@@AtomMotherHeart It pleases me no end that the reputation of those things has been originated. I remember people getting snobby about them in my thrash band in the 90s, but I was gettting some brutal tones out of that thing soooooo fuck em. I grew up on that pedal and it'll always have a spot in my heart, even if its just as babbys first distortion pedal.
Can confirm. I have a vintage solid state Vox Pathfinder (it's a 60s V1011) and it has a beautiful clean sound that works very well with a distortion pedal. it may only have an 8 inch speaker, but it has a great low end that you wouldn't expect from its size.
I'm a guitar player, but hot damn that ending track that drummer is on fire, as well as the guitar player has some serious good chops ! 6:55 for thoes who want to know, my God he's in the pocket! Clean double kick,... Perfection!
Excellent display of what a good tube amp can do. This is why i’m taking an overdrive, a single ended 5w tube amp to meet a 412 today. It sound fantastic, and a good tube amp, a good overdrive and a 412 speaker cab can do so much.
I learned that 30 years ago when my guitar teacher plugged his Boogie 22 into a 4x12 and cranked it. My hair was vibrating and my strat was singing like never before. Happy days...
I personally would love to see old Bass amps brought out next, and learning the history, maybe even the first marshall amp that dates as far back as Pete Townshends or the VOX amps they used
@@TheNocturnalEvil Definitely, and it kicks ASS. I know of a small (now defunct) sort of local death metal (!!!) band from around here that split their guitars through some form of high gain stack AND a blackface bassman. It sounded insane!
Love the history parts. As usual, glenn shows that it’s really the cab and how it’s mic’d that matters the most. A Bass VI would be great for this series if you can get a hold of one. Or an electric sitar. That may be the one that can’t do metal.
In all honesty, I wasn't completely surprised that it might have sounded good on metal, given the fact that Fender's Tweed-era Bassman formed the blueprint for the Marshall JTM-45. However, I was quite surprised it would sound THIS good. Very impressed with the result!
As new guitarist, I was looking for an amp and was recommended to look for a peavy classic for something small. I got told “yes it’s a tweed amp but has plenty of gain”. It got me thinking that maybe taking something not metal and making it metal may be the best way to come up with something original sounding. Unfortunately I lack skills to do this but I’m glad this video essentially covered the idea I had.
Taking something "not metal" is honestly the way to go imo. Modern metal gear all sounds so boring. Back in the day when all of your music gear was noisy and imperfect, metal guitarist were searching for something "tighter" for more technical and cutting sounds. That made sense back then, but we have long since reached their goal, yet we keep getting new gear to make yourself "tighter." Now everything sounds so surgically precise it's boring.
That Guardian of the Wurm tone was super sick but I think this might be my favourite. Glenn you are killing it with the tones these days. Suggestions for other videos : planning metal on filtertron, lipstick pups, . Also would love to see more vintage amps if you can get your hands on them. Finally, I really wanna see you put Ugritones Trve Cab through its paces.
Damn. Not a bad tone at all! I'd wager to say almost anything can do metal if it has the right supporting gear, and the pedal really helped to push the amp into high gain territory. Great video, Glenn.
I didn’t plug up headphones cuz I was like “well duh, it’s an amp of course you can🙄🙄🙄” but I gotta say this mix cuts very well thru the phone speaker Glenn. I’m genuinely extremely impressed cuz I always watch your vids w headphones or monitors. I’m blown away. If this was a full song for a client it would sound great on any setup which is exactly what you need. Wow. There are so many songs out rn that sound good on speakers but trash on a phone and that’s all down the engineering clearly!
Great video, though I have a small problem with the "metal on a 59 fender"-section of the video. That preamp pedal is based on the preamps of the ampegs used by bands like Suffocation and Dying Fetus. Like, no shit Sherlock, you basically added a high gain preamp circuit in front of the actual preamp. As long as the amp isn't fucked, it's gonna sound high gain.
While I was expecting him to use something to push the amp, I thought it would've been in TS9 or SD1 ballpark... this is a pedal I wouldn't mind having hooked up to an IR loader and straight into the PA.
