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  1. Speeddemon

    Name your top 5 metal vocalists

    Halford Dio .... King Diamond Blackie Lawless Tom Araya Honorable mentions: John Cyriis Dickinson Hetfield Michael Kiske Jørn Lande Joey Belladonna Geoff Tate Eric A.K. Knutson Mike Sanders (Toxik)
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    MXR Carbon Copy delay repeat level slowly dropping over the years?

    Well, I tried it on different amps, with a power supply or a battery and also as the only pedal in the loop. The problem persists. I basically get 1 repeat (regardless of where I set the Regen knob), at about 5% volume at most, and quite distorted (moreso than expected from an analog delay). I...
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    MXR Carbon Copy delay repeat level slowly dropping over the years?

    I'm experiencing a weird thing with my MXR Carbon Copy (probably over 10 years old)... FWIW, I'm running it in the fx-loop of my EVH 5150III 50W, next to a modded Boss GE-7, TC Harmonizer, MXR Micro Flanger, Mooer Ensemble King (CE-2 chorus) and a Boss/Roland RE-20 Space Echo. In the beginning...
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    VHT Pittbull 100CL or Diezel Einstein / DMoll

    Did you have the 35W or 50W and what was your reason for selling it? I concur with stuff that others have voiced; if you want to sum up both amps in 1 word each, Fryette=clarity. Dmoll=thickness. But where most Friedmans have this thick, gooey, polished thing going on, the Dmoll had less 'goo'...
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    AMONG THE LIVING anyone?

    Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, that's how one of Fortin's 1-knob boost pedals is based; the TC Preamp, but with bass pre-set to 0. That's too clanky for my taste though.
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    AMONG THE LIVING anyone?

    As confirmed by Scott Ian himself (see post #28), the TC Distortion/Booster pedal had something to do with that as well, both in goosing up the input and for added tightness.
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    Mercyful Fate Is Friggin Awesome!

    Big fan here as well. More so of Melissa (my first) than DBTO, although the latter had some absolute classics as well. Then there was the Nuns Have no fun EP... 🤘 "Corpse without a soul" is my fave track. And 'Tallica pussied out by not playing that intro solo on Garage Inc.
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    Looking for Living Room amp

    I had the bigger brother, the TM30. Sounded great indeed. Only downside was the lack of channel switching. And aside from reverb, no further onboard fx. But for pure, analog, tube like tone, one of the better ones for sure.
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    Jimmy Page blasts new Artificial Intelligence proposals from UK Government

    Skynet: hold my bytes....
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    DEF LEPPARD 'High 'n' Dry' 40th Anniversary

    The intro of this song (before the guitars kick in) sounds exactly like the music they used when Michael Knight (or the A-Team for that matter) was scanning the surroundings of an 'abandoned' shed in some dusty town, where some real estate mogul/parttime crook was terrorizing the locals. :giggle:
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    You know what really grinds my gears?

    Doh! o_O I've worked with this stuff in elementary school even. Indeed written with it. We call 'East-Indian ink' and for some reason I didn't make the connection to India ink. But yeah, good to know you can use this to stain fretboards. I got a Burny Les Paul Custom in black with a rosewood fb...
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    You know what really grinds my gears?

    Ehm... What is India ink? Is it specific for instrument making or also used for furniture? Honestly never heard of it. And for the record, it grinds my gears as well.
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    Pickup for LP with big bottom

    Loose yes, but huge sounding, far from it...at least in my experience. Tried it in a Les Paul too. Couldn't sell it fast enough. It's very spongey in its response, but very bland.
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    Expensive Instrument Cable Snake Oil

    In this case, there are many options that are affordable and an improvement! I'd start with replacing those Monster cables with Sommer Spirit XXL or Klotz LaGrange (AC110). And as for Hosa, even Cordial or Mogami would be better I guess. I do have some patch cables for my homestudio from Hosa...
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    Pickup for LP with big bottom

    I'll second the SH14 Custom5. It's beefy, not too overpowered, and the low end is not as loose as the JB's. ToneZone is an option, but in the wrong guitar it would become muddy probably. Have you considered the DiMarzio Breed Bridge? It's big sounding, but also quite polite. So I figure for hard...
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    DEF LEPPARD 'High 'n' Dry' 40th Anniversary

    Well, can you name one album from, say, '78 to '82 with the same level of gain (so less than VH, probably slightly more than AC/DC basically), but with that same chewiness? And sure the songs rock well, so that helps...but for me, the tone definitely stands out. To be fair, I think they lost...
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    DEF LEPPARD 'High 'n' Dry' 40th Anniversary

    Not just crunchy, but magically very chewy and juicy at the same time. Interested to know if anyone knows what Steve Clarke was using gear/signal wise, aside from a Les Paul into a Marshall?
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    Your favorite neck pickup?

    Duncan: Pearly Gates neck and Screamin' Demon DiMarzio: DP103 36th Anniv PAF, Air Norton and Breed neck, but...the Breed neck needs to be in the right guitar. In my Charvel So Cal it was so so, a bit too jangly up top (alder body, maple neck, bolt on neck and Floyd Rose probably all added to...
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    "You're ALL" playing Saxon-Crusader intro wrong!!!

    Dinesh and Leather, brought us all together, It was you, who set the PAFs free
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    Damn it! There is nothing wrong with my Boogie Mark IV!

    Mike (together with Eddie and Alex) changed a DLR too once. Ba dum tss. :p
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