Elements vs the rest

[goroth]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbU1_Ep4izY[/youtube]

[Ryan]

Super cool video! What a metal pedal collection Dennis has hey!

[goroth]

Yeah, that dude is a gear machine. And he always plays fantastically. For me this video shows what's so great about the Elements - the differences in how things clip are pretty subtle in a band context/compressed-to-shit-youtube-context, but the eq really gives character. I love how the Elements EQ is constructed, and the tonal possibilities it offers. = Slayage.
</fanboy>. But it's true

[Helter]

I am so darn excited to play the elements and I wouldn't even know how to begin playing the br00tal MeTalz in that video but it made me want to learn

[goroth]

Morbid Angel can teach you all you need to know about extreme metal.

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/m/morbid_angel/god_of_emptiness_guitar_pro.htm
or if you don't have guitar pro, http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/m/morbid_angel/god_of_emptiness_tab.htm

They don't do the palm mute/tapping thing that Dennis does, but they rule. They do fast stuff well, but they're raddest doing sickening slow stuff.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYdfsZRURF0[/youtube]

[Pedaltones]

From that demo the Elements had the most defined upper-mids. graet vid!

[Helter]

firstly A) that was the furthest I've ever down tuned my guitar B) I actually had alot of fun jamming this even though my fender amp pee'd its tubes C) I unfortunately still don't like these death metal vocals much. Second, thanks for the links, I had fun screwing around with it but I think I'll stick to poppy garage rock and ambient stuff.

[skullservant]

I like the Elements the most because it's not got a bunch of sizzle around it compaired to the others which is my grievence with a lot of other distortions. It's clear and bold without the kind of graininess of the others in the tone

[goroth]

firstly A) that was the furthest I've ever down tuned my guitar B) I actually had alot of fun jamming this even though my fender amp pee'd its tubes C) I unfortunately still don't like these death metal vocals much. Second, thanks for the links, I had fun screwing around with it but I think I'll stick to poppy garage rock and ambient stuff.

[Ryan]

I love the vocals for the first half of the song and the crushing style of the guitar through that first half is so cool.. one of my favourite guitar pieces ever. But I don't love the last half, the bow to me faithfully part. I much prefer the demon voice, I'd have a demon voice for sure if I was a death metaller. I'll tell you what, I wouldn't have a goblin voice like some bands.... I don't go for that.

I've seen the Elements get called too sizzley more than once on TGP, even recently, but I think that really just depends on guitars and rigs and ears. I really like a saturated kind of distortion sound so it's probably a sizzley pedal... I think I like sizzle though! Especially when it comes to food cooking... you know something good is going on when you hear a great sizzle in a kitchen. The same must then be true for guitar pedals.

[Helter]

I'm really happy I found ILF instead of TGP. It doesn't seem to friendly over there and I don't think I could afford alot of the stuff they seem to gas about but here everyone is friendly.
*I didn't mean to break away from the sizzle talk, I'll get my sizzpinion when the elements get here.

[skullservant]

I love the vocals for the first half of the song and the crushing style of the guitar through that first half is so cool.. one of my favourite guitar pieces ever. But I don't love the last half, the bow to me faithfully part. I much prefer the demon voice, I'd have a demon voice for sure if I was a death metaller. I'll tell you what, I wouldn't have a goblin voice like some bands.... I don't go for that.

I've seen the Elements get called too sizzley more than once on TGP, even recently, but I think that really just depends on guitars and rigs and ears. I really like a saturated kind of distortion sound so it's probably a sizzley pedal... I think I like sizzle though! Especially when it comes to food cooking... you know something good is going on when you hear a great sizzle in a kitchen. The same must then be true for guitar pedals.

I've been listening to that song on repeat for the past 3 days now hahahah

And I'm really excited to try it out. Even if it is sizzly, it seems like with the midrange boost you can get out of it it doesn't have to have that super scooped gutteral sound and even just in Exie's video that midrange is what set it apart from the rest in a good way!! SIZZZLEEE AWAYYYY

[goroth]

I think "sizzle" and "fizz" are two different things. The Metalzone to me is fizzy, and it's something that you try and eq out, whereas the Elements has sizzle. It's kind of um... a slightly muffish quality to the distortion and it's really pleasing to the ear. And if you don't dig it run the pedal at higher voltage and the sizz is less prominent.

The mid range is the KEY to the Elements. Because it's before the gain stages it's like goosing a pedal or an amp with a highly tweakable tubescreamer or something. SUPER metal! You'll love it man.

[skullservant]

[goroth]

I'm really happy I found ILF instead of TGP. It doesn't seem to friendly over there and I don't think I could afford alot of the stuff they seem to gas about but here everyone is friendly.
*I didn't mean to break away from the sizzle talk, I'll get my sizzpinion when the elements get here.

I went from TGP to a Swedish forum to here. My post count at all forums I've ever been a part of is probably around 200. I thought I was a lurker till I came here. Then I realised I just don't like interacting with douchers.