Black metal guitar riffs?!
Question: the early black metal bands such as mayhem and emperor have really hollow sounding riffs
i have tried to get the same sound by turning the bass down and turning the treble way up but can't seem to get it quite the same anyone know how its done and with what effects are used
Answers: the early black metal bands such as mayhem and emperor have really hollow sounding riffs
i have tried to get the same sound by turning the bass down and turning the treble way up but can't seem to get it quite the same anyone know how its done and with what effects are used
Hi,
From my own experience, all the early Emperor/Mayhem stuff is in standard E tuning so firstly tune your guitar to that. Secondly, select the bridge pickup on your guitar (it has a higher frequency so it gives you a more cutting, treble sound) and depending on your amp, set the gain (distortion) to 7, bass (low) to 5 or 6, middle to about 7 and treble (high) to between 7 or 9 (depends on what sounds good to you). A lot of the guitars on those albums have tons of reverb on them to give the hollow, echoey sound so I'd suggest turning that up too..
Also, and take this into consideration when trying to achieve "that" sound, Mayhem's De Mysteriis and both Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse and Anthems were recorded in a place called Grieghallen in Norway wich is a hall that was either owned or dedicated to a classical composer (his name escapes me but I believe the the word Grieg or Griegor was his name) so there would have been alot of natural reverb in the room/hall.
I hope this helps.
could have been the guitar/amp combination, or try a mid of midrange to drive it.
thay usully turn the bass up and use pedels such as metal distortion heavey distorotion thay also used 7 string guitars witch have a bass string above the low E