Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

[Diego]

Killing those Metal tunes with a SSS Strat?
A Dimebucker on your Telecaster for the blues?
Or maybe the Metal Zone is the perfect boost for you?

I hardly ever play real loud, and I've found excellent tones with my 15 Watts 6V6 Egnater Tweaker, which shouldn't do heavy sounds at all.
I love it for vintage-infused heavy sounds, with my Les Paul tuned to Drop C.

I thought of replacing it with an Orange Crush 120 head for "obvious" reasons, but I love it as it is.

 

[metalchurch79]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

Yea im actually using a MetalZone as my overdrive. Im running it into a 15band rack EQ then into the clean side of my Engl tube preamp, which has a dedicated gain and master volume, plus a mid boost button.
I tried boosting the gain channel but it was really muddy, so I tried it this way and it works really good. With the 15band and the parametric mids of the MT-2 plus the aforementioned features of my Engl makes for alot of of finetuning.
Theres other ways to get where Im at, but this actually works really really good and I've had this same setup since 2007.

 

[PipeRain]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

I use (Carefully selected) Behringer gear and like it, does that count?

I have a Distortion-X pedal that is supposedly a knockoff of a Boss Xtortion and with careful tweaking is Rust In Peace rhythm tones in a box into the front end of a Marshall AVT150 on clean. I use a pair of old Behringer KX1200 keyboard amps for the output of my Eleven Rack and like those pretty well. I'm sure I'd get laughed off a stage anywhere I took them, but since they only get played in front of the couch or fireplace, it works for me.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

So is the couch or the fireplace the tougher audience?

 

[Diego]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

I use (Carefully selected) Behringer gear and like it, does that count?

Not really. Some Behringer stuff is questionable, and some of their stuff is great.
I used their Sansamp Bass clone thing for years, straight into PAs for gigs. It sounded excellent.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

I do it just the opposite
I have very good gear and
Shiitey technique that just ruins the genre that I am playing

But I have fun

 

[6stringerguy]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

I do it just the opposite
I have very good gear and
Shiitey technique that just ruins the genre that I am playing

But I have fun

I feel like I'm in the same boat...

 

[PipeRain]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

So is the couch or the fireplace the tougher audience?

The fireplace, most def. The couch is a good fallback position, the fireplace? Not so much.

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

Killing those Metal tunes with a SSS Strat?
A Dimebucker on your Telecaster for the blues?
Or maybe the Metal Zone is the perfect boost for you?

I hardly ever play real loud, and I've found excellent tones with my 15 Watts 6V6 Egnater Tweaker, which shouldn't do heavy sounds at all.
I love it for vintage-infused heavy sounds, with my Les Paul tuned to Drop C.

I thought of replacing it with an Orange Crush 120 head for "obvious" reasons, but I love it as it is.

There is no excuse for playing metal on a Strat or Tele with a stock output Tele or Strat pickup . If you do, then may God have mercy on your soul. There are so many great dedicated drop in replacement metal pickups that can go into a stock Strat or Tele ( the best of which are Duncan and Dimarzios-but you can find cheap adequate high output pickups ) IMHO, you must be mad or broke to play metal on a stock Tele or Strat with a stock output Fender pickup.
That said, I don't bring a 16 inch chainsaw to cut down a redwood tree. If I want Metal, I'm bringing a dedicated metal guitar with dedciated metal Humbuckers.I'm talkign modern metal. Not that you have to ..use what you got, but I don't bring a knife to a gunfight.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

Hey, I play in a jazzy blues band with a Steinberger and a Fractal, so whatever works.

 

[ToastyMagician]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

There is no excuse for playing metal on a Strat or Tele with a stock output Tele or Strat pickup . If you do, then may God have mercy on your soul. There are so many great dedicated drop in replacement metal pickups that can go into a stock Strat or Tele ( the best of which are Duncan and Dimarzios-but you can find cheap adequate high output pickups ) IMHO, you must be mad or broke to play metal on a stock Tele or Strat with a stock output Fender pickup.
That said, I don't bring a 16 inch chainsaw to cut down a redwood tree. If I want Metal, I'm bringing a dedicated metal guitar with dedciated metal Humbuckers.I'm talkign modern metal. Not that you have to ..use what you got, but I don't bring a knife to a gunfight.

i dunno man id to a certain point your entirely right but if people didn't break "gear rules" then we would never progress onto newer better tones or genres, speaking of which metal has so many sub genres and sounds you cant really say one tone fits all beyond having some form of distortion/fuzz/overdrive. one of the best tones i've heard was a squire strat (stock & sh*tty) through a gated metal muff... go figure?

 

[Lucius Paisley]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

There is no excuse for playing metal on a Strat or Tele with a stock output

There is one excuse - who gives a ****? It's like saying you shouldn't be playing thrash unless you're wearing black jeans and Adidas sneakers.

 

[BriGuy1968]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

I think all gear is DESIGNED to be totally inadequate.

Why else would we always be GASsing for the next thing?

 

[Lucius Paisley]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

I think all gear is DESIGNED to be totally inadequate.

Consider that we've recently been told that the fretboard we've all been playing for the last couple of centuries is "wrong".

 

[Van Noord]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

There is no excuse for playing metal on a Strat or Tele with a stock output Tele or Strat pickup . If you do, then may God have mercy on your soul. There are so many great dedicated drop in replacement metal pickups that can go into a stock Strat or Tele ( the best of which are Duncan and Dimarzios-but you can find cheap adequate high output pickups ) IMHO, you must be mad or broke to play metal on a stock Tele or Strat with a stock output Fender pickup.
That said, I don't bring a 16 inch chainsaw to cut down a redwood tree. If I want Metal, I'm bringing a dedicated metal guitar with dedciated metal Humbuckers.I'm talkign modern metal. Not that you have to ..use what you got, but I don't bring a knife to a gunfight.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

While it would be difficult to make a stock Tele sound like another Metal band's EMG81-equipped mahogany neckthrough, even if you used the same amp, there's no excuse for any genre of "Metal" to use the same exact tonal setup across the board. None.
This is one of the core problems with "modern Metal" - everyone tries to sound identical and say " but but but... THAT'S the sound!"

Make your own sound, stop copying someone else's. If it takes a Tele and BigMuff to stand out, use it. Don't worry what Hammered Fetus or Cystic Entrails use.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

Hey, I play in a jazzy blues band with a Steinberger and a Fractal, so whatever works.

I play boozy blues on a Soloist through a Hughes & Kettner.

 

[Diego]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

While it would be difficult to make a stock Tele sound like another Metal band's EMG81-equipped mahogany neckthrough, even if you used the same amp, there's no excuse for any genre of "Metal" to use the same exact tonal setup across the board. None.
This is one of the core problems with "modern Metal" - everyone tries to sound identical and say " but but but... THAT'S the sound!"

Make your own sound, stop copying someone else's. If it takes a Tele and BigMuff to stand out, use it. Don't worry what Hammered Fetus or Cystic Entrails use.

Don't get me started on THAT plastic, uber-compressed drum sound everyone uses.
That's why I dig the sounds on the newest Mastodon album so much. You know, drums that sound like drums.

 

[Demanic]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

I'd like drums that sound like different household and industrial items.

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[Demanic]

Re: Anyone using a totally inadequate piece of gear for their style, with success?

Imagine a kick drum that sounds like a forklift backing into a steel dumpster.

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