We're now entering the Mesa period where Gibson start rereleasing the exact same amps every year just with different shell woods and finishes and calling them shit like "2025 premium series" "2026 Player series" "2027 Exotic series" with no other changes or new models released.
Dime got me OBSESSED with 2x15 cabs. I’d go stare at the Warhead stack at Mars Music. Of course they sounded like ass lol. But I now have 2 Marshall 2X15. With EV’s. MONSTERS
The lack of "character" is what I LOVE about my Lundgren M7! It is completely transparent, articulate, and evenly-voiced, allowing your amp and your technique to do all the work, creating the sound you hear in your head.
The problem with limiting these things to 333 means that they’ll be bought up extremely fast then pumped onto EBay and reverb for triple the price a month later.
There's still nothing better than a good old tube amp with a solid cab. I've got a Marshall DSL1 hooked up to an Orange PPC212 cab with two Celestion Vintage 30s, and it sounds way better than digital modeling without all the complicated settings. The 1-watt Marshall doesn't have any unnecessary knobs. I had switched to modeling a few years ago, but in the end, I came back to this setup.
@@bobrutledge54Yes, it's one of the best and it sounds great. However, it's really heavy, and that's the downside-it's a real hassle to transport. If I had known, I would have gone for the Blackstar St. James cab. Apparently, it's the same quality as the Vintage 30, but much lighter.
Great vid, Ola. Now that you mentioned, I'm pretty sure a lot of us got curious about what amp would sound good with DM guitar (it's also a perfect excuse to teach us how to dial a good chug tone with a guitar loaded with hot pickups)
Ola is correct when talking about a softer pickup into a modern high gain amp. I did the same with a Krankenstein. It absolutely makes sense when you hear it
Kind of surprising the Gibson Mustaine sounded like crap through the EVH, while the Charvel Danhage didn’t 🤷♂️ The Charvel has a SD JB in the bridge and the Gibson has the SD Thrash Factor, with is based on the JB Dave used to record Rust in Peace. They should, in theory, sound almost identical 🤔 Edit: in fact, the Thrash Factor’s output is a teeny tiny bit lower than the JB.
I find it interesting how there's a bit of a resurgence in Dimebag gear at the moment. We're hitting the 20 year mark of his untimely passing. 20 years is usually the nostalgia cycle when it comes to music/pop culture/video games. The kids who grew up with it in their childhood are usually at the point where they have the disposable income to splurge on things that remind them of being young again.
Ola, Love you and your channel Pixie is so adorable, she fits your family perfectly and the guitar picks is her way of feeling included. Killer tone from that EVH 5150 el34, that strat sounds huge. Great video Ola Thanks for everything you do Cheers
I reckon (going superhot into 5150), that is more cabinet-speaker-mic combination. 5150 never failed me, from tele's lipstick to hot bridges but I use first series of Bugera cab, not "improved one", or Fane pop50 or Boss katana50mk1 connected as cab or ball grinding irs on top of clean signal from attenuators line out. Btw I use mix of sm58 and Marantz mpm 3000 large diaphragm condenser mic, less handy set when on stereo bar but good bang for a buck. Both are very proximity sensitive and I end up with much thinner tone than I would choose for live, however mids are more ripping before they get boxxy and i like to take off bit of low end to uncover mids. For recording I would advice you to start using studio tricks with two angled swapping phases, then eq-ing what you don't like and swapping phase back, just for example. I've noticed you know these tricks but I can't see you got any kinda "your" way you would stick to, usally one rather common mic, no phasing magic and yes, otherwise it introduces more work and often phase misalignment correction in daw but gives you few tracks to mix from one performance and incredible flexibility in post. Depends if you want to get in that rabbit hole but I don't regret I learned and tried a bit cuz with just 3 kinds of speakers, playing with mics and position/angle of 2 much different ones I can achieve a lot of different effects. Getting fluent in this is like to get unlimited cabs and mics, still using only two. You record on your own so I think you need to revise subject you anyway know a lot about. In my opinion you are one who will really benefit from getting geeky about techniques of micking speakers and problem solving/getting creative.
Happy Swola Day, my ballsack bros! My vote is Fender Evangelion Tele + Boss Super OD + Marshall JVM + Mesa Oversized 4x12 + SM57/M 160 combo (57 on the cone at 10 o clock, M160 move right of the cone blended as a balancing dark mic to the bright 57) - going for a mid gain tone with some twang in the attack. No Swola Contenders this week?
I absolutely love my Orange Micro Dark through my Marshall bass cab so I HIGHLY recommend running a Micro Dark through a bass cab and going for a Matt Pike tone 👍 I’d like to hear one through a 1x15 bass cab over a 4x12 if you have that.
12:18 the Custom 5 TB-14 (or SH-14) is just the best passive humbucker for metal, especially for recordings, tweaking settings and just playing guitar. Suggestions: Custom 5 bridge humbuckers through Fortin Natas
No-talking Demo Combo Ideas: Fishman/EMG guitar going into a Chug pedal boosting a Mesa Dual Rectifier. Like you did for Rob Barrett but actually mic'd.
The Henrik Danhage Charvel has a Seymour Duncan JB TB-4 Humbucker in the bridge position and a DiMarzio Area 67 DP419CR Humbucker (in single coil format) in the neck position.
OH MY FUCKING GOD, MORE OMC COMING?!!! I really needed something like this to look forward to. I might be bitch-made, but I'm literally almost in tears right now.
Other thing with being close to dimebag tone is many amps do that if you use eq in loop. Having one amp and for example Sovtek/EHX big muff Pi with its kinda parametric eq can add nice grit cuz you have fuzz with dry/wet and mids bump you can apply pretty strong cut in frequency you choose. Beside that gain and tone but still added only partially to your chain. Dimebag knew the power of eq. Believe me, you don't really need the Warhead to sound like Dimebag.
When I play my really hot pup guitars thru my EVH EL34 50w - gain HAS to come down - ass tone insues if not - but w/ less hot - amp does the “flavour” - agreed! \m/
I'm glad Galder is getting OMC back together. Black Seeds on Virgin Soil is one of the eeriest songs I've ever heard. I haven't been a fan of Dimmu since Mustis and Vortex left or whatever. 🤘
Richlite seems like a great product, I'd love to try it. I hope we can see it on more models, and models without Evertune. I'd love a hardtail T series or G series 7 string.
Hey! Speaking about guitar+amp videos, I would love to see video of OG 5150 with guitar that have Bill Lawrence pickup. I aquired guitar with this pickup some time ago and problem is that this combo sounds weird - untill I roll a volume on guitar a bit the attack of pickup is very metallic, overly bright and thin - it becomes normal when volume rolled. I'm realy curious is this common thing or there is something wrong with pickup or else
i got an idea, do a cab shootout, coz the cab shapes the tone probably the most in the chain. I've hardly ever seen anyboody talking about cabs when talking about tone. Always amps and pickups, but cab is one of the biggest piece of the tone.
New Dime Warhead amp? Sweet. I had the original. I still have the full stack, but sold the head decades ago. lmao. That amp sucked balls so bad, I'll never forget it. But the cabs rule. Anyone else have a 2x15 guitar cab? I'm loving it. I use Crate solid state at the moment. (Yes, that old p.o.s. you remember). I have a Quilter too, but rarely use it as it's more of a back-up mini head. Perhaps I'll be checking out this amp since I'm still in the School of Dime, and I prefer solid state over tube for eternity. ;)
