Ha! I’m having coffee with Ola right now! 😂🤘 Let 2 paracetamols 500mg melt in a small layer of water and use that to wash away 1 ibuprofen 400mg for that extra kick in the headache’s arse. 🤒
Ecclesiastes 1 New King James Version (NKJV) The Vanity of Life 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 “Vanity[a] of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” 3 What profit has a man from all his labor In which he [b]toils under the sun? 4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever. 5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And [c]hastens to the place where it arose. 6 The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit. 7 All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again. 8 All things are [d]full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. 9 That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which it may be said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in ancient times before us. 11 There is no remembrance of former things, Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come By those who will come after. The Grief of Wisdom 12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be [e]exercised. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind. 15 What is crooked cannot be made straight, And what is lacking cannot be numbered. 16 I communed with my heart, saying, “Look, I have attained greatness, and have gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My heart has [f]understood great wisdom and knowledge.” 17 And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind. 18 For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
The actual pickups dimebag used are from bill&becky not the bill lawrence brand. Ordered one a few years back, it's very good and more versatile than tou would think.
I was a huge Pantera head from Vulgar Display all the way through the end. Just loved everything about them. The originality, the take no crap attitude, the players. Dime's tone was always so good.
i am 40 and just started to practice last week and learn for the 2nd time in my life after watching you play has inspired me to learn how to play better. i sold my first guitar 15 years ago for dope after i became an addict hooked on pain pills but i been clean almost 2 years now and feeling good again. the opiate epidemic is real i los more friend last year alone from overdose then my whole life combined. thanks for the inspiration keep doing what you do
That hits really close to home. I'm 23, I've been an addict for the last 7 years. Got hooked on pain killers and Xanax in the beginning, then it became heroin and Xanax then IV heroin and xanax. I've done everything, but opiates and benzos have been my main combo for years. Worst things on the planet to kick, I can't tell you how many times I've done it. I've played guitar the last 8 years I think, but I've sold all my pedals and stuff for dope and I regret the shit out of it. I had a brand new crybaby from hell (dimebag signature wah pedal) that I believe was $150 new (and a Christmas gift from my parents so it held alot of sentimental value to me) and my local music store only gave me $50 for it and I still sold it cause I was dopesick that day. I owed my friend 20 dollars too so I only got a 30 sack of dope smh. The mission I went on behind that story (mid summer at the time too with no transportation) is a whole nother story in itself. Anyway I'm glad to hear you're clean, it takes alot of courage and love for oneself to do that. I went to rehab twice since 2017 and right now I have 4 months today. Try going to AA or NA meetings they can help a lot, it helps to be around others on the same path/same goals as you and you'll find tons of support for being new. We take care of each other in these rooms unconditionally. Some of the best people I've ever met. Just remember though it is IMPOSSIBLE for us addicts to have any controlled using, that's what separates us from normal people because addiction is chronic and progressive. All it takes is one single slip and (it may not happen right away) but eventually we will be right back to square one, set back emotionally, and neurologically within the brain. Trust me I tried for 7 years. If you're feeling squirrley too having other people in recovery to reach out to can save your life, hence AA/NA everyone gives out their numbers esp to newcomers. It's completely free. Anyway that's just a suggestion. I just lost a friend very recently too btw from a relapse so I know your pain. I lost another friend from the same thing last year. They will always be with in our hearts as long as we are alive, friend. Take care and take it one day at a time. I will be here to offer any support if needed
@@PatrioticNurse948 i go to the methadone clinic everyday so cant say im tottally clean but i have not taken anything illegal in about 2 years or so i just had to cut out everyone who i knew messed with it thats the only thing that worked after my 7 or so stints in detox and rehab in last 20 years.
@@joshuaburton154 oh shit 2 years idk why I read two weeks lol so I assumed you were new to recovery. Anyway that's clean enough dude, I'm on subs but it's not dope. I had to cut everyone out too one of the most crucial things for me and it worked lol. Not to sound like a bashing but I would honestly go on subs instead of methadone. You wouln't have to go to the clinic every day for one and it's a million times easier to kick. Methadone is harder to kick than heroin, you can straight kick for a full month. That's what I would do personally, again not to sound critical, it's your recovery and some people don't have luck on subs. I take them cause I can function on it and not worry about feeling too sick every morning it's way more easier to manage then waking up dopesick from heroin that's for sure, and I can't get high on other opioids on subs. That's dope you have 2 years off dope though, you should be really proud of yourself. Is that the longest amount of time you've had?
@@PatrioticNurse948 and yes 2 years is most i went without taking something not perscribed to me or off the street. i had a slip up 1 time i took a 40 oxy and done nothing at all but was still something but was when i loast my sub dr and waiting to get sub out my system so i could start the methadone that was over 6 months ago i slipped up
Recorded an album using a Krankenstein. Found even more joy in my life when I bought a Rev One (which is very similar). Krank still exists but they are missing the kind of company talent that they need to get back to the days when their amps were the choice of Dimebag and Dethklok.
