Hey doomers. I’ve recently got back to playing guitar, after many years of not doing so. I used to play mostly classic rock and stuff like Metallica. Now, since then I’ve gotten bit by the bug of doom. Sabbath, Candlemass, Electric Wizard, Sleep, the classics of the genre and more. And now, I want to make my own sound. My current guitar is an Ibanez Gio with a Floyd Rose bridge, and I can’t really bother with setting it up anymore. I’m going to buy a new guitar with a fixed bridge, potentially another Ibanez or an LTD Tele as I like their feel. I can’t really choose a tuning to stick with, however. I’m between D standard, C# standard or C standard, and their respective drop tunings. Which ones do you guys use? I’m thinking of using 10-54 strings, skinny top heavy bottom, but I might go 11-60.
Apart from that, I’m planning a budget pedalboard, as things are expensive in my part of the world. Current plan is: Joyo Splinter for a Rat sound, DOD Carcosa for that sweet fuzz, Joyo Oxford for that Orange sound, Caline Multimod for modulations, and Caline Ragnarok for Delay/Reverb. Any more recommendations or suggestions?
I always like best-of-both worlds options, so I’m going for a guitar with good high output humbuckers and coil splits on a push pull pot. Ah yeah I did like the sound of C#standard when I tried it on an acoustic guitar this week, and I hadn’t thought about being near Drop B. That’s a bonus! I know about the Behringer Super Fuzz, but I really don’t like the way it sounds. Feels like rattling a tin can of nails. Or angry wasps. I do like Fuzz Face style fuzz, and Muff style, but I want something in between them. That’s where the Carcosa goes. I listened to gear demos and reviews of a million fuzz pedals on YouTube and I cannot think of any other that I liked more than that one. The actual ProCo Rat is a bit hard to get here, that’s why I was looking into the Joyo clone. Other than it having the issue of not working well under intense heat, it seems to sound just as well as a regular Fat Rat. And I don’t intend on playing under the summer sun at midday anytime soon.