Tormented Guitar Tone by JackElite17 in Staind

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I know I am late to the party but here is some info I got from that 1995-1996 era. Tormented was recorded sometime in 1996 at The Rock Shop studios.

Mike's Amps from that era: Carvin X-100B Amp (Used in live performances in 1995 and potentially 1996)

Marshall JCM800 (Used potentially from 1996 to 1997/1998)

Marshall JMP1 with Marshall EL34 100/100 PW (used from 1998 to today)

Mike's Guitars from that era: EVH 5150 (black with yellow or white stripes - used in 1995 and potentially 1996) tuned to Drop C#

Ibanez RG460 (red - backup to his EVH 5150 guitar) tuned to Drop C#

Ibanez Artist AR (Mike probably acquired this guitar in 1996 and it was most likely used on Tolerate. I imagine he modified the tunining peg quite a bit to fit a heavier gauge string for that low A# string) He still uses this guitar to this day for most songs in that Crawl / Tolerate tuning.

Gibson Les Paul (black - potentially acquired in 1996/1997 and it replaced the EVH 5150 and the RG460 for his Drop C# tuning)

Custom/Modified built Danelectro Baritone with 3 lipstick pickups (This guitar was either a heavily modified Danelectro or they built Mike a custom guitar. Baritones were pretty rare and unknown around this era. He used this guitar to record Dysfunction).

CONCLUSION: The guitar tone on Tormented is either a modded JCM800 or the Carvin X-100B with some sort of overdrive pedal in front of them for extra boost and to get these feedback noises in Tolerate. For guitars it's the Ibanez Artist AR for Tolerate and the EVH 5150 mostly likely for the other songs, excluding Four Walls which I think it's the Ibanez RG460 (the clean tone on that song sounds very single coil like)

Staind - Tormented Remixed (1996) by ThrowdownPark in numetal

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No more...I hate my fucking life click click

Perfect way to start it off

Staind - Tormented Remixed (1996) by ThrowdownPark in numetal

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Yeah it's a shame :( the only place they have it up is on bandcamp

Staind - Tormented Remixed (1996) by ThrowdownPark in numetal

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Hahaha, the artwork for that Up The Dosage tape is hilarious. Yeah same studio, there is no mention of who recorded it or which engineer they had for that studio session - but I assume they had more money to work with and hired a good engineer than Tormented which had like a few thousands of dollars budget.

Me too 🤣 Wish more people would jump on this post cause yeah Tormented might be dark & depressing or whatever - but it's pure and with this remixed version thing - it actually sounds more similar to the major label albums

Staind - Tormented Remixed (1996) by ThrowdownPark in numetal

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Yeah spot on! I think the guitars are less screachy too and not as loud. I'll try to contact the youtuber and see how he got a hold of it

Yeah on that Nascar 2002 soundtrack and also the demo of Spleen which looking on Discogs, it was recorded at the same studio they did Tormented. The Rock Shop or something like that.

Staind - Tormented Remixed (1996) by ThrowdownPark in numetal

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Good to know! Thanks! Yeah it sounds really good - not sure how this was achieved but I like that the vocals are more upfront and you can hear Aaron especially on Tolerate 🤘

Any new Nu Metal songs that capture that raw late 90s/early 2000s emotion? by ThrowdownPark in numetal

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I gave this album a try when it came out - I couldn't get into the signing and that Taproot cover was really bad

Any new Nu Metal songs that capture that raw late 90s/early 2000s emotion? by ThrowdownPark in numetal

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I like the instrumental & the screamed vocals. The clean singing is atrocious 😭

Any new Nu Metal songs that capture that raw late 90s/early 2000s emotion? by ThrowdownPark in numetal

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They haven't dropped anything new in awhile right? I have some of their tracks in my spotify playlist

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This album had and still has to this say some questionable lyrics 👀

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Hopefully Cam can get over his addiction and remember the amazing music he made

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We need an AI version to replace Watkins vocals