Avenged Sevenfold tone

[Validity]

I'm trying to create the Synyster Gates tone without using the pickups that he used...guys help me out!  :headbang:

 

[elfro89]

To sound like a person you need to become that person. Forget equipment, look at how he makes the sounds he does. Eddie Van Halen will sound like Eddie Van Halen regardless of what guitar/pick-up/string gauge/amp/cab/FX/alcohol he uses.

Once you know how to create his tone, you can then worry about capturing his overall sound.

 

[NLD09]

Actually, there are a few aspects to Synyster Gates' sound that are impossible without his pickups. He uses a sustainiac system. I don't really listen to Avenged Sevenfold a whole lot but when I was researching the sustainiac on youtube it seemed like everybody had it in their guitars to replicate his sound. You may be able to skip the invader in the bridge, but the either a fernandes sustainer or a sustainiac (i recommend this one, it's much smaller) will probably be essential for certain nuances. However, like a said, I don't listen to them much so I may be totally wrong.

And I know that everybody says that these famous guys would sound the same regardless of setup, but if you put EVH on a fender twin with a jazz box he would have trouble replicating his own sound. Just sayin  :laughing7:

 

[pabloman]

His gear has been all over the place. I know at first he used Bogners and Mesas. His pups were JB's. This is from interviews I've read. Now they have the endorsement with Marshall. He says he uses 800's. Good luck.

 

[Patrick from Davis]

From the amps that he has used, he has several cascading gain stages.  The easiest way to get that sort of sound is, number one, get a tube amp that has a good dirty tone, two, get something like a ZVex Superduper to put in front of it, and three, some relatively high gain pickups.  If he is using Mesa Triple Rec's, Uberschalls, and now he has an endorsement with Marshall and likes the JCM800 sound, yeah, he is going for a high gain tube sound. 

Now, the ZVex SuperDuper is a cascading boost pedal with two identical circuits that boost into each other, and then have a volume knob to keep you from killing your amp.  The pedal costs and arm and a leg, but is very easy to build.  Either that, or get some boost pedals cheap and daisy chain them to get the over the top sound.  It generally works better to use boost pedals rather than distortion boxes, because the dirt boxes will end up sounding like sludge if you chain them together to try to get the amp to overdrive the way you are asking.  Anyhow, that is how I would try to get the rig to come close to sounding like his.  Either that or start shopping for Uberschalls.
Patrick

 

[Validity]

Not only the dirty tone...but the clean tones of Syn was totally awesome too...what does it take to get thin clean tones anyway?

 

[ironeddie]

To sound like a person you need to become that person. Forget equipment, look at how he makes the sounds he does. Eddie Van Halen will sound like Eddie Van Halen regardless of what guitar/pick-up/string gauge/amp/cab/FX/alcohol he uses.

Once you know how to create his tone, you can then worry about capturing his overall sound.

Agreed. I read an interview where John Petrucci played on Joe Satriani's rig and it didn't work out for him.  Also its possible to play someone else's tune note for note without sounding like that person...
Anyway If you want to get the tone without the gear that he uses, grab a GT 10 and get someone who is proficient with all that technical mumbo-jumbo to program that sound.