Recent content by Chazzy

I am growing so tired of my 6534+ so I put it up for sale. Someone offered me 900$ which is pretty decent and was thinking of buying a jcm900 dual reverb (4100). I am just worried the jcm wont have enough gain for death metal? or be able to handle semi low tunings. I will be playing D standard...

Looking for a book that covers advanced death metal guitar techniques... especially string sweeping, 5-6 string sweeping with tapping and some interesting minor scales and chords that work well in modern death metal application... anyone have any suggestions??

Which one of these is the best quality? I am looking at either an esp e2 horizon fr black, a jackson kelly ke2, or an ibanez j custom rg8420ZD. I plan on changing the pickups on all of them to some bareknuckles just so you know...

Im used to play 6 drop c but now im going to buy a really nice 7 string guitar! thinking of an ibanez j custom... Ive played 7 strings a bunch but I have never experimented with pickups on them... I know the nazgul and black winter are good 7 string options... any others? I play technical death...

So I have been using NYXLs for the last 3 months ish, and Im in need of a new set of strings, sadly theres no NYXLs in 11-56 at my local shop so I will try an alternative... Something super bright, And that has 11-54 (ish) gauges... I play metal in drop C... I have tried normal eb strings and i...

Do you guys think i could remove the magnet of my pickup without removing the pickup it self from the guitar? I pull of guitar strings, unscrew pickup, flip guitar and than heat gun etc etc. You think i could do it? Has anyone done it themselves?

So I really dont like my nailbomb neck.. ive messed with it considerably and its cleans are good but idc too much about cleans... I want something more aggressive... Where i can hear the pick attack... jazz ceramic maybe? Also with the jazz ceramic could i maybe pull of some pinch harmonics in...

So I have been planning on rebuilding my 412 cabinet for sometime and am waiting for some parts to arrive in the mail... In the meantime I am trying to understand whether to wire my speakers in series or parallel... in my current cab i believe they are in parallel... the speakers are each 8 ohms...

I have a nailbomb bridge(a5) that i have grown to like in my new guitat with the correct heighy set... I am not to fond of the nailbomb neck, after playing it for around 2-3 weeks i found it too dark and not sharp enough for my tastes... The nb bridge is borderline to mushy but through my peavey...

My music teacher at school is leaving and moving to china, he was probably the best teacher i have ever had and the classroom and I have decided to chip in some money to buy him something, I am in charge of buying him the gift, he is a bass player who plays classic rock and jazz stuff and i...

I like 10-46 for standard tuning, but find the top strings a little heavy, in Drop c# 10-52 is basically perfect for me except id like it to be slightly lighter on the top string. For C standard would 11-56 be ok? Not too floppy? I have tried 12-60 for drop C and it was horrible... way to heavy.

So this is really embarrassing... I have completely neglected standard tuning since I got into metal, and to be honest i am tired of drop tunings... so I will be going back to standard, what are some good exercises for very fast power chords changes slides etc?

So I have celestion g12l 35s currently and if I were to switch them out to some other speakers what would be the difference in volume? Also I dont know which speakers to go for for metal... I just want a low volume balanced speaker really, nothing special, whatever is cheap...

Ive decided i will embark on a building journey... to build a 412 cabinet, I just dont have the money to buy a marshall or mesa cab and really enjoy building, I figure i can put the celestions in a cab i build myself after the dimensions of a mesa oversized. What is the sturdiest and cheapest...

Just out of curiosity when you bias the an amp hotter, does it give you more volume? or does it mean that the power tubes break up at lower volume?