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joe
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Post A Question for Metal Players...
on: July 29, 2012, 00:59
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Almost every metal player I've ever met or interviewed hails Tony Iommi for the heaviest sound ever. But why, then, do no metal players do like he did and use moderate output passive pickups and minimal germanium distortion?

I'm not being snarky. I really want to know why no one does!
Oinkus

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Post Re: A Question for Metal Players...
on: August 3, 2012, 05:34
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Monkey see monkey do ?
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Post Re: A Question for Metal Players...
on: August 3, 2012, 07:48
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Before I became a disciple of yours, Joe, I never would have known how Iommi got his sound. I think it's just ignorance. If you don't know, you can't do.
MNMagnus

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Post Re: A Question for Metal Players...
on: August 3, 2012, 17:14
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I blame Spinal Tap, this one goes to 11!

Actually a really good question, I think that Sabbath just sounds so heavy over all that when your new to playing you think that the only way to get heavy is to be behind a wall of distortion. I played that way up until the last 5 years or so, it was always 100% drive all the time.
bear

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Post Re: A Question for Metal Players...
on: August 4, 2012, 20:59
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AC/DC is the same way -- they never really saturated the amps, but everyone always assumes on 11.
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Post Re: A Question for Metal Players...
on: August 5, 2012, 17:00
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People did what they thought he did with what they had.
I also think he is credited with being the heaviest because he did that style of 'heavy' first.

Double D

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Post Re: A Question for Metal Players...
on: August 10, 2012, 02:34
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This is the same thing that has everyone trying to buy amps and pedals with that "Plexy" sound; Plexies are great, but they're freakin' clean and tight, not saturated (which seems to be what everyone is trying to sell us). Often, strong clean (or cleanish) tones sound heavier than distorted tones, and Iommi's is one of the cleaner sounds in the history of the genre. Honestly, I got out of playing rock when I was in my twenties (although I play it now) because all I heard were the same ideas rehashed faster/slower and more distorted. Yawn...
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