Just to make your pocket more empty, I sold my MTL for my Hellion lol.
Well if I get a Helion III and like it more, will sell my MTL MKII for sure. For now I just cannot think of selling it; it's the best amp I have ever played and has so many tonal options. I do not play downtuned modern metal (Drop C lowest) so not sure about Hermansson, seems to be more suitable for extended settings, at least in the Youtube demos.
I tend to use standard or drop d with my Hermansson, and have never gone lower than drop c.
Compare them here. Hermansson Marshalls are definitely not just for extended range and covers all ground. Hermansson Mesas are more for the Meshuggah 7/8 string territory. If you already have the MTL then you are good to go tbh. At this level we are basically debating slight different flavors of things.
Hermansson makes great amps. I’ve had a few. But for me they too fizzy on the high end. I can’t unhear it.
Were yours Marshall or Mesa donor amps?
Have had a Laney PA build, Marshall build and a Mesa dual rec rev F mod. The first two he built for me in maybe 2013 (before the 3GS and 5GS) and the Mesa for maybe 5 years ago
Whoa; that's quite the collection. With how he records things "in the room" it's hard to grasp how they'd sound exactly under a mic etc.
The HR definitely has more punch, more gain, and can get way tighter then the MTL. Mids also sit different which could come more down to the KT88s on the HR vs MTL has EL34s. MTL sounds more like a Marshall with more high mids while HR sounds like its own thing with more low mids.
Yeah you can remove all the fizz that you normally hear. Henric uses Greenbacks on his demos and has the settings setup to do a lot of the harmonic highs content in the tone. The hair, mid, low-mid, deep switches allows you to get rid of all that fizz. Extremely versatile with the six three-way switches.
