Bro, so I just found this album (never listened to MMF until this month) and this song is just badass. I feel like the riffs are so technical and thrashy. Awesome job dude. Cant wait for full release of album.
Question.....On the super low breakdown part, how do you get the tone to be audible? when I do it....I use my digitech dt pedal with my baritone, even with that its still so muddy. I assume your using a whammy correct?? I love all those weird little things like at 1:28. It almost sounds like a whammy? Sevendust LOVE doing this as well and tricking my ears. I remember talking to john connoly about it and he said nope, no whammy OR oc pedal
The Digitech is really muddy when you use it for the low octaves. I usually combine it with the Precision Drive to clean it up but it still doesn't sound that great in the room but for recording, once I throw some post-EQ on it it sounds decent. But yeah, it's all playing around with low octave harmonies. So many bands do it now, it's sort of the new trend in guitar playing whether they use it for a harmony or pitch-shifting down for a breakdown, it adds a lot of dynamics to the guitars. Sevendust for sure use them as well, Clint said so in one of his interviews I watched and he was talking about how Elvis has dozens of octave pedals that they experimented with in the studio to achieve their sound. Especially on their newer stuff but you can even go as far back as Headtrip on Home. That song clearly has a low octave harmony going on during that main riff. Maybe John doesn't mess around with octave pedals that much but Clint definitely does.
The playing itself can be more involved for this kind of stuff, definitely. Especially a song like this where the guitar work is like metalcore on steroids. A lot of modern metal is groove oriented though, more similar to nu-metal than metalcore in a lot of ways. Nu-metal can be tricky in its own regard, it's a more diverse genre than people give it credit for. A band like Korn, in my opinion, is one of the hardest bands to learn and cover even though on paper and face value their stuff looks really simple (and it is for the most part) but to get it to sound like Korn is a whole other thing in of itself. A song like this that is technically harder to play and looks busier can be easier in a lot of ways than some nu-metal stuff can be. Of course it depends on particular bands but that's just my general opinion.
Love that you're covering a lot of metalcore now.
Bro, so I just found this album (never listened to MMF until this month) and this song is just badass. I feel like the riffs are so technical and thrashy. Awesome job dude. Cant wait for full release of album.
Nice job, sounds great.
Dude Freaking Killer. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Oh shit! didnt know you were into this kind of stuff!!!! Dude check out spiritbox plus the new a day to remember track
Awesomeness!! 🤘🎸🤘
awesome!! 🤘🤘
every now and then you post a vid that makes me trash the fckn house...who do I bill?
Question.....On the super low breakdown part, how do you get the tone to be audible? when I do it....I use my digitech dt pedal with my baritone, even with that its still so muddy. I assume your using a whammy correct?? I love all those weird little things like at 1:28. It almost sounds like a whammy? Sevendust LOVE doing this as well and tricking my ears. I remember talking to john connoly about it and he said nope, no whammy OR oc pedal
I swear tho....the verse riffs have a weird tint to them that sounds so much like an OC pedal to me. I freakin LOVE it.
The Digitech is really muddy when you use it for the low octaves. I usually combine it with the Precision Drive to clean it up but it still doesn't sound that great in the room but for recording, once I throw some post-EQ on it it sounds decent. But yeah, it's all playing around with low octave harmonies. So many bands do it now, it's sort of the new trend in guitar playing whether they use it for a harmony or pitch-shifting down for a breakdown, it adds a lot of dynamics to the guitars. Sevendust for sure use them as well, Clint said so in one of his interviews I watched and he was talking about how Elvis has dozens of octave pedals that they experimented with in the studio to achieve their sound. Especially on their newer stuff but you can even go as far back as Headtrip on Home. That song clearly has a low octave harmony going on during that main riff. Maybe John doesn't mess around with octave pedals that much but Clint definitely does.
Nerd bruvv
Last question im so sorry man, as a great player as you are, do you find this type of metal harder to play as opposed to the more numetal stype stuff?
The playing itself can be more involved for this kind of stuff, definitely. Especially a song like this where the guitar work is like metalcore on steroids. A lot of modern metal is groove oriented though, more similar to nu-metal than metalcore in a lot of ways. Nu-metal can be tricky in its own regard, it's a more diverse genre than people give it credit for. A band like Korn, in my opinion, is one of the hardest bands to learn and cover even though on paper and face value their stuff looks really simple (and it is for the most part) but to get it to sound like Korn is a whole other thing in of itself. A song like this that is technically harder to play and looks busier can be easier in a lot of ways than some nu-metal stuff can be. Of course it depends on particular bands but that's just my general opinion.
What guitar do you have please?
I like that it's active pickups
Schecter Hellraiser C-1