How To Sound Like Dimebag (Pantera)

Amp Settings

Gain – 9

Bass/Low – 8.5

Mid – 2

Treble/High – 10

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How To Sound Like Angus Young AC/DC

Amp Settings
Gain - 5
Treble - 10
Mid - 10
Bass - 5
Angus Young Uses a Gibson SG

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Buying Your First Guitar/Bass

Choosing you first instrument can be a bit difficult.

How do you know if it’s a good guitar when you can’t play? The guy in the shop could make a Mickey Mouse guitar/bass sound good.

Top Tip: Don’t spend too much on your first instrument until you learn enough to actually play a bit!

Don’t be fooled all that shines isn’t gold.

If you spray paint and lacquer a piece of chip board it will look good. Some of these really amazing offers of Guitar or Bass with stand, tuner, amp and learning DVD all for £100 are too good to be true.

Some are no more than compressed cardboard spray painted and lacquered. As for the electrics some have complained that they are so low quality they die after a few months.

There may be genuine deals out there but some are only good enough for someone who gives it a go and packs in after a month.

Don’t be frightened to buy second hand!

If you buy a brand new guitar for £120 it’ll be worth £50 or £60 selling it second hand on ebay. Keep that in mind. How many guitars are bought tried out once or twice and land on ebay with someone wanting a quick sale.

Top Guitar/Bass’ hold their value and will be worth more in the future.

From the age of 4 I knew I wanted to play guitar. At age 14 I saw Steve Vai in the film Crossroads (Not the Britney Spears Film Ggggrrrr) I wanted to be able to do that and nothing was going to stop me.

So if you know for definite that nothing is going to stop you achieving on guitar buying cheap may be false economy. If so buy a decent instrument.

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How To Sound Like Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix
Gain - 4
Treble - 5
Mid - 5
Bass - 8
Reverb - 5

For Purple Haze Drive 8, Treble 7, Mid 9, Bass 6, Reverb 3, with Overdrive

To get a really good Hendrix sound try Amplitube Jimi Hendrix software

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How To Sound Like Zakk Wylde

Zakk Wylde Amp Setup
treble 10, mid 3, bass 10, presence 2/3, vol 10, master vol 6/7

Another Set Up

gain 6/8, presence low, mid 4/6, treble 9/10, bass 9/10 

For a more in depth look at Zakk Wylde gear click

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How To Sound Like Joe Satriani

JOE SATRIANI - SURFING WITH THE ALIEN

drive 7, treble 6, mid 3, bass 6, reverb 0, with distortion 

Guitars

• Ibanez JS models

Pickups

• DiMarzio PAF Pro (until 1993)
• DiMarzio Fred (Bridge position from 1993 to 2005)
• DiMarzio Mo' Joe and the Paf Joe (bridge and neck positions, from 2005 to present day)
• Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates

Amps

• Marshall 6100 Anniversary Head
• Peavey JSX

Cabinet

• Marshall 1960B Straight Cabinet 4x12” Loaded Celestion 12" G12M Greenback Speakers

Effects

• Vox wah
• Dunlop Cry Baby
• RMC Wizard Wah
• Digitech Whammy
• Boss DS-1
• Boss CH-1
• Boss CE-2
• Boss DD-2
• Boss DD-3
• Boss BF-3
• B OC-2
• Barber Burn Drive Unit
• Fulltone Deja Vibe
• Fulltone Ultimate Octave
• Electro-Harmonix POG

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GuitarTrump: Creative Tuning's Spider Capo: The Creepy Crawler ...

GuitarTrump: Creative Tuning's Spider Capo: The Creepy Crawler ...: Review Today I am very excited to share my review of the spider capo (provided by Creative Tunings). When I first read about the spider...

I saw this capo today. Which enables you do hold down individual strings. Well worth checking out

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