Bravo Steve Trovato, you brought 2 Guitars and made em both zing, that's the way to do it! The 330 was so good I almost forgot that I was checking out the amps!?!?
I don't want to knock the guys playing, but I don't really know that we learned too much about the tone of the amp from him playing 100mph. Just would have appreciated some rung out chords and slower playing.
Will you please...? I am looking for THE BEST 15w amp in the world (lets say which covers Beano and also the cleanest of Robert Cray. 2 suggestions max. Thanks!!
Trovato was the only guy that understands the tone stack on these Vox style amps. The bottom end doesn’t hold up like, say, a Marshall for instance. Like vintage Fenders, you almost never end up with the Bass setting higher than the Treble setting…at least not for a sound that is going to cut through a band. In the studio all bets are off, but I’d wager the bass would still need to be on 2-3 to keep the bottom in tact at higher gain levels. Great little amps, nonetheless.
I totally agree! I've found that jumping and cranking the channels on the ac30c2 with a les paul has a pretty sweet doom/sludge tone. of course there are always fuzzboxes!
Thanks, mate. It's the best amp I've ever played for the way I play. And that makes sense regarding the AC30, but we both agree that you need a pedal to coax out something more metal-orientated, and even then it's vintage metal like Doom, not modern metal.
For one thing, you call them on the phone. Matchless will build any configuration you want. They have several models with EL34s. And if I remember correctly, most, if not all Matchless amps employ negative feedback. I'm telling you, these amps are among the most versatile and DEFINITELYthe most touch sensitive amps on the market. But, to each his own I guess. Rock on.
Everybody is been talking shit about Steve, but IMO, although he's no the best player, he sure gave the best comments and opinions about the amp. They were really useful. I wish I could say the same about the other two guys. I mean, they play good, but their comments are pretty useless...
And finally lets look at modern metal styles, such as Djent, Hardcore, Progressive Metal, etc. It's really bright, with a heavy cut in the low-end that remains tight and punchy. This style is aggressive by the way the players hit the strings, not just the amps. It also pays to use high output pickups like Bare Knuckle or EMG. Usually they use a Tubescreamer to add upper midrange bite and clarity. The Tubescreamer is set for a clean boost basically.
If you want a cheaper version of this, look for an early Bad Cat Cub I or II. They use a lot of the same components. Mine even says Matchless on the inside.
The matchless is a nice amp, but a standard vox ac15 (at a quater of the price) can achieve the majority of the tones that they showed the amp producing, but if i had the money for the matchless... im sure i would buy it :)
It’s a shame there isn’t a tonecut knob like a vox has. It can come in handy esp. if you’re playing a tele or a strat to be able to dial back that high end and or single coil hum.
you can do the exact same thing with a cranked amp, a boost, and a humbucker, but the only difference is the grind depending on the pickup output. i hate emgs because they arent as responsive as passive pickups, my point is you dont need to have an active pickup and an amp with a bunch of preamp tubes to play metal, its the music that counts
I bought mine a few months before this video... let me say this amp holds its own in a room of class A amps. Better than the Dr. Z and the %13 on a side by side test.
I know this is a old comment. Still own the Matchless? I sold off some gear recently to simplify but the elusive Vox circuit still haunts me( have Fender-Marshall-Ampeg SVT covered) Have a Divided By 13 RSA and 90’s Matchless Lightning for sale locally roughly $400 between them. Thinking Matchless but🤷♂️Also 63 Jag tempting me lol!
@@billydelacruz1500 you have to ask to play them before you buy. You will feel the better amp for you when you actually plug in your guitar and pedals. That’s what I did. A big decision, but totally worth it knowing you picked the best amp.
@@DaveRynk Yes, makes sense although I’m leaning toward just keeping it minimal with a Fender/ JMP amps since it covers Rock and Alt so well! Thank you for reply!
If you stick a Big Muff in front of an AC30 then you'll get a Doom tone, and if you stick a Faustone Valve Klipper in front then you'll get a Sabbath tone, but the amp on its own just doesn't have the right voicing. A Doom amp is an Ampeg V4, a Sunn Model T or a Marshall Super Bass. They're all 100 watts+. Sure, you could get a make-shift metal tone with an AC30, but it's like saying you could buy a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier for Lounge Room Jazz. It could do it, but it doesn't make any sense.
