Who has an Egnater Tweaker and plays metal?

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tweaker 40 head offered in a trade... clips sound great, but not too much out there on it for high gain. sounds like it could get a good thrashy sound maybe with a boost. anybody here have one and got any comments on it? looks like it resales for about 400 so if i didn't dig it should be able to resale for about the value I'm trading.
 
I had one and it sounded great. For metal? I am not sure. They are thick and dark.

I was able to get some pretty good metal tones out of it by using the clean channel and then a pedal for dirt. On the gain channel, I needed to dial it in heavy on the treble and then use an EQ pedal out front to pull back some low end to tighten it up.

It sounds like it would be worth a shot though if you can make it happen without losing too much if it doesn't work out for you.
 
With pedals the Tweakers will get to metal territory. I had a Tweaker 15 a while back. And my current Rebel 20 will do metal with a pedal as well. It gets great Lacuna Coil tones if I put it with an OCD up front.
 
I had the tweaker 88 and by itself it wasn't quite metal. I would've compared it to a Tiny Terror but with thousands of options. With a boost in front I was able to do metal just fine, not super tight or super high gain but definitely could do a different flavor. Like what's been said before it's very thick and smooth so it's not like other high gain amps. One cool thing about these is there's not a clean and lead channel, just channel 1 and 2. Both have the same controls and amount of gain. Just channel 1 is brighter while 2 is darker, so lets you have the choice of which you want as clean and which as lead. I used channel 2 for higain with gain around 4-5 and clean boosted with a TS9.
 
I had a Tweaker 15. Great for bluesy clean and crunch, but sucked for metal. My Rebel 20 was much more in metal territory.

I've wondered about the Tweaker 88 for metal. I bet hitting the KT88s with a good pedal would get some good metal tones.
 
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