How to set up a metal pedalboard

Looking for anyone that knows how to set up a pedalboard with the following pedals; Boss TU-2, Dunlop Crybaby Wah, Boss GE-7 EQ, Marshall BluesBreaker pedal, MXR '78 Distortion, MXR/CAE Line Booster/Driver, MrBlack BB-74X, MXR SuperComp, MXR Smart Gate, Seymour Duncan PowerGrid, MXR Dime Distortion, Metal Zone MT-2(Analogman modded), MXR BlueBox, Boss Bass Overdrive, Boss DS-1 & a Boss SD-1. 

Any help will be much appreciated \m/(-_-)\m/ 

tuner -> eq -> wah -> od -> dist -> fuzz -> delay/reverb -> modulation

brutally! but not so brutally you bust the dinky faders on the graphic EQ, they're delicate

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I agree brother \m/

In all seriousness, man, don't scoop the mids (or at least not too extremely). They'll keep you in the mix, but I do recommend bosting bass and treble a bit mroe for that br00t4l sound

its more like 'define metal' becaus ebefore the mesas with the grpahic EQ came out when Iw as a kid metal wasn't that scooped out.... guys used marshalls and when you scoop the mdis on a amrshall its not really doing the same thing.... mesa really opened up that whole 'hollow at 1k' thing

that's true, but based on our boy mike's Pantera hankerings i'd bet on some extra bass in that eq for sure

he should probably just get one of those randall solid state amps

Guys I'm looking to get one of those small WH40 even though they are hard to find. If I can't find one I'm gonna go with a FYD low wattage MarCh amp. It has a Marshall preamp and a power section of a Fender Champ, Hence the Mar- Ch. Also I like other music besides Pantera, ha ha ha lol. Dime is obviously a GOD \m/ .

the only metal amp i'll ever play is a sunn. \m/

but i have never heard of that before-- sounds weird. what's the wattage on it?

Those are nice also if you're talking about the Model T but even the reissues are $1200-1500. No telling how much the OG's are. I'd like a ThunderVerb 50 or Mesa 50 Cal+(Pepper Keenan). I'm gonna acquire a Boss Bass EQ soon, my friend Rob has one he don't need. I Think I'm gonna be good on pedals unless I run across 1 I gotta have, ya know? Anybody need a regular Dunlop Crybaby for about $50?

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the only metal amp i'll ever play is a sunn. \m/

but i have never heard of that before-- sounds weird. what's the wattage on it?

sunns aren't metal, they predate specific metal applications and most of them predate the term itself.... the thing about sunns is the tube amps are just big blackface preamps (more or les) stapled to dynaco hifi amps, no joke... the mdoel T has more a marshall/bassman style preamp although one version from early on has its own thing going... I don't think the ebta and coliseum solid state line was designed for any specific purpose either,, but they did stick a fuzz circuit in some of them as I recall, because thatw as thing back then. Vox had set the standard with the fuzz circuit in their solid state line as early as like '66 I think and Kutom did it too...

when someone says 'metal amp' I'm thinking post-soldano.... even teh mesas with the graphic EQ weren't designed for emtal uses, metal guys just gravitated to them... soldano was the guy who really started to specialize amp design.... I guess rivera too, but not as much as mike soldano who really targeted the sort of tones these George Lynch types... I eman the guy famously was like calling van halen's agent before van haen finally got in touvh with him. ANd it allw ent from there with the 5150 being peavy's take on a soldano type circuit for VH that still ranks as a metal amp of choice designed specifically with the emtal tones of the era in mind.

Ironically, a lot of the original super heavy guys lke Kerry king have stuck with the JCM800 which is a design that's beena round isnce the alte 70s and really wasn't targeted at anything but a bit more gain and a useable master for smaller venues

anyway, when someone says emtal amp my mind is going to like 5150 of some sort, an engel or a deizel where more than anything, very heavy rock and especially modern metal was the design goal at the expense of other sounds a lot of the time

Guys I'm looking to get one of those small WH40 even though they are hard to find. If I can't find one I'm gonna go with a FYD low wattage MarCh amp. It has a Marshall preamp and a power section of a Fender Champ, Hence the Mar- Ch. Also I like other music besides Pantera, ha ha ha lol. Dime is obviously a GOD \m/ .