You really found an Electric Wizard and YOB tone out an of AC30? I'm not butthurt here, I'm simply trying to understand your logic. I play Sludge on a Fryette Memphis, a 30w Class-A combo with EL84's, but it has loads of gain and less sag. It uses negative feedback and filtering to help keep things tight, but still very heavy. So I'm not saying lower wattage amps can't cope with Sludge or Doom, but the AC30s I've tried can't. They would NEVER cut it in a live mix against 200 watt Matamps.
it depends on what kind of metal. Those probly could handle Sabbath. And with the right pedals you can achieve more sounds. But I'm with you, if you want to play those kind of musics and waste money to get some good pedals you can just get something like a 5150.
see my other response also. This is only a 15 watt RMS, but rated very conservatively. It's STILL a beast for what it is. Matchless makes other models ya know, but they all kick ass in their own categories. I'm 51, and I've YET to see/hear amps that'll stand up to these in ANY way. You throw just a little bit of overdrive pedal in w/these and they scream, yet the tone comes through. I've yet to hear anyone say one bad about these amps. TONS of youtube videos to see/hear. TRY ONE if u can.
Dudes ... with all dudes respect: did guys you really like that buzzy bee distortion stuff? And the bottom dropped out when the Tube Screamer went on. Check out the Kingsley overdrive pedals through his amps ... sweet harmonic overdrive that won't wait, if you have to have that much distortion running.
With a pro musician a few grand instrument is pretty much basic. Instead of paying around $3000 for a fender custom shop you can get these guitars. I haven't had any chance to try out all of them so I can't say how good all of them are. But I tried some Nash guitars before and I have to say they are damn nice guitar ( at the same level at custom shop fender.) and you can get them at low at $1500. Hope all of these help.
the AC30 is deffiently NOT the ideal amp for sludge/doom music i agree with you on that, but if you jump the channels, use the tone cut and crank the bass, and have a ton of master volume and a fuzz pedal it works and it sounds sweet to me. but yea it would be weak compaired to matamps.Also your fryette sounds sweet.
this one is NOT based on the ac30 or dc30... if you look 4 the schematic online you'll see its more like a mini plexiglass with the channels prejumped and no negative feefback. that's why it dirties up pretty quick. my local store had a used one in. several years ago and it was AWESOME and also LOUD. I suppose if you turned the bass down you could get some m ore modern sound out of it but it struck me as more of a Neil Young/ Roy Buchanan kind of tone monster... imho/ymmv.
I would argue that with the right pedal you could play metal with any of these. Is it ideal? No. Will it work? Sure! I've seen hardcore guys using Twin Reverbs with overdive pedals.
This Champions of Chime was a great idea but ultimately super disappointing as NONE of these players seemed to even understand what chime is, let alone knew how to dial it in.
companys sit and think where that shape came from every time they disng one. they just look at what people play , what body styles make sense, and then build it .
One last thing I forgot to mention. I've owned 3 Marshalls a long time ago. Long before Matchless was ever heard of. 2 were 100 watts. 1 a 50 watt. I had 2 of them modified by Lars Jacobson. Best amp tech in Florida. Years later when I heard my first Matchless at a concert, if I had still owned my Marshalls, I would have traded all 3 of em for that fuckin' amp. And I swore by my modded 50 & 100 w/my 73 Les Paul St. That's how vicious the tone was. Pedals are pedals.
That's bullshit Dan. Queen's short metal ages were done of course through a VOX AC30. Have you ever cranked a masterless VOX? Man! a VOX AC30 will blow your house! One of the biggest mistake of people who DON'T truly know the AC is that they claim a VOX to be clean. NO they can be super dirty
I think when Daniel refers to "metal" he isn't talking about Queen. He's talking about a more modern metal sound, in which case I can see what he's trying to say. If I were to start a metal band, be it sludge, doom, black, thrash, whatever......I wouldn't get a Matchless. I'd be looking at Marshall, Orange, Mesa, Peavy, etc. That being said, I love the AC30 and you can indeed get some bitchin' rock tones from them.
