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One reviewer said my sound was explosive with huge black sabbath style guitar riffs . That was just a dimarzio evolutions, keeley tubescreamer, bad horsie, and a pod.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
So I suspect you're still right - if you want that big, thumping sound a big amp and a 4x12 is still the way to go. It just works for big riffs and that "whump" you get on a palm mute.
Trivium sounded huge but again, two guitars, a bass, tight drums and a pro mix are probably why.
Oh hardly good playing but thank you for saying so! It must look more difficult than it is - I just wrote a solo that was easy and didn't sound too muffled! Sweeps, long legato runs and harmonics don't work with gloves but that stuff's all fine, no difference with them or without them in fact.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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I get plenty of thump from mine, granted I use a 4x12 also but it's not mic'd. When you're running through a PA it makes zero difference, I'm up against our other guitarists 6505 half stack and my front of house sound is easily as great, obviously I consider it better. Plus it's super clean, no bleed from other instruments which makes it easier for our FOH and monitor guy.
If you think that the valve amp is a super thick tone out front and mine's thin and weedy you'd be very much mistaken.
In my situation we have a traditional amp and digital running together and neither is inferior at the end of the day, our sound engineer agrees, and even started using a redbox as well as a mic on the Peavey as he loves working with the direct tone.
As an aside, when we rehearse I use the Kemper into a cab, no mic of course and it still competes with the Peavey easily.
Other guitarist uses a GT-100 into a Marshall JVM via 4cm and I had no problem cutting through. I do find that a valve power stage feels better and is punchier with digital gear but that's just IMO.
I play in an 80's classic rock band doing AC/DC, Whitesnake, Rainbow, Dio, Y&T, etc so nothing 'djenty' at all.
As a non-metal example I'm quite pleased with Steve Howe's tone from a Vetta II combo in this 2008 Asia clip of Heat Of The Moment - the riff sounds authentic enough and skip to 3m07 for the solo.
It helps being a great player of course, even if you do look like a cross between Skeletor and Dr Emmett Brown.
John Wetton appears to be playing a Roland DBS bass rig too which, from memory, is also digital?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b35x2Q3pUAw
Any examples of lesser distorted, more dynamic players going for it live?
I guess I'm old school for guitar tones, when I saw Robben Ford (yes I know white-boy-blooze blah blah) a few weeks back, although I couldn't see any of his back line, I would have comfortably bet my life on him playing through a valve amp. You just can't replicate that visceral sound of a valve amp through modelling.
Not all valve rigs sound good for toaster metal, I caught the end of Alien Ant Farm's set last week and their Marshall rig sounded weaker than the tone the POD guitarist got, and he had no amps on stage (that were on, there was a Recto halfstack which was off) so presumably was using digital. Hoobastank sounded best and used a Dual Rec half stack, but the bassist and kick drum tones were better mixed than the rest of the night so that helped, plus I was directly in line of the 4x12 so probably heard some stage guitar.
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