What's better than this... guys bein' dudes. I have the RG100ES, if you don't have the footswitch you have to turn one channels gain and volume down and the other up to get the channel you want. It runs both channels at once without the footswitch, the only way to get them to run independently is with the footswitch. When the led's are working it will show green for the clean channel, red for the dirty channel, and then both lights will be on when both channels are engaged. Pretty weird badass amp, I love it, thank you for reviewing the SNK one as well!
@@donsmith5385 Forgot to mention, I have both the amp and the footswitch. It only combines the red and green channels when you hit the BOTH button on the footswitch. If you are using the CHANNEL SELECT button it switches between the green and red. I know it sounds weird but that's how the amp works. Hope this helps!
@@jeremyswindle3335 if you dont have a footswitch you can bend a paperclip and put one point in top left hole and the other point in the bottom left hole of the 6 pin slot. Stops the channel bleed and gives you full control over the gain channel.
Glad I'm not the only person who loves some nasty sludge metal. Crowbar and Goatwhore are some of my FAVORITES, though the latter is blackened death sludge, though TBH Crowbar is kinda crossover thrash and sludge. Their guitar tones are always some of the most doomy, flithy nasty shit, and I'm here for it. As someone who also loves a lot of Swedish Death Metal and really aggressive, pissed the fuck off HM-2 hardcore, deathcore, beatdown, etc... HAIL.
@@FuzzImp dude those are under appreciated as are all old crates. I just wish they made them better because every crate I’ve had or played always has issues… aside from the blue voodoo oddly haha
I have the GX900H which is the Excalibur reissue without the Excalibur logo. The overdrive on it sucks in my opinion to even take a boost but the clean channel is good with a Metal Zone. I have never seen Taylor play the GX900H.
YES FINALLY, FINALLY WHO ACTUALLY LOVES THE EXCALIBUR !! My first amp head was an 2200 Excalibur and it can and will get stupidly brutal with no pedals/eq’s !! I tend to just run an overdrive and it’s in death metal territory. Also they are still pretty cheap to get surprisingly.
The power switch is a polarity function. The treble knob pulls out for "saturation" you loose volume on channel 2 but get more saturation and sustain. Channel 1 is a clean channel. The channels are both active at all times without the footswitch. The stock footswitch functions ch.1/2 and both options on a 2 button unit. The bass is focused @ 50hz with +16db @ noon position. Mids focused @ 600hz @ +10db at noon Treble focused @1khz @+16 @ noon Presence focused 8-10khz with a wide Q The amp really shines @8ohm as it is able to breathe a bit more than 4ohm and has more omph than 16ohm.
I had several Randall heads, RG80 and RG100s back in the day. Actually had the two Randall 4x12 cabs as well but they were all stolen back in '92. Loved those amps.
Dime used the rg100es on cowboys from hell and great southern trend kill. He used the Randall century 200 on far beyond driven and vulgar display of power. Not 100% sure what he used on reinventing the steel, I know the Randall warhead was showcased then but dime actually didn’t like it and only used it for the clean channel
So awesome to see you checking out the old RG amps! My old RG80 combo quickly became one of my favorite amps of all time, it just works so well for my style. It easily gets the most play out of all my solid state amps. If you look for an older RG80-112SC or RG80-PH, you can usually get them for a lot less than the 100ES and it's the same amp. I paid $250 from GC for my 112SC and it came with a Rola Celestion G12-80 speaker, probably worth as much as the amp, haha. I found my RG80-PH on FB Market for the same price. They're out there.
I have that same long sleeve. I got it at the concert in toronto when they came back first time after trevor passed away. Ryan and brandon killed it at the show. Dueling solos and shit it was rad.
Unfortunately never had my hands on this one. Only had later models RG120H and RG150. Such great huge tone, very tight and specific goodness. This one's more primitive, organic sounding. Really cool!! 👍🏻👍🏻
Kirk was chillin Scott Ian one time and was like "hows your sound these days?" And Scott turned him onto Randall and then they made Kirk's RM100 modules. Back in the 80's too, George Lynch helped design the RG80's and RG100's and that's a heralded pedigree
How?! But HOW!?!? How somebody cannot like Pantera and Dimebag legendary virtuose playing?!!! The groove, the power, the feelings and emotions it can provide is unique and will left an almost eternal legacy...
i ran sound for eyehategod in 2014 15 or so and i think they had somethig like this, i remember it was solid state and fed back a lot! totally fun show in a tiny venu
@TaylorDanley Modern vs. Vintage channel is terminology that I has not considered but I really do think is an excellent description of the two channels.