I have various high-gain amps in the other room, but here in the living room I keep a 12" Bassbreaker I got new last year, that came with a Greenback in it. It has all the lushness and old school charm you'd expect from a Fender when doing the clean or just-breaking-up stuff. But for distorted tones, I'm running a Wampler Belle, Ratsbane, and a Fender Pugilist in the front (not at the same time, if I can help it). It takes them all like a champ. It chugs, it chomps, it screams, it fuzzes, you name it. It's a hell of a little amp. And loud as hell.
Lately I’ve watched many a Rig Rundown where a lot of my favorite players (Baroness, Russian Circles, etc.) are playing Fender amps. I bought a Twin for a pedal platform amp and I love the clean and distorted tones I can get via my pedals.
Cool video. A buddy has an extremely beat up amp he says is from the mid 1960's, that sounds overly bright and punchy in the upper mids. It's really kind of harsh and unpleasant to use if it's at all loud, even with drums and bass being played. I bought a used (the Misha Mansoor pedal) Horizon Devices Precision Drive, and plugged it in the front (no loop, obviously) and, after about 3 minutes of turning knows, we were shocked at the tone. Many of those old amps can produce some surprises if you give them a try. My buddy was so happy with it he bought the pedal for $50 more than I paid, and told me to consider it a finder's fee!
This might be one of my favorite videos of yours, Glenn. A history lesson, a good story, the usual humor, a before-and-after tone test, and a face-melter of a mix. My only question? Where can a guy get a hold of Mr. Ward to hire him for session work? I see him in so many of your videos and every single time he hits like a freight train while still maintaining finesse, style, and unreal sound, but this episode was something special. Can't wait to see what comes next in this series! Cheers from South Dakota (get me out of here)
That was the thing. The increased "wattage" was to keep the amp clean at high volume. That's why a studio trick is to use a cranked low watt amp with one speaker in order to get the cranked sound without making people deaf.
Gretsch, please!! And that was an awesome sound! Your mixes sound better than some of the "hit songs" on my playlist. So much so that I actually go to your channel when I want to listen to some great guitar / drum tones! Thanks for the content!
Reminds me of the time I played an industrial/metal show at the Al Rosa Village. This is the same infamous venue where Dimebag was murdered. I was playing a 1959 Fender Jazzmaster, with a 1965 Fender Bandmaster, with a Pedaltrain Pro full of pedals. Every other band had typical "heavy" rigs - black pointy guitars and Dual Rectifiers. Folks kept coming up after the gig to asking wtf I was playing, and how it still sounded so huge. It was a very different rig than metal players were assuming could sound huge and heavy.
That 59’ Fender amp looks and sounds so good. It definitely looks great for its age, I realize it’s not very original but that amp has been played and gigged for many many years so I wouldn’t expect much original stuff to survive, still have the 2 prong power cord tho….. that will be fun to get shocked by like Glen said
I don't relate to metal at all but I really enjoy these videos. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this. No disrespect to the metal world where a lot of the players show incredible skills.
Gleeeeeeeeeeen! I really like knowing the history of the gear I'm playing through. I think these mini-documentaries are informative and helpful. Please keep up with this type of intertube content. Also, I was expecting you to hate on the SG's...and you gave them a fair shake. Take care!
I liked the part where you completely skimmed over that amplifiers of that era were basically systems developed from stripped down modified existing film projector audio amplifiers circuits and speakers and just rolled with it, as if they just developed guitar amplifiers completely from scratch. Or maybe you were just trying to withhold the secret that certain models and vintages of talkie style film projector speakers are the bees knees for low wattage tube amplification for guitar. I’m particularly fond of the Bell And Howell Filmosound 179 models. Even being 80 years old, they sound and work phenomenally I have a video on my channel about them if you wanna check it out.
The clarity on that amp actually makes it pretty damn good for metal truth be told. Sounded really great in the mix. So yes, you can absolutely play metal on a vintage Fender amp.
You can't owe all your growth and success to us viewers. If you didn't constantly release quality, informative, and sometimes just fun content there would be little for us to champion. Your growth all returns back to yourself, and humble you may be I think you should accept that. You do great work. You're a great engineer. You're a good shit-talker.
