This sounds amazing! Gotta throw in some Chaosphere riffs though… Corridor of Chamelions The Mouth Licking What You’ve Bled New Millennium Cyanide Christ And also the intro riff of Obzen can flatten a medium-sized city 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Meshuggah knows how to do polyrhythmns properly...Bands don't try to bind the rhythmns together to make them flow but Meshuggah actually does that. Quality plus for them.
I've always felt the Future Breed Machine is the most brutal, punishing Meshuggah riff. It has this weird almost out of sync feeling that makes it feel like it's trying to speed up but is being held back. Also, Rational Gaze and Demiurge are two of my favorite Meshuggah songs.
Nice one! If a Part 2 would ever come calling, There Is A Hell / Heaven has some peak riffs; Anthem, Home Sweet Hole, the absolute GOAT Visions and such 😭😎
The missing part. You can change the sound but you can't change the feel of the guitar. I would go for 012 and a wider neck when in acoustic modeling, I would go for 009 and slim neck for a superstrat.
A point of clarification: the reason for discontinuation had nothing to do with latency or capabilities. It was parts obsolescence. Unfortunately, the music products industry is quite small compared to the larger consumer products market. Thus, it is reliant on components used by other manufacturers that utilize millions of components and sell orders of magnitude more products that the music industry. When they move on, the music equipment manufacturers must adapt. Especially as more products incorporate IC chips, they’re completely beholden to availability. No music product manufacturer makes their own ICs, the small quantities make it financially prohibitive.
there is one flaw in your story.. the variax sound is achieved via analogue processing, so there is latency. And would I get one?? I already own 5 of them, which says it all..
@AlecBourneMidiMadScientist Thank you! I can't measure it exactly, but anecdotally I have noticed increased latency when using the pitch feature. The lower you go, the greater the delay from your input. It gets distracting.
I have 2 jtv 69 and had previously a standard. I think what people go wrong with it is trying it to be the perfect replica of the vintage gibson, fender and so on and when comparing it always feel lacking. I always look for a type of sound or new creative sounds and that's it. I can perfectly do palm mute with it altough you have to improve your technique. Magnetic pickups are more forgiving than piezo and with piezo a lot of detail comes out more quickly. It's a fantastic production tool for me in the studio.
In no particular order: ObZen (opening riff) Concatenation (Rare TraX Remix - slowed down and oh so much heavier.....) In Death Is Life Suffer In Truth Perpetual Black Second Bonus: Futile Bread Machine - that slaps hard AF 😜 There really is no definitive list though, everything they've done is insanely heavy by any definition.
I'm learning Blackened and it's a killer. I've managed to do it at 70% speed haha. I need to work on my stamina and downpicking speed because it just kills my arm. I am also learning The Frayed Ends of Sanity. There are some really cool riffs in this one under the solo. Those two are two of my top 10 Metallica songs, well, really up there on the top 5.
I had a JTV59 and a JTV89. I did not like the neck of the JTV59, I loved the overall ergonomics of the JTV89. Sound-wise, the mag pickups were OK, and the models were...OK...just OK. I had coupled it to a Helix Rack, and I had to tweak quite a bit my sounds to get what I wanted. Also I had to adapt my technique to get rid of the unpleasant high pitch "pluck" the models were generating at high gains. I have to say though that being able to switch pickups, models and tunings on the guitar by just pressing one foot switch on the Helix was a killer feature! The last release: the Shuriken, was a commercial flop. It was a great piece of tech, but this particular tech (more than 10 years old) was not enough to get it to quality standards that most of us expect.
For me, the hardest part of blackened is the way the main riff sounds reversed right after the solo. I can never keep in time. But FFWF is damn hard, and that damage inc riff is my absolute favorite.