@@TaylorDanley Fucking hell! that's a blast from the past! That band were absolutely insane, they had that mad one with the hip hop track in the middle! Transmetropolitan? or something... I'll have to check out his other stuff!
You’re the only person I’ve ever heard that made anything Randall sound great. Even kirk doesn’t. The scary part is that is sounds so great that it keeps up with other amps in the 2k-4k range which makes you wonder if you’ll miss out on something unique by making the wrong decision.
My favorite gear content ever. Nothing can fuck with these solid state amps in my opinion. The Crowbar tone is so amazing, people are just starting to catch on. Its important to note these guys took necessity and opportunity of what was available and made a legacy out of it.
Crowbars awesome Kirk said Dime got him into Randall I read somewhere where Dime said get the carpeted ones.. idk but I was fortunate enough to snag a carpet Rg80 with the little matching cab w Jags years back sounds so cool even the treble boost is fun but don’t think Dime used it when recording thanks for the video
Played a brand new Randall (and I'm a Mesa guy) on a festival in San Bernardino in 2006. Right before a big riot broke out. Loved it. Had all the juice I needed. My second time was some years after that in Moscow. Which was even more fun cos I knew it would deliver and get me through the show without any problems whatsoever. Transistors or tubes? I like both. When I first toured the US my amp was a B-52, basically a Valvestate knock off. Worked fine for me for 3 weeks of gigs so....
Both channels on the Randall are active unless you have the footswitch. Just turn down the volume and gain on whichever channel you don’t want to use. (If you don’t have the footswitch)
Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven were actually the two albums that the RG100es wasn't used on lol. He used a Randal Century 200 on those. The he RG was Cowboys and Trendkill. Still a mystery what exactly was used on Reinventing the Steel. Fun Fact, a few different amps were used on Far Beyond, including a Wizard tube amp on parts of it!
I used Randall in the late 80s and 90s and I'm also not into Pantera. They were good affordable amps. Lots of guys without much money used them because Marshalls and Mesas are expensive (and heavy if you moved your own gear).
SNK RG owner, I love it and gig it regularly and it absolutely holds up, compared to my old 87' RG100ES they're damn close. Scot from SNK is also a pleasure to deal with 🤙🏽
Idk about that I have a buddy with the jaguar speakers and the rg and it sounded like ass the only reason Dimebag made it work was because he threw 2 eqs some boost and a flanger doubled on it
That sounds insane man! I can see why those guys used that amp for sure. Makes me wonder if the more newer (2010 ish) solid state Randalls that are more affordable also get within that same ballpark or if its only in the older ones?
@@ZacharyMoonshine Not IME. I tried the newer rg line and they didn’t sound anything like this. A lot harsher and thin, but also really woofy at the same time somehow
Michael Angelo Batio also used it back in the days of Nitro and the Speed Kills instructional DVD. Makes sense to categorize it as a more so hair metal amp when unboosted. However that makes it interesting to see how's it gonna sound like if we use the same boosting techniques that Dime or Crowbar used on something like a JCM800 :D
"Endstadium" the Intro to that album, I like that idea concept reminds me of Venom's intro to their first album "Black Metal". I now follow Nightmarer. The name gets me thinking of better one as "Nightmurdarer". That sounds better as like some force that hunts the night in the night for the night. Wow, the weird stuff I be thinking of.
I have a Randall RG80es, got it from the original owner who bought it, right around the same time that I was born. It was built and inspected, near my birthday in 1987 and my buddy, Ed, bought it in 1988. Half Stack with a straight cab and it had like Jaguar speakers or something in it but they got damaged and then, I lost them in a house fire and have some Jensens in there, now. I've got the Head, torn down for a rebuild, currently. It was sold to me and it had that horrible carpet upholstery on it and was salt-n-pepper color from 14 years of cats, sleeping on it and scratching it. I got it all for $100 and an ounce of cheap weed (actually not bad stuff but $90 oz no seeds way before it was legal in MI), so I wasn't mad about it. I coincidentally, had a metal zone, that I got in HS from a trade. It was a good combo but by the time I really got it, the old metal zone was breaking and I didn't get another for several years (I don't have any, MZs anymore, pedals are cool but I'll just use the damn computer plugins, I paid for lol). Pretty cool amp but it was loud - needs a new transformer, recap, and I want to figure out, how to do whatever the hell that add-on, that plugs into the back of the amp and the speaker cab and does something about the treble and tone loss, that happens when you engage the 'extra sustain" switch. At this point, it's a mythical device that I used to see, in sold Reverb listings from 10 years ago. I messaged a half dozen people, trying to figure out, wth, that device does and if someone had a picture of the internals of it. No luck. I can't even remember what it's called....wait, Randall XP-3 Block Booster.... people were looking for it in 2006 with barely any luck. I've only seen 2 for sale since 2006. It's a device that goes between the speaker output of the amp and the input on the speaker cab. There's no info, online, about how it works but it does. I just want to find one and reverse engineer it! Someone out there has to have one....