I have a PRS Archon 100 head and 25 combo, Orange Rockerverb 100 MKII, access to my friends' Marshall JVM210, Fender Bassman, Fender Twin Reverb, Crate Blue Voodoo 120, and a few other "vintage" amps that I know little about. After doing this band stuff for a couple of decades I'm of the opinion that all you need is a decent sounding, single channel, clean tube amp and ANY guitar that stays in tune with a good setup to make amazing recordings. Pedals are so good in today's world that you can legitimately base your entire sound around a couple of them you like and it will translate with most amps and guitars. I love my amps, but there is no reason to spend that much money on an amp unless you just want to. Definitely not a necessity. Thinking back, I think I saw a video on a little one channel Rev amp with Two Notes tech built in on this channel that seems to drive the same point home...
Oh. My. LAWD. that clean tone is soooo, lush! As a guy who likes all tone, from clean to super saturated, this amp sounded GREAT. And when it was being driven hard, the articulation was amazing. I think a real test would be to put it up the Soldano SLO100 playing the same piece of music, because I am interested if the articulation would be the same. A lot of high gain amps, to me, seem to get muddled, especially if you multitrack guitar parts. I prefer to hear the articulation and the actual rhythm being played, rather than a pile of gooooge just assaulting my ears.
What a beautiful amp! I'd love one but a real one is unrealistic. Great show and I hope you do many more of these "historical" shows. And WOW! These guys are tighter than a nun's ....!
"Can you play metal with a classic 60-70's rig (fuzz into loud amp) ? " I'm a regular user of this kind of sound, but I'm not into modern metal, nor am I in a band, so I really wonder how would it hold in that scenario ! Anyway, great vid, as always and cheers from France !
Hello Glen! I think what you do is great, sharing so much knowledge. I wish there was a channel like yours, oriented to live metal sound. I mean, many times you need to end up setting the sound and doing lots of the live mixing when you start. And the way you process things live is different when you have to work very quickly, with different bands playing small gigs. Are there any youtube channels about that you may suggest ?
I've got a Fender blues junior amp in loan and make no mistake, pared with a boss Ds1x pedal this amp is a metal monster. Fender amps can be great for metal
You definitely can, because it's a pedal that's actually breaking up the signal. It would be really cool to see a modern metal mix using the actual distortion available with such an amp. Might sound very sabbathy
Johan Segeborn found a way to get a 1940 Gibson EH-185 to sound like ACDC, if you wanna check that out. Also, with the EH-185, you could boost it with Jimi Hendrix’s Fuzz Face, and maybe even play on a Ro-Pat-In Frying Pan. That’ll give you some pre-metal metal tones for sure…could make way for a 1950’s heavy metal fever dream.
Love to hear more of this! Maybe you can make a series of it with all the legendaries: Marschall, Vox, Orange, Mesa, … like you did with the guitars 👍🏻
Which DIY gear or helpfull stuff would work in a home studio? I mean, talking about stuff that definetly work and worth every single time when needed. Cheers from Bajo lo Bravo brewery and rehearsing Room Chile!
if you would like some suggestions: a Rickenbacher (6 or 12 string, though the second might be a bit much) a Gretsch (bonus points for the big hollowbody without feedback) a Danelectro (those lipstick pickups might be the next 60/81 ;-) a lapsteel of some kind... Roland Jazz Chorus (the cleans are famous, but do they handle dirt) speaker size shootout (10's and 15's were far more common back in the 50's/60's if im not mistaken) Vox AC amps (they definetly rock but do they metal?) love the channel Glenn, keep up the good work :-)
Glenn I'm not sure if you have listened to the record Infest The Rat's Nest of King Gizzard And The lizard Wizard. I think you'll be in love on how original and stripped down the production is on that album. It sound pretty genuine and inperfect wich gives it so much attitude.
Loved that metal tone, cements the idea I've had recently playing more vintage amps with pedals, is you can get really cool tones, the pedal can provide the gain character and get more modern tones but with some of that harmonic blowout of old tubes amps, now for technical super tight metal probs not but for stoner metal and more interesting texture I think its great. I've been pushing my AC50 with a rat clone and a timmy clone together, all doing a little bit of gain and loving the tones.
You gotta love vintage tube amps, they just have so much personality in their sound and as glenn just showed u can do pretty much anything with them. Pretty cool!
Given that pedals exist I think most amps can be used for at least some kind of Metal. As long as you plug in to a good one that is.
Looking at my Metal Zone.....my precious!!
@@AtomMotherHeart I still have my OG MT-2 from the 90s. I'll probably be buried with it. 😆😆
@@AtomMotherHeart It pleases me no end that the reputation of those things has been originated. I remember people getting snobby about them in my thrash band in the 90s, but I was gettting some brutal tones out of that thing soooooo fuck em. I grew up on that pedal and it'll always have a spot in my heart, even if its just as babbys first distortion pedal.
