Every time I try to obtain a good palm muted distorted guitar sound with Slayer2 VSTi + Amplitube VSTfx, I resign and go use a multilayered staccato viola instrument
(yes! every palm sound you hear in songs like Bound to Reality or Il Principio d’Indeterminazione is actually made with viola samples!!)
do you know of any VSTi+ampVSTfx combo which can be effective for such stuff?
maybe the better and more powerful sound of distorted string instruments is the reason that a german alternative band named THE INCHTABOKATABLES using only real viola, cellos or other string instruments for their avantgarde folk/punk/rock music
I dont think I really got what you mean with this…
I know how does a Distorted Guitar might sound (even if this means, as you surely know, a thousands different sounds) but can’t really get what “palm muted” should sound like…
A palm-mute is when you put your right hand (if you are playing a right-handed guitar…) palm against the lower end of the strings you are playing, causing the vibration of the strings to end quickly… good for rhythmical sections
a good example of this is “Another Brick in the Wall” (the quiet one, Part 1 i think) by pink floyd. it’s a really cool guitar trick, it’s good for chunky rythm stabs (esp. through distortion) and incidentally also sounds REALLY neat on a bass.
Yeah, it’s the oldest trick in the book for metal/rock.
It’s actually more like the bottom part of the palm where the hand meets the wrist that you use, like the bit that rests on the desk when you type/use your mouse.
Usually, a guitarist will use the lowest two strings (E, A) and use these to play a power chord like E + B, holding the plectrum between thumb and index finger, playing a downward strum.
(Guitarist for 9 years, quit to move onto D&B, buying a Fender Jag-Stang next month because I’m also fed up with VSTi guitars!)