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Yes, IME. In my VHT 2/90/2, Sovtek KT88’s vs 6550’S, 65% dissipation, two 4x12 cabs just loud enough to keep up with a drummer, the 6550’s had a warble/growl to them while the KT88’s were smoother.

OP, your description does sound like EH vs JJ, but also sounds like cold vs hot bias, so if you perhaps didn’t know where the bias was at it’s not a fair comparison.

Hmm, I agree with “smooth” vs “aggressive” but my experience has been that KT88’s are tighter. That was with Sovteks. The EH 6550’s just sounded like KT88’s. But those are the only 2 brands of 6550’s I’ve tried so not a a big data set.

Nah. Seventh Son and Brave New World are the Maiden albums that rip pretty much the whole way through. And I would give NOTB 3rd place. Piece of Mind, half the sounds totally rip, the other four are “good enough”.

The FB has such little resonance, I would want more bloom for the genres OP listed. It’s also directional AF, fyi.

1. String spacing. Most 5’ers have tighter spacing. Matters a lot for finger style. 2. Heft/bulk. A lot of the 5’ers are actually thinner/lighter than a 4 string so the tone has less beefy oomph. Lots, but def not all, 5’ers are more guitar like in sound and feel but bass is about bringing...

I had a couple of them. Celestion’s answer to the EVM12L. The two I had were wildly different from each other. They were cool but not my fav so I sold em. Cut through the mix well recorded. But everything they did, EVM12L did better.

I have one of these Contemporary 4x12’s, very clear sounding, not much resonance, removing the center brace was an improvement. I also have the Traditional 4x12 straight and slant. They’re much more resonant than the Contemporary. The slant is my favorite of the 3 but the Traditional straight...

To each their own but that’s not my experience. I play my AxeFX through tube power amp and 2 4x12’s even when it’s quiet enough to hear the strings acoustically. I have decent Mackie 8” monitors and a pair of QSC K10’s and I strongly prefer the tube amp/4x12 setup at any volume.

lol, depends what Im feelin that day, Captain OCD.

I’ve never understood the I’m-mad-grunge-killed-metal people. I’m not a big grunge fan bud I’d rather listen to those bands versus the glam-butt bands that made up the public sphere of “metal” at the time. Some of those grunge bands are more metal in spirit than most commercial metal bands of...

Suffocation Gorguts Morbid Angel Nile Some of y’all can’t differentiate death core/metal core from death metal.

This. The current AxeFx stuff comes close but it’s not quite the same as an actual analog preamp, in the room anyway. That said, since you’ll be going into a PS2, you might want the Axe for its power amp modeling since the PS2 is so sterile. Either rig would be awesome. If cost is a factor...

The fuck does that have to do with it?

Click if it’s a song, raw dog if it’s just a lick or noodling.

Tortex 1.14, lots of alt picking heavy strings. I should ditch em around 30 min but I rock em close to an hour as if the challenge of the blunted tip will make me better. Whishful thinking? IDK. Also feels wasteful to discard them rapid fire like it’s a live 80’s shred concert.

I had a quad built in 1993 in the UK and a newer Chinese quad. Played em side by side in the same cab. 93’s were warmer, mids cut better, Chinese were more rhythmic (attack & pick noises stood out more above the actual note being played). I preferred the 93’s, which you could see were made of...

What kind of tones? We talkin classic rock, heavy metal, technical extreme metal, blues, country or what? You want power tube saturation or not so much? Hi-fi clarity or more coloration?

You’re implying that $23k is a small amount? Seriously? I don’t think we should be taxed for flipping gear for our hobby, but, $23k ain’t chump change for most of us.

So does the 8100 retain any of “the Marshall sound”? I’ve been a Death fan for ages and have never once thought, “Yep, that sounds like a Marshall”.