Author Topic: Metal riffage with a Ceramic Nailbomb (Read 7572 times)

Nolly · « **on:** January 03, 2008, 03:13:14 AM »

Hi there,

I'm fairly new to this home recording malarkey..
This is just a few riffs I came up with for some of my guitar pupils, bunged end on end (plus a little bit of Future Breed Machine at the end:)). The joins are far from seamless. Each riff was double-tracked and panned hard left and right.

I used my Ibanez PGM301 with its custom Nailbomb set into a Line6 PodXT. The whole clip was recorded using the (ceramic) bridge pickup.

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6129327

Hope you enjoy it!

ilÿti · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2008, 03:37:45 AM »

Zakk Wylde would envy you so much if he heard that. In fact he'd drop to the floor, enter a fetal position and start trembling, sobbing and weeping, sucking his thumb. That's how freakin' metal that sounds.

Nolly · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2008, 03:43:07 AM »

Haha, cheers mate!
I'd forgotten just how many squeals I'd put in...

ericsabbath · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2008, 05:38:43 AM »

that's awesome

Jonny · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2008, 11:20:03 AM »

This is what I need to wake up everyday.

Squeals, lovely. :D

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #5 on:** January 03, 2008, 12:10:08 PM »

Those harmonics are huge!!

WITH FULL DISTORTION · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2008, 05:24:46 PM »

VERY GOOD STUFF
I loved it.
Q:P

Rich78 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2008, 10:46:17 AM »

Woah! This clip has just made me decide which pick up to buy.
That was amazing. Cheers for that.

MrBump · « **Reply #8 on:** January 23, 2008, 12:26:51 PM »

Pick-Harmonic-Tastic!

Seriously meaty sound.

Nolly · « **Reply #9 on:** January 24, 2008, 01:20:10 PM »

Cheers for the comments guys!

Rich78: The ceramic Nailbomb is an awesome pickup, but do run it past Tim before buying. One of the other pickups may suit your setup better, and there are several other modifications that can be done.

Rich78 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2008, 06:45:07 PM »

Thanks for the above advise. I will contact Tim.

My set up is a Washburn Mercury into a Randall RG200.

With the Washburn, I down tune to drop C.

I also have a Maverick X1 with ceramic humbuckers-but they sound amazing. I dont think Ill be swapping them...

lepersmeesa · « **Reply #11 on:** January 27, 2008, 02:54:54 AM »

Sounds really cool man! I really like the tone, but on the mp3 it is doing this weird pumping thing where it goes up and down in volume.

Nice one!

Henk · « **Reply #12 on:** January 27, 2008, 12:04:49 PM »

Its the output of the line6 which is responsible for the clipping i think, probably normalizing the track will deal with that, afterwards you can increase volume again if needed.

Very nice playing, ive had a similar sound in a trashband years ago, solid state distortion is brootal :twisted: .

By the way, it would be interesting to know how hot the NB bridge was wound, and neck offcourse, did you pair it with a AV neck nailbomb?

Window-Licker · « **Reply #13 on:** January 27, 2008, 01:04:35 PM »

Awesome tone, any chance you could upload the patches for the pod? :-P

Nolly · « **Reply #14 on:** January 27, 2008, 02:02:32 PM »

Thanks for the comments guys!

Unfortunately I've lost the little leaflet Tim puts in the box with the ratings. I believe, however, that the bridge was very similar to the quoted 16k for the alnico version (possibly a little lower - 15.8k springs to my mind, but I don't know where from).
It's paired with a standard AV Nailbomb which is incredible. Very underrated imo.

My copy of the mp3 doesn't do the volume thing, but I'll normalise all my future stuff just to make sure.

If anyone wants the POD patch, PM me with an email address and I'll send it over.

Cheers,

Nolly

Author Topic: Metal riffage with a Ceramic Nailbomb (Read 7572 times)

WITH FULL DISTORTION