I've played LSL and Nash guitars. They compare to Custom shop Fenders with half the price tag and in my opinion are better. If you can get past the decal not saying Fender you will see what I mean.
Also, cranking a Champ delivers distortion, but it is not tight and does not evoke metal playing. It evokes blues, country, classic rock, etc. This is what I'm trying to say. An amp is a tool. Use the right tool for the job and you'll play and feel better. Someone saying a Matchless is versatile enough to play metal on is, IMO, bad advice. Ask the designer and he'll confirm that thought.
True it is a copy. They don't claim that they have created a new product. When you speak to true tone seekers of Fenders, they have replaced a lot of the original gear with after market stuff. LOLLAR - FRALIN - BRIERLEY pick ups - CALLAHAM or GLENDALE bridges etc. With NASH, LSL they have done the research and kitted out their gear already. But besides the tone - the feel of a used/worn neck is what is great. I'm not overly keen on reliced bodies but that's me. Try one for yourself and see.
well simply put, not every company is going to be able to make a new body shape. if that were the case then well , we wouldve run out of ideas a long time ago. some companys sell strat copys that are garbage. but others like lsl and nash, make strat copys that are as good if not better than the custom shop american strats , for around half the cost . companys are just putting there spin on a design . nowadays i wouldnt honestly call them copys , because its going on for so long . i doubt
Well, then, I guess some people are OK using Dual Rectifiers for Lounge Jazz, while others like to use the right equipment that inspires them in the best way. You never see blues players with Jackson Flying Vs with EMG 81's running at 18v because it just doesn't sound anywhere near as good for that style compared to a TVJones-equipped Gretsch. It can do it, but why bother when they're so much more out there that's better?
@@angrygoldfish Oh, I'm sorry. I hadn't realized there was a statute of limitations issued regarding responding to dullards who need to repeat themselves incessantly on TH-cam.
@@andrewmorgan6571 What is your problem? Do you not see the hypocrisy and ridiculousness of what you're saying? An 8 year-old comment made by an 8 year-younger me was picked up 8 years later by a random person who randomly took a disliking to what was said and decided to make a sweeping assessment about someone they not only did not know 8 years ago but do not know now. You went out of your way to post that, and now you claim I'm an incessant dullard when it's YOU who repeated upon an 8 year-old opinion that you could have chose to ignore but decided to regurgitate for the simple reason that you felt like it...which is remarkably similar to the reason I commented in the first place.
The first dude with the strat....he used the neck position pickup for the whole demonstration..not a good way to here all the possible tones..D- on that one.
First let's look at early Death Metal tones. It's bright, heavily scooped, thumping & gnarly. Take away the distortion & you only take away the gnarly aspects of it. Much of it still remains, though, as tone is partly in the player. Now let's look at modern Doom Metal. It's treble is cut but the bass & midrange frequencies, particularly low-midrange, are boosted. This creates a sludgy, dirgy, swampy, dark, wooden tone. Take away the distortion & the only that disappears is the fuzziness.
And to reiterate, metal is not about distortion only. This is the mistake that is made by people that don't play or like metal in any of its forms. So by saying "oh, you can play metal as long as you have distortion" is as daft and ignorant as saying you can play metal with an acoustic amp. I'm analogizing.
With that reasoning I can play metal on a clean amp or a banjo into an acoustic amp. If you can play metal on a Matchless then you can play it on a Fender Champ. Yet why is it I've never heard anyone do that? Maybe because it's completely the wrong tool for the job and sounds and looks ridiculous.
Playing heavy metal on a Fender Champ is creatively putting yourself in a box; a very small box that doesn't fit your triangular shape. A heavy metal player is a triangle. A Matchless Lightning amp (and I've tried it) is a circular box. It is not the right tool. You can play metal on it, but you'll sound and look like a guy trying to play country on a Peavey 6505. It's not physically impossible, but it's totally impractical and won't allow you to be creative within your genre(s).