@@AtomMotherHeart I unironically have a soft spot for the Metal Zone sound.
Can confirm. I have a vintage solid state Vox Pathfinder (it's a 60s V1011) and it has a beautiful clean sound that works very well with a distortion pedal. it may only have an 8 inch speaker, but it has a great low end that you wouldn't expect from its size.
That’s honestly one of my favorite lead tones I’ve ever heard
That's not the sound I normally imagine coming out of that amp. That's neat!
Glenn makes bass players metal, I'm sure he can handle a fender
I'm a guitar player, but hot damn that ending track that drummer is on fire, as well as the guitar player has some serious good chops !
6:55 for thoes who want to know, my God he's in the pocket! Clean double kick,... Perfection!
Now lets try metal with a nylon string guitar.. yay
Lmao
Just a piezo transducer...
i'm here just to speak of the wisdom of "Ben Woods"
That a hell of sound never imagined that coming from a old fender great vídeo
Excellent display of what a good tube amp can do. This is why i’m taking an overdrive, a single ended 5w tube amp to meet a 412 today. It sound fantastic, and a good tube amp, a good overdrive and a 412 speaker cab can do so much.
I learned that 30 years ago when my guitar teacher plugged his Boogie 22 into a 4x12 and cranked it.
My hair was vibrating and my strat was singing like never before. Happy days...
That mix was killer. I'm always impressed by how much low end you can get in your guitars without your mix turning to sludge.
I personally would love to see old Bass amps brought out next, and learning the history, maybe even the first marshall amp that dates as far back as Pete Townshends or the VOX amps they used
Doom Metal bands have been using bass amps for guitars since the 90s.
@@TheNocturnalEvil Definitely, and it kicks ASS.
I know of a small (now defunct) sort of local death metal (!!!) band from around here that split their guitars through some form of high gain stack AND a blackface bassman. It sounded insane!
Sounds like NIN
The old Fender amp sounded very good, can not complain about that
Great work
Love the history parts. As usual, glenn shows that it’s really the cab and how it’s mic’d that matters the most. A Bass VI would be great for this series if you can get a hold of one. Or an electric sitar. That may be the one that can’t do metal.
thats gotta be one of the coolest songs ive ever hear on this channel!
In all honesty, I wasn't completely surprised that it might have sounded good on metal, given the fact that Fender's Tweed-era Bassman formed the blueprint for the Marshall JTM-45. However, I was quite surprised it would sound THIS good. Very impressed with the result!
Nice!!! Great playing at the end.
As new guitarist, I was looking for an amp and was recommended to look for a peavy classic for something small. I got told “yes it’s a tweed amp but has plenty of gain”. It got me thinking that maybe taking something not metal and making it metal may be the best way to come up with something original sounding. Unfortunately I lack skills to do this but I’m glad this video essentially covered the idea I had.
Taking something "not metal" is honestly the way to go imo. Modern metal gear all sounds so boring.
Back in the day when all of your music gear was noisy and imperfect, metal guitarist were searching for something "tighter" for more technical and cutting sounds. That made sense back then, but we have long since reached their goal, yet we keep getting new gear to make yourself "tighter."
Now everything sounds so surgically precise it's boring.
we used to play on Peavey with a Superstat for distortion. But also consider some used multi fx pedals to find the tone and playability you want.
That Guardian of the Wurm tone was super sick but I think this might be my favourite. Glenn you are killing it with the tones these days. Suggestions for other videos : planning metal on filtertron, lipstick pups, . Also would love to see more vintage amps if you can get your hands on them. Finally, I really wanna see you put Ugritones Trve Cab through its paces.
THIS. WAS. SUCH. A. COOL. STORY.
Glennnnnn, you are a master storyteller!
Damn. Not a bad tone at all! I'd wager to say almost anything can do metal if it has the right supporting gear, and the pedal really helped to push the amp into high gain territory. Great video, Glenn.
It’s been a while. Love that Christian is still with you
In that produced-track demo part, that's probably one of the best demo-tunes I've ever heard. Fucking kudos, man.
