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Reply 3600

Demon_AS

Er... dude? The question was rhetorical and meant as a joke only :p:

. What do I know about the guitar? Next to nothing.

Reply 3601

Mush

Demon_AS

Er... dude? The question was rhetorical and meant as a joke only :p:

. What do I know about the guitar? Next to nothing.

Now I look like a pedantic fool! ARGH! :p:

Reply 3602

Mush

Ok here's one. Who's ever heard Victor Smolski, the lead guitarist for Rage - A thrashy power metal band from Germany, NOT the rapcore band with Tom Morello :p:

?!

He's one of the freshest most original soloists I've heard in a while and I drift in and out of phases of listening to Rage for weeks at a time! His father is Dmitry Smolski, world renound Russian composer of Baroque! - So naturally Victor is well endowed in his theory and technique.

Well one of the techniques he encorporates a lot during his soloing is the old... flicking between 2 pickups even though one of them is turned off or has the volume set to 0! So you get that quick on-off effect.

Check the first notes of the solo on a Rage song called 'Down' off the 'Unity album, the video of which you'll find on Youtube. And also check the solo on 'War of Worlds' on the Soundchaser album(no video for this one!).

It's a very neat effect, I love it, very original.

I'd like to use it myself but my guitar only has a master volume knob and a master tone knob, so I'm turn the volume of one pick up to 0 and switch between them - so, does anyone know if there's a way to mod my guitar so I CAN do that, or if not - how costly would it be to have an extra volume knob fitted for one pickup?

OH I have an effect called Textrem on my Vox Effects board which KIND of emulates the effect, but it's just not the same! I'm sure he probably uses production techniques to do it on the album, because in some cases he doesn't do it live as it's done on the album because fast soloing whilst messing with pickup selectors can be tricky!

Reply 3603

Demon_AS

Mush

Now I look like a pedantic fool! ARGH! :p:

Nah, you just know what you're talking about. I'm the fool, my friend, not you.

Reply 3604

67382

Hey guys, don't know if you remember my post a while ago about my new amp. Well I finally got it a couple of weeks back and now that the exams have finished I've had chance to do some recording.

http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5527455&q=hi

There it is. The drums are a bit dodgy in places because I'm not a real drummer but whatever. let me know what you think.