Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: hincks on July 20, 2011, 05:17:05 AM
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i know that this is ussaly considered a bad thing but im actualy TRYING to get this kind of sound. i'm going for the ugliest, nastiest tone imaginable. muddy, mushy, farting, buzzing, harsh - these are the key adjectives. so could anyone please reccomend any particular kind of guitars, pickups, amps, pedals, settings etc. that can help me acheive this?
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buy anything cheap and just use the neck pickup exclusively
maybe an encore les paul?
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Try and dig up a Danelectro Black Coffee distortion pedal. Without a doubt the worst distortion box in existence.
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fuzz pedal
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fuzz pedal
The Mosrite Fuzzrite.
Or three Fender Blenders in a chain.
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get an old Fostex cassette four track and use it as a distortion pedal by maxing out the input channel then sending the output to your amp :) got me one of the most buzzy, chainsaw like, undynamic distortions i've ever heard. at the time my favourite album was "The Downward Spiral" by Nine Inch Nails, so i was quite happy with it.
failing that, any two or three cr@ppy overdrive/distortion pedals daisy chained and with the tones set to anything but compliment each other should do the trick
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You could try overdriving the input stage of a computer audio interface or any digital device. Digital clipping is not exactly muddy or mushy but is one of the harshest and nastiest sounds around.
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oh yeah use guitar rig thats horrible and mushy
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zvex fuzz factory has some pretty extreme settings
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Play Air Guitar and use your voice to replicate the guitar. :)
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i know that this is ussaly considered a bad thing but im actualy TRYING to get this kind of sound. i'm going for the ugliest, nastiest tone imaginable. muddy, mushy, farting, buzzing, harsh - these are the key adjectives. so could anyone please reccomend any particular kind of guitars, pickups, amps, pedals, settings etc. that can help me acheive this?
Dimarzio X2N, neck position, pickguard-mounted in a cheap particle-board guitar, plugged into and old (late 70s, early 80s) tranny radio then into a early 80s ghetto box. Special bonus points if you add a dying cr@ppy 70s no-name wha-fuzz between the "guitar" and "amp"
(yeah, been here, done that... ugliest tone ever ! :mrgreen:)
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WMD Geiger Counter or something similar like a Death By Audio Robot.
Geiger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A7VFxIBj84
3:42 sounds like farts for sure.
Is this for Tweenwave?
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Any boutique distortion pedal will give you that sound :S For some reason it seems that the more money they cost, the uglier they sound :S
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wow lots of great responses. when i posted this thing i thought everyone was just gonna ask me why and call me an idiot lol. anyway, like i said great responses but i need more MUD. thats really the main thing im looking for - a sludgey mud-tone. so how do i maximize the mush ?
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A seymour duncan invader would do what you need with a solid state amp such as the laney hardcore max with a fuzz in front of it.
I dont think any of the BKPs will get you there as they're all very clear pickups.
The best idea if you want to go the BKP route would be to get something incredibly low output and hit it with fuzz/distortion etc
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Tell us what you already own so suggestions can be more accurate/readily usable. Also, the distortion side of it... Are you looking for a really messed up analog sound or do you want something more digital sounding? I know I can get tons of mud out of my setup if I take the settings on my Aphex Xciter/Big Bottom and place them somewhere ridiculous. Set correctly, it's tight as a drum and HUGE, but I use the Big Bottom and the Xciter(which can get just plain nasty and sharp in the high-mids) with sensible settings. It's not an everything on 10 device at all, but for you it could be the ticket with extreme settings.
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screw pickups on this matter, get that danelectro black coffee xD
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Roll down the tone on your guitar and turn up the bass on the amp. :)
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wooooah my bad,my computer had a virus and by the time i got it fixed i forgot all about this post. anyway i got an epiphone les paul, bugera amp and boss ds-1 at the moment but that doesnt matter because im looking to overhaul my rig anyway and money is no object. especialy seeing as how the stuff that makes you sound shitety is cheap for the most part. as far as the $%&#ed up sounding analog distortion or digital thing im 100% looking for a harsh digital clipping sound. im not sure how to achieve that tho, you can you overdrive digital recording stuff the same way you can overdrive tape? and what are some digital distortion boxes NOT modeled after another pedal the harsher and nastier the better
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The Devi Ever Torn's Peaker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=splw1yBX-GU&feature=relmfu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=splw1yBX-GU&feature=relmfu)
And the Shoe Gazer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuz1DlTdk9Q&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuz1DlTdk9Q&feature=related)
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Germanium Tonebender MK. II with the voltage dropped to around 2V.
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wow lots of great responses. when i posted this thing i thought everyone was just gonna ask me why and call me an idiot lol. anyway, like i said great responses but i need more MUD. thats really the main thing im looking for - a sludgey mud-tone. so how do i maximize the mush ?
Get an Orange AD30 and crank the bass/volume! Also, downtune and turn the tone down on your guitar/pedals.
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A Rat (at least a keeley modded one) will give you thick fuzzy mushy tone.