It’s funny you mentioned Dethklok. I’m a HUGE Brendon Small fan and just throw money at his licensed gear (his guitars on my wall are some of my favorites!). The first season of Metalocalypse has the Krank gear pretty prominently featured on screen but as far as I understand it, that was more of a tribute to Dime more than anything and he still used Marshalls for recording but I may be completely wrong lol 🤘🏻
He may have wrote the book with a Randall but that Krankenstein was all Dime and then some. When I was as teaching, they had a full Krankenstein stack on the floor and it still remains one of the most brutal amps I've ever seen. I had a lot of peers who were former Triple rectifier owners because of that amp.
i love how much you love pantera, i owned the x2 for like 14 years... and it finally wasn't worth fixing anymore.... rip.... my 2 sons are named vincent and darrell, and i am surprised my friends don't give me more shit fore how much i talk about dime and pantera, i will always mourn the day we lost him.... was a pre fan for years... never a post fan, i had all his gear when i was 14 or 15 when he was taken from us.... i could talk about how much dime has affected my life through life and death for hours, keep doing what you do, love the work THREE!
I've owned my Krankenstein for 13 years now and played it at every show and most rehearsals since then. Two guitarists I played with bought Krankensteins after trying mine for a practice. I've usually had a spare (though I've never had one fail on me), so altogether I've had experience with 5 or 6 of these original Krankensteins. They all sounded fantastic and worked flawlessly.
There's a pair of switches inside chassis which allow you to turn to Revolution mode (without any semiconductors after preamp section). Nice feature, killer sounding, worth to try.
Badass job! I've had a Krank Krankenstein for a year now or so and with a little bit of tinkering and playing with it I've found many tones that I love with it. Before the Krank, I had a Randall Century 170 II...I still use the hell outta that too. Both amps I appreciate the luxury of finding. Now...in just on the hunt for a Washburn 333 and a Furman PQ-3 or PQ-4. Been on it for years...and will continue the hunt.
Calabrese used the Krankenstein on their second album "The Traveling Vampire Show". They got a great punk/metal sound with it. The best tone they ever got.
@@bigharrykochenbauls4567 I actually like the guitar sound on that album. I made a Kemper profile that replicates it. They Call us Death had a good tone too.
Excellent demo! These original Krankensteins were far from perfect and were a little on the fizzy side. But were massive at the same time. Perfect for Dimes(I love Dime, but don’t care for his tone usually). But it’s worth noting that you can more than just Pantera type tones from the Kstein. The master volume and the sweep are probably the two most important things on these amps that you have to be mindful of. With the master volume turned all the way up and using the channel volume for your actual volume control, they sound absolutely fucking monster. And I have found over the years that keeping the sweep set on 3 is pretty much always the sweet spot no matter what type of tone you are going for. Anything below that it gets muddy, anything too far above that it starts sounding like you are running a half cocked wah pedal in front of it. My preferred settings for the Dime channel are: master volume dimed, presence 5-6, bass 6, mids 7 or higher, treble 5-6, gain 5-6(if running an OD pedal, gain at 2-3) and channel volume as loud as I may need it. which is usually never above three because these amps are fucking loud!! On a final note, if you are interested in these amps, the revised Krankenstein Plus(+) is really the one that you want. The 6L6/5881 power section was replaced and upgraded to a 6550/KT88 power section with much larger transformers. And this upgrade pretty much took care of all of my issues I had with the original Kstein; it warmed up the overall tone and rounded off some of the spiky high-end and gave the gain a slightly less saturated slightly less fizzy character while still sounding super fucking aggressive. It also seemed to give the amp a little bit more overall mid range while maintaining the huge low-end. But the big bottle power tubes made the low-end a lot tighter too. I own a Krankenstein Plus head and it is one of the best amps I have ever played through, definitely the best amp I have ever owned. I run mine into a Genz Benz GFlex 412 cab loaded with Eminence Governors and in my opinion it is the perfect tone. It seems these amps tend to pair up best with a front loaded cabinet, preferably an oversized one that can handle it’s massive low end. Another improvement that the big bottle tube power section upgrade made to the gain is how it responds to different guitars and different pickups. Higher output pickups and actives sound fairly modern through it and sound great, but when I plug something with lower output into it, such as my SG, it tends to have more of a British Marshall type sound to it which I’m not mad about!!
@@alfrodmcc1903 Similar to yes. Definitely not particularly spot on to his Pantera tone. May be a little bit more similar to his tone in damage plan. Even though all of the damage plan stuff was recorded with his Randall’s still, you can tell that he was trying to go for something a little bit different with his sound during that era. The Krankenstein will give you an aggressive tone with the potential of some sizzle especially if you run the presence knob pretty high. So you can definitely dial in something similar to his tone. After all he put his stamp of approval on that particular model for being his signature model before he passed away, even though it wasn’t released until after he passed away. But from what I understand the Krank Revolutions that he was using live and was recording the at the new(still unreleased) DP album with were essentially modified to be the Krankenstein circuit as they were were prototypes. Once again the Kstein he’s going to give you a different version of his tone than the Pantera era… It’s going to be chunkier with more punch… But it still got the potential to give you that Dime signature sizzle.