I didn’t plug up headphones cuz I was like “well duh, it’s an amp of course you can🙄🙄🙄” but I gotta say this mix cuts very well thru the phone speaker Glenn. I’m genuinely extremely impressed cuz I always watch your vids w headphones or monitors. I’m blown away. If this was a full song for a client it would sound great on any setup which is exactly what you need. Wow. There are so many songs out rn that sound good on speakers but trash on a phone and that’s all down the engineering clearly!
Great video, though I have a small problem with the "metal on a 59 fender"-section of the video. That preamp pedal is based on the preamps of the ampegs used by bands like Suffocation and Dying Fetus. Like, no shit Sherlock, you basically added a high gain preamp circuit in front of the actual preamp. As long as the amp isn't fucked, it's gonna sound high gain.
Yeah, about as challenging as "can you listen to metal on a 6 transistor radio?"
While I was expecting him to use something to push the amp, I thought it would've been in TS9 or SD1 ballpark... this is a pedal I wouldn't mind having hooked up to an IR loader and straight into the PA.
Love the musical history stuff!
Love the sound. Killer little diddy too.
Man that guitar tone was actually fantastic, I loved it!
More songs like this please! Great riffs
Awesome clean
I have various high-gain amps in the other room, but here in the living room I keep a 12" Bassbreaker I got new last year, that came with a Greenback in it. It has all the lushness and old school charm you'd expect from a Fender when doing the clean or just-breaking-up stuff. But for distorted tones, I'm running a Wampler Belle, Ratsbane, and a Fender Pugilist in the front (not at the same time, if I can help it). It takes them all like a champ. It chugs, it chomps, it screams, it fuzzes, you name it. It's a hell of a little amp. And loud as hell.
Lately I’ve watched many a Rig Rundown where a lot of my favorite players (Baroness, Russian Circles, etc.) are playing Fender amps. I bought a Twin for a pedal platform amp and I love the clean and distorted tones I can get via my pedals.
Wow! Please do more deep dives into gear history! You are so good at it! I absolutely loved the first chunk of this video.
that sounded INSANE! was pleasantly surprised with how it sounded
Cool video. A buddy has an extremely beat up amp he says is from the mid 1960's, that sounds overly bright and punchy in the upper mids. It's really kind of harsh and unpleasant to use if it's at all loud, even with drums and bass being played. I bought a used (the Misha Mansoor pedal) Horizon Devices Precision Drive, and plugged it in the front (no loop, obviously) and, after about 3 minutes of turning knows, we were shocked at the tone. Many of those old amps can produce some surprises if you give them a try. My buddy was so happy with it he bought the pedal for $50 more than I paid, and told me to consider it a finder's fee!
Liked the documentary intro. This is one of your best mixes in my opinion. Thanks for that and FU Glenn!
came for the tones, ended up enjoying this history lesson the most though, nice job man!
This might be one of my favorite videos of yours, Glenn. A history lesson, a good story, the usual humor, a before-and-after tone test, and a face-melter of a mix.
My only question? Where can a guy get a hold of Mr. Ward to hire him for session work? I see him in so many of your videos and every single time he hits like a freight train while still maintaining finesse, style, and unreal sound, but this episode was something special.
Can't wait to see what comes next in this series!
Cheers from South Dakota (get me out of here)
Awesome amp history lesson, thanks, Glenn !!
Please do a history video on the EVH amps peavey and fender
Holy shit. That thing had some clarity and headroom. Didn't expect that.
That was the thing. The increased "wattage" was to keep the amp clean at high volume. That's why a studio trick is to use a cranked low watt amp with one speaker in order to get the cranked sound without making people deaf.
Sounded great! Shocked it handled modern gain that well.
Love hearing those old-school amps in action, especially if they've been taken care of.
Gretsch, please!! And that was an awesome sound! Your mixes sound better than some of the "hit songs" on my playlist. So much so that I actually go to your channel when I want to listen to some great guitar / drum tones! Thanks for the content!
That's so lovely 80's style sound that i'm a happy camper! Bring back 80's power metal sound and shredding!
Reminds me of the time I played an industrial/metal show at the Al Rosa Village. This is the same infamous venue where Dimebag was murdered.
I was playing a 1959 Fender Jazzmaster, with a 1965 Fender Bandmaster, with a Pedaltrain Pro full of pedals. Every other band had typical "heavy" rigs - black pointy guitars and Dual Rectifiers.
