How To Get Sustain

[metalguitarist7778]

Omg I know I ask this alot, but I really want sustain, like every pedal I have tride, just sucks, nothing will give me sustain, I went to like dimarzio, and seymour duncan, and asked them which pickup would help, and they say none will give you really long sustain. And I know there is a pickup that gives you sustain called the sustanica, and fernandes, but im really lazy, and I dont want to recharge the battery. I really just want a pickup, or a pedal that can do the trick. ADVICE???

[brothersnowgone]

Turn your distortion all the way up

[einarabelc5]

Well dude how do u want results if you dont make thigs work out...Do you want them to work all by themselves...Get the fernandes There's a lot of post about it in this forun or at Vai.com since Steve uses it in Flo...That or get a neckthru guitar Happy hunting..

[nightfiend14]

try a compressor with the sustain knob turned all the way up? Should be enough sustain for most.

[BLAKK:JAKK]

Compressors....Neck-Thru guitars...Fixed Bridges....all this type of equipment can increase your sustain...

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[ibanez2005]

Try an E-Bow.

[waylay00]

Using a compressor helps alot, but ever since I've been using my Keeley modded Tubescreamer to boost my amp, I've been getting TONS of sustain. I can nail that Flo tone perfectly. It just takes alot of playing around with settings to get it right. If you only use power tube distortion, you won't get much sustain at all, but when you combine that with good preamp gain or a boost/overdrive pedal like the Keeley TS9DX, you can get alot of sustain.

[red5]

Turn the volume to 11!

[Gurj]

Find yourself a good old Kramer Sustainer

[southpaw_lefty]

If feasible, lower your pickups so there's not as much pull on the strings.

[pawel]

[Nigel]Can you hear the sustain!!!???[/Nigel]

[Chud]

Uhm, with a TSL100 Marshall with the gain set to 6 fair deal of mid bass and treble and not even much volume (set to 2-3) i can get almost infinate sustain.

The trick? Well, i use a Boss CS-3 Compressor Sustainner. I have the level at 1o'clock, tone at 1o'clock, attack at 11o'clock and sustain at 3o'clock. That'll sustain for ages so the ol' "turn up gain and volume" doesn't really work for me since the volume and gain is quite low on my Marshall (even though TSL100's are overgainned according to some)

[metalguitarist7778]

see I have a neck thru dean, a boss metal zone, and ive tried the compressor, with it, also the fernandez thing is sorta funky, like why the hell do you need mix, up , or down, I think thats whats on it but its retarded, to much work live, do you have to charge the batterie on that thing? any ways, I ve tried sustainer pedals, not much luck, um but I know like when you put your guitar close to your amp you get long sustain, see I want like 5 minute sustain, not 5 second. thanks for the comments though.

[RG1550GXWB-WM Ltd Edition]

I've read it on an italian guitar magazine and, in effects, it works!
Put your amp to the max volume and max gain with the guitar volume to zero. Get sure you have a cable of more than 3 metres. Use some ear corks (i don't know if it is the right word traduced by italian). Go as far away from the amp as you can (in front of the amp), then turn on the volume of the guitar while you're getting nearer! You'll discover that in some places the feedback become out of control, in other the feedback is controllable and sustain becomes infinite...indeed the note obtained, depending on the position of the guitar in respect to the amp speaker, can become a 5th, a 3rd....!
This is the secret of Carlos Santana for his quite infinite sounds! In fact Carlos has on the stage some "x" on the floor that indicates to him these positions for the sustain!
(excuse if I had made some mistakes, but I'm italian and I've translated from italian to english the text of the article)

[Shredcows]

Actually. Unless you are talking about infinate sustain, I wouldn't use compressors to "add sustain" because compressors actually raise the volume was your signal dies, thus giving that "sustain". And if you do that, chances are you are boosting all the other volumes like noise and hum.

Unlimited sustain = ebow, pirahna guitar bow, sustainer circuitry or feedback

If you just wanna get as much sustain as possible, then the first thing to check it your setup. Fret rattle will kill sustain.

Then check your technique, like using a whammy bar to handle vibrato instead of your fingers, thats more sustain for you.

Then finally look at the gear... at the end of the day, you don't need massive amounts of gain to sustain for say a nice 20 seconds..