HEAVIEST guitar tone

[Gearjoneser]

Re: HEAVIEST guitar tone

For the ultimate 'wall of sound' I like running two amps in stereo, one with more gain, highs, and lows, and another with less gain, and more complex mids.
The two amps create a stereo spread that's 10 miles wide.

The biggest tone I've ever heard was my LP Custom w/C-5 plugged into the Bogner halfstack and Matchless Chieftain in stereo, setup how I described.
And it's not just for heavy tones with the LP Custom. If I plug an alder/rosewood strat's neck pickup into the same rig, it's like SRV times two....meaty ass tone!!! LOL

 

[MDS]

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That sounds interesting, GJ...I'm still working out an arrangement to pair up my Mesa and my DSL...The Mesa sounds great scooped and the MArshall has great mids, so this is something I've got to try!

For me the best ultra-heavy tones are of the Mesa variety. I know its become cliche, but they put ultra chunk on the map. And Justice For All, Ty Tabor, Dream Theater, etc... Mesa rules.

Mike

 

[Enghell]

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I get a clear chrushing heavy tone with my Charvel with just an EMG81 in the bridge,tuned to B with 11-58 Skull Strings thru an ENGL Powerball and a ENGL Standard slanted 4x12.Probably not the most extreme,but it's good and usefull for death/black/gothic-metal.

 

[Rich_T]

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Matamp GTL 140 running full on into a Matamp Green Cab. LP custom with Seymour Duncan CC in the Bridge. Grrrr.

 

[Benjy_26]

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Heaviest tone and best are definately not the same .

I'd prefer to get my heaviness with 4 tracks of a good guitar sound than with one track of a super heavy one... definately for clarities sake.


Plus, 7's > 6's .

I have trouble layering four guitar sounds live. :crying: :bigthumb:

 

[drew_half_empty]

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^ exactly

i dunno why you'd use a CC either, the object is the most bass & clarity as possible, and CC's aren't all that bassy

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: HEAVIEST guitar tone

For the ultimate 'wall of sound' I like running two amps in stereo, one with more gain, highs, and lows, and another with less gain, and more complex mids.
The two amps create a stereo spread that's 10 miles wide.

The biggest tone I've ever heard was my LP Custom w/C-5 plugged into the Bogner halfstack and Matchless Chieftain in stereo, setup how I described.
And it's not just for heavy tones with the LP Custom. If I plug an alder/rosewood strat's neck pickup into the same rig, it's like SRV times two....meaty ass tone!!! LOL

+1 . . . running even a couple of small combos simultaneously gets some great tones, and EQing them right will definately get you a heavy wall of sound.

 

[Loserchief]

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Heavyest thing i can come up with is my self playing my mahogony warlock(dimebucker/full shred) tuned to b thru my Powerball with two Engl 4x12 cabs under it. Super clarity but just brutal(to bad a fullstack usually is too much).

 

[suislidE03]

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I was about to say the stereo amp setup as well.. just punishing when you have more than one amp. Mesa plus a marshall or almost anything will kill people that get too close.

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

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Actually I have a VHT UltraLead/FatBottom setup in Simi Valley, just 1 hour south of you in Ventura. You're welcome to come down and play through it.

If you still think 5150's and ENGL's compare, I will eat my words.

I might have to take you up on that when I get my liscence .

Tonally, the VHT crushes both of them to bits, for sure. I just find that for extreme metal(melodic death/black, in my case), the 5150 with the resonance pumped up sounds thicker than a VHT.

The VHT will sound infinately better, though.

 

[drew_half_empty]

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I was about to say the stereo amp setup as well.. just punishing when you have more than one amp. Mesa plus a marshall or almost anything will kill people that get too close.

or people that have to carry it

 

[BigBazz]

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Mesa Boogie Dual rect and a Peavey 5150 with 2 splawn cabs each.
Whatever guitar tbh.. it doesnt matter that much when you use as much gain as those amps put out.

Blackmachine b2 maybe..

 

[Rich_T]

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^ exactly

i dunno why you'd use a CC either, the object is the most bass & clarity as possible, and CC's aren't all that bassy

Soz god.

 

[James Rock]

Re: HEAVIEST guitar tone

For the ultimate 'wall of sound' I like running two amps in stereo, one with more gain, highs, and lows, and another with less gain, and more complex mids.
The two amps create a stereo spread that's 10 miles wide.

or using 2 guitars u guitarist play a tele or strat another a les paul one more cleanly then the other providing thick bottom end, clarity etc heavy AS.

 

[Jeff Seal]

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...well I'll play......

Ampeg SVT through 8 Marshall 412's.....

JS

 

[Erlend_G]

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Or two Hiwatt Custom 400's, each running four Mesa Boogie Oversized closed back cabs

 

[drew_half_empty]

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...well I'll play......

Ampeg SVT through 8 Marshall 412's.....

JS

hah

man you're so crazy

 

[Danglin' Fury]

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I will take the pepsi challenge w/ anybody on heaviest tone! I get it with a basswood Dean ML Undertaker w/ a Duncan Distortion (b) and a '59. Or w/ my LTD F-100 FM w/ EMG 81(b) and 85 18 volt mod. I sometimes switch 'em 'cause I'm KRAAAAZY! I pipe all that through a Peavey JSX w/ a parametric eq and a high end Ampeg 4x12. The tone sounds as if it came from the bowels of Hell itself. I'm talking Huge bottom end (50hz to 80hz) Death growling mids and just the right amount of highs(not too much as I don't like my ears to bleed). The tone is nothing short of the Epitome of what metal tones are supposed to sound like! Heavy as Hell!!!
If none of yoooz guys has a parametric eq, get one. It will make your rig sound extremely versitile!:fing2:
JSX+4x12+parametric=10 sets o' nutz!

 

[MDS]

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That makes sense...Satriani being such a deathmongering metalhead.

 

[Danglin' Fury]

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The JSX doesn't just get Satch tones. It gets every bit as heavy, in fact much heavier than a Triple X or a 5150! If you've ever heard Crowbar or Machine Head or Cannible Corpse or Prong (Scorpio Rising) than you can imagine the heaviness and versatility I can get. If you haven't heard Crowbar, please do. Especially Broken Glass. That tone minus a little treble and that is my favorite tone on my amp and they play Mesa gear. The secret is the parametric. Get one and thank me later.:rambo: