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also i would love to hear fellow pedal dorks and gear heads talk about their fav pedals/amps :crush: what are you using? what are you looking at using? what's a sound/album you love that you'd really like to emulate?
Devi Ever Dark Drive cause it sounds like Bongripper (they used it on Miserable), or a custom Dunwich Fuzz Throne that I have modded with a dark switch, 3 band EQ, 6 clipping options, depth knob, and boost.
Favorite amps: MATAMP MATAMP MATAMP ANYTHING MATAMP, Sunn Model T (just get a close tho), Hiwatts, and Marshal JCM800
Favorite guitar - EGC Standard model I got a few years ago
someone is selling a marshall JCM2000 super lead at my local music shop for $900, i dont know much about marshalls tho. what's the dif between a JCM800 and JCM2000?
JCM2000 has different voicings, more gain, more channels. As such, much more gain available. The 800 can get a good crunch on the high input, but you need pedals to really get it going. That said, it still has that classic voice from the 80s, and is one hell of a loud amp. There are also a few different models of JCM800.
The JCM2000 tone isn't something I much care for. Owned an 800 for a few years, and it was FANTASTIC for punk back when I did that.
The guitarist I play with in Dødsdømt uses an 800 so yeah lol
Hell yeah! They're awesome amps, if I didn't have the Matamp then that would probably be my main one.
I've been tinkering with a couple of different setups lately. I really like what Carcass did on the Heartwork album, so I've been experimenting with similar ideas of using an extremely dirty boost into an already-distorted-to-hell amp to use as a blend track. One that works pretty well is a Metal Zone (Waza's great, but the Behringer works too) into the front of a Marshall Valvestate. Pure filth. The opposite version of that (read: the "real" track) is boosting the same amp with a Wampler Clarksdale -- it's a TS808 clone with a three-knob tone stack, so you can do an even deeper bass cut than normal. Very handy for extended range or low tunings, and it really brings out the grind in the OD2 channel's distortion.
I also got my hands on a 50-watt 5150 III EL34 last winter, and I've been messing with unconventional boosts for the blue channel. For whatever reason, they have a really aggressive low-pass filter capacitor on that channel, allegedly as a marketing ploy to set it apart from the 6L6 version of the same amp head (because they otherwise sound almost identical -- the lesson being that the power stage in a 5150 or 6505 doesn't change the sound very much). Sure, you can mod it to get rid of the filter cap, but if you keep it you can get REALLY weird with boosts. I wasn't super impressed with the EQD Plumes, but the DOD Looking Glass sounds like it was made for that amp. It's so goddamned shrill on literally anything else (outside of maybe a 70s JTM), but that low-pass cut tames it really well and gives the whole signal almost a Blues Driver feel... But like, Gojira Magma-flavored.
Edit: Current favorite guitar is a Jackson Pro Series SL3 Soloist (H-S-S pickup configuration) in rainbow crackle. I also have a Mick Thompson signature Soloist that is languishing on my bench until I find time to do a fret level -- I'm really looking forward to that one because the EMTY version of the Duncan Blackouts sound freaking brutal.
I just picked up a handmade fuzz pedal on reverb: https://reverb.com/item/283033-the-ennio-ultimate-trilogy-fuzz-by-pierce-custom-instruments-mosrite-fuzzrite-maestro-fz-1a
This thing rules so much, I can get a really great surf tone with just a kiss of dirt or I can go full buzzsaw with the gain cut dimed
Got a custom bass rig cause I o ow an electrical engineer who does it for a hobby. This thing can sound like buildings falling over. Basically just listened to some bands with the dude that built it and he built the Amp around that. Skaven is the biggest one, they use two basses I wanted to sound like when both play the same note. Man is the Bastard, Extreme Noise Terror's Peel Sessions/Phonophobia, Dystopia, Carcinogen. It's basically built for super loud heavy crust. I also have a normal Amp, I forget what it is cause the custom one is basically military equipment.
Fav pedal is my Way Huge Swollen Pickle, nothing fancy but sounds insane (I play bass). I got an Idiot Box Blowerbox recently but I haven't been able to try it out yet because we don't have a fucking rehersal space at the moment which sucks. Fav amp is anything that makes an Ampeg 810 go brrrrrrr
bought a pedal kit to build a solaris germanium fuzz pedal; trying to play like Hendrix at some point. Getting Little Wing down is a bucket list item
unlicensed guvnor clone and triple recto in amplitube, the 5150 clone and the soldano are tied with one of the unlicensed recto clones for 2nd favorite. i actually really like stacking the metal zone clone with the not guvnor/not tubescreamer but i dont really use it that much.
i never had real gear, the closest thing would be practice amps and a peavey modeling amp. i have 2 pedals my brother gave me somewhere but i couldn't get them to work with my interface.
68' Traynor Yba-1, Ashdown ebm-600, and an Orange AD-30. Pedals, too many to count.