[aphex232]

Hi fellow musicians

Any Suggestions on this - i need a guitar pedal or 2 to achieve the following:

To smooth out your tone when playing a lead guitar/riff under very heavy distortion, and also a boost to bring the volume up all of a sudden to lift you above the other guitarist and bass so you can be heard. Not sure as to which is the right name for the pedal needed and also which handles it the best/produces the best results.

Im playing death metal/core in Drop C for the record...

thanks
Mike

[KhalJimbo]

Originally Posted by aphex232

Hi fellow musicians

Any Suggestions on this - i need a guitar pedal or 2 to achieve the following:

To smooth out your tone when playing a lead guitar/riff under very heavy distortion, and also a boost to bring the volume up all of a sudden to lift you above the other guitarist and bass so you can be heard. Not sure as to which is the right name for the pedal needed and also which handles it the best/produces the best results.

Im playing death metal/core in Drop C for the record...

thanks
Mike

A Digitech whammy and a compressor pedal of some sort, the digitech lets you use it as a volume controller too and has loads of cool effects like droping octaves or gaining octaves. Digitech also do a really good compression pedl that works wonders on your tones

What ever you do though dont go for multi FX pedals unless its the Line 6 modulators.

[scottish nutter]

an eq pedal will do what you want, maybe even have 2, one to get the sound you want and the other for your volume boost( also lets you eq the boost)

[pmc]

A compressor for smoothing things out and a treble booster for standing out, should do the trick.

[mad_matt]

What scottish nutter said, I use a MXR M108 10 band graphic eq that you can boost the volume and gain by 12db, it is excellent for cutting through the rest of the band when soloing, and because it has a 10 band eq you can make the solo's really pop.

[scottish nutter]

Originally Posted by mad_matt

What scottish nutter said, I use a MXR M108 10 band graphic eq that you can boost the volume and gain by 12db, it is excellent for cutting through the rest of the band when soloing, and because it has a 10 band eq you can make the solo's really pop.

is the mxr 108 kerry king i have, only go the kerry king one as it was cheaper than the normal pedal for some reason, only difference is i think mine has a bit more gain than the normal and mines also has 2 output sockets, none of that matters to me i was only bothered about saveing £20

[TEKNICOLOURFOX]

boss eq 20... simples