Yeah, probably, but it just wouldn't be ideal. Guitarists that don't play a genre shouldn't recommend gear for it. I don't go around talking about jazz guitars and amps because all I'll be doing is repeating what others say. I don't actually have any personal experience or honest advice because I don't play that style of music. They're just giving bad advice. Someone may buy the amp based on their opinion and find themselves with a 20watt $2000 blues amp in a Doom Metal band.
Pull the shit out of your ears son. Just messin' with ya. They really didn't put this amp into a real gain mode at all. Didn't you see, they show the settings. These 3 players & the topic of this video series is to get the "jangle". TRUST ME, this amp is a fucking monster. I am an accomplished guitarist, but none of these near where I live in Fl. But I've seen several guitar Gods over the years that played their older amps & then I seen them with Matchless & talk about gain with TONE INTACT.
And as much as I like the guitarists here, they say some dumb things, like the detailing of the gain levels of the Matchless. You CANNOT play metal on this amp any more than you can on a Vox AC30 or Fender Deluxe Reverb. The onboard distortion, albeit great in level, is not the right sound for any form of metal I know of, whether Doom, Death, Hardcore, etc.
How did you manage to get that from my message? I was in no way implying Doom Metal players were blunt tools. I was simply saying that the musicians in this video were giving bad advice. People don't buy Dual Rectifiers for Lounge Room Jazz. Sure, you can still play guitar through it, but you won't sound like your counterparts. You'll appear like an old lady driving around a dirt track in a Lamborghini. Use the right tools for your trade, that's all I'm saying.
you are creatively putting yourself in a box then, as long as you have DISTORTION you can play metal, i said nothing about any banjos or acoustic amps, you probably could play metal through a champ, just crank it up
All of these players drive me insane. It is not about you. Its about the hearing the amp.. Lets hear some proper open chords and not you guys trying to save the world with some dumb riff we've all heard a million times.
None of them seem to every let you get really clean if you want. Quite a drawback if the engineer or song insists. Even a Marshall through hi-fidelity speakers permits that.
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3:07 he goes for the tremelo arm
lol
David Snow well spotted my friend
it's the like the storm trooper hitting his head on the doorjamb lol
I am in love with this series! Thank you to everyone involved!
Bravo Steve Trovato, you brought 2 Guitars and made em both zing, that's the way to do it! The 330 was so good I almost forgot that I was checking out the amps!?!?
I don't want to knock the guys playing, but I don't really know that we learned too much about the tone of the amp from him playing 100mph. Just would have appreciated some rung out chords and slower playing.
You Must not watch the Wild Wood Videos then.
Greg Koch would certainly be playing to many notes for ya ;)
Will you please...? I am looking for THE BEST 15w amp in the world (lets say which covers Beano and also the cleanest of Robert Cray. 2 suggestions max. Thanks!!
Trovato was the only guy that understands the tone stack on these Vox style amps. The bottom end doesn’t hold up like, say, a Marshall for instance. Like vintage Fenders, you almost never end up with the Bass setting higher than the Treble setting…at least not for a sound that is going to cut through a band. In the studio all bets are off, but I’d wager the bass would still need to be on 2-3 to keep the bottom in tact at higher gain levels. Great little amps, nonetheless.
9:15 is my favorite part!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like how you guys chose players that accommodated to almost everyone's playing style.
I totally agree! I've found that jumping and cranking the channels on the ac30c2 with a les paul has a pretty sweet doom/sludge tone. of course there are always fuzzboxes!
The last guy dialed in the best sounding tones by far
Thanks, mate. It's the best amp I've ever played for the way I play.
And that makes sense regarding the AC30, but we both agree that you need a pedal to coax out something more metal-orientated, and even then it's vintage metal like Doom, not modern metal.
For one thing, you call them on the phone. Matchless will build any configuration you want. They have several models with EL34s. And if I remember correctly, most, if not all Matchless amps employ negative feedback. I'm telling you, these amps are among the most versatile and DEFINITELYthe most touch sensitive amps on the market. But, to each his own I guess. Rock on.
