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The technique is palm muting but there are a lot of factors that go into the final sound. The typewriter click you're talking to probably comes from a combination of pick technique, a tone that involves boosted upper mids or highs, and how tight it locks in to the drums and bass sound (which either or both might also have some clicky attack too). I find thinner picks get additional click on the attack too, though not everyone likes the feel of doing heavy rhythms with thin picks.
In Djent it's stylistically common for the kick to hit at the same time as the guitar and bass in unison for the chuggy parts. In isolation the guitar sounds usually aren't that big, because the low end comes from the bass and kick drum.
On modern recordings the guitars are often edited to be lined up against each other which can give a very tight sound, this is extra important for some styles if the sound comes from the combination of the guitar, kick, and bass hitting together. If they're not together then the guitar might sound a little thin in isolation in these styles.
If it is an on off type of sound the silence is probably stripped out on the track. The way to achieve this in a normal setting is to use a noise gate. You also have to play and mute tightly (which includes muting unwanted noise so that he gate will close fast after each note is stopped).
Active pickups into a high gain amp or hitting the front end with boost. You can also do both of those things if you're proper metal core! You can scoop or boost the mids, but the important thing is the attack, something like an Ibanez TS808 with the volume up full, gain down at zero and tone marginally boosting the highs helps with that.
My favourite example would be:
Are you talking about the metallic clanging noise immediately as he hits the strings? If so that’s just the acoustic sound of the strings hitting against the frets, being picked up by the camera mic. You won’t hear it too much through the amp.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I will try a noise gate and separately a compressor. Got SD Blackouts and a Randall 1 watt high gain combo.
It's mainly the rhythms that interest me but that clicky tone does seem to enhance it.
Are you talking about that single click/squeak every time he hits the strings?
For a gate I find the ISP decimaters pretty good, though I'm just about to move to the Fortin Zuul!
In terms of amps I tend to use a Diezel VH4 or Herbert - either of those are brutal - with active pickups (seymour duncan AHB-1 or AHB-3) will get you right there
This can be heard most prominently in amps with high gain and a more pronounced high end. Active pickups will also emphasise this sound more than passives.
Ironically a lot of metal guitarists don't like that noise and try to get rid of it!