Itd also be interesting to see speaking of lynch designed amps, a lynch box amp. I hear theyre pricey these days though. It was basically the first take on doing a synergy setup where you could swap different modules into the head.
Flotsam and jetsam used them on there first 3 records , try running a ADA mp1 right into the front of one , not sure if they used the ADA as boost or distorsion but I love the tone on no place for disgrace
Hey brother those amps both channels are active at the same time... They should have volume controls for both channels... Without the switch both are active at all times. I've used these for years and they are amazing!!
@@guitarfreakchadwick25 that’s good to know! What does the up/down positions on power switch do then? That definitely changed something… but makes sense because when we “switched” to the green channel it sounded like two channels blended together
@@TaylorDanley Up and down switch on power switch is a polarity switch. It reverses the polarity in either direction. Whichever sounds better is probably the "right" way for your area. I always would just put mine in the UP position. I also never had the footswitch, to be able to turn either of the channels off lol.
I'd love to see you give a crate powerblock a go 🙂 Not super high gain but voiced quite marshally, has tube imitation circuitry, and it takes boosts really well 🙂 (oh, they're also super affordable!)
Love the humor of seeing you questioning life while looking through a basket of power adapters Nokia snake reference particularly hilarious. "What are you trying to do to play Snake later"?🤣 your personality and style rock man❤
Thanks dude. That joke was longer and had a whole tangent about using mapquest to print directions, but I cut it because it was too off topic and long.
Bro they don't. Imo that amp is a cash grab for Randall trying to harken back to the days where Randalls specialty was making the most killer sounding solid state amps. If you feed that original RG series lots of boost it is a monster and just a better amp than a lot of the stuff put out these days.
@@marks9197 I tried the newer ones (there’s a video on my channel) and personally didn’t like them. They were very hash and just idk, flat sounding… I guess.
on one of your last vids i was about to comment that you should look into some more Randall stuff untill i realized that you prob get tons of comments saying that already.. How about some of the more less popular Randall amps like RG150 G3 ? it might be a really cheap alternative to someone getting their first used amp ? Cheers!
Wish more companies made straight up analog solid state heads. Is it too much to ask for a heavy sounding solid state head that's cheap and accessible? Yeah there's the orange crush but I never vibed with those, not enough low end and I don't like the mids
FYI for you other Crowbar nerds - if you have the SNK, try using the Bower Power boost pedal instead of the Metal Zone. It actually gets a much more spot on Sonic Excess tone 👍 Metal Zone still works better with the real Randall obviously 🤘🤘🤘
@@TaylorDanleyi definitely see what u mean. The rg1003s are not the greatest. Very cold and sterile in a bad way. Where as this is thick, articulate, and actually kinda warm
The market for dime gear is so extremely inflated right now, and its never coming down. That being said old randalls are still killer amps, the rg100es XP series is my favorite, it has a switch on the face that cuts volume loss unlike the original 100es when you pull the treble knob, and it give you an extra boost. Xp = xtra power. Also if you dont have a footswitch yes both channels will be on but you can take a paper clip, bend it like a horseshoe and put one point in the top left and bottom left holes of the 6 pin switch slot. That will cut channel bleed and give you control over the gain channel. The fs5 footswitches for these things are rare and stupid expensive. But aftermarkets are available and are cheap/work. You really need jaguar cabs to get the most out of these amps as well.
Yeah, I actually made a joke in the original edit about how Ola has milked the Dimebag content to death, but it came across as mean... which wasn't my intention so I cut it.
@@TaylorDanley i dont think its mean at all i would agree 100%. It used to be people were buying dimes gear to chase his tone, now its all just collecting the gear for internet clout. Nobody even plays the stuff anymore. You either collect it or you buy it to flip for profit. Its disgusting these old amps are going for $1000+ and some of his guitars are going for $20k.
I just bought a randall rx120d the other day and I just wanna ask, how the hell do you get so much gain from these amps? I originally had a joyo zombie but replaced it with the randall cuz it was too quiet. Rn in cranking the gain to max and boosting it with a super od pedal. Idk maybe this amp wasn't meant to be
Too funny watching you guys figure out how a Randall works. You need the switch pedal to change channels, otherwise both channels are "ON" with one of the volumes on 0 (gain [left knobs] channel cranked and the clean [right knobs] channel set to 0)
@@rockmovieswithtyler1989 I’m going to try and work my way through every amp available to me as I have time and post it to the obsidian audio channel. So not sure when I will make it to this one, but that’s the plan!
