drew_drummer
Dancefap
It's pretty fucking condescending in my opinion. Heeeey gearheeads!! We know you all suck and know shit all about amps, so go fuck yourself whilst watching real people play through these amps!!
Meh.
Meh.
High gain amp shootout
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metalfanat1c
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Jaymz
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guitarguru777
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Its a 6505 Modded and Biased for El34s. You could do the mod yourself for like $100... GREAT sounding amp, but not worth the price. Buy a used 5150 and Mod it to spec. $700 - $800 ... DONE!
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Well, the shootout method sucked but I think you can notice the character of amps. I only listened to the VHT, the Orange and the Diezel so far, but the VHT, ops, Fryette, has the trademark VHT sound, and the Diezel has some very promising mid-gain tones. The hi gain tones all had too much gain IMHO.
TheWinterSnow
Den Mørke Natt
If you like loose, flubby tone, sure boosts suck. We are talking about metal here, no use for that loose muddy bullshit.
same price for a 6505+. Not hardly expensive.
TheWinterSnow
Den Mørke Natt
^ I noticed that when he started chuggin on the low end, it sounded really fuckin ballsy, he then started to smile but was holding it in while bobbin' his head. I think he approves.
Jaymz
Stymphalian Productions
Kazrog
Kazrog, Inc.
As others have said, it's hard to gauge anything from this, would have been nice to have some active pickups in there also. What's up with the trend towards passives lately?
Misha sounded great on the Diezel and Soldano IMO.
Misha sounded great on the Diezel and Soldano IMO.
drew_drummer
Dancefap
Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
Sooner or later they're gonna realize their palm mutes sound like an elephant farting in a distant jungle and come back to the dark side.
Kazrog
Kazrog, Inc.
I'm cool with people having unique preferences to suit their tone, but it seems like lately a lot of people are jumping on the passive bandwagon just because. In many cases it just doesn't suit modern high gain riffing, it just sounds flubby and indistinct by comparison, especially for lower tunings.
It would have been cool if they had demoed each amp with say, EMG actives and Duncan passives, just for variety's sake and to get a feel for a fuller range of tones from each amp.
It would have been cool if they had demoed each amp with say, EMG actives and Duncan passives, just for variety's sake and to get a feel for a fuller range of tones from each amp.
Seriously, I thought there was something wrong w/ my hearing when I watched these. They seemed either too muffled sounding or like they had an old Boss distortion pedal on them or something.
I also wished that they'd just stuck to simple power chord riffing, something like Iron Man for instance, instead of the stuff they were playing.
Definitely agree w/ you on the palm mutes, they all sounded really bad. Don't know whether it was the amp settings or just sloppy technique, but the did sound pretty crappy.
Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
Exactly. For some mean sludge stuff or straight-up hard rock a set of nice passives are often just what the doctor ordered, but for modern high-gain metal tones they just sound like crap nine times out of ten. YMMV, but I've experienced this myself and A/B'd this to bands in the studio enough times to at least convince myself.
I've tried actives, EMG 707s to be percise, at lower tunings, in this case A standard, and did not find them to be particularly impressive. No matter what I did, I could never get rid of that sterile sound or get them to anything other than plasticy.
As for these demos though, they really should have played a variety of different guitars, as well as using both passives and actives for comparison's sake. As it is, we get a 13 vids of tones that are pretty much the same.
TheWinterSnow
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Confused about this "hopping on the passives bandwagon" thing.
Someone enlighten me, because I wasn't aware there was some kind of bandwagon thing going on.
And mind you, I'm saying this as someone who plays guitars with active pickups 95 per cent of the time.
Someone enlighten me, because I wasn't aware there was some kind of bandwagon thing going on.
And mind you, I'm saying this as someone who plays guitars with active pickups 95 per cent of the time.
Jarkko Mattheiszen
The FU guy.
Just have a quick look at the Sevenstring.org forums and see some of the NGD threads. Not much EMG love there anymore. It's all about BKP and what'sthatswedishguy'sname.
