Fight war of words sound

[Bmxrider799]

Does any one on the forum have any idea what gear Brian tilse used on fights war of words album to get his rythem sound. I think he played the ampeg vl1000 but I was wondering if anyone knows what kind of gear he used to push that amp so hard (eq’s, od’s, etc) to get such a brutal sound

 

[mchn13]

I had a vl1002 back in the day. It had a lot of gain, but I always tightened it up with a boss overdrive. Had a five way mid shift knob, and could get real brutal, when it wasn’t busy blowing up or eating transformers. God I hated that amp.

 

[Bmxrider799]

I have herd a lot about the vl series amps being unreliable I have been lucky so far with mine (knock on wood) the only issue I had was the bag that is attached to the roof of the head shell that holds the reverb unit had started to fall on to the tubes and I was playing one day and started to smell what smelled like something was burning luckily I caught it in time and was able to fix it

 

[Juggernaut]

I always thought they used the Ampeg VH140C to record that album... am I wrong?

 

[mchn13]

I always thought they used the Ampeg VH140C to record that album... am I wrong?

I think you’re right, but they were hustling the vl’s in all the ads iirc.

 

[Bmxrider799]

I always thought they used the Ampeg VH140C to record that album... am I wrong?

I’ve always had that suspicion as well but even in their live rigs it’s distinctly the vl1000s on stage but they could have just had the vh140 back stage

 

[bigangryguitar]

The article they did in Guitar World back then said it was the vl-1002 but as stated it could just be for the ad purposes. From what I remember those were killer sounding amps though just had some issues.