Gothicontheloose Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Hello all, What is in your opinions a great setup for metal? Just metal in general, no specified genre. The price: £850 -- £2000 or something... Any ideas are welcome. If you need to ask something, go ahead of course! Thanks in advance, Ward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-basser Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 not gigged it properly yet but love my Fafner for metal, beefy yet clear and a great tube growl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Metal covers a pretty vast area of sounds. You'll want 2 amps then. A huge one with huge cabs for low, and a valve one with less power to drive the nuts off. This is THE TRVTH according to Doom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTGAndy Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Best thing to do would be try some out, you can use any rig for metal, just make sure you have the power and speakers to compete with loud high gain guitars and a noisy drummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexclaber Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 [quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='424658' date='Mar 3 2009, 11:24 PM']Metal covers a pretty vast area of sounds. You'll want 2 amps then. A huge one with huge cabs for low, and a valve one with less power to drive the nuts off. This is THE TRVTH according to Doom.[/quote] This leads me to wonder whether I should offer a biwired version of the Big One, so you could use a big s/s amp to push the 15" woofer and then a little guitar valve head for the 6.5" mid. Could be quite scary sounding... Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamesk86 Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Ampeg or Messa, can't go wrong with either of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetera Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 (edited) Tech21 Landmark 600.... It has two dedicated preamps (BDDI & RPM) which can be run seperately or combined for thunderous tones (e.g. run the RPM clear and deep for the low end... and run the BDDI grinding and cutting for the high end). Take your choice of cab after that.... though my preference would be for a Mesa Diesel 2x15, Bergantino 610 or 215.... Edited March 4, 2009 by cetera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorick Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 +1 for the Mesa and Tech21 stuff. Upto £2k, the world's your oyster!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umph Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 [quote name='alexclaber' post='424817' date='Mar 4 2009, 09:52 AM']This leads me to wonder whether I should offer a biwired version of the Big One, so you could use a big s/s amp to push the 15" woofer and then a little guitar valve head for the 6.5" mid. Could be quite scary sounding... Alex[/quote] not 2 10s? ;< to the original poster i'd recomend getting in touch with matamp or looking for a mesa 400+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexclaber Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 [quote name='umph' post='425207' date='Mar 4 2009, 03:56 PM']not 2 10s? ;<[/quote] Two 10"s for what? Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh3184 Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 ebs td650 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umph Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 [quote name='alexclaber' post='425225' date='Mar 4 2009, 04:07 PM']Two 10"s for what? Alex[/quote] the mids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 [quote name='alexclaber' post='424817' date='Mar 4 2009, 09:52 AM']This leads me to wonder whether I should offer a biwired version of the Big One, so you could use a big s/s amp to push the 15" woofer and then a little guitar valve head for the 6.5" mid. Could be quite scary sounding... Alex[/quote] Why would someone do that when they could have a pair of Vintages and a whole guitar stack? I've been imagination wanting to put neo 15s into one of those 2x15 + 2x10 isobaric ampegs because they were impractically heavy. Boxes with speakers on the front facing foward are boring unless there is loads of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guiguite Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 (edited) I played quite a lot of metal the last 10 years and i guess it also depend the type of metal you plan to play. For prog metal , death/math metal or heavy metal you ll be looking at pretty different type of sound, +1 for the 1x15 + 4x10 or 2x10 combination btw i got a 4X10 Mesa boogie diesel with electrovoice for sale here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=42564"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=42564[/url] Edited March 5, 2009 by guiguite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothicontheloose Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 [quote name='guiguite' post='426275' date='Mar 5 2009, 04:26 PM']I played quite a lot of metal the last 10 years and i guess it also depend the type of metal you plan to play. For prog metal , death/math metal or heavy metal you ll be looking at pretty different type of sound, +1 for the 1x15 + 4x10 or 2x10 combination btw i got a 4X10 Mesa boogie diesel with electrovoice for sale here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=42564"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=42564[/url][/quote] Thx ^^ But I live in Belgium So that's not an easy solution ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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