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need help with the right tone?

I have a line6 spider 3 75 amps w, BC Rich Warlock NJ series, and a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde overdrive / distortion pedal. I really try to get a good metal, but I always end up ruining my tone by turning the knobs to try improve my accent. it really makes me mad .... I could need help to get a good metal tone similar to that in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOj4v1PYXkQ video. I like playing trivium, iron maiden, all that reamains if I really want to get the best possible sound using my equipment available. thanks in advance Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOj4v1PYXkQ is the link srry

Hoo boy, so tall. Okay, so first off, the video has a guy plays a 7-string. You will not get a sound like a 6-string, unless you agree down and have a decent enough power - it to say a bigger size in order that your strings are not all disks. Floppy chains = low voice. I play Drop C # (Drop D 1 / 2 step) and I use 11's ... gives me great tension pleasant to work with. The elbows are a little difficult, I suppose, but it stays in tune better, has more sustain and a thick tone. So if you are not already using thicker strings (10 or higher) and adjusting downwards, it would be a step. Another step is to get the warmest sound you can from your guitar amp. Ideally, you want to get better pickups ... but I would try to use the Jekyll / Hyde as a booster pedal and see how it worked. Another thing to check is the height of your truck .... increase your pickup closest to the strings will increase production a bit ... but you will need to have the treble side (on the thing under the strings) than the side bottom (the side under the ropes thick). Raise your mics Keeping this in mind and see if it sounds better. Anyway, the pedal ... into overdrive, with low gain and high level. Set the tone controls to halfway, I suppose, but if something leaning towards the treble. * Amplification * Off bass, and probably wish blunt vs sharp. Now you have a hot signal hitting the amp. The hardest part is the composition of your amp for me, because I hate Line 6 with a passion that rivaled that of my aversion to ... well, words escape me. Whatever. Do not use Insane channel. Ever. One of the maxims of crafts guitar sound good is that whenever you add gain from your tone that you add compression and support, of course, but we also add noise, reduce your dynamic range, and reduce the strength of your basic adding more and more harmonics. So you want to use the gain you need. So I would try is the green metal with mid halfway, or metallic red. Since you already have a signal hot, you should not have as much to get that distorted sound saturated thickness. A good rule - never put the gain over 75% any pedal or an amp. After 75% you do not add anything but noise. True for each pedal or an amp I've ever used. Depending on your lower limit before distortion. It is a matter of clarity - too much bass into a distortion pedal or canal dirty fuzz creates intermodulation distortion,, farty noises, all sorts of ick. So, by doing things like lowering the bass side of your pickup and tilt Your tone of the treble side of things (and not using the bass) will deliver a hot signal to your amp that will not lead to saturation farty. In doing so, you can use the EQ on your bass amp as a more "warmth" control ... and you must also get a lot more clarity and definition note at the end as well. Do not cut all your media. Mids = volume, and cutting the mids you lose volume. So a little is good, but too bad. In a band context or during the recording you want to cut as many mediums as that you must (as gain). I tend to prefer amp distortion pedal and distortion when I can get it, and in this case since you did not pickup output high (I guess they stock, no?) it seems that the way I suggested is the most reasonable way to get to a shortage of high gain. I must say I owned a BC Rich Warlock (Platinum), and I grew the horror. I even put in EMG, and always hated it. Sale was the best thing I did. You have a Jackson ... now I play LTD ... lovin 'every second, especially with aftermarket pickups .... Hope this helped! Good luck! Saul