Man, that intro riff, the same you played in your first Natas demo filmed in the studio, is just awesome. I think it’s the best song you’ve ever written. Voilà. Kisses from France bro
This is the most Dimebag sound so far. Congrats! Makes me wanna buy a Solar guitar 😊 I had a solid wood Krank Rev cabinet with Eminence Legend V12s. It was a real monster.
I just wish Tony Krank hadn't made it so shrill, fizzy and dry. Owned this and the Rev for a long time. I wanted to like them but ended up selling. I wish Dime and Mike Fortin could have been in touch back then...just imagine the amps that would have been created.
@@terminalvelocity4858 I had a few Krankensteins. Didn't care too much for the original one. Ended up selling it to someone in Norway. I had a honeymoon phase with the plus model, but that went away a month or two later. Interestingly enough, when I took my first krankenstein + to my tech, he said someone wrote something on the chassis. It read "the spirit of dime lives on!". I always thought that was pretty neat.
Krank Krankenstein suffered a terrible badmouthing campaign and was the main target of a public lynching act through harmony central. I was a teenage when it happened and I never understood why such quality amp with clear tight punchy high gain tones was hated so much. Now I can say that this amp stood the test of time. Few amps can deliver quality high gain tones with no pedals or mods, Krankenstein comes to mind. Thanks Ola, you nailed Dime's tone. Cheers from Morocco
8:54 fun fact, you can infact change the channel without the foot switch. I know because I have one. If you reached a little bit more back behind the amp there's a button to go from clean to dime channel. The more you know
My old metalcore band back in the day was endorsed by Krank. We used the rev1 heads pushed with ts9. Perfect metal tone! Krankenstein was always to "fizzy" for us but you got it to sound badass!
Several years back I purchased a Krankenstein head and returned it three days later. It sounded terrible with almost no gain. I was so disappointed. I tried to contact customer support to find out if something was wrong but they were non-existent. I never touched another Krank product again. 7 days after I had already returned it they finally contacted me...what a joke company.
I've got 3 life dreams. Own a Solar, Own a Dime signature, play like Ola. I played from 7 to 18 then quit. I'm 29 now and built an Ibanez from spare guitars and I've been watching and playing nonstop for a month. When I get good again for my 2nd time in life...I will make make a channel and play with ola in a live stream. One day!!!!! Watch it go!!!
I think the tones you get in some of these vids would make Dime himself make a dirty face from the NASTY amount of pure chunk you get...dude would probly be suprised to hear the sound of that thing especially in drop C
Ola does the same thing I do when I make my guitar sound cool: I look around with a surpised look to see if anyone else also loves the sound I just made.
I have the krank cab, red with chrome grill! Looks loud and fast just sitting there doing nothing. With that being said, the speakers inside are quad eminence legend v12 with 480watts of headroom! Best speakers eminence ever made imho. Sounds so killer with a peavey ultra plus. Asked to turn it down all the time at gigs lol!
Thanks for Amp test I was waiting a while for this one. Saw two of these amps come up for sale whilst waiting. The dime gear is rare but if you truly are a fan then your patience can be rewarded.
Dale Hards There’s a Krankenstein + head and cabinet, great condition, been sitting for sale in music store here in KY for 2yrs. I offered $1100 2yrs ago but he wouldn’t budge off $1200. I checked recently, still sitting in there and now asking $1500. Damn thing sounds amazing really. But I committed to a Lee Jackson XLS1000 half stack for $500/steal instead.
Sounds good in the room and off the mic... I had a band in San Antonio, Texas borrow my Krank (REV1) to record they loved it. He wanted to buy it from me.
I would like to buy it if I can. No BS. I seem to have bad luck with amps, and I trust that one because of you. Right now I have an EVH, an old Crate, and a Fender.
That Solar E series hanging on the wall is making my mouth water. If I were a guitar player for real instead of a bass player messing around with the guitar that is THE guitar I would buy. PERIOD.
I was feeling nostalgic and hooked my krankenstein up a couple of months ago and it sounded brutal, I can’t stop playing it, I calmed the high end sizzle by using a laney 2x12and when I played this head live I would use a Randall 4x12 it seemed to tame the high end, I think Dime may have used the krank one or two songs on the damaged plan album
Honestly I can't say I exactly liked the tone of that amp, but I can't really say it was bad either. I liked the rawness of it, but there is something a bit weird about it too.
@olaenglund to answer your question as to whether or not Dime played the final product, technically no. But what he did play were the revolutions hot rodded out with everything done to them but ended up being in the Krankenstein package. If you've ever watched the crank videos where Dime is in Tony Krank's lab then you've heard the second to last version of the amp. Dime received a couple of the finished products and Revolution head form a few weeks before he died. The only difference was really the casing and the cosmetics.