Unpopular Rigpinions V2

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ElectricVoodoo said:
Rezamatix is a great man.
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I actually really like Reza’s demos. Dude plays shit I wanna hear; chugs, leads, ambient shit. He’s good at the game too, mics things correctly.

He’s always been cool with me on anything I’ve asked him about whether it’s a cheap pedal or a KL Explorer, and IIRC he actually made a demo of something I asked him to do after hearing him demo a piece of gear that I wanted to hear some lower tuned stuff on.
 
I'm kinda in on the Reza tip too.
I like his videos. I dig the tone he dials in.
But I can say that for a bunch of guys on here. ERLLLLL and VSEmedic are two of my favorites.
But there are a bunch here that are good/great at what they do. The Ed VH tone chasers here are fantastic.

He is an unpopular opinion.... My idea of tone is far better than yours because it works for me.
I could plug into your rig with my guitar and twist a few knobs and be perfectly happy.
You guys who super-tweak knobs and boosts are too fussy.
And your rigs are too fucking noisy.
And quit picking like a school girl. Bang them strings!!
 
Modern metal mixes are generally too dark, lack edge, and are far too safe.

The SLO is the most overrated amp of all time, with virtually ZERO credits in heavy music

Shred is so damn boring and uninspiring. Songs over shred, riffs and songs to be exact.

4 mics on a cab will never sound as one mic placed with care


Tape saturation is the biggest crock of shit in modern mixes, and makes your mixes soft with terrible bottom end


Friedman amps take everything great about Marshalls and destroy it. They are for bedroom players afraid of high end.

Most modern players are afraid of high end.


Midrange is severely overrated. Your active pickups, tube screamer (midrange) and 5150 ( midrange) with a Mesa cab and v30s( lots of midrange) mic’d with a 57 ( lots of midrange) DOESNT NEED ANYMORE FUCKING MIDS.

Guitar players are insanely selfish. The “stage or in the room tone” at your gig is the most useless, selfish sound on earth. All you are doing is fucking up the mix, the band, and forgetting why you are there in the first place: to entertain people.

YouTube should care About censoring YouTube producers as much as they care about censoring anything trump related
 
VESmedic said:
Modern metal mixes are generally too dark, lack edge, and are far too safe.

The SLO is the most overrated amp of all time, with virtually ZERO credits in heavy music

Shred is so damn boring and uninspiring. Songs over shred, riffs and songs to be exact.

4 mics on a cab will never sound as one mic placed with care


Tape saturation is the biggest crock of shit in modern mixes, and makes your mixes soft with terrible bottom end


Friedman amps take everything great about Marshalls and destroy it. They are for bedroom players afraid of high end.

Most modern players are afraid of high end.


Midrange is severely overrated. Your active pickups, tube screamer (midrange) and 5150 ( midrange) with a Mesa cab and v30s( lots of midrange) mic’d with a 57 ( lots of midrange) DOESNT NEED ANYMORE FUCKING MIDS.

Guitar players are insanely selfish. The “stage or in the room tone” at your gig is the most useless, selfish sound on earth. All you are doing is fucking up the mix, the band, and forgetting why you are there in the first place: to entertain people.

YouTube should care About censoring YouTube producers as much as they care about censoring anything trump related
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I agree with all of yours except for the SLO one. I think they sound fantastic for leads, esp multitracking leads like harmonies.

I especially agree with the one well placed mic is better than 4 mics and the high end stuff. It's simple math, high end is where all the complexity and personality is for high gain guitar tones. Anyone who tries to argue this has no idea what they are talking about. That ties into the metal mixes being safe thing; everyone has copied sneap to a ridiculous extent, to where every band on XM radio sounds the same.
 
VESmedic said:
Modern metal mixes are generally too dark, lack edge, and are far too safe.

The SLO is the most overrated amp of all time, with virtually ZERO credits in heavy music

Shred is so damn boring and uninspiring. Songs over shred, riffs and songs to be exact.

4 mics on a cab will never sound as one mic placed with care


Tape saturation is the biggest crock of shit in modern mixes, and makes your mixes soft with terrible bottom end


Friedman amps take everything great about Marshalls and destroy it. They are for bedroom players afraid of high end.

Most modern players are afraid of high end.


Midrange is severely overrated. Your active pickups, tube screamer (midrange) and 5150 ( midrange) with a Mesa cab and v30s( lots of midrange) mic’d with a 57 ( lots of midrange) DOESNT NEED ANYMORE FUCKING MIDS.

Guitar players are insanely selfish. The “stage or in the room tone” at your gig is the most useless, selfish sound on earth. All you are doing is fucking up the mix, the band, and forgetting why you are there in the first place: to entertain people.

YouTube should care About censoring YouTube producers as much as they care about censoring anything trump related
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i totally agree with everything except being selfish, id set my vh140c with the typical 6/4/6 bass mids treble like i saw practically every big band doing and let the sound guy do the rest. with that amp i never had to worry about needing volume for tone and most sound guys didnt want a lot of stage volume so it worked. i fucking love that amp, ive gotten a lot of cool amps over the last 20 years but i cant say one has dethroned that thing. fuck mids too
 
RaceU4her said:
i totally agree with everything except being selfish, id set my vh140c with the typical 6/4/6 bass mids treble like i saw practically every big band doing and let the sound guy do the rest. with that amp i never had to worry about needing volume for tone and most sound guys didnt want a lot of stage volume so it worked. i fucking love that amp, ive gotten a lot of cool amps over the last 20 years but i cant say one has dethroned that thing. fuck mids too
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Thats a good point, maybe I disagree on "tone insisting" being selfish, too.

