Kirk Hammett strikes again

[Securb]

Of course, with an LP Custom and EMG's, you can also get Zakk Wyldes tone. I like that a lot...

Now, you are just being silly.

 

[RanchManSandy]

9k can get me a decent used Ford Focus

 

[beaubrummels]

I don't mean to disregard what you're saying. We have different tastes, but I personally feel that weak pickups still sound weak, no matter how much gain your amp has on tap.

Plus another issue appears with raising the gain on a modern amp to make low output pickups sound nice and chunky: Hiss from preamp, and microphony in tubes becomes greatly exaggerated.

Don't get me wrong. I like the Duncan '59B, the DiMarzio PAF 36's and the Pro, or the Fishman Fluence Classics for that wide soundstage, airy top-end, and almost twangy attack when you pick hard, but T-Tops are just too much for me.

Each to his own.

Kirk's tone has NEVER been standout in Metallica anyways.

IME cheap amps and cheap components hiss. Well made amps with good components are pretty quiet. YMMV
But I wouldn't bother trying Metallica with that guitar. I like the specs for all kinds of other music I play.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

IME cheap amps and cheap components hiss. Well made amps with good components are pretty quiet. YMMV
But I wouldn't bother trying Metallica with that guitar. I like the specs for all kinds of other music I play.

A 5150III is not cheap. It's not boutique, but it's not made like Peaveys, for example. Yet it hisses. A lot. So does a JVM.

Any high-gain amp hisses. Granted, some do more than others, but they all hiss. And every amp hisses more the more you raise the gain.

Unless it has a noise gate, but whatever. Most modern amps don't.

 

[Oldmanmetalhead]

It only hisses when your not playing. With enough gain anything will hiss

 

[orpheo]

I love this guitar it checks every box for me, especially the Fishman powerbridge and powerchip, but 9K Jeez!

What is this for idiocy. This is just a bogg standard LP Custom with crappy pickups and black hardware and a black piezo. Woohoo. exciting.

I miss the days when Gibson's signature guitars were something else than the simple boring standards but with a slight tweak in the look.

ES333 with 1 pickup

Don't need to explain this one, do I?

Frampton sig with custom wiring, mahogany top, and extreme chambering

Tak Matsumoto signature (see the inlay and top and binding?)

3pcs maple neck, EMGs, custom finish. Everything here is unique and NOT standard.

Plain maple top, piezo, Seymour Duncan pickups. I remember this guitar going for less than 3000 euro's in the Netherlands. What happened here, dudes.

Duane Eddy signature.

Why did they just stop doing cool shit? I remember Ace's signature from the late 90's: what a cool, cool, guitar. Custom inlay on the board and headstock, cool look, etc etc.

I am so done with Gibson.

 

[JMP/HBE]

There must be 10 epi / gib sig Metallica models.
Most of them ugly are sin.
Mark Agnostic is really stroking the Hamett caulk.

 

[GuitarDoc]

The tenon is also different!
should be short on the original, but the copy has a long one…

I think I got it cover,
but one with all black hardware might also be nice?

Oh!!

UGLY!!!

 

[RanchManSandy]

Why did they just stop doing cool ****?

cause they decided to pander to the kind of wealthy older players who pop a boner any time a led zeppelin song plays during a marvel movie and write angry letters to their local classic rock station because a Staind song played on their way to work

 

[beaubrummels]

A 5150III is not cheap. It's not boutique, but it's not made like Peaveys, for example. Yet it hisses. A lot. So does a JVM.

Any high-gain amp hisses. Granted, some do more than others, but they all hiss. And every amp hisses more the more you raise the gain.

Unless it has a noise gate, but whatever. Most modern amps don't.

I was more referring to the construction and components, but I also said YMMV

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I was more referring to the construction and components, but I also said YMMV

No, yeah. I understood you. What I meant is that the components on an EVH might not be Soldano-good, but they're not Bugera-cheap. Yet, it still hisses. That's what I meant.

But regardless of components, cheap or not, all amps hiss more the more you turn the distortion up. The only exceptions to that rule are amps with built-in noise gates. And like I said, most amps don't have noise gates in them.

 

[beaubrummels]

No, yeah. I understood you. What I meant is that the components on an EVH might not be Soldano-good, but they're not Bugera-cheap. Yet, it still hisses. That's what I meant.

But regardless of components, cheap or not, all amps hiss more the more you turn the distortion up. The only exceptions to that rule are amps with built-in noise gates. And like I said, most amps don't have noise gates in them.

Actually, that's not been my experience. I've owned and experienced amps that you didn't know they were on until you hit the strings. Usually when they were brand new. After years and components aging/overheating, then hiss comes in.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Actually, that's not been my experience. I've owned and experienced amps that you didn't know they were on until you hit the strings. Usually when they were brand new. After years and components aging/overheating, then hiss comes in.

Maybe you've not noticed. Like I said, some amps are quieter than others. But it's unvariable that as you add more distortion (you're adding more gain, which just means you're amplifying past what the first few stages' headroom is), you're adding more noise because well... you're making things louder inside the amp.

Try it. Set the gain to 0. Hear how much hiss. Set the gain to max. Hear how much hiss. There is more, regardless of which amp. This is with ANY high-gain amp. Wether it's an issue or not for you is totally up to you, I agree, but even the fanciest components are not 100% noise fre. And as you turn the gain knob up, you're just amplifying the noise, little as it may be, that you're catching from the first few stages.

I don't know how much gain high-gain amps have on tap nowadays, but I bet they're amplifying the input signal tens if not hundreds of time.

You're right in saying "YMMV" in that some amps have cheaper components that are less noise-rejecting. Some amps circuits are more prone to noise than others. And some amps are higher gain than others. But no circuit is ideal and 100% noise-free unless you're using like an Axe FX or something like that. That is not really "YMMV".

What I do think "YMMV" is how tolerant you are of noise in your loud high-gain amp.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

This is the only KH tone I would ever be interested in..



....And I sure as heck wouldn't pay anywhere near 9k for it.

 

[Securb]

Actually, that's not been my experience. I've owned and experienced amps that you didn't know they were on until you hit the strings

Same here. I am pathologically obsessed with amp and line noise. My rig is super quiet and I am using 2-3 gain stages.

 

[Mincer]

Expensive signature gear should always be exactly what the artist uses- that’s what you pay for.