How to get a Badmotorfinger type sound?

BetterRadio

Any help availiable?

I have an Ibanez electric and a digitech gnx2 digital pedal.

Pearl Jam and toast

Just my personal opinion..

Drop the digitech shit and get a real pedal. A billion processed effects that you have little or no control over isn't going to get you anywhere but a bad sound.

As for the Badmotorfinger sound.. A Marshall amp played loudddddddd should get you pretty close.. wah pedal couldn't hurt either.

lucylespian

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

Just my personal opinion..


As for the Badmotorfinger sound.. A Marshall amp played loudddddddd should get you pretty close.. wah pedal couldn't hurt either.

Gotta agree, good tone nearly always comes from turning a good amp up til the guts wanna drop out of it.

BetterRadio

Yeah I hate the fucking thing...I bought it 2 years ago for 300 bucks. I've used two of the 50 settings in 2 years.

I'm ready to drop it and buy a nice analog pedal.

keeponrockin

BetterRadio wrote:

Yeah I hate the fucking thing...I bought it 2 years ago for 300 bucks. I've used two of the 50 settings in 2 years.

I'm ready to drop it and buy a nice analog pedal.

Good Call!

Pearl Jam and toast

BetterRadio wrote:

Yeah I hate the fucking thing...I bought it 2 years ago for 300 bucks. I've used two of the 50 settings in 2 years.

I'm ready to drop it and buy a nice analog pedal.

It's not just that, but my experience with it is that pretty much all of the sounds are terrible, processed garbage. Buy a tube screamer or something

lucylespian

Don't feel bad, we all started with that stuff. I still have my digital effects pedal, I use it as tuner. It's not that they are bad, just not great, and if it hasn't got the sound you want, it's hard to get it. They just tend to have too many effects. Meantime, pick a sorta heavy rock sound , then go and turn most of the effects off except your distortion, and maybe some reverb.
What amp are you running ?? That's what is really important.
Do some reseach before you jump into a pedal, everyone here loves TS-9 cos they are great for PJ through a tube amp, but unless your amp is pushing some gain, I don't think you get heavier sounds for other stuff.

Pearl Jam and toast

lucylespian wrote:

What amp are you running ?? That's what is really important.
Do some reseach before you jump into a pedal, everyone here loves TS-9 cos they are great for PJ through a tube amp, but unless your amp is pushing some gain, I don't think you get heavier sounds for other stuff.

That's true. But if you've got an amp with a great drive channel then the TS-9 could be the perfect pedal for you,.. get a nice warm sound and add some mids to your amp's gain.

Pacomc79

what amp are you playing through?