wishtheend
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^ Unearth does use 7-strings, and when I saw them were rocking Triple's. But I think he wants more of a death metal tone than the metalcore sound (killswitch, as i lay dying, black dahlia murder). But good advice.
metalhead28 said:Thought this might be a good bit to add to this thread!
Best Death/Grind guitar tones I've heard live and the amps:
(these are all fairly recent because my memory ain't that good!!)
Cattle Decapitation >>Bogner Uberschall + Engl half stacks (split signal) (fucking amazing!)
Your sig cracks me up!metalhead28 said:Thought this might be a good bit to add to this thread!
Best Death/Grind guitar tones I've heard live and the amps:
(these are all fairly recent because my memory ain't that good!!)
Cattle Decapitation >>Bogner Uberschall + Engl half stacks (split signal) (fucking amazing!)
Suffocation >> Peavey XXX full stacks
Vader >> JCM2000 half stacks
Behemoth >> 5150 II half stacks
wishtheend said:Man, it's sad to see people avoiding a truely amazing amp (and for a good reason) just because tons of people use it. If there was an amazing guitar, but lots of people used it, would you avoid it for that reason? An amp is only one part of your tone. Your guitar, your pedals, your EQ, your cab all are going to be factors. But to each his own. I say, make the drive to try them out, cause you won't know for certain until you crank them up and make them growl.
VesuviusJay said:Hailz metalheads!
I am shopping for a full stack guitar rig that will embrace the extreme metal genres. Any suggestions.
I have been looking at mesa and Krank. I've had mesa triple rec rig. Good stuff but too many nu metal bands have mesa tone now. I am looking for a unique tone that has hard crunching palm mutes and stinging highs...
Echelon said:I own a Peavey XXX and I got it modded via Voodoo Amps. This thing screams metal. and I'm not talking radio friendly metal, but real metal. Trace did an amazing job. On its own, the XXX is a very nice sounding amp, if you tweak it right. A lot of bands seem to be using it and getting a huge amount of variation. I honestly feel as though I could play Jazz with it i I wanted to. With three channels, all with separate EQ, you can't go wrong. And the price is fantastic. You can get the head and the mod for less than a mesa.
CyanJaguar said:I did two clips to compare the high gain tones of the mesa and 5150 to the low gain Chunk that I prefer.
playing the same riff, one sounds like thunder and one sounds like rain. Which do you prefer.
Zed10R said:From those chices...I prefer metal1.
Adam P said:Of those two clips, I preferred 1 but I think it still had far too much in the low end.
If you're interested in listening at all, here are a couple of clips from songs I recorded for friends. Nothing elaborate, just quick demos that were practice for both the bands and me. I'll try to recall the signal chains as best I can.
"Force Of Darkness" - Tyrant
Old mid-line (pre PS3T but similar, sans Floyd Rose trem) Jackson V, stock pickups > Metal Zone (I didn't want him to use it but that's not my decision to make) > JCM 800 50w > JCM 900 1960A slant 4x12 > Sennheiser e609 Silver > Fender live board pre (band's, not mine) > Echo Layla
untitled song #1 - Miscarry
BC Rich NJ Series Warlock w/ EMG 81 in the bridge and the neck pickup gutted (just like Max, sans the Discharge sticker and with all the strings) > Peavey 5150 with Boss 10 band EQ pedal in the effects loop > 5150 slant 4x12 > Audio Technica AT4033 > Mackie VLZ Pro > Echo Layla
They're both just quick demos and not of the greatest quality (and mp3, which doesn't help) but hey, maybe you'll like something. If you do, I can try to dig up the original tracks if you're interested.
Adam P said:I would avoid the Mesa, unless you can find a way to get a really unique sound from it.
bileshake said:We're talking about very versitile amps that could satisfy many different flavours. It's the shallow minded bandwagon players that give them a bad name. The trendy players that play them because thier favourite band plays them in thier videos don't dig very deep to carve thier own, if you know what I mean. You could also step away from the stock tubes and give it your own shape as well.