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Any suggestions on crafting a "chunky" distorted metal guitar sound a la Metallica?
Thanks

In program mode, choose an overdrive/distortion guitar sound.

Add in the Effect Chain a Tube preAmp effect.
Raise all the gains.. but turn down the output volume or the patch volume, as gain can highly increase the volume.

Tweak a bit, and look for those double effects (Guitar Amp and stuff), and raise up the drive, while choosing the amp simulation..

Thats pretty much all the advice i have..


Cheers
Raffi

Triton has a voice called Muted Monster that is pretty nice for that style - might also be in Krome's bag of guitar voices. Good place to start if you're tweaking sounds.

Guitar's are problematic on a couple of counts.

Keyboards are built to give a much smoother dynamic slope. Because dynamics play a big part in the reaction of a guitar's sound you might want to look at the Amp section of your program to see what adjustments you can make there to skew toward over-reaction end of the spectrum - it might make the sound more guitar-like.

The distortion effects available are kind of homogenous and generic. "Non-offensive" is not the word you'd typically use to describe in-your-face metal distortion. You can try putting your own pedal in line with a normal (i.e., clean strat or tele) patch and step on it for distortion on demand.



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