Recent content by PaoloJM

A straight up DI with compression can sound great for certain things, like funk. What kind of clean are you after?

Some models of Mesa are. The Rectifiers are fixed bias, and set pretty cold too. Some Mark series are a combination - simulclass, I'm pretty sure that the Lonestar is Cathode biased.

Close enough to not give a fuck. There would be no difference at all in a mix, and that's the only place in matters.

Every time your hear a cranked Marshall!! Some cross over distortion sounds very musical. It's what give a cranked Marshall that gritty snarl it has. I scoped my JCM800 and there was some cross over distortion happening from around 4 on the master dial. It hits about a hundred watts at that...

Can you mute the spill from his medallions clanging about in the back ground?

The 75 sounded better here to my ears, and I normally prefer a V30.

Ideally metal distortion is produced in the preamp, not the power amp. For that reason wattage doesn't really matter as you don't want to oerdrive the power amp anyway. Generally higher wattage amps have a bigger and better defined low end. Lower wattage amps get a bit wooly in the lows when...

If it's for a practice room you probably wont be sending much more than few watts from the amp anyway. Make sure no to go higher than 5 on the master volume.

I've recently moved to Adelaide from Ireland, but my Zilla came with me!!

What exactly are you referring to when you use the words digital and analog?

Why not throw up a clip? A spectrum analysis is pretty useless when judging a tone.

In my experience lower wattage amps sound different. The have less lows when they are dialled with the exact same volume.

Yeah, fuck noobs and people who misuse certain words.

Isn't that exactly what Jimmy Page used to do? It seemed to work pretty good for him.

If you're DAW is crashing it's down to your setup, and any other DAW is likely to crash also.