I got bored today and futzed with my 6505, boogie cab and 57; this is what happened: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7220288/Chimaira Impossible guitar tone 6505 - Copy.mp3
Chimaira "Impossibility of Reason" guitar tone
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Mattayus
Sir Groove-A-Lot
This is one of my favourite guitar tones ever, too! I've actually been talking to Rob Arnold about it the last few days! I started chatting to him on Facebook and he was kind enough to answer my questions and even take a pic of the cab they used.
What I love about the album tone is how much grit it's got in it, but it's not unmusical. It's a very useful type of fizz, and that helps it cut through whilst giving it a huge amount of weight behind it.
IIRC, Rob was using an unboosted 5150 II, and Matt was using a boosted 5150. I personally can't get that kind of tight grit out of my 6534+, it seems to have too much airiness in the mids, I wonder if post-processing was the culprit for that on the album? I can get a closer tone with the JVM410, believe it or not! :\
What I love about the album tone is how much grit it's got in it, but it's not unmusical. It's a very useful type of fizz, and that helps it cut through whilst giving it a huge amount of weight behind it.
IIRC, Rob was using an unboosted 5150 II, and Matt was using a boosted 5150. I personally can't get that kind of tight grit out of my 6534+, it seems to have too much airiness in the mids, I wonder if post-processing was the culprit for that on the album? I can get a closer tone with the JVM410, believe it or not! :\
Mooch: I didn't use the settings that Rob posted and from what I remember my buddy Tony (who was an engineer on that album) said that the guitars apparently were re-amped. I ended up doing Pre: 7 Bass: 7 Middle: 1 Treble:7 Res and Pres at 5 to get the tone.
