I don't even play metal anymore nor am I looking for metal demos, but the tone on this video is really solid, clear, articulate. I'm sticking around to watch this one!
Jason, I'm always stoked when you upload. These Frankhouser droughts are like like crossing the Mohave Desert without a canteen, damnit. Fantasy colab: you and Hetfield do an album together. Yeah, I know it's totally unrealistic. But James is an old-school rhythm god, and I think he would benefit from vibing with a player who can keep pace with him, spur him on, challenge him -specifically in HIS wheelhouse -the Right-Hand-intensive, almighty RIFF. God save the Riff.
How can I have been watching metal guitar RU-vid for years and just now find this channel!!!? Ordered Badlander 25 yesterday and this confirmed my choice: SICK!!!!
Good call with the Grid Slammer. It's my favorite simple TS style pedal I've ever used, especially since it doesn't neuter the low end. I like that extra saturation. I use Direwolf for all the better control.
Just discovered your channel… Nice videos man! Killer recording setup and tone. I stopped doing guitar videos because I suck at recording and playing (according to the few internet people that actually watched my videos 😂), but I also have one of the Mesa Badlander 100 amps, and it’s amazing! It reminds a lot of the old Rev G Dual Rec, but tighter. And if you switch it over to Variac mode instead of Bold, it even sags and smooths it out like the old Dual Recs. 🤘🏼 The best mod I’ve found was the Legendary Tones Mr. Scary Mod that replaces the V2 preamp tube with 2 tubes and a circuit. It makes this amp a fire breathing monster. It essentially doubles the gain, but cleanly. Before the mod, I had the gain dimed, but after the mod, the amp gain is set on 5/8, with the mod gain maxed out. Give it a shot, it’s amazing what that $320 mod will do for these amps. 🤘🏼🔥🤘🏼
I want to get another Badlander for my studio. Actually 2 months ago traded my Badlander 50 for a Brand spanking new 100 watt Dual rectifier multi watt and im not sad about it. But I do want to get another Badlander as I really liked its tone. It's a great Modern Rectifier
I used your amp settings at rehearsal and the key for me was volume… I hadn’t turned the amp up loud enough previously, but it sounded really good with the band setting and i had the amp dialed exactly how you did here. Too bad you didn’t include capturing your own ir and adding those in as well. Would have been interesting to see if you could capture the tone from the mics in clone.
Awesome! Glad it helped. As far as the IR goes...making your own and loading it in is definitely a good idea I just wanted to show the stock ones here since that is what comes with the amp.
I too would like to hear the Cab Clone with the best Mesa Oversized 4x12 IR out there. Actually I thought you mic'd it up perfectly with that 57/421 blend, amazing.
Very nice I'm looking at buying one of these and pretty much convinced me this is the amp I love how you played but you showed the amp not your not you lot of people make it about themselves you made it about the product and that's why we're here thank you
sounds RAAAD. You should try that old Brutal Drive I left there. I found that thing works GREAT in front of amps that don't really need tightening, but could stand to be sent into full blown fuck you violence territory.
Interesting that you have the mids up at noon and it still sounds cool, I set my eq almost identical to ou with my mesa 2x12 but I dial the mids back to about 9. o. clock
I actually like it with the boost better. I mean the sound. I haven't played one and I know sound and feel can be two very different things as far as preference, at least for me they can.
The mic’d sound from the 57/412 sounds amazing. Is that a true sounding tone coming out of the amp with the cab clone IR’s? Or have you done some work in post to make it sound better? If that’s straight out of the amp take my money
Sounds crushing! For some reason I still like the tones from my Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Blackout multi watt just seems voicing is more my style but I liked the Badlanders aggression just seemed a bit compressed and maybe not as warm as the recto growl. Killer demo as always and your playing always shines I could recognize your signature sound anywhere!
Thanks for posting. Some have described the Badlander's tone as a Recto/Marshall hybrid. Would that be your assessment? I can hear the low end in the Badlander but I can't hear the that upper mid Marshall-esque grind, unless of course it's subtle but detectable in the room.
You know what bubba? King Kong aint got shit on you!! If all you had was a stick and a rubber band I swear to God it come off sounding Boss as Hell! Thanks for what you do man!
compared to the Dual Rec how do you like the BadLand? Do you think it's too sculpted or do you like they voiced it to be the right modern rectifier? Some say it is more of a Mesa Mark amp in tone.
I like it a lot, actually. It is very different than a Dual Rec so you have to throw the ideas that you have with that amp out of the window as it is not dialed the same at all. They almost shouldn't have included it in the Rectifier series but I do understand why they did, for marketing purposes. It is much easier to dial in than a Mark series amp IMO. The only thing I would want is a little more saturation in the gain as the amp is fairly dry (which is one reason it is tight).
@@killertone That is interesting. I get that the amp can be adequately tight w/o a boost, but I wonder, then, if adding an OD could create the extra saturation you are missing. BTW, have you tried the Friedman Buxom Boost? The volume output is significantly hotter than yer average OD so you can slam the hell out of the front end, and it's got the Fortin style HPF (tight), and you have a useful tone and gain shaping section that you can select, or de-select with a dedicated switch. I think you'd like that pedal, if you haven't tried it.
Would it do well for C standard thrash and melodic stuff without a boost? I use JB thrash factor and mainly EMG 81 (I got an old one from 1992!). Deciding between this and EVH5153 Stealth. I can only have one amp at the moment sadly.
It would totally do that. The Badlander has less gain and is less compressed than an EVH. 5150III has tons of gain and compression. Pretty different amps.
Thanks! The guitar is my signature GC1.6 Killertone model from Solar. There is a link to it in the description of the video if you want to check it out on the Solar web site. Cheers!
Excellent video! Earned you a new subscriber! I have a question that I can't find an answer for: When you play through the Cab Clone directly to your interface without a cab hooked up to the head, does it make some sort of staticky type of sound? I used to have a Two Notes Torpedo Reload and that thing was so noisy that the buzz was louder than my guitar strings.
Thanks! The section of the video where I go through all of the 8 included IRs is the head with no cab hooked up with the Cab Clone going straight in to the recording interface. No unwanted noise at all.
Please I don't know if I've miss it on the video, what power tubes are you using? The stock El34 or 6l6 ? Btw, it sounds asweme, I'm thinking of buying the Badlander 50 Rackmount version
It really comes down to how much low end you want. If you want a fat big low end then the DR is the way./ If you want a tighter but much leaner low end then the Badlander is may the way. That being said, with the right boost the MW DR can get just as tight and have some low end to spare.
Straight cabs pretty much all the time. This might be one of the only demos I’ve ever done with a slant cab because the cabinet isn’t mine. That being said, I dug how it sounded quite a bit and when mic’d up properly sounds killer!