Everybody is been talking shit about Steve, but IMO, although he's no the best player, he sure gave the best comments and opinions about the amp. They were really useful. I wish I could say the same about the other two guys. I mean, they play good, but their comments are pretty useless...
FINALLY!!!!! A professional demo of a matchless amp!! Took long enough..
Love that yellow SG!
Why the trepidation in dropping the "F" (Fender) bomb when referring to the obvious Strat and Tele copies? Would that really provoke legal action?
And finally lets look at modern metal styles, such as Djent, Hardcore, Progressive Metal, etc. It's really bright, with a heavy cut in the low-end that remains tight and punchy. This style is aggressive by the way the players hit the strings, not just the amps. It also pays to use high output pickups like Bare Knuckle or EMG. Usually they use a Tubescreamer to add upper midrange bite and clarity. The Tubescreamer is set for a clean boost basically.
Strat sound so nice.
are you sure the lightning reverb only has three 12ax7? because the non-reverb lightning has only three of them aswell. nice tone anyway!
I don't know that any of these guys did the amp justice.
Mario Camarena do it
Damn dude commit. They didn't do it a farts earshot of justice.
in fact Lee Ritenour endorses Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers. He has a smooth jazz sound out of his L5, couldn't believe it at first!
if not distorted, then why dont you explain to me what you think the metal tone is?
If you want a cheaper version of this, look for an early Bad Cat Cub I or II. They use a lot of the same components. Mine even says Matchless on the inside.
Or a Ceriatone Lightning.
The matchless is a nice amp, but a standard vox ac15 (at a quater of the price) can achieve the majority of the tones that they showed the amp producing, but if i had the money for the matchless... im sure i would buy it :)
It’s a shame there isn’t a tonecut knob like a vox has. It can come in handy esp. if you’re playing a tele or a strat to be able to dial back that high end and or single coil hum.
you can do the exact same thing with a cranked amp, a boost, and a humbucker, but the only difference is the grind depending on the pickup output. i hate emgs because they arent as responsive as passive pickups, my point is you dont need to have an active pickup and an amp with a bunch of preamp tubes to play metal, its the music that counts
Yes, because it, in a sense, is what it does.
I bought mine a few months before this video... let me say this amp holds its own in a room of class A amps. Better than the Dr. Z and the %13 on a side by side test.
I know this is a old comment. Still own the Matchless? I sold off some gear recently to simplify but the elusive Vox circuit still haunts me( have Fender-Marshall-Ampeg SVT covered) Have a Divided By 13 RSA and 90’s Matchless Lightning for sale locally roughly $400 between them. Thinking Matchless but🤷♂️Also 63 Jag tempting me lol!
@@billydelacruz1500 you have to ask to play them before you buy. You will feel the better amp for you when you actually plug in your guitar and pedals. That’s what I did. A big decision, but totally worth it knowing you picked the best amp.
@@DaveRynk Yes, makes sense although I’m leaning toward just keeping it minimal with a Fender/ JMP amps since it covers Rock and Alt so well! Thank you for reply!
Pay the money and get the best tone. Totally worth it. Makes your pedals and guitar shine!
If you stick a Big Muff in front of an AC30 then you'll get a Doom tone, and if you stick a Faustone Valve Klipper in front then you'll get a Sabbath tone, but the amp on its own just doesn't have the right voicing. A Doom amp is an Ampeg V4, a Sunn Model T or a Marshall Super Bass. They're all 100 watts+. Sure, you could get a make-shift metal tone with an AC30, but it's like saying you could buy a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier for Lounge Room Jazz. It could do it, but it doesn't make any sense.
