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Dirk
Platinum Member
Netherlands
1309 Posts |
 Posted - 02/07/2010 : 18:44:32
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| I wasn't judging anyone, and I clearly understand why someone like Kerry King uses a gate in Slayer's type of music, he pretty much has to for their stop-start rhythms to work. |
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Pedal Dan
Silver Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2010 : 19:06:26
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Yo Dirk, it's cool we're just shootin' ideas back and forth! BTW I think Kerry also uses solid state amps! I also dig that Epi Explorer you posted on the metal gutar thread, sinister! |
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Dirk
Platinum Member
Netherlands
1309 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2010 : 20:35:50
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Originally posted by Pedal Dan
Yo Dirk, it's cool we're just shootin' ideas back and forth! BTW I think Kerry also uses solid state amps! I also dig that Epi Explorer you posted on the metal gutar thread, sinister!
Are you kidding, Kerri has his signature marshall JCM800, the 2203KK, basically a regular 2203 with his eq and noisegate under a preset switch. Seems like a very cool amp even if you don't like Slayer.
I bought that explorer cause I was way into Metallica in those days, so I had to get one. A couple of years later I traded an 8 string bass for my LP, and ended up liking it way better and selling the epi.
http://www.marshallamps.com/product.asp?productCode=2203KK |
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Pedal Dan
Silver Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2010 : 22:40:16
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Yeah, I'm wrong on that Dirk! I was thinking about Dime, althou He switched to Krank tube heads right before his sad passing. |
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Witloofboer
Gold Member
Belgium
513 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2010 : 19:39:16
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Originally posted by Blackrash
But then I got a picture wah! The RMC-4! My lord how it is absolutely amazing! I recommend everyone who hated the wah try one. I fell in love with my wah again, after leaving it unused on the board for so long
I like the sound of the RMC wahs, but they are so expensive! $235 is a bit too much for an 'ordinary' wah.
I don't have an effect which I don't like, I just don't like 'overeffected' sounds.
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Brutalitarian Supremacy
Silver Member
USA
270 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2010 : 23:11:22
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Originally posted by Pedal Dan
Yeah, I'm wrong on that Dirk! I was thinking about Dime, althou He switched to Krank tube heads right before his sad passing.
very popular myth but in no way did he play Krank amps(I used to be a dealer)...yes I know you seen him in every mag on the planet before he died standing in front of a stack of Kranks BUT they were empty heads(except for LED's)and cabs...Dime was paid very well!...it's the same shit Kiss does...pay me to line up a bunch of prop amps so every kid in snoozeville runs out and buys em while my real rig is hiding behind the drum riser...trust me Dime stuck by his trusty ole' green Randall that he won in a chopping heads contest in the early 80's...how do I know this???? Our Krank rep spilled his guts ...and our Randall rep. backed it up!...Krank paid alot of people to endorse their product at first...even though most folks didn't even play them, it def. got em up and running(how many kids ran out and bought one after watching Metalocalypse?)....kinda like the BS Electro Harmonix spews about Hendrix and the Big Muff...do the math...Hendrix was worm food before the Muff ever was designed!(oh I forgot he played a prototype  )...anyway after spending a better part of 4 yrs of my life around those "amps" the only way you'd catch me standing in front of a stack of that shit is to pay me very well! |
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Brutalitarian Supremacy
Silver Member
USA
270 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2010 : 23:15:48
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Originally posted by Brutalitarian Supremacy
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Originally posted by Pedal Dan
Yeah, I'm wrong on that Dirk! I was thinking about Dime, althou He switched to Krank tube heads right before his sad passing.
very popular myth but in no way did he play Krank amps(I used to be a dealer)...yes I know you seen him in every mag on the planet before he died standing in front of a stack of Kranks BUT they were empty heads(except for LED's)and cabs...Dime was paid very well!...it's the same shit Kiss does...pay me to line up a bunch of prop amps so every kid in snoozeville runs out and buys em while my real rig is hiding behind the drum riser...trust me Dime stuck by his trusty ole' green Randall that he won in a chopping heads contest in the early 80's...how do I know this???? Our Krank rep spilled his guts ...and our Randall rep. backed it up!...Krank paid alot of people to endorse their product at first...even though most folks didn't even play them, it def. got em up and running(how many kids ran out and bought one after watching Metalocalypse?)....kinda like the BS Electro Harmonix spews about Hendrix and the Big Muff...do the math...Hendrix was worm food before the Muff ever was designed!(oh I forgot he played a prototype )...anyway after spending a better part of 4 yrs of my life around those "amps" the only way you'd catch me standing in front of a stack of that shit is to pay me very well!
