[LAU] heavy metal guitar sounds please?

[Ken Restivo]

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:45:08PM +0200, Oscar wrote:
> Hi Florin,
> 
> Jens Johansson ( http://www.panix.com/~jens/ ), was Yngwie's keyboardist for

Heh, didn't know he was a nerd. Looks like he edits his own HTML.

> the first albums and gets very convicing guitar-like solo sounds from his
> Yamaha
> DX7. So, maybe you can get good results using Hexter for the base sound, and
> a
> combination of effects from CAPS and/or TAPS, Line6 POD or whatever.

I rather like this guitar sound from his webpage:
http://www.heptagon.se/audio/011.mp3

(Yes, I have that record, and I know that is Allan Holdsworth :-)

> 
> For guitar rythm riffs and chugga-chugga I think it's a lot easier to find a
> guitarist :)

Or just buy a guitar and learn to play. Rhythm playing is not hard.

- -ken
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> 2007/10/11, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>:
> >
> > Florin Andrei wrote:
> > > I'm having trouble finding a good source of heavy metal guitar sounds on
> > > Linux. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Forgot to mention, the reason why I'm looking for these sounds is that I
> > listened again recently, after many years, to some songs by Yngwie
> > Malmsteen on Youtube, and then a few metal-themed melodies of my own
> > started to echo in my head. So that's the kind of sound I'm looking for.
> > Classic-era metal - Malmsteen, Manowar. Maybe not quite as dark as
> > Metallica but their guitars don't sound bad per se.
> > Actually, I wouldn't mind a sound as aggressive as a thrash metal
> > guitar, but it will not be used for that kind of music.
> >
> > I don't care if it's sampled or synthesized, as long as I can use it
> > with Linux. I don't even care if it's hardware or software. As long as I
> > can use a regular MIDI keyboard to play, it's fine. I'm a keyboard
> > player. :-)
> > Combinations such as routing a keyboard sampler (set on "unplugged
> > guitar") through a hard or soft guitar distortion, are fine.
> >
> > --
> > Florin Andrei
> >
> > http://florin.myip.org/
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> 
> 
> 
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> Oscar Morante
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