TONE MATCHED! Top 25 Heavy Metal Guitar Sounds - Vol. 1

Using Bias FX 2 and Bias Amp 2, I matched the guitar tones of 25 classic heavy metal albums. From best to greatest, my guitar tone countdown includes Metallica, Pantera, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Judas Priest among others.

IMPORTANT 2023 UPDATE - Some users have reported they can't find my presets when searching Bias FX 2. This seems to be a glitch in their search system. To solve the issue, type in the search field "DMO -" (yes, just DMO followed by a space and hyphen) and choose "Sort by Popularity" in the drop-down beside the search field. You should see all of my presets.

Please note many users have taken my presets and created their own versions with similar names. To make sure you are downloading my original presets, my user name in Bias FX 2 is "Dan Oliv". Also, my original presets have a lot more downloads than the non-original versions.

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You can also enjoy the second collection of my top metal guitar tones here:    • TONE MATCHED! Top 25 Heavy Metal Guit...  

You're more than welcome to use my presets for your cover videos, "What if" creations, etc. All I ask is to give me credit in your video (or video description). It took me a huge amount of effort to create these presets, so credit would be appreciated.

In this video, I matched the guitar tone of the following albums:

. Accept - Balls to the Wall (Wolf Hoffmann and Herman Frank)
. AC/DC - Back in Black (Angus Young and Malcolm Young)
. Alice in Chains - Facelift (Jerry Cantrell)
. Anthrax - Spreading the Disease (Scott Ian and Dan Spitz)
. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules (Tony Iommi)
. Exodus - Bonded by Blood (Gary Holt & Rick Hunolt)
. Iron Maiden - Powerslave and The Number of the Beast (Adrian Smith and Dave Murray)
. Judas Priest - Painkiller (Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing)
. Kiss - Lick It Up (Paul Stanley and Vinnie Vincent)
. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes (Robb Flynn and Logan Mader)
. Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil (Mick Mars)
. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? (Dave Mustaine and Chris Poland)
. Metallica - Black Album, Ride the Lightning and ...And Justice for All (James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett)
. Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (Zakk Wylde)
. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven (Dimebag Darrell)
. Queensryche - Empire (Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton)
. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains (Max Cavalera and Andreas Kisser)
. Slayer - Reign in Blood and South of Heaven (Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman)
. Testament - The Ritual (Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick)
. Van Halen - Van Halen I (Eddie Van Halen)

My presets are optimized for live playing. If you use them for recording, I recommend the following:
. Use the single path (instead of the dual path, which has a slight delay for a stereo sound)
. Reduce the distortion levels
. Raise the bass levels
. Record your guitars four times (see my Four Guitars video for further explanation about quad recording)

Many of the presets in this video have their own dedicated video explaining how to use them. Check out my "Classic Heavy Metal Tones" playlist.

I play the following guitars in this video:

. B.C. Rich NJ Jr. V - EMG 81 & 85 Pickups & Original Floyd Rose Tremolo (my number one guitar!)
. Gibson Tribal Explorer - Gibson Pickups (500T & 496R) & Kahler 2215 Tremolo
. B.C. Rich Mockingbird - DiMarzio Pickups (Super Distortion & PAF) & Kahler 2300 Tremolo
. Hamer Vector - Hamer Pickup & Kahler 2300 Tremolo
. B.C. Rich Bich - DiMarzio Pickups (Super Distortion & PAF) & Kahler 2300 Tremolo
. Hamer Phantom - Hamer Pickups & Kahler 2300 Tremolo
. B.C. Rich Warlock (1984) - DiMarzio Pickups (Super Distortion & PAF) & Kahler 2300 Tremolo
. B.C. Rich Warlock (1987) - DiMarzio Pickups (Super Distortion & PAF) & Floyd Rose/B.C. Rich Tremolo
. Dean Razorback - Floyd Rose Special Tremolo, Seymour Duncan Pickup (SH-13 Dimebucker) & Dean DMT Pickup
. B.C. Rich Wartribe - EMG 81 & 85 Pickups & Kahler Hybrid Tremolo

I recorded all videos using Garageband and Reaper with an iMac and Line 6's UX1 audio interface.

If you like my guitar playing, check out my channel for many other videos.