Do you happen to know if the drive side gets in the same ballpark as the paranormal? I wanted to try out one of those but was a day late and a dollar short.
I would recommend a Rivera K-Tre, has a TON of gain on the dirty side and a very underrated clean channel as well. It has so much bottom end on the dirty channel that it can be a little loose at times but nothing a decent tube screamer or something of that nature going through the front end...
I had a 6505+112 combo (not sure how similar it is to OP) awhile back, pretty killer amp but yeah, the stock speaker was not really cutting it, seemed a little thin for what I was trying to do with it (sludge-punk kinda thing). I took that sucker out and replaced with an Eminence Swamp Thang...
Picked up a used Fender re-issued Sunn))) Model T amp a few years back, was trying to get into some doom metal tones and knew the old originals were pretty dope for that.
Unfortunately, the re-issues sound nothing like the O.G. Model T's, kind of a like a slightly crappier Peavey 5150 than a...
Not affiliated in any way but this thing sounds pretty gnarly. I like that the gate on it is independent and can keyed in or used without the distortion entirely. The only knock against is that, in this demo anyway, the low knob doesn't seem nearly as responsive as the high and mid. Would love...
Ah gotcha, I dig your chugs with that amp/ pickup/ tubescreamer combo. Sounds like I might have to put the 500T into my Duncan JB replacement consideration along with the Duncan Distortion.