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I had the same approach, I was just looking at the forums and practicing classes without posting, but as you saw, there is no need to be shy here, everyone is just too nice :LOL:
Two days ago, while playing over a backing track, I was finally able to play the introduction of Afterlife without any trouble, after spending a year learning that song. I feel so proud!
Play with the knobs and the switch. A strat can make a lot of very different tone depending on how you set it up. I would suggest you to also experiment with the height of the pickups with a screwdriver. If you never tried, there is no risk at all and it does a great difference on your tone...
Stretch your strings, like, A LOT. My guitar used to go out of tune all the time before I started stretching my strings correctly. To do that, pick a string and stretch it at three different points (toward the guitar's head, in the middle of the neck and toward the bridge). Pull for like 5...
Every amp are very different and react very differently to your pickups, your pedals and your guitar. There is no magic preset that could make you pull out someone else's tone straight from your amp. If you want to replicate a tone, start with all knobs in the middle like Ed said, a try to get...
They're insanely good. From what I've heard from them, their music have a lot of personality and is very original, mixing shredding with hip-hop beats. And they write killer riffs.