Folks kept coming up after the gig to asking wtf I was playing, and how it still sounded so huge. It was a very different rig than metal players were assuming could sound huge and heavy.
Love all the demos in this video
What an amazing band. Amp sounds fine too. I always find it very cool it's all recorded on mics.
holy shit that song is freaking good
Lovin the history lessons, Glenn!
That 59’ Fender amp looks and sounds so good. It definitely looks great for its age, I realize it’s not very original but that amp has been played and gigged for many many years so I wouldn’t expect much original stuff to survive, still have the 2 prong power cord tho….. that will be fun to get shocked by like Glen said
I don't relate to metal at all but I really enjoy these videos. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this. No disrespect to the metal world where a lot of the players show incredible skills.
Hey Glenn, when are you gonna be doing a review of the Tul G12?
September!
Hot damn! Jackson Ward and John Suki delivering as always, but this specific track was beyond their monstrous level. Brutal AF
Damn Glenn! The mix came out super clean! Sounds sick af in my SUV. It has some bose speakers and it sounds hella sick.
Gleeeeeeeeeeen! I really like knowing the history of the gear I'm playing through. I think these mini-documentaries are informative and helpful. Please keep up with this type of intertube content. Also, I was expecting you to hate on the SG's...and you gave them a fair shake. Take care!
WoW. That was really awesome sounding.
Producer in Toronto here - Great damn video.
This is why more people should experiment and try something new instead of sounding like everyone else. Awesome video Glenn!
I liked the part where you completely skimmed over that amplifiers of that era were basically systems developed from stripped down modified existing film projector audio amplifiers circuits and speakers and just rolled with it, as if they just developed guitar amplifiers completely from scratch. Or maybe you were just trying to withhold the secret that certain models and vintages of talkie style film projector speakers are the bees knees for low wattage tube amplification for guitar. I’m particularly fond of the Bell And Howell Filmosound 179 models. Even being 80 years old, they sound and work phenomenally I have a video on my channel about them if you wanna check it out.
The clarity on that amp actually makes it pretty damn good for metal truth be told. Sounded really great in the mix. So yes, you can absolutely play metal on a vintage Fender amp.
I wanna see the next episode on a Vox AC30 or an old Marshall like the one you tried cranked at Guitcon a few years back
That clarity, though. Lots of headroom, too!
I want a 59 Bassman RI (the 4X10). Not very brutal, I know. I like the overdriven sound though when you dig in.
You can't owe all your growth and success to us viewers. If you didn't constantly release quality, informative, and sometimes just fun content there would be little for us to champion. Your growth all returns back to yourself, and humble you may be I think you should accept that. You do great work. You're a great engineer. You're a good shit-talker.
“Go do some work” on a Tues morning is the perfect sign off
I have a PRS Archon 100 head and 25 combo, Orange Rockerverb 100 MKII, access to my friends' Marshall JVM210, Fender Bassman, Fender Twin Reverb, Crate Blue Voodoo 120, and a few other "vintage" amps that I know little about. After doing this band stuff for a couple of decades I'm of the opinion that all you need is a decent sounding, single channel, clean tube amp and ANY guitar that stays in tune with a good setup to make amazing recordings. Pedals are so good in today's world that you can legitimately base your entire sound around a couple of them you like and it will translate with most amps and guitars. I love my amps, but there is no reason to spend that much money on an amp unless you just want to. Definitely not a necessity. Thinking back, I think I saw a video on a little one channel Rev amp with Two Notes tech built in on this channel that seems to drive the same point home...
Oh. My. LAWD. that clean tone is soooo, lush! As a guy who likes all tone, from clean to super saturated, this amp sounded GREAT. And when it was being driven hard, the articulation was amazing.
I think a real test would be to put it up the Soldano SLO100 playing the same piece of music, because I am interested if the articulation would be the same.
A lot of high gain amps, to me, seem to get muddled, especially if you multitrack guitar parts.
I prefer to hear the articulation and the actual rhythm being played, rather than a pile of gooooge just assaulting my ears.
What a beautiful amp! I'd love one but a real one is unrealistic. Great show and I hope you do many more of these "historical" shows. And WOW! These guys are tighter than a nun's ....!
I think you nailed the Blackwater Park era sound with it!
