I’ve been wanting to try to incorporate some heavy guitar sounds into my Starfinger songs lately, so I asked my Songfight compatriots if they had any suggestions for getting that sound. Here is a brief document of my attempts thus far.

For the record, I don’t know how to play the guitar. This experiment was really more about seeing what kind of tone I could get out of my crappy Gibson Jr. guitar [ don't ask ].

Anyway, I recorded a simple riff directly into a mixer, piped into my sound card. I duplicated it, and delayed the copy by a few milliseconds, and panned them both in opposite directions. Then I ran the whole thing through iZotope Trash, and fiddled with it until it sounded meaty.

MP3 sample.

Clearly I don’t know what I’m doing, but I thought this sounded pretty good considering the crappy equipment. It’s more of a testament to Trash’s quality than anything else, I reckon.