Fade to Black - Metallica Guitar Cover (End section + Solo)

I LOVE this song, but whenever I play along to the track, I always seem to feel like I'm out of tune, no matter how in tune my ears tell me I am, or my electric tuner, or how much it sounds in tune with other songs, which convinces me that this song was recorded with slightly out of tune guitars, but who cares, it rocks!
I mainly improvise the solo, since it was pretty much learnt by ear and I like to add my own initiative to songs rather than copy note for note.

Gear:

Ibanez S470
Digitech RP350

Direct into line in of PC.

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[spikerjedi]

I see what you mean by it being out of tune I get that 2 :)

the same with all the other songs on the album

[SiLeNTzWoot]

Yeah, unfortunately I only realised AFTER recording this video that Metallica were actually tuned to a slightly different pitch than 100% correct E Standard, so that's why playing along to this album sounds a little out of tune =)

[cravien321]

hey man

nice cover :D

I have the same multieffect pedal

what kind of presets are u using??

[SiLeNTzWoot]

Hi mate, thanks very much =)

For the rhythm, I used the "Smooth" preset, but without reverb and with more gain, amongst changes to the EQ. For the lead, again it's "Smooth", but with reverb and delay this time!

[rockdude4life]

hey man, that was beautiful, epic solo, could yo uplease check out my versoin ;)

[SiLeNTzWoot]

Thanks for the kind words, I just checked out your cover (I'm slow I know!) and I gotta say, it was great, well done =) Thanks again!

[guitarman122508]

@SiLeNTzWoot so thats why when i was trying to re-cover my cover of For Whom the Bell Tolls i thought i was out of tune. :/

[rockdude4life]

its okay ;) and thank you for the comment, youv just brought me back to this solo and its brang some memories of me learning this solo :)

[x99naruto99x]

It could be strings cause this has happened to me before I feel like its out of tune but when I done up my guitar it was just the strings that where stuffing it up.

[SiLeNTzWoot]

Heya, on my RP350 the preset is one I made, The setting is basically a modification of Smooth, but so that it has no reverb, more gain, scooped EQ and a few other changes.

Yeah it turns out that I was in tune to the standard tuning (my A was 440Hz) but apparently the piano Metallica used to tune their guitars to on the early records was out of tune, lol, so their A was around 450Hz, making it sound out of tune when you play along. I'll redo this with me tuned to their A and see how it sounds :P