You really found an Electric Wizard and YOB tone out an of AC30? I'm not butthurt here, I'm simply trying to understand your logic. I play Sludge on a Fryette Memphis, a 30w Class-A combo with EL84's, but it has loads of gain and less sag. It uses negative feedback and filtering to help keep things tight, but still very heavy. So I'm not saying lower wattage amps can't cope with Sludge or Doom, but the AC30s I've tried can't. They would NEVER cut it in a live mix against 200 watt Matamps.
it depends on what kind of metal. Those probly could handle Sabbath. And with the right pedals you can achieve more sounds. But I'm with you, if you want to play those kind of musics and waste money to get some good pedals you can just get something like a 5150.
see my other response also. This is only a 15 watt RMS, but rated very conservatively. It's STILL a beast for what it is. Matchless makes other models ya know, but they all kick ass in their own categories. I'm 51, and I've YET to see/hear amps that'll stand up to these in ANY way. You throw just a little bit of overdrive pedal in w/these and they scream, yet the tone comes through. I've yet to hear anyone say one bad about these amps. TONS of youtube videos to see/hear. TRY ONE if u can.
Dudes ... with all dudes respect: did guys you really like that buzzy bee distortion stuff? And the bottom dropped out when the Tube Screamer went on. Check out the Kingsley overdrive pedals through his amps ... sweet harmonic overdrive that won't wait, if you have to have that much distortion running.
With a pro musician a few grand instrument is pretty much basic. Instead of paying around $3000 for a fender custom shop you can get these guitars. I haven't had any chance to try out all of them so I can't say how good all of them are. But I tried some Nash guitars before and I have to say they are damn nice guitar ( at the same level at custom shop fender.) and you can get them at low at $1500. Hope all of these help.
the AC30 is deffiently NOT the ideal amp for sludge/doom music i agree with you on that, but if you jump the channels, use the tone cut and crank the bass, and have a ton of master volume and a fuzz pedal it works and it sounds sweet to me. but yea it would be weak compaired to matamps.Also your fryette sounds sweet.
Nice tone
perfect video!
Justin out and out rips 👍👍👍
Taylor-Nice version of Go All The Way!
this one is NOT based on the ac30 or dc30... if you look 4 the schematic online you'll see its more like a mini plexiglass with the channels prejumped and no negative feefback. that's why it dirties up pretty quick. my local store had a used one in. several years ago and it was AWESOME and also LOUD. I suppose if you turned the bass down you could get some m ore modern sound out of it but it struck me as more of a Neil Young/ Roy Buchanan kind of tone monster... imho/ymmv.
Stupid autocorrect. .. PLEXI, not plexiglass. ..
What Steve failed to aclnowledge is that when turned on, the matchless dials and knob labels light up really brightly on a bright stage.....DUUUH!
on a DARK stage......DUUUUH! :)
Matchless makes definitely damn good amps!!!:D
Great series of videos but stop teasing us and put them all out :)
1:43 it creeps me out that the mic is backwards....
Cool, for me too I think. One thing's for sure though - I gotta save up!
Killer Demo Great!
steve is awesome
I would argue that with the right pedal you could play metal with any of these. Is it ideal? No. Will it work? Sure!
I've seen hardcore guys using Twin Reverbs with overdive pedals.
This Champions of Chime was a great idea but ultimately super disappointing as NONE of these players seemed to even understand what chime is, let alone knew how to dial it in.
lol when Justin did his demo is SM57 wasn't even plugged in
companys sit and think where that shape came from every time they disng one. they just look at what people play , what body styles make sense, and then build it .
One last thing I forgot to mention. I've owned 3 Marshalls a long time ago. Long before Matchless was ever heard of. 2 were 100 watts. 1 a 50 watt. I had 2 of them modified by Lars Jacobson. Best amp tech in Florida. Years later when I heard my first Matchless at a concert, if I had still owned my Marshalls, I would have traded all 3 of em for that fuckin' amp. And I swore by my modded 50 & 100 w/my 73 Les Paul St. That's how vicious the tone was. Pedals are pedals.
That's bullshit Dan. Queen's short metal ages were done of course through a VOX AC30. Have you ever cranked a masterless VOX? Man! a VOX AC30 will blow your house! One of the biggest mistake of people who DON'T truly know the AC is that they claim a VOX to be clean. NO they can be super dirty
I think when Daniel refers to "metal" he isn't talking about Queen. He's talking about a more modern metal sound, in which case I can see what he's trying to say. If I were to start a metal band, be it sludge, doom, black, thrash, whatever......I wouldn't get a Matchless. I'd be looking at Marshall, Orange, Mesa, Peavy, etc. That being said, I love the AC30 and you can indeed get some bitchin' rock tones from them.
