Recent content by TheGreatGreen

Yes, that's normal. I have three different 5150 III amps (100w Stealth, 100w EL34, and 50w 6L6) and on all of them, setting the gain to 8:00 gives me a crunchy, JCM 800-esque level of distortion. The amps aren't full bore gain mayhem at those settings, but they do get pretty crunchy even there...

One thing I'd like to chime in on about the farty and mushy low end of the EL34 50w's Blue channel is that this can actually be beneficial to the sound IF you use boosts that also cut bass, like a Tubescreamer, with that channel. The squishy low end in that scenario can actually help balance the...

@TheToneDig the “farty, squishy low end” of the EVH 50w EL34 vs EVH 50w 6L6 has NOTHING to do with watts. The Blue channel of the 50w EL34 amp has more bass routed into the gain stages of the preamp than the Blue channel of the 50w 6L6 amp, so it sounds flubby and mushier by comparison. People...

My response to this is "good." :D Metallica's mid career albums have arguably some of the most iconic and influential heavy tones ever recorded. Personally I'd love to see more people going down the rabbit hole to figure out exactly what it was that made those sounds and how that gear was used.

Disclaimer: these videos compare the heads only. Not sure about the differences between the heads and combo versions of the amps. The last video compares the standard v2 6L6 50w (concentric pots) head but trust me, the v2 6L6 50w is so close to the Stealth 50w that it makes no difference. I...

With the overwhelming choice of pickups on the market, tons of gain stages, input eq shaping, compression, or whatever, then yes I think you can make just about any guitar cover huge swathes of tonal ground before it even hits the amp. The end of the chain of an amplified guitar can honestly be...

Glenn Fricker knows some cool stuff about recording for beginners and he knows a little bit about guitar from a relative beginners perspective, but not enough to be an authority on the kinds of stuff being talked about in this thread. I mean, have you heard him play? He can barely scratch out a...

I know what I said and I know what I think. I want to know what you think. Specifically, I want you to define the word you used so I know how you meant it. I'm asking you this because I don't think you can. Calling something "unmusical" is ambiguous and I think you know that, and I think you...

So you can't explain it and were just making it up to back yourself out of the corner you dug yourself into. Got it.

No I didn't. And you chopped off the end of my sentence. The Mark series amps have tight low end which means the bass notes, the fundamental tones, ring clearly. That seems pretty "musical" to me, especially when I've played them and compared them to other amps. Please define what you mean when...

Aaaahahahahahahahahahaha Please, tell us more about how Rectos and Mark series amps can't chug or sound good for heavy rhythm guitar work, and how arguably one of the most influential and important metal bands of all time, considered so by fans and almost every relevant metal artist around...

I think this is broadly true when applied to the current discourse happening in society at large right now, but might be a bit overwrought for what's being discussed here in this guitar forum. I think it's perfectly fair to say that in general, the majority of bands from any given point in...

To everybody reading this thread... remember at the top of this page where I posted: Just read the next handful of posts immediately after that to see exactly what I'm talking about. lol

ok, boomer.

You have as much boomer energy as any 70 year old.