[Samer]

I'm going over to my friends house tonight to help him EQ a dual rec he got (running through a Peavey 5150 cab)..

This is pretty much the same rig the new guitarist from Stratovarious used live (hence why he got the rig, lol), how can i help him EQ it to get a similar rhythm sound?

He currently does not have a boost pedal (he said he is going to grab one), but in the mean time he has a GT-8 in the loop (for FX) and the dual rec its self, any one have any suggestion on how to get a "tight" sound out of this amp with out a boost (at least for now)?

 

[Samer]

skip the GT-8 for now.

Stratovarious eh? I'll give "metal rhythm" a shot:

Ch3 modern
Bold
Master: 11:30
Presence: 9 o'clock
Bass: 9:30
Mids: 3
treble: 10 o'clock
gain: 1 o'clock
Output: to taste

Try that out :yesway:

I was running this setting unboosted

Thanks bro, i am going to forward this to him

 

[Samer]

I don't think he tried it yet (he went out of town yesterday), but he did get it.

Cant wait to hear it, thanks for your help man!

 

[Samer]

Yeah I always had trouble getting a good tone out of the dual/triple recs. It seemed to saturate too much under high gain and get muddy on the low strings. I probably just didn't spend enough time when I was demoing it, cause I didn't flip any switches or stuff in the back to mess around with it. I just got the ENGL instead because I feel that it sounds good at any EQ setting, and it was easy to get sounding great.

Yea thats what i noticed about my Invader, its really hard to dial the amp to sound bad, i pretty much get a consistent sound that cuts really well with out worrying too much about my EQ. I might do some minor tweaks here that take under 5 seconds, but i love how its a "good" sound out of the box.

 

[Samer]

Or a good overdrive up front, however the recto still sounds better then the ENGL to my ears, to me the ENGL sounds too solid statish and if I wanted that sound I would go for it.

The Invader is the one ENGL amp i have fallen in love with, sold my Powerball as soon as i tried an Invader at the hollywood guitar center (well as soon as i got back from my trip).

It has four channels that are voiced perfectly,

1) Clean (very close to a fender clean)

2) Clean (blues clean to metal crunch, voiced knida like a dual rec)

3) Rhythm (hard rock to extreme metal, very tight and cuts amazingly well), this will go from Power metal rythm (think Gamma Ray / Masterplan to Meshuggah / Necrophagist type tones)

4) Lead (this is really the highlight of the amp for me, the lead channel is the best i have ever played through, really similar to my friends Triaxis but more "organic" and "smooth", kind of like a Steve Vai meets Santana tone)

I don't think I am ever going to sell my Invader because it is such a great amp for what i do; i have been able to jam with a Jazz fusion group then go to a hard rock band i play with and then go to an extreme metal band i play with, with out changing any EQ settings because of the 4 channels.

 

[Samer]

Yeah I pick really light. I feel that with a high gain setting, the harder you pick, the more it compresses. I feel that picking lighter actually gives a more defined pick attack and note. Not louder, but more defined. Plus, I spent a ton of time trying to develop a very relaxed technique in my right hand, and I think that really softened my picking up.

I agree, i had to "force" my self to pick light because after playing guitar for 8 - 12 hours at recording sessions my right arm would turn to mush.

I can play faster and more defined by not having a strong pick attack, but when the style calls for it i can still pick hard if i need too.

 

[Samer]

Plus, the only way to get that "Hetfield chunk" is to pick really hard. It doesn't sound right to me any other way.

I agree with this also, some styles really do need a hard pick attack to work properly.

I guess its a matter of having different techniques ready and prepared for different styles of music.