Simply put, I play guitar, I love metal and other heavy music, and I am really damn opinionated. On this RU-vid channel, you can expect gear reviews, playthroughs/demos, and me and my friends just making utter jackasses out of ourselves. If you are looking for a RU-vid channel run by professionals who take themselves very seriously, look elsewhere. I am here to have fun, and if you are entertained by it then I am extremely grateful.
As low as it goes, I'd probably do a split channel setting. Low pass for frequencies below 300 hz. Leave that signal clean, high pass over 500 send that to the amp sim.
Absolutely the best review i've seen for this guitar. Very in-depth and enjoyable to watch. I gotta ask, how do you feel about this guitar now if you still have it? The only thing I think I wouldn't like is the knobs being where they are like you mentioned. Idk if I would be able to work with that or not.
I'm waiting then to pull an ESP LTD and slowly price up to same overpriced crap you get everywhere l. Don't get me wrong I'd buy a new one in a heart beat l. But hitting the $1500 mark on their "budget" line. Yeah come on ESP
I bought one used a year ago. Is it the nicest instrument I own? Heck no, but it's the main guitar I play! I don't have any issue tuning the high E either. The hardware isn't the best. I should probably replace the saddles, but it's not really causing an issue. I have to tune and usually adjust the screw on one, but it stays good and in tune the entire time I play!
Hey brother its great to see something recent on this amp. I suggested to a friend/student of mine to pick one up back in '19 after being impressed by Spector Glenns review of it. When he got it we played it and could both agree it sounded decent but only with a TS or something up front. After some time i said fuck it and decided to mod it because after all its at least a good starting point right? I was impressed straight away with the components and PCB, (no SMT shit! good MF resistors, satisfactory electrolytics, Alpha pots and even WIMA caps not to mention very good JJ preamp tubes), this amp is fully serviceable. Too bad no amount of searching produced a schem and the board is 3 layer so 😂 tracing the circuits kinda not gonna happen. Whatever. So to make a long story boring i started reducing the first decoupling stages like i would with a 2203/2204 but that only sent me backwards. After a few days of scratching my head i noticed a couple op amps at the input similar to my old ADA MP1, which led me to think that potentially ones an inverting opamp and i was right. So I changed the 1meg input resistor to 2meg. Wow. Definite improvement. How about 3meg? Damn! Ok lets go 4meg. What the actual fuck??!! Suddenly this amp was in league, no, suddenly it buried 99%+ of all the amps ive ever played!! No, im not the guy thats played 200 of the latest and greatest, ive probably only played 50-60 amps in my 46 years but they were all noteworthy, ie Pitbull, SLO, (real) 1987/ 1959, 2203/2204 modded and stock, Krankenstein, Mesa MKII B, C+ and MK4, u get the idea. I honestly could not believe my ears. All in all i changed all decoupling and cathode caps to Sozo (preference) and modded the boost, push and mid cut circuits to make them actually useable. After hearing it this way my only question was why in blue fuck didn't THEY do this??!!. Truly, and ill swear on both my parents graves about this, 4meg at the input is all thats needed to get a distortion sound better than probably all the recorded high gain sounds youve ever heard and no pedals required! So to conclude, maybe u solder, maybe not, if not u must have a buddy that does. Humour me and try the 4meg, your jaw will drop. Itll literally change your life. P.S. Recto oversized, Marshall MF400, vintage Marshall slant, VHT Fattbottom, forget it. A $200 Marshall MG 4x12 bottom is a practically ideal match for this head. And after you realize im not a mush head just be running my mouth, delete this comment. Itll be our secret 🤘😤🤘
I have the Arctic white and the trem works perfectly. All I have to do is widen the G and B string nut slots and tighten down one of the string trees. 99% of the time it's nut.
The green Jackson letters is the matching paint theme with the body man... black instead of green scribble it's legible...but if they would have made the Jackson letters all brutal metal style that probably would have smoothed the flow instead of looking a little off . I see what your saying.
I never worry about getting value for my money with a Schecter guitar! They give you quality appointments that you won't find on other brands for this kind of money!
Hello.. I have one and i don't figure out which is the good value for pickups heights... I had something arround 4mm back and 3mm neck which look good for me.. Can you give me yours? Thanks
I got lucky with mine where the nut was cut with greater accuracy and only had to do a little bit of filing on the low G# and C#, but this was really not as bad as what it sounds like you experienced. This said, the low G# is very floppy for the scale length (reminds me of a low B on an Ibanez Axestar 5-string bass guitar). The bridge pieces are funky, the pole pieces (what the strings are resting upon) themselves seem to be held in by gravity and thankfully the two that fell out during a gig just landed on the folding table and not the floor. I wish Rondo were using different bridge hardware with greater break angle (ABM or what Etherial uses on their headless models). This said, I was able to get mine intonated very well and have it stick. The fretwork on mine was ok, mostly needed a little more work on the sides of the neck. The fret leveling was very decent on mine. I also removed the pots and used a pair of concentric pots to give each pickup separate volume and tone control. This said, I personally don’t play with much overdrive and distortion. Phasers, modulation, filters, and delays are more my speed. So, non-djent content from my end. I may change out the pickups for Lace Alumitones in the future.
On the last guitar, yeah riggt on that hi E man, i had a 7 string, got damm thing just went off into thin air! Like im my own string i dont follow the rules all bart simspon on me!!
When I first got the Revv series of pedals the Purple G3 in particular was exceptional. To this day have not seen anything really outdo it. I lost mine in one of those stupid "sell your pedals" for the latest greatest omni unit, mistake. When Sweetwater came up with the rare black version/purple knob had to have another one. This pedal is also dead quiet despite the massive gain structure. Killer pedal killer company!
i love this review because i completely agree with you on the cheap ass pickups and other things like using cheap wood for bodys like nyatoh even the high end guitars thank you for the awesome review and the awesome guitar playing i really enoyed it what year is yours because i want this one with mahogany
Your eq is about right. This amp sounds great with active pickups gain dimed master around 4 and volume at 2 or 3. This amp sounds great with elx tubes needs no boost set depth on loose. Best amp ive owned
