Video: This is What Fashionable Steel Sounds Like On a $200 Inexperienced persons’ Guitar | MetalSucks

One thing I’m extremely vocal about as a metalhead and a metallic journalist is that I don’t perceive gear. I don’t care about how studios had been arrange for well-known albums, I don’t know one pedal from the opposite, and I believe “making-of” webisodes are pointless filler used to spherical out the promotion facet of an album cycle. Whereas I’ve been in a band, I used to be a vocalist, the last word no-gear job (at the very least for our grody asses). That mentioned, I do know that gear is vital to metallic’s sound, and I’m advised that you simply get what you pay for in terms of guitars, which is why I discover this video of a dude taking part in trendy metallic on a $200 newbies’ guitar even remotely fascinating.

The guitar in query is a Donner DST-400D, which is out there for underneath $200 USD. As you’ll hear within the video beneath, YouTuber Sebastiside makes use of it to play his tackle “trendy metallic,” which to his credit score lies someplace between Lamb of God and Polyphia. The result’s, as anticipated, extremely gentle, and reveals followers how these guitars, whereas clearly actually useful for younger followers making an attempt to study the essential ins and outs of the instrument, aren’t actually constructed for the form of music that we love.

Since listening to an instrument description is like making an attempt to eat Greek salad for me, right here’s what Final Guitar says concerning the specs of this specific Donner:

The instrument options an alder physique with excessive gross end, a rosewood fretboard, a 2-point tremolo, in addition to two single-coil, and a humbucker set of pickups.

I’m making an attempt actually laborious to consider a ‘Donner celebration’ joke, as a result of whereas I don’t know gear, I do know historic horror. However it escapes me.

Anyway, try this dude wailing on a cheap-o axe beneath: