Without those bad boys I wouldn’t be able to get through the Pantera show I’d be tap dancing on my pedalboard like I was in Riverdance, switching my OD pedal on and off all the time.”Īs far as seals of approval go, they don’t get much better than Zakk Wylde, but we won’t pretend to be too surprised – our full list of buyer’s guides is filled with stellar gear picks, from electric guitars and acoustic guitars all the way to pedalboards, overdrive pedals and many, many more. “Thank the good Lord and John Paul II for those noise gates, though. He just wanted his tone as massively distorted as possible without having to turn down – that was a big part of Dime’s sound. “I mean, with Dime there was never enough distortion. “Those gates definitely do their job, and that ‘silence’ is such a huge part of the Dimebag soup,” he observed. In his interview with Guitar World, Wylde stressed the importance of his new noise gate in harnessing the “Dimebag soup." “I can stand right in front of my rig with it screaming pure lightning and it doesn’t feed back when I’m playing stuff like 5 Minutes Alone, Walk or the verse riff in Cowboys. “Those pedals are amazing,” Wylde gushed. In a testament to the Guitar World Deals team’s expert advice, the Wylde Audio warrior then went on to wax lyrical about the selection, and said he “wouldn’t be able to get through the Pantera show” without it. The Smart Gate wasn’t just a quick fix for the guitarist, though. The number one pick from our specialist team? None other than the MXR Smart Gate – the same pedal that helped Wylde channel Dimebag on Pantera’s tour. The “Dunlop one” Wylde refers to is – as his guitar tech Stephen Murillo and Champion both confirm later on in the issue – the Dunlop MXR Smart Gate.Ī quick search for that same term on Google and you will see that Guitar World’s very own best noise gates guide occupies top spot. “I just Googled ‘best noise gates’ and the Dunlop one came up so I bought a couple.” “And I had to get noise gates too because I don’t use them,” he went on.
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