Have you guys got any amp settings for melodic death metal sound(yes i have searched but i didn't find anything). And please don't tell me to ''turn the knobs and find out'' cos i've already tried.

well, get a setting that u like, i have no idea what a typical melodic death metaal setting is, or how its suppose to sound

i say get a sound u like, unless u wanna sound like a sertain band, but.. then ul nedd same equip as they use, blablabla, verry expensive

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lets start with... what equipment do you have? guitar, amp(head+cab? combo? what speakers?) accessories, ect...

name some bands with "melodic death metal tones"

if you've already tweaked the hell out of your setup and couldnt get sounds you enjoy... you need a new setup.

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The sound you want is too general... Like Amon Amarth sound nothing like Arch Enemy or At the Gates' tone. For oldschool melo death like early In Flames, Amon Amarth and Dark Tranquillity, boost those mids and highs.

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Well here's my setup then:
Gibson Lp special w/ EMG ZW
Fender FM 212 100 watts combo

And if it's useful here's my pedals(in order)
Dunlop Crybaby wah-wah
Boss MD-2 Mega Distortion
Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer
Boss CH-1 Super Chorus
Boss GE-7 Equalizer

And by death i mean like In flames like tone. Thanks Soeru i'm gonna try your tip later.

Your probally not happy because the MD-2 sounds like shit,They are nothing on 5150's.

Yeah but i was looking for some amp settings though...i don't use my md-2 alot.

sell the md-2 and fender and buy an amp better suited for that type of tone.

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yeah man buy a line 6 dude they wail.
Nah seriously you need a gain monster for that type of sound. A fender aint cutting it.

yeah new amp would do it... fenders dont have enough control when you overdrive them.

but for the sound, boost mids and highs (like soeru said), and keep SOME lows in it.... most melodic bands depend on the bass for their low end. Oh, and dont dime the drive, make sure you have enough to chug when palm muting, yet not too much to make it muddy.

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line 6 spider2.....

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Ok thanks for the help.

i think he was being sarcastic...

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okay, okay first off, for a melodic death metal sound, you want something with balls and if you want a good pedal, shell out about $120 @ your local Guitar Center, and get the DigiTech Metal Master w/ two year warranty and power supply. you'll need the power supply cause this damn pedal eats up a 9 volt in under an hour sometimes,the only drawback I've found in the pedal.

I know this looks stupid, but my knobs are set at this, and it sound damn good:

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hahaha..... sorry im a little slow at times.... but i love my line6 now that ive got the tones set up right and saved

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i have that pedal...... it sounds good but it has a ton of background noise.... i wouldnt use one without a noise gate while playing loud.

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I think a Framus Cobra w/ a Maxon OD808 works well.

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For an In Flames style tone, as the rest have said, boost those mids and highs, but don't dump the lows. I've had best success keeping the channels at the following settings for what you may call the "melodic death metal" sound:

Drive/Gain: 2 O'Clock
Lows: 12 O'Clock
Mids: Maxed
Highs: 4 O'Clock

As for effects, a compressor pedal or rack unit can be useful for maintaining a nice "tight" sound, as well as a noise gate, and maybe a tiny bit of reverb for some depth. I can get a really good sound setup for almost any style of metal with my Behringer V-Ampire head and Hartke 4 x 12 slant cab. If you want to know more about this head, let me know. I'll give you the rundown of the positives and negatives of it.

Cheers

i do and it sucks

so does your stupid ass metal master

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I like the DF-7 better.
For any hi gain you probably need a noise suppressor.
Yeah I agree a Cobra kicks ass. but the fuckers are expensive. Over 3k for head and cab, but the beast is worth it. I have one on layaway. I hoping to pick the bitch up soon.
Ditch the Fender as the X man said ,if you want that type of sound.

my settings for melodic death on my triple xxx ( on the crunch channel )

gain/drive - 1 o'clock
bottom/lows - 10 o'clock
body - 12 o'clock
edge/highs - almost maxed out

but this wont help you out much, cause you have a fender amp.....so i say in you're situation...max everything out...but you're working with the wrong gear for this type of music.

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i have a spider II... all the built in effects are decent... and it somehow filters out external distortion pedals... when im rich im guna sell it for chump change and get me a reaaal amp.

but... i can get a pretty convincing Dark Tranquillity sound out of it.

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Here is what I run my Strat through. I have a boss GT-8. That thing is awesome for a number of reasons but I mainly like effects processors because of how you can change tones and styles very easily. It has a stereo out so what I do is I run it through my Line 6 and my guitar research 60 watt half stack. Now, I can't really have any stereo effects on that thing because they are not the same amp and the sounds are slightly different. However, since neither of these amps are incredible at high sounds, I can set them up right next to each other at lower levels and it sounds really good. For my melodic metal sound I can boost up the low end more and it wont sound like crap because I am running it through two amps. I also have a decent amount of reverb and a really quiet delay so you can barely hear it. It makes a huge difference though. And of course you cant forget SHITLOADS OF DISTORTION. But you cant do to much or else all it sounds like is buzzing nonesense.

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it seems as though most people on here have a tone i would hate. shit loads of distortion? trust me there is such a thing as too much. and that scooped tone? even just a little scooped , as in less than half, sucks major tone ass.

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How many of you guys scoop your mids? I don't know about you but honestly i think is sounds better to have more mids(not like 11 but like 5-6). Of course, that's only me.

depends on the amp... i had a mesa vtwin preamp. literally had the mids at like 0. it sounded great, no metalzone effect there. very liquid no buzz from the lack of that freq.

same with a jcm 900, you can drop em all the way and they still sound sweet.

yet on like my splawn, it just sounds muffled with the mids down that much. i keep em around 11 to 1 o' clock depending on who i'm jamming with and how their tone is set up.

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some spider II amp models sound okay with scooped mids... but you have to dime the highs and lows... gets you this cool acid-like sound... other than that, i never scoop anything.

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Definetly, I hate when you have way to much distortion it just sounds like buzzing and you definetly cant get the notes to sound out clearly.

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Yeah, I keep the gain on my Crate at around 5-6 ish. The mids are maxed out, and somehow I ended up getting that uber-heavy gristly "scooped" sound, but with clarity and tone to spare. Then again, that's because of the rack units I'm using ...

Big boost with the mids, with a BBE and a compressor works fine for me. but you're fender doesn't really suit the style. Try to get a Behringer V-amp.

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I found that on my amp (randall RG50TC) when I've got the Lows and Mids at 1-2 o'clock, highs at 3 o'clock, gain at 12 o'clock and I can get an In Flames-ish tone.