I don't thik that'll do that much for you, there's not enough headroom or transformer iron on a champ to give you modern emtal headroom and bass transfer with a marshall preamp which is light on abss and designed to feed the power amp very effectively... also, part of the marshall thing when you're talking about getting soem pwoeramp breakup is the phase ivnerter distorts before the EL34s even on like an 800 and ona champ its signle ended, no phase ivnerter.... I am ositive the MarCh will sound good but I think you may not care for it in this aprticular application, Mike

I would be looking at 2 power tubes, push/pul AB configuration for a tube amp for metal… solid state rectifier with a solid power supply design, at elast JCM800 good, maybe better. Big output transformer, lots of iron.

for me, metal's a lot mor doom/sludge/drone and a lot of my favorite artists are sunn users. i agree, trad metal amps are def that post-soldano gain cascading thing. rivera amps are pretty metal too

Yes but Sunn model T's put out some awesome doom tones Jim. We all know about Soldano's & Lee Jackson modded amps. Are you working today or what? I gotta leave later to apply at some MJ dispesaries. Do you prefer 5150 or 5150 Pt.2 . I either want a Orange ThunderVerb 50 or the Buddah SuperDrive 80 I've seen on CL. Also Sovtek puts out some mighty Doom metal tones also. Which tubes do you like. In my next amp I want something different like 5881's, 6550's, or even some KT's. My Crate has EL-34's. I want something that sounds different.

for me, metal's a lot mor doom/sludge/drone and a lot of my favorite artists are sunn users. i agree, trad metal amps are def that post-soldano gain cascading thing. rivera amps are pretty metal too

I'm just saying I wouldn't call anything from that era a metal amp, they're just amps... no one was even thinking 'lts time to design a rock amp' let alone 'lets make a METAL amp' until the late 70s or early 80s, they just designed amps... some amps leaned a little in one direction like the ampeg V series, but you cna turn around and play jazz on those, you know? The whole specialized amplifier thing is enat and interesting, but the old design aestthetic was really superior which si way they never go out of favor. Anyway. Yes Sunns are very good amps, just great all arounders, sort of like America's hiwatt in some ways.

Yes but Sunn model T's put out some awesome doom tones Jim. We all know about Soldano's & Lee Jackson modded amps. Are you working today or what? I gotta leave later to apply at some MJ dispesaries. Do you prefer 5150 or 5150 Pt.2 . I either want a Orange ThunderVerb 50 or the Buddah SuperDrive 80 I've seen on CL. Also Sovtek puts out some mighty Doom metal tones also. Which tubes do you like. In my next amp I want something different like 5881's, 6550's, or even some KT's. My Crate has EL-34's. I want something that sounds different.

we all know ALL sunn amps cna do awesome doom tones, just different flavors.... this is due to the enormous dynaco transformers and robust power filtering in the well designed supply lines

and no, I'm puttering around the next few days although I have band stuff going on tomorrow night and I'll probably be exhausted all day saturday

Hey Jim "if" it puts out the tones I'll buy it. Wish I would've bought an Sunn T in 2002. They were SO cheap. Then amps like Orange amps, Green Matamps come along also ya know. I know Orange amps were around before but didn't come back on the scene until just lately. Hovercraft, it's alot to choose from, lol ha ha.

the new oranges have nothing to do with the original design apart from using 12ax7s and el34s... although msot agree that f you can stand 200 watts of fury the kt88 equipped oranges are the finest ones.... somehow I doubt that their weird little cathodyne phase inverter cna drive the 200 watt output section but hey, maybe that's some of the charm? I dunno, never tries one... but yeah, model Ts used to eb affordable, I know tons of people who own them... most of them are really amrshallish, bigbassmans, although they have better iron and a strogner pwoer supply giving them a punchier feel... erpsonally I always enjoyed the early sunn designs and wish I ahdn't sold the one I had

I actually think I had bought the sunn I had around 2002 LOL, probably for 200 buks? they were giving those away.... and ampegs...