Whenever people say that the AC30 is "clean", I wonder if they've ever actually played one. Those things don't stay very clean for very long.
I've played LSL and Nash guitars. They compare to Custom shop Fenders with half the price tag and in my opinion are better. If you can get past the decal not saying Fender you will see what I mean.
3:08 "Oh, where's the trem-arm!"
Also, cranking a Champ delivers distortion, but it is not tight and does not evoke metal playing. It evokes blues, country, classic rock, etc. This is what I'm trying to say. An amp is a tool. Use the right tool for the job and you'll play and feel better. Someone saying a Matchless is versatile enough to play metal on is, IMO, bad advice. Ask the designer and he'll confirm that thought.
@3.07 is Justin grabbing for an imaginary whammy bar?
Really nice amp BTW. played one recently. So far this and the London are the standouts for me.
Robert Cray uses a Matchless.
I'm sorry. I meant to say the amps*. My comment was an overall opinion about the 4 videos...
True it is a copy. They don't claim that they have created a new product. When you speak to true tone seekers of Fenders, they have replaced a lot of the original gear with after market stuff. LOLLAR - FRALIN - BRIERLEY pick ups - CALLAHAM or GLENDALE bridges etc. With NASH, LSL they have done the research and kitted out their gear already. But besides the tone - the feel of a used/worn neck is what is great. I'm not overly keen on reliced bodies but that's me. Try one for yourself and see.
In AUS $2000-2500 for a NASH compared to $5500 for a similar FENDER
Yes,I`m sure Brian May is memorable for the sparkling clean tones of his AC30 -NOT!
This in an el84 based amp comparison. You comment is like saying that your favorite kind of hamburger is a hot dog.
But he's not talking about pedals. He's talking about amp gain.
better than the real thing
I wasn't overly keen on the Matchless here. I wasn't particularly impressed with the two I tried in person either.
well simply put, not every company is going to be able to make a new body shape. if that were the case then well , we wouldve run out of ideas a long time ago. some companys sell strat copys that are garbage. but others like lsl and nash, make strat copys that are as good if not better than the custom shop american strats , for around half the cost . companys are just putting there spin on a design . nowadays i wouldnt honestly call them copys , because its going on for so long . i doubt
Well, then, I guess some people are OK using Dual Rectifiers for Lounge Jazz, while others like to use the right equipment that inspires them in the best way. You never see blues players with Jackson Flying Vs with EMG 81's running at 18v because it just doesn't sound anywhere near as good for that style compared to a TVJones-equipped Gretsch. It can do it, but why bother when they're so much more out there that's better?
Man, you are just an insufferable dullard.
@@andrewmorgan6571 After eight years, you decide to post that. *slow clap*
@@angrygoldfish Oh, I'm sorry. I hadn't realized there was a statute of limitations issued regarding responding to dullards who need to repeat themselves incessantly on TH-cam.
@@andrewmorgan6571 What is your problem? Do you not see the hypocrisy and ridiculousness of what you're saying? An 8 year-old comment made by an 8 year-younger me was picked up 8 years later by a random person who randomly took a disliking to what was said and decided to make a sweeping assessment about someone they not only did not know 8 years ago but do not know now. You went out of your way to post that, and now you claim I'm an incessant dullard when it's YOU who repeated upon an 8 year-old opinion that you could have chose to ignore but decided to regurgitate for the simple reason that you felt like it...which is remarkably similar to the reason I commented in the first place.
The first dude with the strat....he used the neck position pickup for the whole demonstration..not a good way to here all the possible tones..D- on that one.
First let's look at early Death Metal tones. It's bright, heavily scooped, thumping & gnarly. Take away the distortion & you only take away the gnarly aspects of it. Much of it still remains, though, as tone is partly in the player.
