You Realize there were Maybe 2 Bands in the 90's that used the Valvestate for Death Metal other than the band Death that is. It feels as if every post you make are exceprts from your book & are simply to hear(read) your self talk. The OP Asked specific questions & probably would like a simple answer rather than a longwinded excerpt from your book. Look at VES Medics Post. While i like to troll VES Medic from time to time, he's a great player in my book & a great recording engineer. Be more like him & K.I.S.S.
Gojira has its origins in Valvestate. Meshuggah used them. Fear Factory. Static-X. Ihsahn. HIM. Prong. Quite a few more. Valvestate was the early days of Marshall doing Death and then they went with 6L6s on other amps as I said. So yeah, not a lot of death metal bands used them after that.
My replies aren't book excerpts. I have experience with 5150IIIs. I own one myself.
Plenty of great studio engineers out there I follow and respect. However, none of them ever started
making up stuff they can't quote or began to call me names and make ad hominem attacks over strawman arguments they propagate over multiple threads. So I just ignore them and chalk it down to the usual rig-talk trolling/flaming that has gone on here for years now. I hit the add ignore button and am missing nothing.
No one person has any advantages over another here on tone. Never did. Never will. No matter who tries to play my dad is bigger than your dad, in the mix, to be able to claim you can determine wattage is a big claim. Then again those same will people tell you they can tell the differences between all profiles and the real deal in a mix. Those people aren't me. I find no reason to resort to ad-hominem attacks just because someone might disagree with me there. If I did that over the internet with someone I never met just because they wrote a book I would probably throw out whatever gym supplements are making me crazy.
If you are going to flame someone,
at least have quotes and references and actually things to complain about.
BTW, I changed my mind over the past few years by listening to people point out the very problems I am recounting and you know what? They were right. I am not superhuman in my hearing enough to determine what the guitar wattage is in mix. I can't even determine if it's a profile or not. If this is anathema to some, then fine. If not, then you will enjoy my view of things as plenty of competent sound engineers, not to mention amp makers also do. They are apparently in some sort of a conspiracy to lie to us all about what they're less than 100W can do. That's literally the excuse I have been given along with "fuck you stupid bitch". So yeah, that's an easy ignore and low-effort post. There is nothing to respect there, nor good information to glean.