Old Fender Amps doing Modern Metal Tones.

[El Dunco]

Re: Old Fender Amps doing Modern Metal Tones.

Pretty sweet. At first I didn't catch that you said it was a tube amp and I was drooling if that was an older SS Fender amp as I had a M-80 Pro and I never had tone like that even with a tuned down Dropped A on a 6 string.

Interesting. This one is a 7 by the way.

 

[Fusion1]

Re: Old Fender Amps doing Modern Metal Tones.

The M80 head I have does have a decent representation of a tube sound in an all SS amp, but nothing like a real tube amp obviously. All in all not bad though.

 

[Ocifer]

Re: Old Fender Amps doing Modern Metal Tones.

I am not exactly a downtuned "modern metal" kinda guy, but I am very fond of my Fender Twin (the all tube amp with red knobs and a gain channel). Despite not exactly being built for metal or the likes of NOLA, it can pull it off really well! (Therefore it can do the style I play even better, plus some more)

This is a quick demo, improvised riffs, kinda rough... gives you the general idea of the tone in a band context.

Might be your thing, might not be but you'd appreciate it knowing that it's an old blues/country/rock era tube amp. Kinda backs up the old "you can play any style through any rig" theory.

Enjoy.

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6530810

Guitar used: Schecter 007 Elite, Mahogany Set Neck w/ figured maple top, Invader 7 in bridge. Invader is surprisingly tight given the warm nature of the guitar and the low tuning.

No external overdrives/effects were used, the gain is on 6.5 It's the real thing from the 80s, not a reissue. No internal mods have been done to the amp, only a tube change. Used the built in, stock Fender speakers rather than more efficient modern speakers for effect.

That was rockin' man, and I totally agree with you. I use my Carvin Bel-Air which is basically an AC30 copy which I had modded with a few different cap values etc., and an added negative feedback knob. If you just turn up these old amps and push the gain up a little, or just dink around with them, you can get usable tones for a lot of styles.

 

[El Dunco]

Re: Old Fender Amps doing Modern Metal Tones.

That was rockin' man, and I totally agree with you. I use my Carvin Bel-Air which is basically an AC30 copy which I had modded with a few different cap values etc., and an added negative feedback knob. If you just turn up these old amps and push the gain up a little, or just dink around with them, you can get usable tones for a lot of styles.

Negative feedback knob... I had a rocktron pedal that did something similar to this, boosting the negative side to make an 'asymmetrical waveform'.

How did you do this?