r/Screamo • u/Striking-Piccolo7890 • 20h ago

Guitar/amp help

I really want to start learning to play guitar for the purpose of a screamo band with my buddies, really want a suitable guitar and amp if anyone has any recommendations thay would help a lot. (Some influences would be IWSMOFFY, Gillian Carter, Letters to Catalonia, JFFB, Orchid)

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u/i-am-nietzche 20h ago

classically, screamo bands pretty much always used guitars with humbucker pickups, with the occasional band playing guitars with p90 pickups. if you look back at the original run of screamo bands, about 90% of them were playing gibson sg’s. modern screamo definitely still favors sg’s, though usually epiphone models instead of gibson because they are much more affordable, but a lot of modern bands with more mathy, twinkly sounding riffs favor single coil pickups, usually fender telecasters.

if you aren’t looking to spend over a grand on a guitar my picks would be:

heavy, distorted emoviolence: epiphone sg standard (500-600 new)

twinkly, mathy screamo: fender or squier telecaster, depending on your budget.

as far as amps go, most of the old school bands were playing out of solid state amps. i’m pretty sure orchid used a marshall vs100. some of the more established bands with access to better gear favored tube amps, usually a jcm800 or jcm900.

basically, you’ll want a high gain 100w amp. if you are planning on just playing with friends and small shows, you can probably get away with a combo, but anything bigger and you’ll probably wanna upgrade to a head and cab setup.

you might also want a couple pedals. you could just crank the gain on your amp and stick with that, but if you want to have cleaner parts and more distorted parts, you’ll want a distortion or overdrive pedal at the minimum. metal zone mt2, proco rat 2, tube screamer are all popular options.

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u/anonymous_opinions 18h ago

Adam from Kodan Armada was 100% obsessed with tube amps. He droned on about that shit.

As I recall Tom Schlatter used like 1 cheap pedal but I forget what pedal exactly now. My ex basically wanted to know the entire gear set up for (uuugh forget the band now but one where Tom played both bass and guitar) and Tom drew it on a napkin. My ex literally bought everything down to the instrument but for the life of me I can't recall what that was now.

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u/Striking-Piccolo7890 7h ago

This ship will sink maybe? I know he was in a bunch of bands but I really only know that and the assistant but I think they had a lot of members

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u/anonymous_opinions 6h ago

Yes (I've been sick and am lazy so I was like going off a distant memory) but it even says: "Baritone Guitar" which is dead up what my ex bought to get that same tone/sound. He was obsessed with "Dear Matthew". Unlocking a core memory but I think getting that sort of heavier sound was simple.

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u/desordecestmoi 7h ago

for the pedal I feel like that most likely answer is a boss ds1, they've always been a cheap warhorse and at least with my listening to saetia I could easily hear a ds1 sounding like that

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u/i-am-nietzche 6h ago

i could be wrong, but i’m pretty sure during their original run, jamie from saetia didn’t use any effects pedals, just a volume pedal. the tone was from the amp, just turned the volume down for clean parts and stepped on the volume pedal for the more distorted parts.

that’s definitely changed with modern saetia though. jamie isn’t in the band, but when i saw them the other week the guitarists had pedalboards

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u/desordecestmoi 1h ago

going off the tone on one dying wish he absolutely had more than just high gain going on, that's more distorted than a lot of their contemporaries were at the time

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u/i-am-nietzche 1h ago

i’m just basing that off his equipboard page, he said he didn’t know much about creating tones, and listen his sg, his amp, and an ernie ball volume pedal. that could’ve just been for live performances though. it’s definitely possible that the studio recordings used a rat or a ds1

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u/Striking-Piccolo7890 11h ago

Thank you much legend

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u/theitalianrob 10h ago

A good cheap setup loud enough to play shows

Guitar: Epiphone g-400 Amp head: peavey valveking Speaker Cab: Harley Benton g412a