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Well, attack is a vital part of getting those really low notes to cut through. The xiphos guitars are not designed to enhance attack, they seem to be built as more of a lead guitar than a rhythm guitar: that thick, fat tone. But, there are other steps you can take to enhance the attack of...

Well, I'd give lowering the pu's a chance, first. The best way to do this is to play an open string on your clean channel and let the note ring out, and then go up to maybe the 17th fret of the same string and let this note ring out. The decay times should be extremely close (obviously, the...

Hi, MorgMetal666, for thrash metal, I'd go with a Blackface, Plexi, and Ultra. Well, that's what I'm using now anyway, hahahaha. Most of the older metal stuff used Marshalls, as they were the highest gain amps at the time :P . The signature modules will probably get you a more super high...

Yeah, active pu's boost the signal, so the magnetic field is actually quite low. The problem with overwound passive pu's is that they will never sound like active pu's: sure, they'll drive an amp like active pu's, but the tone will be passive. To simplify this: more windings = bassier tone...

The top boost has little to no clean headroom, but if you're looking at the Lynch signature module, the description says it is very acoustic sounding due to a lack of midrange, so that will probably help to keep it clean. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than myself can give their experience...

I'd say you're sort of setting yourself up for failure using a 7 string guitar with massively overwound passive humbuckers and Celestion speakers in your cabinets. However, the problem may be a setup problem: I believe you are interfering with the pickups magnetic field by raising them up too...

True, electronics have a lot to do with the way a guitar sounds, jlbaxe. With my Ibanez S, if I just wired the pickups without all the capacitors and what not, it would sound like a lot of other guitars :P . Personally, I think a good guitar with good pickups doesn't need any extra guts to...

I think the whole point of the MTS series is so you don't need to boost your signal 8) . Sure, if you have a Fender tube amp, the cleans are great, but you just don't have the gain you want, a boost is helpful, but with the MTS, you can change heads on the fly. The only limitation to this is...

Just a tip: E609's are designed to be extremely close to the source sound, which is why many bands will tape them to the front of their amps.. Placing a mic inside a cab would definitely roll off the highs, and it would also be eliminating most of the room noise, while absorbing the natural...

I'd say any guitarist's tone has more to do with their guitar and pickups than the amp. I think any amp (or module) can be made to sound a certain way, especially with an active EQ like an MXR 10 band. Honestly, I have to say that, to my ears, the rhythm tone sounded fuzzy, like he was playing...

Dragonforce makes great studio records, but they can't play well live: their tempo is all over the place; the drums and keyboard plays too fast and the guitars get pissed off, hahahahaha.

Kahlers have a much better feel than Floyds: rock solid; the only downfall is they tend to not return to pitch quite as perfectly as Floyds. Ah, and that resonator sound is not there when using a Kahler. Yup, I like 'em a lot more, even more than the ZR tremolos. But yeah, you do need to...

Hi, HAL2001, realizing that 4x12's were just, well, useless for recording :P , I went on a quest to find the ultimate recording cabinet. Not wanting to drop the big bucks on one of those isolation cabinets (Randall makes two of them, I believe; I'd LOVE to invest in one someday), I decided to...

Yeah, the RM20 is still gonna be a lot louder than you'd like for recording. I know Zvex makes a head that is like 1/4 watts, that should be great for recording :P . With a tube power section, you really need to crank the volume to get the best sound, which I'm sure you already knew. I'd say...

Hi, GtrGeorge!, for pickups I'm using a custom designed Ballurio p90 in the bridge and a Rockfield vintage alnico II humbucker in the neck. Without getting into too much detail, the bridge p90 uses neodymium magnets and is brutally overwound, but not enough to push the Blackface into distortion...

This is just one of the pitfalls of most closed back 4x12 cabinets: the speakers have too much room behind them, giving a "natural reverb" to the sound. Changing speakers may help the boominess, but it won't make it stop. Putting foam on the inside is a good idea to attenuate the boominess...

What about a hot plate attenuator? Or you could always put in a low wattage speaker. Those are two ways to get great tones at low volume levels.

Better too much gain than too little gain :D . If you think about it, the demand for extreme, face melting gain is quite high (whether extreme gain is a good thing or not is a debate in itself...), and if Randall can outdo everyone else, their sales are bound to increase, because word will get...

I thought I'd post this link for anyone interested in buying an RF4 footswitch for the RM4: http://www.samash.com/catalog/showitem.asp?itemid=52035&sourcetype=singleitemsearch Why Sam Ash has them for $50 and everywhere else is quite a bit more, idk, but I'm ordering one while the price is low...

Blackface (clean), Plexi (blues/pop), and Top Boost (bright crunch, classic rock). That's my two cents.