranting about how parts for tube screamers and such are ridiculously cheap, I figured all these would be also; I guess not all electronic circuits use massively cheap and readily available parts, which shows how much I know about 'em!
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Dude if I give this shit a try and its cheap to build and fun.... who knows I might be able to churn out a couple more. This is not a promise, lemme see how this works out
dan weapon
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Dime's style is so difficult to replicate. His bends and vibrato in riffs like 5 minutes alone and clash with reality respectively turn easy-ish riffs into extremely difficult... (to nail exactly)
And the fact he tuned a quarter tone down makes it even more difficult/annoying to attempt to do so!
Dime's style is so difficult to replicate. His bends and vibrato in riffs like 5 minutes alone and clash with reality respectively turn easy-ish riffs into extremely difficult... (to nail exactly)
And the fact he tuned a quarter tone down makes it even more difficult/annoying to attempt to do so!