The funny thing is that all those amplifiers in the background, especially the ENGL ..and the 5150 well that Randall isn’t even a tadpole in the same ocean as thatbad azzz ENGL… I mean, honestly why would anyone ever need to play out of anything more than an ENGL savage or fireball? There is no better amp. Hands-down, so everyone just buy ENGL no matter what style of metal you play. It’s all you will ever need. Also, the dude playing that red guitar , well his guitar is better than any solar guitar ever produced ..solar just a shit company. it’s basically a used up washbourne with solar stamped on it. Solar Junk guitars dude. You’re lucky if you get a good one the only good ones I’ve saw is if Ola sends it to you personally because they’re quality inspections are crap. Believe me don’t risk sending $1200 to a foreign country and then when you’re not satisfied, good luck getting your money back it’s not like walking in Guitar Center in just exchanging it for another guitar on the spot that will never happen with solar.
I want to see an HM-2 or Eyemaster replace that Metal Zone... DU EET. I wanna hear how disgustung this amp can sound. I wanna make Christians beg for mercy and bray and bleat for their god to save them. Use it the same way - gain at 0, as a boost - but if it is an actual HM-2, you have to dime the EQ. You HAVE TO.
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What's better than this... guys bein' dudes. I have the RG100ES, if you don't have the footswitch you have to turn one channels gain and volume down and the other up to get the channel you want. It runs both channels at once without the footswitch, the only way to get them to run independently is with the footswitch. When the led's are working it will show green for the clean channel, red for the dirty channel, and then both lights will be on when both channels are engaged. Pretty weird badass amp, I love it, thank you for reviewing the SNK one as well!
Doesn’t matter if you have the footswitch there is still channel bleed over, it basically a solid state 4 input Marshall
@@donsmith5385 Forgot to mention, I have both the amp and the footswitch. It only combines the red and green channels when you hit the BOTH button on the footswitch. If you are using the CHANNEL SELECT button it switches between the green and red. I know it sounds weird but that's how the amp works. Hope this helps!
The manual is online, without the footswitch both channels combine.
@@jeremyswindle3335 if you dont have a footswitch you can bend a paperclip and put one point in top left hole and the other point in the bottom left hole of the 6 pin slot. Stops the channel bleed and gives you full control over the gain channel.
@@donsmith5385 I said this in my first comment -_-
CROWBAR LETS GOOOOO!!!!!!!
Glad I'm not the only person who loves some nasty sludge metal. Crowbar and Goatwhore are some of my FAVORITES, though the latter is blackened death sludge, though TBH Crowbar is kinda crossover thrash and sludge. Their guitar tones are always some of the most doomy, flithy nasty shit, and I'm here for it. As someone who also loves a lot of Swedish Death Metal and really aggressive, pissed the fuck off HM-2 hardcore, deathcore, beatdown, etc... HAIL.
My favorite was my crate Excalibur which you’ve already played similar. (GX900H and GX2200H) this sounded sick
@@FuzzImp dude those are under appreciated as are all old crates. I just wish they made them better because every crate I’ve had or played always has issues… aside from the blue voodoo oddly haha
I have the GX900H which is the Excalibur reissue without the Excalibur logo. The overdrive on it sucks in my opinion to even take a boost but the clean channel is good with a Metal Zone. I have never seen Taylor play the GX900H.
YES FINALLY, FINALLY WHO ACTUALLY LOVES THE EXCALIBUR !! My first amp head was an 2200 Excalibur and it can and will get stupidly brutal with no pedals/eq’s !! I tend to just run an overdrive and it’s in death metal territory. Also they are still pretty cheap to get surprisingly.
The power switch is a polarity function.
The treble knob pulls out for "saturation" you loose volume on channel 2 but get more saturation and sustain.
Channel 1 is a clean channel.
The channels are both active at all times without the footswitch.
The stock footswitch functions ch.1/2 and both options on a 2 button unit.
The bass is focused @ 50hz with +16db @ noon position.
Mids focused @ 600hz @ +10db at noon
Treble focused @1khz @+16 @ noon
Presence focused 8-10khz with a wide Q
The amp really shines @8ohm as it is able to breathe a bit more than 4ohm and has more omph than 16ohm.
This is BY FAR the best sounding amp you've have on the channel... absolutely AMAZING
That tone takes me back.....really hits the feels.
I had several Randall heads, RG80 and RG100s back in the day. Actually had the two Randall 4x12 cabs as well but they were all stolen back in '92. Loved those amps.