Now let's look at modern Doom Metal. It's treble is cut but the bass & midrange frequencies, particularly low-midrange, are boosted. This creates a sludgy, dirgy, swampy, dark, wooden tone. Take away the distortion & the only that disappears is the fuzziness.
killer players!!!!
And to reiterate, metal is not about distortion only. This is the mistake that is made by people that don't play or like metal in any of its forms. So by saying "oh, you can play metal as long as you have distortion" is as daft and ignorant as saying you can play metal with an acoustic amp. I'm analogizing.
waaaay spendy , you can get a modded fender tube amp for way under a grand
compressor and eq to not blow the house
I love Tubescreamers but I hate to say when he clicked it on it robbed tone from the amp.
With that reasoning I can play metal on a clean amp or a banjo into an acoustic amp. If you can play metal on a Matchless then you can play it on a Fender Champ. Yet why is it I've never heard anyone do that? Maybe because it's completely the wrong tool for the job and sounds and looks ridiculous.
peavey or marshall for metal
My Allen Accomplice blows this thing out of the water.
maybe early sabbath stuff
yeah, i think most metal guys are gonna see something called "the champions of chime" and think not for me anyway though hahah
I think that's a telecaster. xD
A Dual Rectifier would actually work great for jazz....headroom.
'HUH?'
Playing heavy metal on a Fender Champ is creatively putting yourself in a box; a very small box that doesn't fit your triangular shape. A heavy metal player is a triangle. A Matchless Lightning amp (and I've tried it) is a circular box. It is not the right tool. You can play metal on it, but you'll sound and look like a guy trying to play country on a Peavey 6505. It's not physically impossible, but it's totally impractical and won't allow you to be creative within your genre(s).
do you like to play the same guitar or even better with half of the price ? Ask yourself that question first :)
Yeah, probably, but it just wouldn't be ideal. Guitarists that don't play a genre shouldn't recommend gear for it. I don't go around talking about jazz guitars and amps because all I'll be doing is repeating what others say. I don't actually have any personal experience or honest advice because I don't play that style of music. They're just giving bad advice. Someone may buy the amp based on their opinion and find themselves with a 20watt $2000 blues amp in a Doom Metal band.
woohoo
Pull the shit out of your ears son. Just messin' with ya. They really didn't put this amp into a real gain mode at all. Didn't you see, they show the settings. These 3 players & the topic of this video series is to get the "jangle". TRUST ME, this amp is a fucking monster. I am an accomplished guitarist, but none of these near where I live in Fl. But I've seen several guitar Gods over the years that played their older amps & then I seen them with Matchless & talk about gain with TONE INTACT.
as long as you have a distorted guitar sound, on any amp you can play metal
Carvin Nomad.
*as low as
wow, some of that sounded really bad.
Nice amp but I wouldn't pay that amount of money for it
And as much as I like the guitarists here, they say some dumb things, like the detailing of the gain levels of the Matchless. You CANNOT play metal on this amp any more than you can on a Vox AC30 or Fender Deluxe Reverb. The onboard distortion, albeit great in level, is not the right sound for any form of metal I know of, whether Doom, Death, Hardcore, etc.
How did you manage to get that from my message? I was in no way implying Doom Metal players were blunt tools. I was simply saying that the musicians in this video were giving bad advice. People don't buy Dual Rectifiers for Lounge Room Jazz. Sure, you can still play guitar through it, but you won't sound like your counterparts. You'll appear like an old lady driving around a dirt track in a Lamborghini. Use the right tools for your trade, that's all I'm saying.
you are creatively putting yourself in a box then, as long as you have DISTORTION you can play metal, i said nothing about any banjos or acoustic amps, you probably could play metal through a champ, just crank it up
watching these videos makes me angry. i love these amps, but cant afford themXD
All of these players drive me insane. It is not about you. Its about the hearing the amp.. Lets hear some proper open chords and not you guys trying to save the world with some dumb riff we've all heard a million times.
"Hi my names taylor locke and i straight suck at guitar."
None of them seem to every let you get really clean if you want. Quite a drawback if the engineer or song insists. Even a Marshall through hi-fidelity speakers permits that.
except for Trovato what a bunch of dorks, rock is dead?!?