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== Guitar Tones ==
Extended-range guitars or tunings can get quite muddy with distortion, even with modern amplifiers that feature relatively "tight" distortion. Djent relies on very bright boost pedals, or sometimes even cocked wahs to really focus the brunt of the distortion away from lower frequencies. This leads to a metallic, clanky, "quack"-type sound on unmuted notes, while ensuring that muted chugs really have that djent sound (it literally sounds like you are saying "djent").
Some artists use less distortion to add clarity to the notes, but simultaneously use a compressor to retain the thick, saturated feel of heavy distortion.
Clean tones are usually bright and pristinely clean, laden with reverb. Djent often uses cleans to give compositions more harmonic content than the rhythmic distorted riffs; however, it often avoids playing chords, instead playing single notes, allowing the reverb to allow each note to overlap, creating intervals or even chords if the decay time is long enough. The reverb also helps the single notes fill more space in the mix rather than getting buried.