ENGL Fireball VS ENGL Powerball | Black Metal Gear 

Which one is your favourite if u had to pick? Your guitar playing is sic af 🤘

@@militant6660thanks man! Fireball just wins it for me

I have the rack preamp 530 and 570. Both are excellent for technical death metal in my opinion. The 530 is dry and super tight, but the 570 is more brutal with the gain and tone shaping options. I want a Fireball though!

@@deafleopard337 never tried those, would highly recommend the fireball

Even though I'm not a black metal fan, but if I were I think I'd prefer the Powerball since it sounds a bit more raspy and raw

haha thanks man x

Dean + ENGL is an INSANE combo

hahah, it's one of my band's riffs

Nailed it man

yet to try a savage mk2, hoping to feature one at some point

Yes! I’m looking forward to it

thank you!

Thank you my dude

One day hopefully 🙏

powerball is brutal

both powerball and fireball are killer amps

You’re right man No mid boost activated on either amp, it did thicken the sound on both amps but with the Marshall cab it made the tone muddier, added ‘flub’

@@DevGohil Absolutely. Speakers in particular can have a sizeable impact on tone and how the voicing plays out. Some of them can over-accentuate aspects of the low end and mid range to the point where they don’t sound appropriate for one’s aims. I could imagine a feature like the mid boost sounding a bit too muffled through certain cabinets. I asked about this because there was a mild difference with the Fireball 100’s ferocity being very focussed and condensed, right at the front with that sizzling top end while the Powerball II sounded a bit more open and broader with the sizzling aspect of the top end being smoothed out a little. Personally, in most speaker combination cases, I don’t even use the mid boost as I think the taper on the mid dial is behind great to get a searing mid range snarl out of the Fireball and I’ve put it up against amps like the Peavey 6505 and the EVH 5150-III where it hasn’t just held up, but stood out with that burning top end and heavy low end - almost like a boosted rectifier. Hell, I just use the mid boost to give lead sections a slightly different voicing so they provide contrast to the standard tone. Anyway. That’s some brutal riffage in the comparison that sells on its own! \m/

@@kadestorm you're 100% right, these ENGLs are very 'dark' sounding amps, whereas it's competitors have brighter, sometimes harsher more cutting sounds, though live, somehow i find that darkness in the low end helps with the live mix a lot more, since high frequencies are all over the place

@@DevGohil Well said! Dark can be great, so long as it isn’t to an excessive and detrimental degree. Gives a fuller sound in addition to the high end.

@@kadestorm Live, my guitarist used a 6505 mini and i used my fireball and it just hit the spot everytime

I cant rememebr the setting for this vid hahah I dont use too much gain, mids i keep in the middle, treble and presence are pushed. bass is under halfway Cabs make a big difference, my MF400A is very mid heavy

awesome! Thank you

thanks a lot man, the fireballs are awesome

@@DevGohil your well come dev \m/

All standard

Yeah if you wanted that SUPER TIGHT tone you'd have to tweak the sound a lot I dont go for it personally, i do like a 'growling' amp

damn, i really like the powerball 2, it's got a low end kick that other amps dont have

@@DevGohil that's what ENGLs usually have, which is cool, but the PB1 was suuuuper muddy. The 2 is just a bit honky but it's cool otherwise. I had an 840/50 poweramp from ENGL and I really liked it, highly recommend that one if you wanna use it with preamps like the E530 or 870

try the ENGL artist edition! It sounds like a really really pissed off JCM 800 and super tight too!

@@deafleopard337 sounds awesome, gotta try getting my hands on one

just some improv

@@DevGohil You should TOTALY make a song out of that, prolly one of the best riffs i've heard in a while