Playing Open / Jazz Chords With Distortion Sound Awful For Me |
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Playing Open / Jazz Chords With Distortion Sound Awful For Me |
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Jul 9 2008, 02:55 PM |
When two strings are played on distorted channel, other than two notes that they produce, they produce a third note too. When you strum a chord of multiple strings than all the strings produce these added overtones and it sounds dissonant because not all intervals produce notes within a scale - thus being disharmonic. If you for example strum pure intervals like octave 4th or 5th, you get a note that is in harmony with the interval so powerchords are often used on heavy distortion because of the clarity they produce.
Also a note here, that tube amps and pickups specially play an important role here too. If a pickup is of pristine quality, and tube amp is involved, the chord will sound much clearer because of the pure accuracy of the tone transmitted from string vibrations. This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Jul 9 2008, 02:55 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jul 9 2008, 05:03 PM |
I agree with Ivan, not only the quality of the amp matters here, the pickups play a very big role in this too. I love my EMG 81s exactly for this reason, they give you a very defined and clear tone with high gain amps while a lot of other pickups that I tried before resulted in a very muddy sound.
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Jul 12 2008, 05:02 AM |
Depends of tuning as well,and it depends A LOT!
Per example if you fret the note,usually it might go just a little higher of perfect pitch,specially if you do barre. And this little move (you cannot hear is as a not tuning) is just enough to make the whole mess. Some players tune certain strings a micro step bellow just to avoid this problem. And type of distortion is important as well, EQ,cuts etc....needs lot of tweaking. -------------------- Youtube
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Jul 12 2008, 10:28 AM |
Safest way is to play those chords on a clean channel/settings is it fits your song profile...
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Jul 12 2008, 10:28 AM |
Yup, absolutely true, tuning plays a huge role in this of course.
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