Most of the time i'm dead set on my settings, I have a good reason to be, and not one time has an engineer ever said anything except for "holy shit that amp sounds good."

But I know what medic is talking about. I've been there, as a live engineer. The kids with randall warhead full stacks or line 6s that wont change their EQ at ALL to fit into a live mix.
 
DanTravis62 said:
Thats a good point, maybe I disagree on "tone insisting" being selfish, too.

Most of the time i'm dead set on my settings, I have a good reason to be, and not one time has an engineer ever said anything except for "holy shit that amp sounds good."

But I know what medic is talking about. I've been there, as a live engineer. The kids with randall warhead full stacks or line 6s that wont change their EQ at ALL to fit into a live mix.
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for as picky as i was about my tone when we played live i was able to just set it and go, i guess i was lucky cause a lot of guys cant seem to do that. another unpopular opinion i have is these guys with these incredibly sophisticated rigs.. like dude what more could you possibly need than an amp, delay and maybe a chorus?? i see these dudes with racks full of shit and then a floor board the size of manhattan and im confused as to what the fuck?
 
RaceU4her said:
for as picky as i was about my tone when we played live i was able to just set it and go, i guess i was lucky cause a lot of guys cant seem to do that. another unpopular opinion i have is these guys with these incredibly sophisticated rigs.. like dude what more could you possibly need than an amp, delay and maybe a chorus?? i see these dudes with racks full of shit and then a floor board the size of manhattan and im confused as to what the fuck?
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My rigs pretty big so I'm one of those guys 🤣

Ironically, it's mostly amp and delay, but it's still big and wet dry
 
DanTravis62 said:
My rigs pretty big so I'm one of those guys 🤣

Ironically, it's mostly amp and delay, but it's still big and wet dry
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for me the fear of something going wrong live would override the need for another whatever pedal or rack piece, all it takes is one patch cable to go bad and youre fucked, ive seen it happen and heard plenty more stories. im not much of a lead player though so anything more than a chorus and delay seemed kind of unnecessary
 
RaceU4her said:
for me the fear of something going wrong live would override the need for another whatever pedal or rack piece, all it takes is one patch cable to go bad and youre fucked, ive seen it happen and heard plenty more stories. im not much of a lead player though so anything more than a chorus and delay seemed kind of unnecessary
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I'm generally the only guitar player and trying to cover a lot of ground, even in an original band. And also covering sonic ground.

I've never had problems with anything except the patch cable connected to my guitar, and now I use wireless systems so that isn't a possibility anymore.
 
scottosan said:
The drunk cougar with sun damaged skin and the bat wings under her arms wanting to be your groupie knows nothing about tone
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IR aren't transparent capture of a mic and a cab.

IR are exactly like going into a studio, probably a very bad one, since they have time to make 15$ files, not 10000000$ albums. The guy who's shooting it will tweak it "to make it perfect".. They sometimes call that "mix ready". At that point it's an IR of the cab and whatever gear and strange EQ tweaks that can come between the console and the monitors.

Worst : the dude opinion on tone and mixing and will most likely sucks with your rig.
 
It would've been swell to cruise around with Jonathan Davis in Ted Bundy's Volkswagen Beetle...
 
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When I saw Dead Daisies live (when John Corabi was on vocals and Rich Fortus was on guitar) Rich was using Friedman BE stacks and to this day it was some of the best live guitar tone ever yet heard
 
Its 2022....No reason for any pedal company today or in the future to design and make a traditional 3 knob vol, tone, gain OD/Distortion/Fuzz pedal anymore. Shit is worn out, old school and uninspiring.
 
RaceU4her said:
all it takes is one patch cable to go bad and youre fucked
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I live by this statement. One of my highest priorities is having very simplistic setup.

I worry about panicking during a situation like that patch cable going bad during a show. That's why I have a Hughes and kettner amp with the footswitchable channels and effects....even though the tone may not be ideal by itself, it's still just one pedal between two cables, and that's it. That's also why I have a Bluguitar Amp1 Iridium. Very simple setup and if it shits the bed, I can swap it out with something else easily.

But since I haven't played a show since 2017, I'm seemingly preparing for a war that never happens. I'm always thinking about a live situation that has yet to happen.
 
Using cheap, modern tubes (especially Russian) in very expensive amps does not make sense to me.

Worst offender? SOLDANO! That brittle, harsh Sovtek high end with an amp using NASA spec tolerances???

5881's instead of the nearly endless supply of 6P3S-E genuine military power tubes that sound night and day better?

Much of the dreaded ice-pick is no speaker break in, cheap tubes, and low bias. Fight me! :)
 
Furthermore I'd like to see high end amp manufacturers recommend ideal high-end tubes for their designs...like "Here's what's new that we ship with. If you want the next level, get THESE!" kind of like how Bob Gjika ships JJ 803's and KT77's but personally uses Mullard long plate 12AX7's and GEC KT77's in the 10n amp.
 
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