Yes 👍 definitely do more like this Glenn
Damn that was a pretty dope song. Reminded me somewhat of Between the Buried and Me
Next should be an AC30
Is that track available anywhere from 6:47? I love it.
"Can you play metal with a classic 60-70's rig (fuzz into loud amp) ? "
I'm a regular user of this kind of sound, but I'm not into modern metal, nor am I in a band, so I really wonder how would it hold in that scenario ! Anyway, great vid, as always and cheers from France !
the first fendere strat video was actually how I ended up on this channel :)
Great Show! Rock-On Vintage Fender
Hello Glen! I think what you do is great, sharing so much knowledge. I wish there was a channel like yours, oriented to live metal sound. I mean, many times you need to end up setting the sound and doing lots of the live mixing when you start. And the way you process things live is different when you have to work very quickly, with different bands playing small gigs. Are there any youtube channels about that you may suggest ?
I've got a Fender blues junior amp in loan and make no mistake, pared with a boss Ds1x pedal this amp is a metal monster.
Fender amps can be great for metal
You definitely can, because it's a pedal that's actually breaking up the signal. It would be really cool to see a modern metal mix using the actual distortion available with such an amp. Might sound very sabbathy
Damn! That final jam kicked ass!!
Johan Segeborn found a way to get a 1940 Gibson EH-185 to sound like ACDC, if you wanna check that out.
Also, with the EH-185, you could boost it with Jimi Hendrix’s Fuzz Face, and maybe even play on a Ro-Pat-In Frying Pan. That’ll give you some pre-metal metal tones for sure…could make way for a 1950’s heavy metal fever dream.
I have Fender Pro Junior V1 and use it with metal muff and timmy and it sounds great.
Love to hear more of this! Maybe you can make a series of it with all the legendaries: Marschall, Vox, Orange, Mesa, … like you did with the guitars 👍🏻
I wouldn't mind seeing a solid state Peavey Bandit 112 video. Everyone (including me) has one of those lurking in an attic or under the stairs.
Cool demo and nice distorted sounds.
5:25 what guitar is that?!! 😮
Great sound. I would love to have heard the amp before and after the pedal kicked in outside of a mix as well.
As someone who records Blues, I was sitting a a pool of drool listening to the clean and drive tones of that amp.
Which DIY gear or helpfull stuff would work in a home studio?
I mean, talking about stuff that definetly work and worth every single time when needed.
Cheers from Bajo lo Bravo brewery and rehearsing Room Chile!
if you would like some suggestions:
a Rickenbacher (6 or 12 string, though the second might be a bit much)
a Gretsch (bonus points for the big hollowbody without feedback)
a Danelectro (those lipstick pickups might be the next 60/81 ;-)
a lapsteel of some kind...
Roland Jazz Chorus (the cleans are famous, but do they handle dirt)
speaker size shootout (10's and 15's were far more common back in the 50's/60's if im not mistaken)
Vox AC amps (they definetly rock but do they metal?)
love the channel Glenn, keep up the good work :-)
Glenn I'm not sure if you have listened to the record Infest The Rat's Nest of King Gizzard And The lizard Wizard. I think you'll be in love on how original and stripped down the production is on that album. It sound pretty genuine and inperfect wich gives it so much attitude.
It's funny how every time Glenn shepherds me to do some work when I watch his vids after I've done my work (most of the time).
Nice to put EVH on his work bench, Glenn.
Greetings from Chile.
Seriously loved that demo track! ..how about an extended version and some stems so we can play around with it?
Loved that metal tone, cements the idea I've had recently playing more vintage amps with pedals, is you can get really cool tones, the pedal can provide the gain character and get more modern tones but with some of that harmonic blowout of old tubes amps, now for technical super tight metal probs not but for stoner metal and more interesting texture I think its great. I've been pushing my AC50 with a rat clone and a timmy clone together, all doing a little bit of gain and loving the tones.
Hey, Glenn you should do the explorer in the next history video. It is in my opinion one of the coolest guitars.
You gotta love vintage tube amps, they just have so much personality in their sound and as glenn just showed u can do pretty much anything with them. Pretty cool!
Great video! More history lessons? YES please! :-)
The payling is amazing in this one.
Awesome tone. I wonder how it will sound stacked up with a different overdrive/distortion pedal and different cab.
I figured it would sound ok. I play metal through a 65 reissue Princeton every day.
The clean and jumped sound is for nominal. :)