gaio_lello_windhover_bardelle's forum posts 1

If you don't play some form of metal, what's the point of high gain amps? I was just listening to my old band's album and the highest gain amps used on that record are plexi front marshalls. The tones are almost TOO crunchy. We barely used any effects, just the occasional rangemaster treble boost or a little full range boost or fuzz. I think we used a distortion pedal for 1 part of 1 songs to get a trashy transistor sound over some harmonics.

So someone tell me, why do non-metal guys play triple rectifiers and 5150s and stuff? I am baffled. My high gain love stops with the JCM800 single channels. I mean, Soldanos sound good, but I usually set the gain channel at around 3! Its way over the top. All that preamp distortion, even voiced by a genius like Mike Soldano, sounds mushy and obscures a lot of the nuance in your playing. It seems to me that it HIDES the feeling of the song like Roger Waters' wall, getting between you and a scary audience...

Mesa guys, modern Orange players... set me straight!

couldn't agree more!