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  1. Ed Seith

    Using a Metronome For Riffs

    Metronome is intended to keep general pace, not to be an indicator for every note. For instance, Master of Puppets is played at 210bpm. Set your metronome for 210 bpm, and you will have roughly 2 notes for every count. If you listen to the metronome alongside the recording, you’ll hear how the...
  2. Ed Seith

    Does anybody know how to create a solid Synyster Gates solo tone on Axe Fx 2? :)

    PS: I’d be happy to send you my *.syx files if you want. Let me know.
  3. Ed Seith

    Does anybody know how to create a solid Synyster Gates solo tone on Axe Fx 2? :)

    So, since it’s just one element in the tone stack, everything else can be tweaked. I had started out with the Hellwin 4×12 when I bought the full, all-inclusive cab pack (it hadn’t yet been broken up to smaller groupings for cheaper yet!), and I settled on that mostly because tonally it worked...
  4. Ed Seith

    Which gauge strings do you guys use? And how does it affect your playing?

    Breaking strings is not about the gauge you’re using. Either you need to refine your picking more, or (more likely) you have a breaking point on the guitar, usually the nut or the bridge, that needs to be addressed by a luthier or “home remedy” if you have confidence and interest. Switching to...
  5. Ed Seith

    Does anybody know how to create a solid Synyster Gates solo tone on Axe Fx 2? :)

    Here’s a demo I did of the Syn Cab Pack. Syn was in attendance, and I went through my tone stack a little bit to explain how it works. A lot of this was done for people not familiar with Fractal or modeling, but you can hop around and find gold: https://youtu.be/fNRe3FwOkXY This one goes into a...
  6. Ed Seith

    power chord

    That first finger, the pointer finger, the one making the barre – the very tip of that should be barely touching the next thicker string, in this case the low E. That will help with keeping that note from ringing out. You can also, with the right hand, try to articulate your hit/strum so it...
  7. Ed Seith

    I've been noticing something peculiar about my playing lately.

    I think that playing slower and melodically with feel is your “new toy,” and even if it’s not better than your old toys, it’s the NEW one, so you’re going to play with it more.
  8. Ed Seith

    Clumsy fingers

    You pretty much described like every guitar player ever. After 35 years, I may rarely blow the fretting on a C major chord, but shit like that happens to everyone all the time. The difference between a beginner and a professional is in how you handle it during a performance. When you can learn...
  9. Ed Seith

    Question about playing live

    PS: If you are unable to boost for the solo, you need your level to be right for the SONG and the solo will have to suffer. Sucks, but tis the way of things. The solo is 30-40 seconds. The song is 5 or 6 minutes. The song wins, every time.
  10. Ed Seith

    Question about playing live

    Yeah, Ids has got you on the right track. I’m no Syn, but I have played many hundreds of gigs in my day (plus two in 2018!). Two things I have always done for my solo tone is a maybe 1.5db boost, and I alter the tone curve, boosting more mids and cutting deep lows for my lead channel, which...
  11. Ed Seith

    size of the pick

    While there are exceptions, there are really just two primary sizes of pick – the size you have, and the smaller (yes, smaller) Jazz picks that many of us prefer. The exact way Papa shows is one of many ways, like Calvin says. I would encourage you to try to get used to a standard-size pick...
  12. Ed Seith

    I need help trying to find a tone similar to the lead tone in critical acclaim

    Drive and gain are fundamentally the same thing.
  13. Ed Seith

    Truss Rod

    The truss rod is a finicky adjustment. For the inexperienced, you should never loosen it more than 1/4 turn every 24 hours, giving the wood time to relax into its looser state. Before you adjust the truss rod, make sure your bridge height is good. You can do this by fretting notes above the...
  14. Ed Seith

    How to get avenged sevenfolds tone?

    Of course you can. Most people don’t have a whole lot of different tones for playing along to different songs. I’ve got an AxeFX, and I’ve got a sum total of 8 presets I use: Crystal Clean, slight breakup clean, rock rhythm, metal rhythm, lead tone, blues tone, Andy Timmons tone (for using one...
  15. Ed Seith

    ~*FEEL FREE TO UPLOAD YOUR RIFFS HERE!*~

    @Jm – your strumming is good. Nice, loose wrist, decent rhythm. One of your upper (thinner) strings is out of tune there. That, or you’re fretting some chords wrong – hard to tell from that angle. Those strings ends will put your dog’s eye out, if you have one. 😉
  16. Ed Seith

    What Inspired you to pick up the Guitar for the very first time?

    @Ids – Richie Sambora is a BEAST of a blues-rock player. Check out his first solo album, Undiscovered Soul. For Bon Jovi, the solo in Dry County gets me every time.
  17. Ed Seith

    What Inspired you to pick up the Guitar for the very first time?

    @clem, you would be AMAZED at the number of people with your answer.
  18. Ed Seith

    What Inspired you to pick up the Guitar for the very first time?

    I’m not young, so this will date me a little. The bug bit me in around 1981. It was a combination of the guitar solo in this song, with the massive amounts of reverb and the giant pick scrape: And literally everything about this song: I think I finally talked my Mom into renting me a Fender...
  19. Ed Seith

    Mixing a heavy metal album Help!!!

    Send a couple pics and maybe an MP3 of the mix, if you want.
  20. Ed Seith

    Is rocksmith a good thing or a bad thing? (discussion

    I think it’s good for beginners, and people who want to get right into it and start learning real songs. I found the interface with the guitar laggy, so it wouldn’t be very good once a player was developing real speed in their playing, but anything – ANYTHING – that motivates people to want to...
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