I've recently become obsessed with classic Burzum guit-toanz

[Seizurema]

And I'm trying to find a suitably shit high gain "metal" pedal to do the job on the bass. I have a Supercollider, Dream Mangler, Spectacular Aenima, and Metal Zone (I really thought it would be the one, man. You see enough of them for 40$ used in guitar center.), none of which really do it. You know the type sound I mean. Classic blackmetal waves of tremolo picking with so much gain that everything is just kind of one amorphous mass of frequency.

The main problem is maintaining the bass in a musical way. Too many bad metal pedals I've used just fart out or make it buzzy in a choppy lo-fi unpleasant way - very not conducive to the smooth vibrating waves of tremolo picking atmosphere style - or have too much of a treble cutting edge to get that really washed out vibe. The massive amount of trebly gain is important but it has to be the right sounding gain.

So I'm looking for suggestions. Something to cop the aesthetic and keep the lows relatively full and smooth and loving, and the treble to be whitewashed hell.


I was thinking DOD Shredmaster, but I wonder about the bass response. Or Boss HM-2, but I think that might actually be a good pedal.

[Seizurema]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wry9G6rcdQw[/youtube]

[WeHuntKings]

viewtopic.php?f=149&t=25393

here's my thread on the subject. i've been wanting to cop some burzum sounds myself. i just picked up a digitech death metal pedal for 25 bucks that should be arriving in the mail in the morning. i'll let you know how that goes.

the hm-2 is absolutely incredible though. catastrophic amounts of gain and evil frequencies.

[goroth]

HM-2 is too um... full sounding and middy, or something. It gets you Entombed sounds, not really Burzum. I seriously thought a Metal Zone with slightly lower gain might get you in the right territory. But hmm.. I've got an old Rocktron Rampage that might get into Burzum-ish territory. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMEbXs8gNqE[/youtube] This is a fairly accurate portrayal of the newer model - the old one sounds better though because it is older

[GardenoftheDead]

Honestly, the Burzum guitar sound is a shitty solid state amp with lots of gain and treble. The bass sound was pretty much just direct-in, though you can only really hear the bass on his recent, vastly inferior albums.

[Lemyisgod]

A cranked Squire SS Champ with the treble all the way up will get his sound instantaneously. Especially if the amp was kicked around some. Literally buy any extremely cheap SS amp with a shitty speaker and crank it all the way with the treble up will get the Burzum sound.

[Lemyisgod]

Oh and a Marshall Drive Master can get really close to that sound too. Just set it so its extremely thin sounding.

[Mudfuzz]

DOD Death metal..
here is me OLD demo
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_so ... ID=7565482

[GardenoftheDead]

I always thought it was jcm 800 an tube screamer?

That was Euronymous' set up (plus an Arion Metal Master).

[Lemyisgod]

Burzum mostly played with an old peavy amp but some of his more lo-fi stuff was recorded with a shitty marshall SS and then the whole Filosofem album was recorded threw a Stereo Deck instead of a proper amplifiers. on Filosofem he even used a shitty head set mic to record the vocals.

[WeHuntKings]

i think it would be awesome to reproduce the sounds of filosofem and the like on stage at high volumes. it would probably end up sounding like the metal version of the jesus and mary chain.

[Lemyisgod]

Thats the exact sound Im going for with my new band and have been trying lots of different stuff to get the sound. So far I have a toy microphone which gets the vocal sounds completely. For guitar Im using a shitty Strat copy and a broken amp thats going to have to be miced threw a PA to be usable at concert levels.

[WeHuntKings]

i'm trying to blend this sort of thing with a very early extra capsular extraction era earth type sound. industrial, grindy and slow, with waves of lacerating guitar. drum machines and droning bass. trying to find a decent loud tube amp for it.

are you in standard tuning?

...its so infuriating that varg is such a hellacious fuck-face. why does his music rock so hard?

[GardenoftheDead]

...its so infuriating that varg is such a hellacious fuck-face

iknorite. ><

[Ancient Astronaught]

Metal muff with the treble boost engaged???? That pedal to me was always that instant lo-fi olde skewl black metal toanz in box, like driving an icepick into your ears.