Ea$y to Sound badass with gain and compression

[Edgecrusher]

Yeah, I'm just diggin myself a deeper hole. I only had six beers today, earlier , like 6 hours ago. I wont be braggin how great I am tonight.

But I love watching yo do it. I mean when you dig you use both hands!

[Funkfingers]

Qu'elle trollage!

Actually, compression and pedal distortion do wonders for the Treble/Melody side of a Chapman Stick.

[SlyFoxx]

I mostly play acoustic guitar and my licks are so quite you have to be in my living room to hear them! Stuff that bros!

[Rusty Shackelford]

I mostly play acoustic guitar and my licks are so quite you have to be in my living room to hear them! Stuff that bros!

Yeah well I just look at my guitars and imagine my licks and only I can hear them. No risk of anyone stealing them.

[phil_104]

I'd like to post clips, but my playing style is unique, and I'm afraid my style would be plagarized, so I can't, at least untill i release an official CD.

It's proper internet etiquette to post "lol" or a winky face "" after making a joke.

Really though dude, I'd love to hear you play.

[formula73]

Don't be skeered. I've posted a couple clips that BLOW. Even so, I was pretty proud of them. I was proud of my tone, too, but then, I'm a sloppy rock player.

I'll hide behind that statement.

[guitfiddle]

Come off with some clips, Jer.

[phil_104]

Still waiting.

[Beer$]

What the hell is wrong with you guys? When I make a thread of this nature everyone gives me a hard time and everyone sucks up and agrees in this one because it's Jerry?

Get outta here!

I appreciate you were probably very excited that you've reached a satisfying level in your playing... maybe a little too excited...

Now that the secret is out I hope we all get to hear some of it one day.

Dude, where the hell have you been? I haven't heard from you in frackin ages!

[MetalManiac]

What the hell is wrong with you guys? When I make a thread of this nature everyone gives me a hard time and everyone sucks up and agrees in this one because it's Jerry?

Get outta here!


Dude, where the hell have you been? I haven't heard from you in frackin ages!

I'm glad you ressurected this Beer! Actually, not long after this thread of me playing only clean, I went and tried playing with a very moderate to light heavy gain, and hell nah, it magnified every little mistake i did, and I SUCKED much worse than playing the cleans I thought were making me such a better player!!!

I think what I really meant was, using too much compression , not gain per-se, can really hide mistakes.

[Beer$]

It's okay to be proud of being a great player, but people who brag about being great players when they haven't set foot on a stage for over a decade really bothers me.

Compression can be a bit of a cheat for some players who just can't get their chugs and flashy hammer ons clean and 'taught', then the producer will stick one in front of their amp. But some amps, you turn the gain up and everything can get out of control and mistakes can be even MORE obvious.

I've heard kids that don't know what they're talking about say "you can't solo through a mesa boogie" because their br00tzbreaker combo with a 10" speaker and digital distortion compresses so much that when they plug into a big, open sounding tube amp, the truth comes out. But I don't want a 335 Jerry, alright?

[MetalManiac]

It's okay to be proud of being a great player, but people who brag about being great players when they haven't set foot on a stage for over a decade really bothers me.

Compression can be a bit of a cheat for some players who just can't get their chugs and flashy hammer ons clean and 'taught', then the producer will stick one in front of their amp. But some amps, you turn the gain up and everything can get out of control and mistakes can be even MORE obvious.

I've heard kids that don't know what they're talking about say "you can't solo through a mesa boogie" because their br00tzbreaker combo with a 10" speaker and digital distortion compresses so much that when they plug into a big, open sounding tube amp, the truth comes out. But I don't want a 335 Jerry, alright?

Nothing wrong with a 335, Great guitar despite my sensationalism..just make sure you know that there are different higher grade Gibson Semi-Hollows..some people don't even know that.
I really need a break from this place. One person drumming up the same tired crap all the time gets on peoples nerves , I'm sure. I'm just bored/don't have areal life...and I'm addicted to this forum- its so cool.

[Edgecrusher]

..and I'm addicted to this forum- its so cool.

Its so cool that you make it your personal mission to defecate in it every chance you get. Really sounds like you need to take a break from more than just the forum

[TheLivingDead]

I keep stepping in Jerry crap.

[JOLLY]

My shoes stink.

[Beer$]

It's not easy to sound badass with gain and compression. If you can't write badass songs and put thought into your writing to really say something in your songs, there is nothing "mean" or "evil" about it.

Do you really think people want to hear some dolt lazily chugging away between one open string tuned to drop Q and throwing in a powerchord just to stop chugging for half a second at a time... through his square wave rectifier/misery generator while Emo McBeiberSwooshHair squawks with angst about his irrelevent, unrelatable middle-class upbringing and mundane everyday "tribulations" sounding like a frightened chicken running away from a curious bison and then "singing" in a whiny, blocked-nose boy-band voice in a forced attempt to try and be "dynamic" while causing an imagined unpleasant smell to eminate from the speakers as the listener wrinkles his nostrils and reaches for the off button?

Yeah, real badass. I bet it sounds badass to someone playing in their apartment to themselves.

What about songs? What about taking said songs to the stage, to people. Kicking ass. Taking names.

There's nothing badass about any guitar sound if it's done in the same way as masturbation. An aimless, repetitive and lonely cycle.

[crusty philtrum]

Do you really think people want to hear some dolt lazily chugging away between one open string tuned to drop Q and throwing in a powerchord just to stop chugging for half a second at a time... through his square wave rectifier/misery generator while Emo McBeiberSwooshHair squawks with angst about his irrelevent, unrelatable middle-class upbringing and mundane everyday "tribulations" sounding like a frightened chicken running away from a curious bison and then "singing" in a whiny, blocked-nose boy-band voice in a forced attempt to try and be "dynamic" while causing an imagined unpleasant smell to eminate from the speakers as the listener wrinkles his nostrils and reaches for the off button?

Sentence Of The Year, 2012.

[phil_104]

Still waiting.

Where are the clips man? I'm still waiting to be blown away.

[Beer$]

What's your album called Jerry?

[TheLivingDead]

It's called Chinese Democracy II.