#Pickup changes

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zealous igloo
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Imo it’s not worth it to do any but you can find tones of pickups used to save some money

wise spear
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have u tried the stock harley benton pickups

trim rune
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def try them first

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i once got a harley benton the DIY build kit, ditched the guitar and put pickups in a nicer guitar so

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you may be surprised

zealous igloo
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If they work they do the job

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What amp you have ?

wise spear
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adjusting pickup heights

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is one thing

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and the amp itself is like 90% of the sound of a guitar

zealous igloo
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Nice amp

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What cab?

trim rune
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Adjusting pickup height, EQ your amp. Use knobs on guitar

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Its all there specifically to make your stuff sound better

crisp barn
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Is it the pickups that are crap or your $20 fender amp?

trim rune
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Lol

wise spear
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not most likely

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if ur amp is ass

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ur tone is ass

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plain n simple

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oh so its not some fender champion that goose was mentioning?

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and what other gear did they use to supplement that? a lot of em that ive watched use some expensive mics, pedalboards, etc

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which just kinda defeats the purpose of showing cheap stuff can sound good, by using expensive stuff to try to offset it

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dont tell me its glenn from smg studios or whatever it was called

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because he boasts about this stuff a lot, and his mixer costs 5 figures

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thats the problem with those type of videos to me, “hey beginners, ur cheap amp isnt the problem, look here! disregard the multi fx and double tracked and mixed audio with a r121 ribbon mic”

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so which amp r u having rn then, if the laneys only planned

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oh so ur already planning on buying new stuff

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then don’t get any with a floyd rose

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theres a reason why floyd rose owners have 6 floyd rose guitars

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they cant really change their tunings once they set it up

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they CAN change the tunings, but then now the bridge is out of wack

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so if u want floyd level range but without the commitment

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get a recessed 2 point

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they cant change tunings ik, it just takes 90 years to reset the bridge to it

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so get a recessed 2 point bridge instead

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like on charvel dk24s

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or on them ibanez az2402s ot whatever theyre called

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tom bridges? idk what about em

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theyre just basic hardtails

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not much else to say

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i dont like them

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limited intonation range, minimum action adjustment

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and can collapse in on themselves after a while

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if u want a more reliable and versatile fixed bridge

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go for something like a hipshot design

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the ones that arent a bar with another bar

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like gibsons

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ibanez isnt heavy

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nor is tele light

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yeah, the sound from those arent heavy or light

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its almost all of ur amp that determines that

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and how u play

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yeah, ones not heavier than the other, just different

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learn

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cus playing an ibanez doesnt sound any more metal

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its easy to describe, humbuckers are warmer and louder

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thats essentially it

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but that doesnt mean itll sound heavier, heaviness is extremely contextual

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with the tone mainly coming from the amp

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so instead of buying guitars like “this one is heavy this one is clean”

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just buy what you find sounds best and is most comfortable

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this guy makes his single coil tele sound heavier than 70% of this servers humbucker distorted tones

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nah, high tunings can also rip

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here

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this is only drop d

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but it sounds nasty and rips harder than someone in Drop A who doesn’t know what theyre doing

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heaviness isnt determined by what guitar u play or what tuning ur in, its really dependent on HOW you write

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ur laney dualtop is more expensive than his plugin

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and ur multi fx

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i know because i use the same plugin as him

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its just neural dsp nolly

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i bought it for 70 dollars

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it doesnt take a heavy asf pc either, i run it thru my 2018 used macbook.

main point im just tryna drill is a guitar doesnt inherently sound heavy

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so dont buy guitars off that idea

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it doesnt matter, u listened to this thru a phone

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or at least i assume so

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i did

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great, which is probably better than my little phone speakers, and it still sounds good

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that guy is good at writing

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and hes good at mixing

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thats all heaviness is

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then spend ur amp money on a pc if u want idk, im just yryna make a point

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mixing isnt any harder than learning to play guitar

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or learning to dial in ur amp

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u can get whatever you like

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im just tryna drill in the idea that guitar doesn’t = heavier

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so dont buy off that mentality

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buy guitars based on how much you like their sound, not how heavy or clean u think it can be. I have a tele along with my more modern guitars and i use the tele in modern contexts too depending on what i need

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none of my guitars are inherently heavier or cleaner than another, just different, and i use them all in the same situations sometimes just for different flavors of sound

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the writing is what makes metal sound good, the tuning doesnt have to be low either as proven

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gojira’s only in D standard and use vintage output pickups, yet they sound disgusting cus Joe Duplantier knows how to write well and the drums accentuate that

crisp barn
wise spear
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whats that floyd tuned to?

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my buddy has 7 xiphos all in diff tunings and one really fucked one cus his band for some reason sits in between Drop C and Drop B ureng

crisp barn
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Drop C is where it's kept, the other guitars are a mixed of standard from E to C, and drop B

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The most satisfying rig to play daily is an amp modeler since you don't need to invest in an attenuator for a new rig to play at whisper quiet levels