Recent content by thrashinbatman

My band's other guitarist has a 100HDM. He makes it sound pretty good, but every time I've plugged into it I've found it uninspiring. It might just be a matter of taste, but I can't get it tight and grindy enough to satisfy me. It may just not be my kind of amp. One thing I noticed is that the...

Beautiful rig! Also one that would never leave the house. It's hard enough to keep black tolex looking unscuffed.

All this talk of mini-heads, modelers, 2x12s, and FRFR speaker, you realize that some guitarists straight-up have never cranked a Marshall into a full-stack. The feeling of a cranked full-stack is unlike anything else. You have to at least experience it once.

Pretty much every tone Exodus has gotten from Another Lesson in Violence through Blood In, Blood Out. Half of the shit I own is just because Gary Holt used it on a record. Also every Heathen record since Victims of Deception. I'm also gonna throw out Carcass' Surgical Steel and Accept's Blood...

I have the profiles he made of the pre, and they sound fantastic. Thrash in a box. I compared it to the Langner clone I have and they're really similar. This would be really killer to have, shame they're so rare.

The Big Four is all about album sales and popularity, so by that metric it'd have to be Testament or Kreator. If we're going purely by quality and personal preference, I'd pick Exodus.

I have two favorites, one being my workhorse Engl E412 Vintage. It's an incredible cab; super throaty and rough, really adds some aggression to whatever amp you run through it. I only use it for recording because it's also extremely fucking heavy and I'm a crybaby when it comes to loading-in and...

fZb9UIwOuxM My understanding that Piotr from Vader uses one, and this album was the Mr. Hector. Vader consistently gets pretty badass tones.

This is like, the king of all modded Marshalls. A little bit of nearly every big modders input. That sounds massive. I'd love to get a mic in front of that cab.

This pack is very good. Used them all the time for the longest. Ownhammer is also quite good. The Marshall V30 pack is my favorite. If you can, check out the Sperimental pack. I think you'll have to make an account on the site they're on, but they're free and worth it. The Engl pack is stupid...

My theory is that the act of drumming harms your cognitive function. I've met many intelligent people who lost their damn minds when they started playing drums. Of course a non-drummer knows that the drummer, the most important element to keeping a performance going, should be sober. But a...

Same! I thought the quarantine would bring with it a lot of really good deals; people doing short sales and panic selling to make some cash. Instead, the deals dried up and those that are out there have gone up in price. The cost of used gear seems to be bonkers across the board right now.

I really want to know where you all are finding these cheap IIIs. Every one I see is $900+, and it seems now people are wanting $1200+ for them.

The III is fantastic, probably the underrated sibling in the Mark series. I'd definitely recommend looking into the stripes, because there is a meaningful difference between the different stripes tonally. Look for whatever stripe sounds the best to you (some are more aggressive, some are less...

Some odd, yet actually probably good mic technique from the singer. Seems to change the angle of the mic based on how hard he's singing. Dude's basically doing all of the compression for the sound guy. Anyway, yeah they're actually still pretty good given their age. The singer still sounds...