...I will stand by the Rev Jr....a very kick ass little amp... |
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Pedal Dan
Silver Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2010 : 23:23:05
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| ...I won't stand in front of my Mesa Triple Rectifier with 6, 6L6 power tubes and 150 watts into the 2 full armour recto cabs!!! It'll rip the balls right off ya! |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2010 : 23:33:57
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I had Scott Gorhams old Burman amp from his thin lizzy days when i was younger back in the late 80's... 100 watt head and matching cab plus i got a lend of a Marshall 4 x 12 so i had a full stack for a while..i swear you could feel you trousers move while that thing was kicking..... .... wasn't a fan of dimebag but he wouldn't of been the first that did that trick...the was a rumour that Clapton had Musicman guts in his Marshalls in the early 70's before he went all the way and endorsed Musicman..... |
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Brutalitarian Supremacy
Silver Member
USA
270 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2010 : 02:04:54
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Originally posted by Pedal Dan
...I won't stand in front of my Mesa Triple Rectifier with 6, 6L6 power tubes and 150 watts into the 2 full armour recto cabs!!! It'll rip the balls right off ya!
if you think that Rec. screams now...switch out the 5U4G's for GZ34's & slap EL34's in the power stage and fasten your saftey belt...I always felt the Rec series amps had too much of that beloved tube "sag"...so I changed the rec & power tubes in mine...put it this way, I never like the amp from day one and for 8 yrs I've wanted to sell the bastard(was a gift from a dead bandmate so it's a sentimental thing), now it's a keeper! The only way I can explain it is I like to fight my amps for gain...don't give me the shit easy...I wanna earn it...and my ears generally don't like the whole Mesa Rec/5150/6505/6505+/Engl ect. gain stages...they have way too much gain to tap...but after the retubing that mother isn't going anywhere...try it man...$150.00 in new tubes = a whole new amp |
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Pedal Dan
Silver Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2010 : 02:50:57
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Sounds tempting! I'm not a big fan of the high gain stages of it either. I run the green channel, med. Gain, solid state recti's, and inject it with a Digitech GSP2101. The preamp is called grunge, but it's more of a shearing metal tone. The 2101 is stereo and the other channel goes to a TSL100 w /JCM900 cabs also green ch.. The Digitech has a great gate called the silencer. You can run pedals in front or in the loop. That's my Mayhem Rig!!! |
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Blackrash
Bronze Member
USA
72 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 05:59:26
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Originally posted by FRANZONI
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Originally posted by Blackrash
Couldn't imagine using a noise gate... They just sound terrible to me.
Slowly loosing interest in my chorus/flanger as well... Actually it's slowly making it's way to my singer area and removing itself from my board...
I really love the wah though! Used to use a Crybaby JM-1, and i didn't use it much because it didn't do what I desired...
But then I got a picture wah! The RMC-4! My lord how it is absolutely amazing! I recommend everyone who hated the wah try one. I fell in love with my wah again, after leaving it unused on the board for so long
RMC-4 is that the one made by Teese....?
I still have my CE-2 on the board...since i got it it's never been off it as the CH-1 used to be from time to time...i wouldn't use it on everything but at times it gives a great shimmer to the sound for certain parts especially as Dirk pointed out,for any 80's covers..the Police,Pretenders etc....
Yes it is sir
It even has a picture of Mr. Teese on the back! It is one of my favorite pedals as of now... |
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Blackrash
Bronze Member
USA
72 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 06:06:44
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Originally posted by Witloofboer
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Originally posted by Blackrash
But then I got a picture wah! The RMC-4! My lord how it is absolutely amazing! I recommend everyone who hated the wah try one. I fell in love with my wah again, after leaving it unused on the board for so long
I like the sound of the RMC wahs, but they are so expensive! $235 is a bit too much for an 'ordinary' wah.
I don't have an effect which I don't like, I just don't like 'overeffected' sounds.
They are a little pricey, but it is because they are pure quality! I have not heard anything even remotely close to as good as the sound this thing put in my ear. And a lot of quality wahs are in the $200 price range anyway...
I used a $30 JM-1(used without battery cover) until I could save up for this one, and man was it worth it when I finally got it...
I have a janky $10 homemade pedalboard though with these multi hundred dollar pedals on it
People must think I am out of my mind, but I would rather throw that $100 towards more pedals then a pedalboard |
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 13:54:39
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 16:45:26
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Originally posted by zerksies
The one that fails as i am about to go onstage
If your talking about pedalboards i have a DIY/homemade jobby thats been gigged constantly for nearly the last three years without any major hiccups...no fancy power supplys or routing ..just 3/4 ply,velcro and some decent cables...and it only cost me about €30 to build... although the cables were extra....
P.S...I'd love to check out one of the teese wahs but by the time i got it shipped and import tax it would be nearly €300 just for a wah ... think i'll just get a new pot for my crybaby and do the stinkfoot true bypass mod....
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The one effect you hate...?
