Slayer rulz!

Yeah, LOTs of drive and LOTs of gain! Massive distortion baby. The most you can drive it and the harder, the more you will get that Slayer type sound. Remember that it's two guitar's that get that awesome Slayer sound
Good luck
Slayer rulz!

thanks and it's true.... slayer does rule

I deal in pain
All life I drain
I dominate
I seal your fate...
(and then dave lombardo does that sick ass crazy fill)
Hell yeah!

besides the gain should i do anything with the eq on the amp. and i also have a mxr 10 band eq, is there anything i should do with that

no clue what kind of amp you have..

slayer is just a raw dirty distortion. you really dont need that much gain, just really high drive and enough gain to sustain notes dirty. you really need a tube amp for that kind of stuff. thats not the type of tone you get out of an amp by tweaking.

EQing keep it pretty flat with a little dip in the bass knob.

i have a marshall valvestate 100

Slayer guitar sound based on interviews I've read:

-Marshall stacks
-EMG 81 pickups
-Rocktron Voodoo

I've read in an interview with Kerry King that they record their amps cranked!

EMG, Boss EQ Pedal , High Gain, High Bass, Low Mid (typical scooped Metal EQ settings on the Amp JCM800) play with the boss EQ for the tone, and try a number of Options for Distortion (Boss Heavy Metal Pedal, Ibanez Tube Screamer, SD-1 etc).....

I'm not a slayer fan but remember, tone comes from the players fingers. You're not going to sound like them. Also, regardless of amps in the studio, you have to keep in mind the recording chain, mics, pre-amps etc.

I recently got some stuff to mix that was tracked by another studio, when recording they also recorded a DI track for each guitar player. The tones were not the best so I started reamping guitars. When you do this you will find out how much tone comes from the fingers. After reamping with different amps it still sounded like the guys playing, just through different amps. Try it sometime!

dont see how tone has to do with fingering, only thing would be picking wise. of course if you run someone's DI through different amps its gonna sound like him, because its the same guitar, same guy, same everything.

from what ive experienced, tone is mostly determined by (in order):

1 the actual guitar body + pickups
2 strings + pick
3 amp gain architecture
4 pick technique (where on the strings, how hard they pick)
5 amp eq (barely affects tone, some amps it doesnt at all)

ive run my guitar through DI (using digital amp sims), DI (using a sans-amp type pedal), DI with line6 amp (using line6's gain), miking a 15W peavey, miking the same line6 amp, miking a trace elliot 2X12 tramp. tried countless EQing and processing (and lack of) on the computer.

each time, the tone is near identical. if i was to play one song DI, another miking my tramp, and another using a sans amp, and another miking a crappy amp, you could still tell its the same guitar, same player, just based off the tone.

and EQing doesnt do crap for tone btw, all it will do is emphasize certain parts of the tone. its good to clean up the mud, brighten the tone (to stand out), and thats about it.