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Posted by: vampire18 May 1 2009, 08:10 PM

in the video in the main page of gmc kris plays hes solo and the part where he does the fast ap near the end of the solo he has a very unique sounds before every note. thise little like pm souuns at the start of everynote. i dont know how to discribe it exactly but this really cool aping sound and i saw him having the same sound in some of his other videos. any idea how achieves it?

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl May 1 2009, 08:13 PM

I think that what you are hearing might be some slight palm muting. I did that because string skipping with alternate picking can be a little tricky to get clean!

Posted by: vampire18 May 1 2009, 08:18 PM

its very cool. its sounds absolutely awsome and i havent been able to do this at home. but you almost always have that tone when you play. maybe the volume isnt high enugh cause when i even slightly pm the high strings they go dead. do you use a lot of attack maybe? you play with the pick very straight with low angle?

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl May 1 2009, 08:54 PM

hehe thanks Vampire!
Yes I do try to get some attack - both with the pick ( I find this easiest with four or two note per string stuff - as is the case for this lick) and with the left hand fingers. And yes the pm is very very light - since I have quite some distortion I can get away with it.

>>you play with the pick very straight with low angle?
Yes I think so!

Posted by: Canis May 1 2009, 08:57 PM

The first thing I thought when I saw the topic title: Distortion! 11 on distortion!

Posted by: vampire18 May 1 2009, 09:51 PM

yeah. maybe my fender frontman with my squire isn't the distorting machine i would have liked.

Posted by: Canis May 1 2009, 10:07 PM

Ah.. I had a Squire myself.. Definetly not a lot of overdrive to collect from those pickups