Violentpanda
First Lieutenant   Posts: 3 Registered: 2/3/2006 Status: Offline
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 posted on 2/3/2006 at 02:54 |
Okay heres the deal. I am Looking for a Good Metal Amp. I ahve some ideas
on what do get but I would like some feed back as some of you may have
played on these amps. I play everything from Pantera to Metallica to Vai
to Satriani to Creed to Slayer to Deftones to Nirvana to Silverchair to
Iced Earth to Death to Cradle of Filth. I am currently playing through a
Ibanez S1520BP Prestige with a EMG-81 in the bridge and a EMG-85 at the
neck. I am Playing through my computer with Amplitube into 2 large PA
speakers. I HATE THIS!! JAMING WITH FREINDS IS A PAIN...AND THE ****
PROGRAM HAS A VERY BAD CRAPPY NOISE GATE. With that being said...here is
what I am looking at:
SETUP OPTION #1
Peavy JSX Head w/XXX 4x12 Cab
BOSS GT-8
Morely Badhorsie Wah
SETUP OPTION #2
Krankenstien Head
Krankenstien Cab
SETUP OPTION #3
Line-6 HD-147 w/Matching Cab
And the Top Floor Controller for the HD-147
These are the three setups I am looking for...
#1-Sweet Amp, not sure if it gets those mean tones for metal hence the
GT-8
#2-Heavy Amp, not sure if it can get as sweet tones as the JSX
#3-HD-147, Very versitle Amp but not sure if it can get Very Mean AND Very
Sweet.
The Clean channel has to be Shimmering! I love a good shimmering Clean
channel. I hope this info will give you guys enough info to help me decide
what setup is the best on for me.
[Edited on 2/3/2006 by Violentpanda]
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brian
Moderator   Posts: 1038 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 2/3/2006 at 11:31, Reply 1 |
I always recommend 2 amps with a A/B switch. I have yet to find one amp
that sounds equally well on both clean and dirty channels. Hughes & Kettner
is pretty close though. I use a Marshall 800 head with a slant cab for
dirty with a fender bassman for clean plus my vintage pedals  Alot has to due
with the tubes. 6l6 tubes sound better clean verses EL34. One of my
favorite tubes for clean is EL84.
Look around and play as many amps as you can get your hands on and nver go
by the name alone.
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jimmy8170
First Lieutenant  Posts: 1 Registered: 3/6/2006 Status: Offline |
posted on 3/6/2006 at 02:01, Reply 2 |
if u get the chance check out crate bv 120 with slant cab from same it has
2 independent pre amp stages i have one with a les paul i play every thing
from jazz to thrash metal with the same head not many people deal with
crate the old sayin u get what u pay for is not true in this case i had the
jsx first and when u play clean it sounds muddy and when u play dirty it
has no control over mids and high u adj. and the low end just drops out
worked for peavy doing repair on the tube line this amp had a lot of fall
out at that time
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