Randall MTS and Charvel Pro Mod in Action - Video

[Chubtone]

Well now! That was smokingly good.

Thanks brotha! The smoke was the hang tag burning up like I mentioned a couple of posts ago.

 

[Anonymous]

Damn... that could have been the same night as the picture I posted...

Steve

 

[mixohoytian]

the guy in Hawk could have used some of your Chicago vibrato

 

[70strathead]

sounds great dude!!

that avatar of Doug M is killing me me

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

That Hawk tune was horrible and Marks is just brutal in it. I had his vid and to be honest i didn't learn a thing. I thought the lessosn were generic at the time because I had already learned all these Rhoads licks. What was he thinking when he wrote that solo? He could have done way more. Horrible vibrato too.

 

[Chubtone]

That Hawk tune was horrible and Marks is just brutal in it. I had his vid and to be honest i didn't learn a thing. I thought the lessosn were generic at the time because I had already learned all these Rhoads licks. What was he thinking when he wrote that solo? He could have done way more. Horrible vibrato too.

Dang dude. Such a critic. What do you want? You want him to rip on guitar or do you want him to make his hair huge? You know how long it used to take to get your hair that big? Something had to give, and it just may have been the guitar practicing.

I wouldn't be surprised if you got the Metal Method stuff by the time it was on video if it was already kind of old hat. I got that stuff in probably 1983 when it was still on cassette tapes and funny enough the licks weren't even notated in tablature which wasn't even invented yet. At that point, there wasn't anything else like it available for instruction. The guitar mags didn't even teach songs or licks yet.

We can all say stuff and joke around about Doug now, but I'll tell you honestly, his lessons were instrumental in my growth as a player and the guy was a good business man for the guitar instruction genre.

 

[Greazygeo]

Good video Curt...but next time at least toss the guitar up in the air a few times.

The tune and playing are cool. Not a big fan of the sound of the amp, but Randall's voicing just isn't my thing.

I have that Hawk album somewhere...maybe played a few times. Learned a lot from the Rhoads and Metal theory tapes/books. I had the Metal Licks book too, but never made any sense of it. Probably made a good bit of $$ back in the day.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Dang dude. Such a critic. What do you want? You want him to rip on guitar or do you want him to make his hair huge? You know how long it used to take to get your hair that big? Something had to give, and it just may have been the guitar practicing.

very true... he had the look down pat. I wish I could have hair like that!

I think I got the VHS for it in the late 80's so yeah, might already have been on it's way out. They sent us the Batio speed kills by mistake at first so maybe his shredding up and down the neck ruined it for me by the time Marks came along showing me ghost notes.. (which I already knew!)

That Batio "another freight train" might be one of the worst songs from that era... I'm not talking the solo I'm talking the song.

 

[Chubtone]

That Batio "another freight train" might be one of the worst songs from that era... I'm not talking the solo I'm talking the song.

I'm giggling myself silly at that. I saw Batio for the first time when I was about 18. He was playing in a band called Holland in Chicago. Tom Holland was the singer and it was his band. They wrote songs. Batio did his thing within the context of songs and for a much shorter breaks.

Then I moved to LA and about a year later Michael "Angelo" was in LA with a new band. He was ridiculously over the top. When you are on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, in the 80's, and you're thinking these guys image and personas are over the top. Well, that's saying quite a bit. Then he continued his level of silliness into Nitro. And to this day, at 50 something years of age, he is still wearing outfits that are downright embarrassing considering his "gigs" are normally clinics in guitar shops.

 

[Mailman1971]

Man....that amp is sounding smokin!
I have been around with MTS amps on and off thru the years.
Owned 2 Eggy Mod 100's ....Mod 50....
Lynch Box....and a Randall RM100.
I just found myself getting wrapped up in all the MODDED MODUALS!
Pete's modded 1086 was the BOMB though....
Loved Friedmans modded Brahma as well. How you think the Judge compares to the Brahma?
Sounds in the same Vein. Like it alot!

 

[Chubtone]

Man....that amp is sounding smokin!
I have been around with MTS amps on and off thru the years.
Owned 2 Eggy Mod 100's ....Mod 50....
Lynch Box....and a Randall RM100.
I just found myself getting wrapped up in all the MODDED MODUALS!
Pete's modded 1086 was the BOMB though....
Loved Friedmans modded Brahma as well. How you think the Judge compares to the Brahma?
Sounds in the same Vein. Like it alot!

The Judge is much meaner sounding than the Brahma IMO. It's nowhere near as gainy as the Mr. Scary. It sits perfectly in the middle of those two. The Brahma really wants a Tube Screamer spanking it and The Judge module sounds killer straight in.

 

[Mailman1971]

Man....that amp is sounding smokin!
I have been around with MTS amps on and off thru the years.
Owned 2 Eggy Mod 100's ....Mod 50....
Lynch Box....and a Randall RM100.
I just found myself getting wrapped up in all the MODDED MODUALS!
Pete's modded 1086 was the BOMB though....
Loved Friedmans modded Brahma as well. How you think the Judge compares to the Brahma?
Sounds in the same Vein. Like it alot!