Dime used the rg100es on cowboys from hell and great southern trend kill. He used the Randall century 200 on far beyond driven and vulgar display of power. Not 100% sure what he used on reinventing the steel, I know the Randall warhead was showcased then but dime actually didn’t like it and only used it for the clean channel
The SNK is on my list
So awesome to see you checking out the old RG amps! My old RG80 combo quickly became one of my favorite amps of all time, it just works so well for my style. It easily gets the most play out of all my solid state amps.
If you look for an older RG80-112SC or RG80-PH, you can usually get them for a lot less than the 100ES and it's the same amp. I paid $250 from GC for my 112SC and it came with a Rola Celestion G12-80 speaker, probably worth as much as the amp, haha. I found my RG80-PH on FB Market for the same price. They're out there.
I have that same long sleeve. I got it at the concert in toronto when they came back first time after trevor passed away. Ryan and brandon killed it at the show. Dueling solos and shit it was rad.
Sounds super rich and and full of attitude. The Reverb is super doo doo tho.
Unfortunately never had my hands on this one. Only had later models RG120H and RG150. Such great huge tone, very tight and specific goodness.
This one's more primitive, organic sounding. Really cool!! 👍🏻👍🏻
Bro.....its fucking SHOCKING how good that thing sounds!
I think the Randall sounded best after you turned the pedal off and adjusted the EQ (7:59).
Also, the SNK sounds pretty damn good!
Who is that with the Iceman and Crate Stack at 0:17?? One of my favorite guitars and amp brands!
Kirk was chillin Scott Ian one time and was like "hows your sound these days?" And Scott turned him onto Randall and then they made Kirk's RM100 modules. Back in the 80's too, George Lynch helped design the RG80's and RG100's and that's a heralded pedigree
Simon was like, " Now I will show you how to really play guitar, little girly man!" 🤣
How?! But HOW!?!? How somebody cannot like Pantera and Dimebag legendary virtuose playing?!!! The groove, the power, the feelings and emotions it can provide is unique and will left an almost eternal legacy...
i ran sound for eyehategod in 2014 15 or so and i think they had somethig like this, i remember it was solid state and fed back a lot! totally fun show in a tiny venu
@TaylorDanley Modern vs. Vintage channel is terminology that I has not considered but I really do think is an excellent description of the two channels.
I'm a die hard Randall guy! I love my RG 200 and I'll play it until I die! 🤷
Hang on a minute... Is that the guy from War From a Harlots Mouth?!
😂 yes!
@@TaylorDanley Fucking hell! that's a blast from the past! That band were absolutely insane, they had that mad one with the hip hop track in the middle! Transmetropolitan? or something... I'll have to check out his other stuff!
For Solid State Lovers… have you even heard of/tried the Marshall 3315 full sized head from the late 1980s? Super Rare.. and incredible.
I love ss.
Just got a kustom kg100.
It's 10x better than I thought it was going to be
@@BOBANDVEG Sick!
Try the marshall mode four.
You’re the only person I’ve ever heard that made anything Randall sound great. Even kirk doesn’t. The scary part is that is sounds so great that it keeps up with other amps in the 2k-4k range which makes you wonder if you’ll miss out on something unique by making the wrong decision.
My favorite gear content ever. Nothing can fuck with these solid state amps in my opinion. The Crowbar tone is so amazing, people are just starting to catch on. Its important to note these guys took necessity and opportunity of what was available and made a legacy out of it.
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I've got an old rg100es, crate gx130c and an ampeg vh140c. the holy trinity of oldschool solid state amps
@@Cryptic-1-9-1-1 💪 but also… valvestate 🤔
I had this in the 90s from a pawn shop through a crate cab. Clicked so fast. Was a Randall ss player until I wasn’t.
Crowbars awesome Kirk said Dime got him into Randall I read somewhere where Dime said get the carpeted ones.. idk but I was fortunate enough to snag a carpet Rg80 with the little matching cab w Jags years back sounds so cool even the treble boost is fun but don’t think Dime used it when recording thanks for the video
Played a brand new Randall (and I'm a Mesa guy) on a festival in San Bernardino in 2006. Right before a big riot broke out. Loved it. Had all the juice I needed. My second time was some years after that in Moscow. Which was even more fun cos I knew it would deliver and get me through the show without any problems whatsoever. Transistors or tubes? I like both. When I first toured the US my amp was a B-52, basically a Valvestate knock off. Worked fine for me for 3 weeks of gigs so....
Both channels on the Randall are active unless you have the footswitch. Just turn down the volume and gain on whichever channel you don’t want to use. (If you don’t have the footswitch)
I have the same head and I still love the tone I get from it.
Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven were actually the two albums that the RG100es wasn't used on lol. He used a Randal Century 200 on those. The he RG was Cowboys and Trendkill. Still a mystery what exactly was used on Reinventing the Steel. Fun Fact, a few different amps were used on Far Beyond, including a Wizard tube amp on parts of it!
