Choosing a Great Amp

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Hi my name is Joseph Rodriguez and well im writing this item basically to get your suggestions about amps here goes:
I am thinking of buying a Great amplifier with very good clean and above all with a great and really heavy distortion with nice lead tones. You understand play styles like:
Down from Up Dream theater, Whitesnake, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Shadows Fall, Children of Bodom, Vysion, Slayer, Slipknot, etc..,etc

I was thinking on a Diezel Herbert, Road King II, Hughes & Kettner Triamp MKII, Engl Special Edition, Bogner Uberschall or VHT UL
Which amp would be the best option.

Guitars:

- Ibanez RG 370 DXL

- Ibanez RG 1570L (Oh Im Left hand) with Seymour Duncan SH6 y TB6

- Jackson Soloist SL2H with Dimarzio Tone Zone and Breed Neck

- ESP Eclipse EC 1000L with EMG 81 and 60

I hope this will be helpful

Thanks
 
Re: Choosing a Great Amp

ENGL! All of your choices are good amps, but I like the tone of an ENGL.


Sprinter
 
Re: Choosing a Great Amp

Joseph777 said:
Hi my name is Joseph Rodriguez and well im writing this item basically to get your suggestions about amps here goes:
I am thinking of buying a Great amplifier with very good clean and above all with a great and really heavy distortion with nice lead tones. You understand play styles like:
Down from Up Dream theater, Whitesnake, Within Temptation, Nightwish, Shadows Fall, Children of Bodom, Vysion, Slayer, Slipknot, etc..,etc

I was thinking on a Diezel Herbert, Road King II, Hughes & Kettner Triamp MKII, Engl Special Edition, Bogner Uberschall or VHT UL
Which amp would be the best option.

Guitars:

- Ibanez RG 370 DXL

- Ibanez RG 1570L (Oh Im Left hand) with Seymour Duncan SH6 y TB6

- Jackson Soloist SL2H with Dimarzio Tone Zone and Breed Neck

- ESP Eclipse EC 1000L with EMG 81 and 60

I hope this will be helpful

Thanks
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TOUGH CALL!!!

Andy Wood has some serious tone, and he's one of the reasons I think so highly of Diezels. I also like Synyster Gates' and Zacky Vengeance's tone with the Uberschalls...so for me those would be the only choices.

From there I'd play through both and figure which suited my guitars best.

Luke
 
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i know that shadows fall used to use marshalls, and last i heard now use kranks. i once also read that for the song duality, slipknot used the krank rev1. however now im pretty sure they both use Rivera's. it sounds like to me though, besides dreamtheatre, that most of the rest of these guys use Marshalls. if i were you i'd go down one of two routes:

1) a true blue marshall or 3l-34 high gain style amp (aka bogner, or maybe even a splawn) or
2) go with the road king which is switchable between that classic 6l6 grind or the 3l-34 crunch

just my opinion though.
 
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Riveras are awesome clean amps.

Their high gain tones aint too shabby either. ;)
 
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The best amp ever made is probly the Soldano SLO 100
Next to that is the Soldano Avenger (cheaper version less features)
The SLO has a transferable lifetime warranty so you know it's good...
 
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Thanks for your Suggestions Did anyone have Mp3 or some video demostrations from any of this amps.????
 
Re: Choosing a Great Amp

Go play thru all of them and see which one works best for you. It really is a very personal thing.
 
Re: Choosing a Great Amp

Hey Joseph, welcome to the forum!


Joseph777 said:
I was thinking on a Diezel Herbert, Road King II, Hughes & Kettner Triamp MKII, Engl Special Edition, Bogner Uberschall or VHT UL Which amp would be the best option.
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I'd go with VHT UL or Engl SE (no experience with the Bogner)


You might also want to take a look at them super-flexible Diezel VH4 amps. I have a VH2 prototype (VH4 channel 1 and 3) and it kicks a$$ big time.


All songs were recorded with that amp, except for the 3rd (Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555):


http://www.myspace.com/wackor
 
Re: Choosing a Great Amp

Hi. I'm new to this forum too. My Marshall JVM 205 sounds a lot like what you are describing. More than enough gain and jangly Marshall cleans. A lot of people like it for the overdriven tones as well. Another amp I use frequently is a Koch Twintone II. It's not as gainy as the Marshall but the sound is better in my opinon. The cleans are very similar to Fenders but stay clean. It has that familiar British growl but a lot of clarity.
 
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You might want to look into some Mesa Boogie's as well, that's what Petrucci is running. I don't know much about Boogie's though I've played a Stiletto and Dual Rectifier I just could not get a good sound out of one, but everyone else I hear playing them just rips :P Go figure right? Judging by your amp choices I'd say play everyone of them that you can because those are some high dollar amps.
 
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