Randall Warhead...

[Impervious]

I just bought one of these, and I've been messing with it pretty much all day, and I cant get it to sound very good at all... Was i mislead in thinking that these were cool? Or is mine like... broken? Or like... hahah i have no idea. I bought it because of the newest decapitated and vader albums (which used the warhead and a dual recto) sounding so good. I know what the recto sounds like, so i figured the rest must be the warhead.. Maybe im setting it completely wrong... or it doesnt go good with v30s or something... Do any of you have one of these?


I have a 5150, a triaxis rig and a dual recto, and they all blow this thing away. I guess you get what you pay for?

 

[Kazrog]

Tried one out years ago. Thought it sucked horribly. See if you can sell it for more than you bought it.

 

[SocialNumb]

I got one and to be honest I hate it.. it sounds like crap... LOUD! but crap! I'm only keeping it to have it. (R.I.P DIME) Maybe someone out there can make it sound good IDK.

 

[Impervious]

dammit.... ahha... thanks guys.

 

[Impervious]

Huh, well actually i guess i can see how it could layer really well. It has this really odd midrange, and thats super tight. it just has no presence, or saturation or scoop. and has a really bad lowend. hahah... so pretty much everything sucks except for the mids.

 

[VH100R]

try to use it as a preamp thru your amps power section. maybe that can help the tone. if not... sell it

 

[Kazrog]

Dime switched to Krank for a reason. Also, his techniques for getting good tone out of that Randall head in the studio were pretty extreme. He would triple-track his rhythms with the Randall, with either the Low, Mid, or High EQ cranked all the way up on each track, then blend all 3. At least that's what I remember reading... funky in any case...

 

[AdamWathan]

Dime switched to Krank for a reason. Also, his techniques for getting good tone out of that Randall head in the studio were pretty extreme. He would triple-track his rhythms with the Randall, with either the Low, Mid, or High EQ cranked all the way up on each track, then blend all 3. At least that's what I remember reading... funky in any case...

He also used 2 Furman PQ3 parametric EQs in front of and after the preamp, very very very important in shaping that tone... I highly doubt he ever even used those Warheads live, they were most likely just stage props.

 

[Manicompression]

Yeah, I owned one of these when it first came out, It didnt work right and after the 3rd time I got it back from Randall I sold it, because it sounded like ass. Really dissapointing, I remember saving my money from my first job for like 6 months just to afford it, thinking when I get this head I will conquer the universe because I will have Dimes tones, needless to say I dont buy much without trying it first. bad memories...........