Thanks for that. There's a good chance I misread the reference for that statement. It was a long last couple of weeks!
@@TaylorDanley no problem man, I'm filled with random Randall amps/ Dimebag tone fun facts lol
Try the Randall Titan 300w. Its like a big JCM with more angst
I used Randall in the late 80s and 90s and I'm also not into Pantera. They were good affordable amps. Lots of guys without much money used them because Marshalls and Mesas are expensive (and heavy if you moved your own gear).
SNK RG owner, I love it and gig it regularly and it absolutely holds up, compared to my old 87' RG100ES they're damn close.
Scot from SNK is also a pleasure to deal with 🤙🏽
From my understanding, this amp needs to be paired with those old Jaguar 12" speakers in the Randall Cabs.They are the missing link apparently
@@imeqsmd Yes! The Jaguar definitely works very well with the old RGs.
Yes + an aphex aural exciter c4 big bottom rack
Idk about that I have a buddy with the jaguar speakers and the rg and it sounded like ass the only reason Dimebag made it work was because he threw 2 eqs some boost and a flanger doubled on it
I cloned the preamp circuit of one of those and made it into a pedal. It sounds awesome going into the return of my DSL 20HR.
That sounds insane man! I can see why those guys used that amp for sure. Makes me wonder if the more newer (2010 ish) solid state Randalls that are more affordable also get within that same ballpark or if its only in the older ones?
@@ZacharyMoonshine Not IME. I tried the newer rg line and they didn’t sound anything like this. A lot harsher and thin, but also really woofy at the same time somehow
But that Krank REV+ in the back 👀
I have a Randall RH200 that's brutal.
Michael Angelo Batio also used it back in the days of Nitro and the Speed Kills instructional DVD. Makes sense to categorize it as a more so hair metal amp when unboosted.
However that makes it interesting to see how's it gonna sound like if we use the same boosting techniques that Dime or Crowbar used on something like a JCM800 :D
@@Mr.Goldbar yeah that makes sense, it sounds very hair metal on its own. Yeah metal zone is a good boost, who knew!
That was a randall rg200es.
The randall lynch box? Dream rig besides the engl fireball
@@gearhead2017 would be cool to try one! Wonder if they are backward compatible with synergy stuff 🤔
I've had the Randall RX120RH and RH200 G2 Series and they're the best solid state amps I've ever played.
Dawg this video rules. You are really killing these videos all round.
@@bjpearce3415 thanks man! This one was easy because it’s literally just a typical day at the office 😂
Sick Tetsuo shirt lol
"Endstadium" the Intro to that album, I like that idea concept reminds me of Venom's intro to their first album "Black Metal". I now follow Nightmarer. The name gets me thinking of better one as "Nightmurdarer". That sounds better as like some force that hunts the night in the night for the night. Wow, the weird stuff I be thinking of.
I have a Randall RG80es, got it from the original owner who bought it, right around the same time that I was born. It was built and inspected, near my birthday in 1987 and my buddy, Ed, bought it in 1988. Half Stack with a straight cab and it had like Jaguar speakers or something in it but they got damaged and then, I lost them in a house fire and have some Jensens in there, now.
I've got the Head, torn down for a rebuild, currently. It was sold to me and it had that horrible carpet upholstery on it and was salt-n-pepper color from 14 years of cats, sleeping on it and scratching it. I got it all for $100 and an ounce of cheap weed (actually not bad stuff but $90 oz no seeds way before it was legal in MI), so I wasn't mad about it. I coincidentally, had a metal zone, that I got in HS from a trade. It was a good combo but by the time I really got it, the old metal zone was breaking and I didn't get another for several years (I don't have any, MZs anymore, pedals are cool but I'll just use the damn computer plugins, I paid for lol).
Pretty cool amp but it was loud - needs a new transformer, recap, and I want to figure out, how to do whatever the hell that add-on, that plugs into the back of the amp and the speaker cab and does something about the treble and tone loss, that happens when you engage the 'extra sustain" switch. At this point, it's a mythical device that I used to see, in sold Reverb listings from 10 years ago. I messaged a half dozen people, trying to figure out, wth, that device does and if someone had a picture of the internals of it. No luck. I can't even remember what it's called....wait, Randall XP-3 Block Booster.... people were looking for it in 2006 with barely any luck. I've only seen 2 for sale since 2006. It's a device that goes between the speaker output of the amp and the input on the speaker cab. There's no info, online, about how it works but it does. I just want to find one and reverse engineer it! Someone out there has to have one....
