I love using my MarkIV on the Mid-Gain & Pentode settings. But I also run a pair of EL34s with a pair of 6L6s in it, in Simul-Class mode. I find that gets that angry heavy chug and chunk, but it's really tight and crunchy on the top end with a good set of speakers.
But I play in Standard E now...
The Rev F is awesome. And I'm someone who hated on the Recto for a long time, until I tried a Rev F in person - with my guitar and my 4x12 cab.
I think I have a photo of it somewhere with my MarkIV sitting next to it.
Isn't that what he did when he used the TriAxis preamp with the Recto in the mid 1990s? One TriAxis set to a IIC+ preamp sound (with the external 5-band EQ), and another TriAxis set to the Recto preamp. I guess the IIC+ for the higher end crunch and the Recto for the lower end.
I'm not really...
He must do something to make it sound really good. I'm not sure what apart from using Bias.
I did notice that there is a bit of a lack of low end in his mix, compared to the original mix for Enter Sandman (he just stuck the original track in there as an example). The original has a more...
I wouldn't mind getting a single channel MarkIIC++ , just the Lead preamp channel + 5 band EQ + Simul-Class power amp.
Surely they can make it as a lunchbox amp or a rack unit?
None, honestly.
I don't like using a guitar amplifier as a PA. I want it to distort. An overdrive pedal is okay, but I actually use it as an overdrive- to push the amp into distortion.
This.
If you use it before the amp, it changes what harmonics appear more distorted. Whatever the frequency you raise on the EQ pedal, the frequency that is double that value will become 'distorted'. That's a bad explanation I admit.
Basically, if you want more of a 3.2kHz distorted sound...
More awesome covers from the mighty GuitarRazze. Why can't he be Metallica's guitar tech?
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I hate how their guitar tone now has this flat 'clangy' sound to it. I can't work it what it is that is ruining it.
It's not a distorted "kerrrrang" sound like often described here with a good...
Yeah true, the IIC+ can be manipulated a hell of a lot with another EQ in the loop plus its own graphic EQ. Still I don't really hear much 'typical' IIC+ in this song. I suspect I hear the IIC+ in the rhythm mix for Murder One though.
I use EL34s and 6L6s in my own MarkIV, so that amp sounds...
I'm aware of all the variables. I know from my own recordings how I can change the guitar tone from putting the microphone in a different spot or where the amp is in the room- often with frustrating results. I'm just curious what amps were used and how they were blended etc. I'm not after...