Egnater Tourmaster How does this amp do with.....

[zepplin490]

Ive watched the youtube video's and listened to all the clips and this amp sounds killer, very versatile. I play mostly metal but i do play some hard rock and even a little classic rock so this seems like the perfect head for me it has killer high gain, killer hard rock and classic rock tone and the cleans and low gain tones seem very nice as well.. What I am wondering from someone who owns one of these or has actually played through one is: Can this amp do classic Ride the Lightning/Master of Puppets Metallica? Can it get that killer midrange grind of slash and Guns & Roses? Will it do Skid Row and Motley Crue? and how does it do with Drop Tunings? I only go down to Drop D but its a drop tuning
thanks
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[Buster_Lee]

I've owned a Tourmaster for two years. For the money, I'd say it does a pretty good pissed off Marshall sound. I think it can do most any 60s, 70s, 80s and up hard rock. It does drop tunings just fine, but don't expect the tight, percussive low end of a Mesa, or VHT, much less a well modded Marshall, or Splawn, etc. It just ain't there. I don't think it takes overdrive pedals very well either, except on the clean channels. Then, you just get a different voiced overdrive than the OD channels. It does have a good reverb and the different channels make for many different tones, especially if you have guitars with different output pickups. The four channels, classic/modern voicings, etc., really are functional, if you have different several guitars that have their own sounds. For the bands you mentioned, except for GnR, OD2 channel is for you. I can get closer to Slash's sound on OD1, gain at 2-3 o'clock, with my Tourmaster. For what it's worth, mine is the early non-M version, but I do have vintage preamp glass and a new PT. The vintage preamp tubes really woke up this amp, for me.

 

[Anonymous]

the M mod significantly tightens the bass to modern metal low end standards.

i put mine on a DPDT switch...stock/modded

the difference is HUGE when you do it that way, as opposed to doing the mod and trying to "remember".

i actually put all the M mods on switches...and a few others. but the bass mods do what the OP needs, and more.

 

[Kerabatsos]

I have an M version combo. You can get a good 80s scooped metal tone on OD2 via the Contour knob. That control makes the TM very versatile from a genre perspective. You won't nail MoP (hard to do without a IIC+), but you can get in the ballpark. Of course, everyone has their own definition of "ballpark", but it's more than sufficient until I can pick up a Mesa Mark or preamp.

 

[Anonymous]

you can throw a geq in the loop, like many others do with other amps and tighten things up too.


definitely not a mark amp, but, you can sculpt your tones....the series/parallel fx loop makes for some interesting mixtures too.