Synyster’s tone

[Christian Birdwhistell]

Hey syn my names christian I’m 19 years old and aspiring to be the metal god of guitar like yourself and was wondering how I could achieve your tone for covers and just playing I love your tone and I can’t seem to figure it out what’s a good way I could help achieve it a little or even something similar and if anyone else knows a good way they have achieved it all help is appreciated thanks. foREVer

 

[idssdi]

Well, the easy thing to do would be to get an axe-fx and the cabpacks from the store. Unfortunately you need qUite a bit of money for that. Then the difficult part would be Syn’s fingers(yes tone is in the fingers) and you can’t have those.
The simplest thing to do with what you have now is find your own tone(I think Syn has high mids so you can try that first)

 

[Christian Birdwhistell]

Ids Schiere yeh I know about the axe fix stuff lol but like you said that’s quite a big chunk of change I’ve been hunting for years for a Hellwin I finally got the cab and am in love with it it’s by far my favorite cab I love it more than my dime cab and my Marshall 1960 but yeh I’ll try the mids higher like you said. Thank you for the help

 

[Ed Seith]

It’s a high-gain mid-heavy tone. The Hellwin was based in large part on the 5150 Mk3, and that’s the amp used to emulate it in the AxeFX land.

 

[Jak Angelescu]

I’m ALWAYS the devil’s advocate on this topic here. But a lot of Syn’s tone can’t be emulated just by copying his sound. I’ve played on his actual stage gear before and I couldn’t make it sound like what I hear on the album or live at all. What I mean, is that Syn sounds the way he does because he knows how to work the tones with his fingers. I’ve seen players play on Syn’s exact set up and if you can’t PLAY the way he does, it’s not going to matter, you just end up sounding like someone with a really hot output. So make sure that as you’re on the quest for his tone, you learn how he makes it sound that good. Because even if you take Syn straight into an unplugged acoustic, you can still tell it’s Synyster Gates playing He’s got a sharp attack, a good vibrato, great sustaining grips and connection in his fingers, and good clarity in his runs. I guess to make it more simple, is that you can have his EXACT set up all you want, but if you were to take someone like me or someone else who isn’t as skilled, it’s not going to sound the same. You can get a very CLOSE sounding tone just by dialing in the right settings and playing as best as you can
I know that wasn’t the answer you were looking for, but I feel it holds some merit