Amp or pickups more important?

[Nacho8807]

Re: Amp or pickups more important?

So is gain like hotsauce or something?

Everyone keeps piling it on because they think it will make them seem more hardcore but really it's an acquired taste and adding way too much makes everything unpleasant and ruins what used to be there.

Yet at the same time you can't live without it and start putting it on everything against your better judgement.

Haha that's perfect!

 

[Demanic]

Re: Amp or pickups more important?

^^
That's why you tailor it, depending on the situation.

 

[allbutromeo]

Re: Amp or pickups more important?

So is gain like hotsauce or something?

Everyone keeps piling it on because they think it will make them seem more hardcore but really it's an acquired taste and adding way too much makes everything unpleasant and ruins what used to be there.

Yet at the same time you can't live without it and start putting it on everything against your better judgement.

This is almost every band in my area. Pile on the gain+boost bass&cut the mids=indecipherable mush&no real tone. It's like pouring so much hot sauce onto food that you don't even taste it, it just burns horribly.
*EDIT* : I should have said "Almost every hardcore/metal band"