WHERE did Simon find that longsleeve??? Holy shit
Love your channel dude. Just recently discovered. I too collect tons of gear and chase tones for metal. 🤘🤘🍺🍺
Try find one of these in europe ... i love the crowbar sound but its impossible to find one of these
For anyone looking for a portable Randall RG preamp in pedal form, check out our RGX100 pedal😀🤘
Itd also be interesting to see speaking of lynch designed amps, a lynch box amp. I hear theyre pricey these days though. It was basically the first take on doing a synergy setup where you could swap different modules into the head.
@@Metaldad87 yeah, they were doing that way back in the day! I know TH-U has a model of it in their plugin. But I’ve never even seen one IRL
I saw a Randall head at my local pawn shop. I assume its a 90's model or maybe early 2000's. It looks old, but newer than the head in this video.
Flotsam and jetsam used them on there first 3 records , try running a ADA mp1 right into the front of one , not sure if they used the ADA as boost or distorsion but I love the tone on no place for disgrace
My absolute dream amp! Mainly cause of Kirk Windstein but also Dimebag of course
Hey brother those amps both channels are active at the same time... They should have volume controls for both channels... Without the switch both are active at all times. I've used these for years and they are amazing!!
@@guitarfreakchadwick25 that’s good to know! What does the up/down positions on power switch do then? That definitely changed something… but makes sense because when we “switched” to the green channel it sounded like two channels blended together
@@TaylorDanley Up and down switch on power switch is a polarity switch. It reverses the polarity in either direction. Whichever sounds better is probably the "right" way for your area. I always would just put mine in the UP position. I also never had the footswitch, to be able to turn either of the channels off lol.
@@TaylorDanley it's kinda like the High/Low Gain inputs on a 6505 Peavey... It's changed the tone some but nothing dramatic.
I'd love to see you give a crate powerblock a go 🙂 Not super high gain but voiced quite marshally, has tube imitation circuitry, and it takes boosts really well 🙂 (oh, they're also super affordable!)
Love the humor of seeing you questioning life while looking through a basket of power adapters Nokia snake reference particularly hilarious. "What are you trying to do to play Snake later"?🤣 your personality and style rock man❤
Thanks dude. That joke was longer and had a whole tangent about using mapquest to print directions, but I cut it because it was too off topic and long.
I wonder how the current 100H,150H,300H compare to this amp.
Bro they don't. Imo that amp is a cash grab for Randall trying to harken back to the days where Randalls specialty was making the most killer sounding solid state amps.
If you feed that original RG series lots of boost it is a monster and just a better amp than a lot of the stuff put out these days.
@@marks9197 I tried the newer ones (there’s a video on my channel) and personally didn’t like them. They were very hash and just idk, flat sounding… I guess.
on one of your last vids i was about to comment that you should look into some more Randall stuff untill i realized that you prob get tons of comments saying that already..
How about some of the more less popular Randall amps like RG150 G3 ? it might be a really cheap alternative to someone getting their first used amp ? Cheers!
If you like solid state, ya gotta try a marshall mode four, preferrably with 400w cab!
I see Simon in that Tetsuo shirt
Simon and Taylor. LETS GOOOO
The Dean Dime amp is an exact clone of the RG100es and that's straight from the mouth of Gary Sunda.
Wish more companies made straight up analog solid state heads. Is it too much to ask for a heavy sounding solid state head that's cheap and accessible? Yeah there's the orange crush but I never vibed with those, not enough low end and I don't like the mids
The devil pedal sounds killer🤘
@@scottg8660 thanks dude 💪
FYI for you other Crowbar nerds - if you have the SNK, try using the Bower Power boost pedal instead of the Metal Zone. It actually gets a much more spot on Sonic Excess tone 👍 Metal Zone still works better with the real Randall obviously 🤘🤘🤘
sounds really thick and dirty, good shit. You guys should've tried some of of Taylor's boost pedals
we should have! I wasn’t sure when we shot this what the release date was going to be though. next time!
Also the same amp that Sammy (Goatwhore) used on the only 2 ACID BATH albums which are the 2 best peices of recorded audio in all of mankind!
As the biggest Pantera fan and a huge fan of you. When you said you never got into Pantera it cut like a knife lmao 😂
Sorry dude. It's not that I didn't enjoy them, just when they were popular I was in my goth phase 🤷♂️ 😂
Weird thing about this amp too is with the default footswitch it lets you switch between channel 1 and 2, but also a button that blends the 2 channels
@@jasterthefathyena1843 I’m gonna have to forward this info to Simon!
I waited for years for my buddy to find the footswitch, when I bought an RG80es off of him...he never found it.
Definitely not my thing but cool vid and great playing by both of you! Love to watch the hang.
