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Date: 01-Jun-06 @ 11:41 PM -
RE: Linkin Park Guitar
Pretty standard detuned stuff man. It's a crappy lo-fi link you provided, ut i've got a few LP tracks in my collection, but generaly with detuned stuff it's Detune down to B or whatever, make sure to use heavier strings like mebbe 13's - 60's), layer the guitars, spread them using stereo imaging delay tricks, add your bass at the bottom, add a harmony layer perhaps, sorted. What amps etc they use i dunno, aren't they Morin modified Marshalls or Bognors or whatever?
also the actual guitar pickups is fairly important, something with a nice hot output but plenty of harmonics & string seperation.
Basswise, bass DIAD power chords work wonders under the riff, invariably you'll get the root and 5th with a 2-string chord playing the second string 2 frets above the lower string (like the first two strings in a guitar E-shape barre chord), but you can thing about the second finger placement to get variations which can do stuff when you start putting a minor 3rd or 6th or whatever with the root
it should be driving the roots, you wanna mix it so it's got a bit of snarl in the top mid but browl down below, so a bridge pickup selection, treble scoop it a bit and drop off the bottom so it's not mushing the riff. some distortion to taste try and catch that 6k edge but it's gotta be very blended in with the low guitar strings, it doesnt want to be very visible like you can hear it clearly.
Anyways it's the lowness of the tuning that gets the 'doom' ness in the riffs or a 7 string with a bass string on B, but a detuned 6 string is the one to go for i reckon
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