Amps that should be thrown out of the window.

Loren Littlejohn

Loren Littlejohn

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So my brothers bands amps are here all solid state :Puke:

Amp 1: Crate RFX65 RetroFex, by far the worse out of the three the gain is scratchy shitty etc... etc... In fact I wouldn't even want it for practice. The clean is ok but nothing to brag about.

Amp 2: Line 6 spider 3 1X12 combo (actually all 3 are 1X12) this amp sounds like a pod through a bad speaker so I wonder if it would actually sound ok through something decent, then I hooked it up to my cab, nope. Again totally garbage amp. The clean is by far the worse on this amp.

Amp 3: Vox valvestate AD50, this amp has the best clean by far, the models are also pretty cool (I liked the AC15 emulator the best) however for metal it's a 100% NO GO. Anything to overdriven just sounds like fuzzy garbled shit. The clean is the best on this amp but again nothing to boast about.

Now as we all know all of these amps have DFX again all of them are garbage, I have yet to play an amp with built in FX that were worth a shit. But I have never played a vetaII or anything like that so who knows...


Also I realise that these amps should never make it in a recording just sharing my little reviews of "could be" practice amps.
 
- Marshall Mode 4
- every Marshall Valvestate they made (even though I've seen Bolt Thrower and Death use or used them live)
- Kitty Hawk amps
- every Hughes & Kettner amp there is (the Switchblade sounds quite decent though but still ....)
 
Mesa Dual Crappyfier
Mesa Single Rectumfire
Mesa Triple...you get the picture.

At least for metal they suck, I'm sure they are good for rock or limp bizkit kind of riffs. ( I'm gonna get in trouble for saying this :erk: )
 
Seriously, dude...after hearing the tone on Behemoth's "The Apostasy" (SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BBBRRRUUUTTTALLLL) and of course Petrucci's tone on Train of Thought (even though the album made me totally abandon the band), I'm sold on Rectos without having even played one for more than half an hour. On the other hand, I personally despise the tone on Opeth's "Deliverance," which is the lifeless, scooped dark-side of the Recto line. Speaking of which, the "Ghost Reveries" tone might be one of my favorite guitar tones of all time; does anyone have an inkling as to what amps those might be? (I know they use Laney's live, of course)
 
Metaltastic said:
Seriously, dude...after hearing the tone on Behemoth's "The Apostasy" (SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BBBRRRUUUTTTALLLL) and of course Petrucci's tone on Train of Thought (even though the album made me totally abandon the band), I'm sold on Rectos without having even played one for more than half an hour. On the other hand, I personally despise the tone on Opeth's "Deliverance," which is the lifeless, scooped dark-side of the Recto line. Speaking of which, the "Ghost Reveries" tone might be one of my favorite guitar tones of all time; does anyone have an inkling as to what amps those might be? (I know they use Laney's live, of course)
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actually ghost reveries was a mix of the laney and dual recto. it is on the website in his diary.

deliversance was done by mr.sneap himself it doesn;t really sound like a DR.



anyone who knocks the DR as saying its not a good metal amp just needs to really sit back and think things through. saying YOU dont like the tone is one thing saying the amp is no good for a style of music is another.

ps - i think deliverance was a modded jcm 800 and laney... it was either deliverance or lamentations that had the modded jcm 800. i think andy himself said it. im pretty sure it was lamentations but at the same token i could see andy using some jcm 800 on deliverance. i guess he knows the rtight answer. but as far as ghost reveries there is some DR on there, i can even hear it.
 
Dont know why everyone slams the Crate Blue Voodoo. I like it. I amps i most dislike are marshalls. And I love the sound of mesa's but havent had the chance to play one. I like darker sounding amps, thats why i like the BV.
 
DSS3 said:
Lawls u doeznt know hows to dial them in.
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The tone is not the problem, it's the response to the picking, non existant. It's great for chordy stuff and heavy slow riffs, but for scandinavian style metal it sucks. The ENGL's are WAY better, especially the Savage which the other guitarist in my band has.
 
Fredrik-Ablaze said:
Mesa Triple Rec
Krank
Crate Blue Voodoo

IMHO the three most over rated amps ever!
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I can understand why one could say that Kranks are overrated, because it's taken me a while and three different periods of time with different settings to finally get to something that I really dig. However, I finally have it running as thick as I like, much like a 5150 I'd say, but without a lot of the high end fizz. If anything I wouldn't say that Kranks are overrated, but perhaps harder to dial in.

And before you go calling Kranks overrated, don't forget that when Andy first got a Krank, he immediately was really pleased with it...and I think that Andy's ear for tone is far superior to all of ours.
 
There´s an amp brand called Staner that sucks so much that you can´t even defenestrate it, because whenever you touch the back of the amp you get electrocuted. It´s like putting your finger on a socket.
 
- every Marshall Valvestate they made (even though I've seen Bolt Thrower and Death use or used them live)
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Meshuggah's DEI & Chaosphere don't sound too bad ;)

and of course Petrucci's tone on Train of Thought (even though the album made me totally abandon the band), I'm sold on Rectos without having even played one for more than half an hour.
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According to this, he used a Road King Series 1 on ToT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Petrucci
 
Frankzappa said:
The tone is not the problem, it's the response to the picking, non existant. It's great for chordy stuff and heavy slow riffs, but for scandinavian style metal it sucks. The ENGL's are WAY better, especially the Savage which the other guitarist in my band has.
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They can be slightly flubby but with a TS in front they're plenty tight. Too much gain or bass will turn them to mud- even with bass around 9-10 o'clock they still have enough bass.
 
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