rottingcorpse
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my girlfriend and i flew to san fran from dallas, so that we could spend the weekend with mike at dar and pick up my amp. to say it was an incredible weekend would be an understatement of epic proportions. mike and i have been talking about this for a long time, but not only did it exceed expectations, my girl and i were blown away. though i will say we talked about the amp and tech a lot, we spent most of the weekend talking about other stuff...typical geek or nerd talk. more of this fantastic weekend can be found on susan's facebook page. all i can say is that she made it easy for me to do this, and that mike and her hit it off very well.
i barely played the amp for less than 10 min at the dar shop. i knew it would do what i wanted from it, and knew it would need to be played on my set-up for me to be happy. mike dialed it in right away, knowing full well what i was looking for....and it does it in spades. i put down the guitar and we went back to yapping. mike and i can suck the air out of a room, laughing our asses off the whole time.
it arrived here monday. my bro dave (dwisted) and i had been playing the herbert for a couple of hours (in a room with some of the other baddest high gain head available), and were loving that diezel tone. we had already decided that the dar was facing a tough room. the isp sub and the k100's were crushing it. i was about to plug up an ultralead (my fave) when the fbm arrived. we popped it on top of the herb, and went though the fire up procedure. p.s,the warmup time is almost long enough to slam a drink, light a smoke, and talk trash. get it over with, because once you hit the standby...
....you are busy. very busy. when an amps is really tight, and has "whatever it is", it makes me smile right away. within a minute of two i will be laughing. i found this with the ultralead, herbert, cobra, a couple of good modded marshalls....the randall X2 does this for me quickly, as dime tone has always been a favorite. but this is way different. super tight. dave says the amp and power section were made for my style of playing. super fast, shuffle pattern picking cuts like nothing else. the bottom is super tight from the isp vector sub. the k100's are bellowing that sound that makes your arm hair stand on end. i'm nailing some exodus riffs, with that gary holt rhythm that keeps you focused on the task at hand, and dave and i are giggling like little girls. the percussiveness of the metal channels is crazy insane. once that initial punch lets the tone come though, that is the point that you cant really believe it belongs to you. personally, this is by far and away the undisputed king of the room. i am strictly a metal player. i want just the most tight focused and heavy tone i can find. to say i am happy is an understatement.
btw, the gate is the dogs balls!! seriously, for metal/brutals rhythm, it is perfect. keying it off the guitar input (basically my ns-2 by proxy) the amp is super tight and dead freaking quiet. i play loud. no, seriously....loud. regularly. you cant have an amp like this, or play this style of metal, without dead silence. no amp hiss at all (unsettlingly quiet...we kept laughing about having to warn each other we were about to play. about the 3rd time one startled the other, we worked out a warning system.lol) when i throw the killswitch on my guitar, it goes from unleashed hell to dead quiet. kinda like when you punch out a nagging wife. (ok, i debated that tasteless joke, but damned if it wasnt funny to me.)
i can tell you this. i dont care how he is doing it inside this beauty. it can be solid state pod for all care. i freaking love this sound, and this amp.
i am sure dave will pop in and give his impressions. he and i are texting now as i write this. he wants me to stop by on the way back to the truck, so we can play this amp some more. we both are really impressed with the brutals it does so well. i wanna thank mike so much for making this happen. we had been talking for so long about me coming out to spend the weekend, and he was beyond cool. my girl may have been bored when i was bugging him with questions about plate voltages, tone stacks and such, but he was making sure she was having as good a time as i was. and special thanks to my girl susan for making this trip so easy for me. i am forever indebted to you for this, my pet.
and to all my friends here and on other forums, you guys have been hearing me scream about this guys power section since the tuzza/forza was announced.... i was right. this is it.
to mike. thanks for everything. i will be seeing "the gates of hell" soon again. next time, bring over "el diablo" to hear me unleash hell. he will laugh his ass off. tell him i said hi.
i barely played the amp for less than 10 min at the dar shop. i knew it would do what i wanted from it, and knew it would need to be played on my set-up for me to be happy. mike dialed it in right away, knowing full well what i was looking for....and it does it in spades. i put down the guitar and we went back to yapping. mike and i can suck the air out of a room, laughing our asses off the whole time.
it arrived here monday. my bro dave (dwisted) and i had been playing the herbert for a couple of hours (in a room with some of the other baddest high gain head available), and were loving that diezel tone. we had already decided that the dar was facing a tough room. the isp sub and the k100's were crushing it. i was about to plug up an ultralead (my fave) when the fbm arrived. we popped it on top of the herb, and went though the fire up procedure. p.s,the warmup time is almost long enough to slam a drink, light a smoke, and talk trash. get it over with, because once you hit the standby...
....you are busy. very busy. when an amps is really tight, and has "whatever it is", it makes me smile right away. within a minute of two i will be laughing. i found this with the ultralead, herbert, cobra, a couple of good modded marshalls....the randall X2 does this for me quickly, as dime tone has always been a favorite. but this is way different. super tight. dave says the amp and power section were made for my style of playing. super fast, shuffle pattern picking cuts like nothing else. the bottom is super tight from the isp vector sub. the k100's are bellowing that sound that makes your arm hair stand on end. i'm nailing some exodus riffs, with that gary holt rhythm that keeps you focused on the task at hand, and dave and i are giggling like little girls. the percussiveness of the metal channels is crazy insane. once that initial punch lets the tone come though, that is the point that you cant really believe it belongs to you. personally, this is by far and away the undisputed king of the room. i am strictly a metal player. i want just the most tight focused and heavy tone i can find. to say i am happy is an understatement.
btw, the gate is the dogs balls!! seriously, for metal/brutals rhythm, it is perfect. keying it off the guitar input (basically my ns-2 by proxy) the amp is super tight and dead freaking quiet. i play loud. no, seriously....loud. regularly. you cant have an amp like this, or play this style of metal, without dead silence. no amp hiss at all (unsettlingly quiet...we kept laughing about having to warn each other we were about to play. about the 3rd time one startled the other, we worked out a warning system.lol) when i throw the killswitch on my guitar, it goes from unleashed hell to dead quiet. kinda like when you punch out a nagging wife. (ok, i debated that tasteless joke, but damned if it wasnt funny to me.)
i can tell you this. i dont care how he is doing it inside this beauty. it can be solid state pod for all care. i freaking love this sound, and this amp.
i am sure dave will pop in and give his impressions. he and i are texting now as i write this. he wants me to stop by on the way back to the truck, so we can play this amp some more. we both are really impressed with the brutals it does so well. i wanna thank mike so much for making this happen. we had been talking for so long about me coming out to spend the weekend, and he was beyond cool. my girl may have been bored when i was bugging him with questions about plate voltages, tone stacks and such, but he was making sure she was having as good a time as i was. and special thanks to my girl susan for making this trip so easy for me. i am forever indebted to you for this, my pet.
and to all my friends here and on other forums, you guys have been hearing me scream about this guys power section since the tuzza/forza was announced.... i was right. this is it.
to mike. thanks for everything. i will be seeing "the gates of hell" soon again. next time, bring over "el diablo" to hear me unleash hell. he will laugh his ass off. tell him i said hi.
