Most underrated metal amp

[Rex_Rocker]

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The Peavey solid states are also great, IMO. The Bandit (especially through a good cab), and the head version of the Bandit (Is it called XL? Supreme? Something like that) are pretty pissed-off-sounding.

 

[mantis]

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The more contemporary Peavey Ultra series (XXX, JSX, 3120) always stood in the shadow of the 6505, but I think they're great as well. They're not perfect. I have a XXX, and it has way too much gain on tap on both gain channels, but it can definitely be tweaked to sound great.

Everybody talked **** about Krank back in the day, but to this day, I reach for my Krank Rev Jr. a lot more than I do for my Peavey XXX, honestly. It's more of a love it or hate it kinda tone, but it's cool as well, IMO. I'll say, though, Kranks have super mega narrow sweet spots for useable tone in their controls.

The old Randall G2 and G3 solid states were great as well, and the T2 hybrid was killer.

I have yet to plug into a better sounding all around amp then my Krank Revolution 1 2x12 combo. It's cleans are Fender Bassman 10 and the Drive channel is amazing. It's a one trick pony channel as you can not get good rock tones out of the Krank channel. The Cleans however do whatever you want. Takes pedals very well.

 

[mantis]

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I thought the JSX was pretty awesome but few mention it. I think the faceplate was too goofy looking and was just screaming like "I'm a fanboi and I got the signature amp!" kinda thing.

The OR15 was mentioned above. I think it is a great one for early black sabbath, but maybe not modern metal, it's pretty loose feeling and fuzzy. I dunno like it doesn't sound bad to me for modern hard rock and metal tones but it's different for sure. Enough gain to handle most things though. It has a touch of that rockerverb thing going on, in fact I always thought it sounded more like that than anything originally called "OR" or "OD" by orange.

I owned the JSX for a while and really liked it except I found it to be way to damn noisy. Cleans where very nice and clean, the Crunch channel was where the magic of this amp lived and the lead channel was a bit over the top but useable if you really lowered the gain and ran the Mid's over 12 o'clock.

 

[NecroPolo]

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- Laneys in general
- solid state and hybrid Marshalls
- Fender RocPro
- Randall RG100, Century 200
- Peavey Valveking
- AMT Stonehead

About Marshalls being underrated in metal, I don't know man. The boss of the biggest online music store in my country is a friend of mine and he keeps telling that Marshall is the absolute market leader for ages and he sold a JVM to this metal band, a DSL to that metal band and so on. I'd rather think, there are two groups of metal players: Marshall guys and everything else.

One thing I noticed, though. When I recorded bands who were tuned from regular to c#, many used Marshalls. None of the bands used them tuned from C to the basement.

 

[Darg1911]

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I have said it a thousand times around here. The most underrated metal amp is the Fender 100 watt

That's "Lips" right? With that dog collar on, he looks like he could have been Halfords beeatch. :bigok:

 

[Benthedemon007]

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Rockerverb 100. 'Nuff said.


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[moshpit817]

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AMT Stonehead

After owning a bunch of bigger name big gain tube amps to compare to, this little solid state 50 watt 4 channel amp is a monster. Not just for high gain though. Squeaky cleans to slight breakups to vintage rock all the way to rip your balls off, stomp on em, and shove them in your face, and melt ballsy face Metal.

Hell yeah on the AMT !!

 

[mantis]

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Marshall, everything from JCM800 to JVM. May sound silly, but they're often looked down upon as dinosaurs, bought by people who don't have much of a clue and just buy them because you see that logo on stage everywhere. They say, get Mesa Boogie or Engl or Hughes & Kettner or Randall or whatever. I've tried most of those several times, and more (Laney, Peavey etc.) and I still think Marshall kills them all.

I gotta agree with you in most cases. Some of the best sounding tones I have heard over the years came out of a Marshall.

 

[80's_Metal]

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Peavey X X L

 

[El Dunco]

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Revv Generator 100!

 

[dave74]

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Single Rectifier series2 (more open and hi-fi than the 1st version which really is a plus for the single IMO, plus it has the bias quick-switch)

Not exactly underrated, but it definitely gets overlooked by falling in between it's bigger siblings and the lunchbox craze.

Light enough to be a non-issue (34LBS), and "heavy" enough to do big-bottle death tones.
So much extra space you can change any of the tubes without having to take any other tubes out. Great amp for tube experimenting.

 

[zanshin777]

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ENGL Thunder