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Greg_L
Banned
Besides the first album, most of their early stuff pretty much followed the same formula. All those albums have songs with unnecessary clean intros, bass solos, filler riff changes, 10 minute instrumentals, etc.
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Greg_L
Banned
Speaking of br00tal metal, I have my buddy's Splawn Quick Rod amp sitting here. It's got a lot of gain, but it does it very well. I wouldn't say it's a "metal" style of gain though. More like really sleazy rock and roll riff kind of high gain. Kind of like 80s gain. This is a killer souped up hot rodded Marshall clone. Tones to come today.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
I'm sure you can muster up a bit of early Metallica for us with that beast!
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Greg_L
Banned
I can try. Playing/sounding metal style is one of the many things I'm just not very good at because it's never interested me.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
pretty attractive amp.
That's about the color of my 6101.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
Just give us a bit of Seek & Destroy and a bit of chugging!
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Greg_L
Banned
I think this is maybe a little lighter purple than those blueish/purple 6100s, but I know what you mean. It is a great looking amp. The finish piping and tolexing on this head is remarkable. You can't really see a single seam on this motherfucker, and it has no corner protectors to hide anything. The curves and corners on the faceplate are perfect. Whoever tolexed this thing did an A+job. I don't have the cab, but it's a matching purple tolex with a tweed basketweave cloth. Same quality piping and tolexing. Just a beautiful rig.
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Greg_L
Banned
Haha okay, I can do that one.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
I've got my amp with me this week so I might do that later too. We'll have a Seek & Destroy off!
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Greg_L
Banned
Maybe we can do some AC/DC "The Jack" tones and have a Jack off!
jimistone
long standing member
I will have to learn "seek and destroy". I'm gona put a 250k volume pot in my clownburst to see if it tames the high end and fatten up the bridge pickup. I'll post a clip of the result. Might as well play a seek and destroy bit too.
lol
lol
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
Beat it? We can have a beat off?
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
It is actually a good riff just for finger exercise as its quite angular and moves back and forth across the fretboard nicely.
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
OK, so here's 4 versions of seek and destroy. All have the SD1 in front of them.
One is with the OCD as the drive. The others are using the amp but I've bumped the mids up slightly more than where I normally have them which has actually just introduced a minging midrange frequency.
One clip is using my amp at its normal preamp volume and gain settings.
One is with all volume and gain on full - you'll hear which one...
Then I dualed the OCD and the normal volume clip for shits and giggles.
View attachment SAD Full .mp3
View attachment SAD OCD.mp3
View attachment SAD Dual.mp3
View attachment SAD Amp Normal.mp3
I haven't played S&D in a while as you can probably tell!
One is with the OCD as the drive. The others are using the amp but I've bumped the mids up slightly more than where I normally have them which has actually just introduced a minging midrange frequency.
One clip is using my amp at its normal preamp volume and gain settings.
One is with all volume and gain on full - you'll hear which one...
Then I dualed the OCD and the normal volume clip for shits and giggles.
View attachment SAD Full .mp3
View attachment SAD OCD.mp3
View attachment SAD Dual.mp3
View attachment SAD Amp Normal.mp3
I haven't played S&D in a while as you can probably tell!
JDOD
therecordingrebels.com
Here's random one too - I've barely posted any OCD stuff and I really like it - I hardly ever use it for recording but I always use it when I'm just jamming away, particularly at low volume.
Its just a mix of pickups, split neck humbucker and full bridge humbucker, first the OCD on its own and then with the SD1 in front of it.
View attachment OCD Pickup Mixing.mp3
Its just a mix of pickups, split neck humbucker and full bridge humbucker, first the OCD on its own and then with the SD1 in front of it.
View attachment OCD Pickup Mixing.mp3
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Greg_L
Banned
I think I like just the normal amp clip the best. "Full" is just too much. "OCD" is okay but a little thin and nasally. Normal is more balanced. What they lack to me is the punch and chunk of a metal riff. I really do believe you simply need a bigger cab.
This one really sounded pretty good to me until you kicked in the SD1. Then it got nasally again. The lead bits souned okay, but chords were weird. I don't think your amp likes double boosting! And tune your guitar.
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Greg_L
Banned
Alrighty, here's the Splawn in action. Like all amps I get my hands on for the first time, I just went with everything on "5", or in this case, 12:00 since it has no numbers or notches around the knobs. This is my test run doing the Seek and Destroy riff for the br00tal metalz.
So first off, this amp has a Clean Channel which I can't access because I didn't grab the fucking footswitch. No matter for these clips, but I'd love to hear that Clean channel cranked.
The Overdrive channel has three gain modes - 1st Gear, 2nd Gear, and 3rd Gear.
1st Gear is supposed to be like a hot-rodded Plexi - and I think it does a pretty great job at that kind of sound
2nd Gear is a beefed up JCM 800 - yeah, okay, pretty close, but it still sounds more Plexi-ish to me, just with even more gain. Not a problem.
3rd gear is a JCM 800 set to destroy the universe - Whatever
There is also a "Solo" knob which to the best of my knowledge acts as a volume boost and a little bump of gain increase for leads. I don't know for sure because, again, I don't have the fucking footswitch and I hate it when amps aren't functional without it.
That's the idea with this amp. Each gear has way more gain than the amps they're designed after, which is pretty much the point with Splawn amps.
Gibson Les Paul Traditional - Burstbucker 3 bridge pickup
Splawn Quick Rod - 100 watt mode
All EQs at 12:00
Gain 12:00
Master vol 12:00
Marshall 1960A 4x12 - Celestion Greenbacks
Shure SM 57 on axis, on grill, just outside dustcap
No EQ or FX in DAW
SAD Splawn 1st gear
SAD Splawn 2nd Gear
SAD Splawn 3rd Gear
And a better kind of seeking and destroying....The Stooges "Search and Destroy"
Happy Splawn 1st Gear
So first off, this amp has a Clean Channel which I can't access because I didn't grab the fucking footswitch. No matter for these clips, but I'd love to hear that Clean channel cranked.
The Overdrive channel has three gain modes - 1st Gear, 2nd Gear, and 3rd Gear.
1st Gear is supposed to be like a hot-rodded Plexi - and I think it does a pretty great job at that kind of sound
2nd Gear is a beefed up JCM 800 - yeah, okay, pretty close, but it still sounds more Plexi-ish to me, just with even more gain. Not a problem.
3rd gear is a JCM 800 set to destroy the universe - Whatever
There is also a "Solo" knob which to the best of my knowledge acts as a volume boost and a little bump of gain increase for leads. I don't know for sure because, again, I don't have the fucking footswitch and I hate it when amps aren't functional without it.
That's the idea with this amp. Each gear has way more gain than the amps they're designed after, which is pretty much the point with Splawn amps.
Gibson Les Paul Traditional - Burstbucker 3 bridge pickup
Splawn Quick Rod - 100 watt mode
All EQs at 12:00
Gain 12:00
Master vol 12:00
Marshall 1960A 4x12 - Celestion Greenbacks
Shure SM 57 on axis, on grill, just outside dustcap
No EQ or FX in DAW
SAD Splawn 1st gear
SAD Splawn 2nd Gear
SAD Splawn 3rd Gear
And a better kind of seeking and destroying....The Stooges "Search and Destroy"
Happy Splawn 1st Gear
ibleedburgundy
The Anti-Lambo
Their music sounds dull and lifeless to me. Maybe I haven't heard their early stuff.
liv_rong
Knows very little
Nice all around but I like the jnormal one the best actually.
liv_rong
Knows very little
Nice. I like the first the best.