The Judge is much meaner sounding than the Brahma IMO. It's nowhere near as gainy as the Mr. Scary. It sits perfectly in the middle of those two. The Brahma really wants a Tube Screamer spanking it and The Judge module sounds killer straight in.

Thats where I THOUGHT it would fit in.....
Keep the vids coming......sounds KILLER!!

 

[gtr31]

Hawk was extremely underwhelming when I saw them live. I had learned so much from Doug Marks a few years earlier and thought he was just going to tear it up as he was great at playing those Rhoads and EVH licks. But his own playing was extremely pedestrian IMO.

his band not so good IMO ..did they not have that break wine glasses Gillite vocal guy too???

I think it goes back to all the bling and shred chops in the world wont amount to much if you can't write a catchy song

 

[texasturner]

Thanks to everyone! This little amp puts a smile on my face every time I play it, especially with The Judge module. We talk about modded Marshall this and modded Marshall that and when I heard that Judge module for the first time, it went to very, very close to the top of my list for modded Marshall sounds. Dave Friedman designed it, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise, but I guess the surprise was that it sounded so cool in the 18 watt head. That's win/win for my applications.

That was great all around but the thing that really impressed me was how clean everything was on the Chord stops; Its like it was gated or the volume was quickly shut off...

I have such a man crush on you...

Kage,
The amp was just that quiet. No gating or anything. Now granted, I had the gain at like 1 o'clock for the rhythms. I'm sure if I cranked the gain it would get noisier.

Another thing that is kind of funny, and I was going to put some text right on the part of video where I do it, you'll see a part where I turn the guitar right towards the camera as I play a D Major 7 chord at the 5th fret and an E7 chord at the 7th fret. I turned the guitar toward the camera and was going to put in text because I am freaking amazed at how clear and articulate those chords sounded. NORMALLY, when you start playing 7th chord and other extended chords with distortion it sounds like a garbled mess. But when I tried it on this amp, I was laughing and thinking holy crap.... I can play 7th and other extended chords and they sound cool.

the Module sounds great and that solo absolutely smoked! so was the Lynch tone in the fingers?

I've had a couple people suggest it sounds kind of Lynch like. That is certainly a great compliment because he was one of my faves, but I don't hear it on this. I've heard other guys really nail it and it blows me away. If anyone hears that in here I'm not going to complain, that's for sure.

Curt does not "make" gear sound good btw, he practiced his nuts off and brings the best that gear can bring due to flat out work.

Thanks Scott, you are one of my forum faves too ! Sandman above said that I could make a 2x4 with a shoestring sound good and I thank him for that compliment. But, I really feel like I go through the same struggles and indecisiveness and insecurities with tone and playing that everyone else here does. There are many things I play through where I think I just don't like that at all. It's why I disagree so strongly with that whole "tone is in the fingers" thing. It's because I hear my fingers through many different amps and set-ups and sometimes I think my fingers sound like crap and other times, I really like what I am hearing and the difference is in the rig and not in my fingers. I still sound like me, but with crappier tone. And if the tone is crappier, I play crappier, no question.

Typical gearwhore...Plays with hang tags still on guitar
sounded good.

Let's put it this way..... I really wanted to keep the guitar I used in the video. It's a really good one. But I got my Charvel Custom Shop within weeks of doing this video and I just can't justify keeping this guitar too so I put it back on the wall.

i really liked the loose tension feel of the blue charvel strat into the randall head in your shop with the vox and lynch(?) modules.
is the neck 1 & 5/8 or 11/16 at the nut?

also liked the peacemaker in the background at 2:00 in you shredding portagee!

how much is the 18 watter going for?

The neck on the Charvels is 1 and 11/16". The RM22 has a MAP price of $799 without any modules so it's not the cheapest of the low watt, recording amps. But IMO, it beats the Blackstar, the Tiny Terror, the Rebel and a few other small amps I have brought home so I could record late at night. Plus it is so versatile. The Mr. Scary and the XTC modules are way more saturated and just a blast to solo on. The Ultra XL module to my ear nails the live Rhoads tone which I may have mentioned in the past, I'm a bit of a fan of And the SL+ has some great Marshall to modded Marshall tones too. But again, on The Judge module, it has two modes. Modded Marshall and Plexi. This whole video is on the modded side. But the Plexi mode on this module sounds killer too. You can hear me switch to it at :27 - 45 seconds in this video. Besides the fact that I needed to adjust the volume, that is pretty darn accurate stock Super Lead tone right there.

And this forum does have a good amount of Portagee's doesn't it? You, me, Zach, Billy Bogner/Kalaweiaheaeieuiauieaueis. Now we need to get Nuno here. But I'm only half. My dad is a full Portagee that married a blond haired, blue eyed wife. What kind of Portagee sell out would do that? Do you know anyone like that?

Super impressed by the sound of this setup. I have been looking myself for a low volume home solution as well for my Charvels and the hot rod deed 80s sound. If I were to go with an RM22 head and the judge module, is there a particular cabinet your recommend to compliment this setup?

Thanks

Steve

 

[gbsmusic]