Palm Mute With Fuzz Pedal?

[Silence Kid]

Re: Palm Mute With Fuzz Pedal?

Is your gut closer to your nads, or your chest?

Recto ( gut punch to the nads)or 6505 ( gut punch to the chest

[Chickenwings]

Re: Palm Mute With Fuzz Pedal?

I don't mean to be a grammar nazi, but a gut punch by definition is a punch to the gut.

[Falloffthebonetone]

Re: Palm Mute With Fuzz Pedal?

Yeah, as everyone is saying the modern big muff is not a real chugging maching. Some people run boosts or overdrives to tighten up the tone and help the mids cut through a bit, but unless you have a fuzz pedal specifically designed to shape how the pedal handles your guitar's attack. (See swollen pickle and blackout musket) it's gonna require some tricks and outside help to pull off.

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Palm Mute With Fuzz Pedal?

I don't mean to be a grammar nazi, but a gut punch by definition is a punch to the gut.

Better than a nut punch to the throat, either way lol


While my BigMuff experience is limited to the model found in the Line6 M13, I was able to get the rhythm tones from Ride the Lightning with it, though I was using a JCM800 head through a pair of Carvin British12s (their Celestion copies) and a 2x12 cabinet. If you're getting flubby palm mutes, it could be the voicing of the amp and/or speakers/cabinet.

Then again, turning the Tone knob "Up" (clockwise) should not be increasing the buzz, but should actually be making it darker. Backing off (counter-clockwise) should be making it brighter. Apparently this is how the vintage BigMuff worked, which is what Line6 modeled.
This, I've found, is where the whole "scooping the mids to get that early Metallica/Anthrax thrash tone" started, and why a generation of players have been getting a "bee in a bottle" tone when they turn their Mids off on their amps.

Additionally, if you watch any backstage unprocessed footage of Metallica where James is playing solo, his tone is incredibly farty (the clip where they were waiting for Lemmy to arrive and James was trying to sing into Lemmy's mic).