Dime 40 watt Warhead mini amps.....Did the designers achieve old Randall RG100ES feel and tones?

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Sounds killer!! Not quite as “dime” as with the jaguars but equally awesome
 
This is a cool gimmick.

Also, more people should run stereo high gain rigs in general.
For anybody in a one guitar band, it's just about mandatory.
 
This is a cool gimmick.

Also, more people should run stereo high gain rigs in general.
For anybody in a one guitar band, it's just about mandatory.


I been telling everyone for years that if you have two rigs you need a mimiq pedal, I would have ran through a pit of burning coals barefoot for one of them back in the day when I was the only guitar player, not many seem to listen though
 
I been telling everyone for years that if you have two rigs you need a mimiq pedal, I would have ran through a pit of burning coals barefoot for one of them back in the day when I was the only guitar player, not many seem to listen though

Absolutely. I've never understood why the mimiq isn't vastly more popular than it is. It's excellent at what it does.
 
Stereo rigs rule. :yes:

This demo sounds great to me. +1 to the mimiq but this pedal he has seems fricken awesome. I want one. Buffer/Splitter/Tuner/OD/2 outputs and you can assign the OD to either or both. Fuck me.
 
Wizard is 100 percent the key to dimes recorded tone
I understand the studio using them to add layers to Dimes tone but I respectfully disagree with your statement. His core tone was the Randall's, having owned a number of Randalls and the entire Dime rig through the years.

As good at these little mini Warhead sound the real RG's just punch more.

Here's a lowly Randall RG80 gettin it done from Domicidal Cover YT channel.
 
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Bc you can achieve the same effect with two delays.
Or detune with no tuning adjustment, just a slight 2-3 ms delay on each side of the field. Makes everything bigger, so to speak.
 
Or detune with no tuning adjustment, just a slight 2-3 ms delay on each side of the field. Makes everything bigger, so to speak.


I don’t know if that is the same, the mimiq constantly alters the signal to “mimiq” the inconsistencies of laying down a second track
 
I can see a Mimiq working well for rock and certain metal tones, but I didn’t care for it at all for really heavy stuff.
It’ll definitely widen your sound but it also softens and washes out the punch and aggression.
It’s definitely a great pedal for the right application though.
 
i never noticed it washing anything out, but either way i dont know how much closer one would need to dimes tone than this, i kind of hope they come out with a proper wattage head

 
Bc you can achieve the same effect with two delays.

Nah, you really can't. Beleive me I've tried. You can get a relatively unsophisticated widening effect with a standard delay if you set one side to 100% wet and anywhere from like 3-20 ms of digital delay, which might honestly work fine if that's the only way you'll ever hear the track, but that technique immediately fails and collapses the guitar into notchy phase cancellation if the tracks are bounced down and panned with each other, or if the track is played in mono.

A Mimiq pedal does a whole lot more subtle things to make it actually sound almost just like two human players. If you use it right (at the beginning of the chain and then into two separate rigs), it won't phase cancel itself if the tracks are bounced together or panned with each other, just like two real tracks won't.

@Beyond Black If you set the Tightness dial as high as possible, it stays as tight as any double-tracked-by-humans guitar line.

i never noticed it washing anything out, but either way i dont know how much closer one would need to dimes tone than this, i kind of hope they come out with a proper wattage head



One thing I'd like to point out is that in this video, Ola is using a Mimiq Mini, which has only one mono output. IMO the Mini version is almost worthless and really nothing like the standard pedal. In the Mini format, it's basically just a strange kind of chorus effect. The real point of the Mimiq is to split the raw guitar into two signals, then send those signals to different amps so each can generate distortion separately. The Mini version doesn't let you split the signal at all so you'll either be running an effectively chorused guitar signal into one amp, or an effectively chrosed sounding preamp into a poweramp, which I guess can be cool, but it doesn't emulate double tracking like the real Mimiq pedal does.

edit: Ok I watched Ola's video. Turns out he's using the Mimiq Mini the one correct way it can be used, with the Dry set to zero! :D
 
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Nah, you really can't. Beleive me I've tried. You can get a relatively unsophisticated widening effect with a standard delay if you set one side to 100% wet and anywhere from like 3-20 ms of digital delay, which might honestly work fine if that's the only way you'll ever hear the track, but that technique immediately fails and collapses the guitar into notchy phase cancellation if the tracks are bounced down and panned with each other, or if the track is played in mono.

A Mimiq pedal does a whole lot more subtle things to make it actually sound almost just like two human players. If you use it right (at the beginning of the chain and then into two separate rigs), it won't phase cancel itself if the tracks are bounced together or panned with each other, just like two real tracks won't.

@Beyond Black If you set the Tightness dial as high as possible, it stays as tight as any double-tracked-by-humans guitar line.



One thing I'd like to point out is that in this video, Ola is using a Mimiq Mini, which has only one mono output. IMO the Mini version is almost worthless and really nothing like the standard pedal. In the Mini format, it's basically just a strange kind of chorus effect. The real point of the Mimiq is to split the raw guitar into two signals, then send those signals to different amps so each can generate distortion separately. The Mini version doesn't let you split the signal at all so you'll either be running an effectively chorused guitar signal into one amp, or an effectively chrosed sounding preamp into a poweramp, which I guess can be cool, but it doesn't emulate double tracking like the real Mimiq pedal does.


I have the regular one and use it like you’re saying, I thought using the line out with the mini would do the same thing, I was gonna grab the mini but not if it’s like that
 
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