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I don't think I have any unpopular gear opinions, I'm trying to think.
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Right?! I still can't get over that the bulk of their distorted tones came from old distortion pedals. They just sound too big and full, like recto/wall of sound type huge.Even then as weird as the setups are they sound massive and huge and then tight enough for faster riffing like in the bridge of Stars or Green to Me
what cabs did they use?
Tube preamps are overrated. Tubes help a lot in the power section, but solid state preamps sound just as good as tube to my ear.
If I didn't have two Tech 21 British pedals and a Joyo American Sound, I'd get a GT2.Correct. Tim Lash ran a sansamp gt2 into a Hiwatt. I bet that combined with Matt's Orange/Boss rig is what makes their sound so massive. Even live, their sound is just huge. They also have a pretty heavy hitting drummer!
OP said unpopular opinions, not wrong ones.
What model pickups are in the guitar? H4?
I use an H4 in the bridge in Eb. It sounds pretty cool with the ABQ from the EMG ALX set.Yup H4. My SLSMG is one of my standard tuning guitars. There's something about the palm mutes i just love for thrash and 90's rock. They have this chunk i've not found with any of my other guitars. It seems to start going away when moving down to Drop D, so not sure i'd like the pickups so much with other tunings. Doesn't matter to me though as that's not what the guitar is for.
I like to get a little gain from several sources rather than all from one place most of the time. Ie, a little from the pickup, a little from the EMG ABQ Preamp, a little from an OD, a little from the Tech 21 British. Then once it comes out the speaker, it's a huge articulate tone.- the correct amount of distortion is generally the absolute least amount possible, actually probably less than that, there you go, which seems to be a very unpopular perspective with the "metal" guitarists I end up in bands with.
I like to get a little gain from several sources rather than all from one place most of the time. Ie, a little from the pickup, a little from the EMG ABQ Preamp, a little from an OD, a little from the Tech 21 British. Then once it comes out the speaker, it's a huge articulate tone.
And we didnt mention what Cave In did with boss pedals on antenna and jupiter (and live nowadays? For shame!
(certain) neck humbuckers are great for metal rhythm tones
v30s are actively unpleasant sounding, especially the mesa ones
(certain) solid state amps are perfectly fine - they have this damping factor that tubes can never match, which sounds great for specific music styles
basically every "boutique" amp has nothing special about it, they are almost all hotrodded marshalls, which you can find countless other examples of for like 400$
The hell, people are talking about Hum in this thread?
OP said unpopular opinions, not wrong ones.
Most people seem to love BOSS pedals, but i generally kinda hate them. I've yet to play anything from boss that really did anything for me, aside from the Tera Echo (which is pretty cool). I also do own the FV500, which is solid AF.
Ironically enough, one if my all time favorite tones is from HUM's Downward is Heavenward album, which one of their guitarists mainly used a Boss distortion/feedbacker pedal into a vintage 200w Orange. I actually bought that same pedal, but it sounded like complete ass, so i have no idea what kind of magic tricks they did to get that kind of tone from it. Probably had something to do with them running it into that Orange amp with massive headroom.
But yeah, I'd basically take any other pedal company over boss any day of the week, well, except for maybe Zoom.![]()