Sounds great, you should review some more old solid state amps! A Peavey Bandit/Supreme video would be sick, I get some brutal tones with mine.
@@burnoutzzz I’ve done a handful! But I mean I’m always down to do them. It makes for fun videos
I absolutely LOVE this amp. Thanks for showing out some love to it ✨
I love this amp because of eyehategod. You should try the bower power overdrive from does it doom
RANDALL is great stuff. Their cabs are awesome as well
Randall RG's are some of my favorite amps.
@@pinkyellowblue007 not a fan of the newer ones, very difficult to get a good tone out of it. This one sound great!
@@TaylorDanleyi definitely see what u mean. The rg1003s are not the greatest. Very cold and sterile in a bad way. Where as this is thick, articulate, and actually kinda warm
The market for dime gear is so extremely inflated right now, and its never coming down. That being said old randalls are still killer amps, the rg100es XP series is my favorite, it has a switch on the face that cuts volume loss unlike the original 100es when you pull the treble knob, and it give you an extra boost. Xp = xtra power. Also if you dont have a footswitch yes both channels will be on but you can take a paper clip, bend it like a horseshoe and put one point in the top left and bottom left holes of the 6 pin switch slot. That will cut channel bleed and give you control over the gain channel. The fs5 footswitches for these things are rare and stupid expensive. But aftermarkets are available and are cheap/work. You really need jaguar cabs to get the most out of these amps as well.
Yeah, I actually made a joke in the original edit about how Ola has milked the Dimebag content to death, but it came across as mean... which wasn't my intention so I cut it.
@@TaylorDanley i dont think its mean at all i would agree 100%. It used to be people were buying dimes gear to chase his tone, now its all just collecting the gear for internet clout. Nobody even plays the stuff anymore. You either collect it or you buy it to flip for profit. Its disgusting these old amps are going for $1000+ and some of his guitars are going for $20k.
I just bought a randall rx120d the other day and I just wanna ask, how the hell do you get so much gain from these amps? I originally had a joyo zombie but replaced it with the randall cuz it was too quiet. Rn in cranking the gain to max and boosting it with a super od pedal. Idk maybe this amp wasn't meant to be
The look with the nokia phone...I felt that
Too funny watching you guys figure out how a Randall works. You need the switch pedal to change channels, otherwise both channels are "ON" with one of the volumes on 0 (gain [left knobs] channel cranked and the clean [right knobs] channel set to 0)
Very fun video! 🎉 the guy with less hair sounds like he might have german blood. Or i might just be imagining things. Anyways cool shit 😀
Simon is very German.
You going to try this Amp with your new boost pedal?
@@rockmovieswithtyler1989 I’m going to try and work my way through every amp available to me as I have time and post it to the obsidian audio channel. So not sure when I will make it to this one, but that’s the plan!
@@TaylorDanley sounds good to me 😎🤘🏻
Never cared for Randell, only one valve state that kick ass is... M4
Pull the treble knob, just do it. You're welcome
Is this Amp similar to an Randall rh300 anyone know?
The funny thing is that all those amplifiers in the background, especially the ENGL ..and the 5150 well that Randall isn’t even a tadpole in the same ocean as thatbad azzz ENGL… I mean, honestly why would anyone ever need to play out of anything more than an ENGL savage or fireball? There is no better amp. Hands-down, so everyone just buy ENGL no matter what style of metal you play. It’s all you will ever need. Also, the dude playing that red guitar , well his guitar is better than any solar guitar ever produced ..solar just a shit company. it’s basically a used up washbourne with solar stamped on it. Solar Junk guitars dude. You’re lucky if you get a good one the only good ones I’ve saw is if Ola sends it to you personally because they’re quality inspections are crap. Believe me don’t risk sending $1200 to a foreign country and then when you’re not satisfied, good luck getting your money back it’s not like walking in Guitar Center in just exchanging it for another guitar on the spot that will never happen with solar.
Try 1970
Thats ok cuz i was born in 90 so im about as old as that amp too 😂
Just get a supercrush and toss a 10 band in the loop. No one wants to spend that kind of money on a used solid state amp
whats simons channel
th-cam.com/users/simonXsludge
EASTERN EUROPEAN VERY STRONG
phoney jokes aside at least you know who they are
Hm... Simon talks like he's from Germany 🤔
Pantera suck and Dirtbag is a death faker.
I want to see an HM-2 or Eyemaster replace that Metal Zone... DU EET. I wanna hear how disgustung this amp can sound. I wanna make Christians beg for mercy and bray and bleat for their god to save them. Use it the same way - gain at 0, as a boost - but if it is an actual HM-2, you have to dime the EQ. You HAVE TO.
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