Your top 5 brutal metal amp models

jin1995x said:
Whats so special about this?
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Don’t know what it is but the mids in this IR/cab seem to cut through so well in a mix. It’s just an oversized Mesa 4x12 with V30s with a 57 and a 421. That’s it. But somehow no other IR (even if it is the same cab, same speaker, and same mics) seems to sound like this one. At least to my ears. It’s one of the most mix-ready IRs I have come across. No high or low pass needed! It wins every blind shootout I have done till date for high-gain tones.

Btw, Factory 2 #1005 (IIRC) is the same cab with just the 57, I think.
 
I played with the Archon tonight after putting a Suhr Aldrich in one of my Les Pauls and really, really loved it. I haven’t found the right IR for it in my III that sits in my studio, but coming out of actual cabs that amp sounded so damn good. I was in standard tuning and it did not feel/sound like it.
 
Late, but:

1. The Mesa Triple Crest (Triple Crown 3)
2. Cameron CCV
3. Spawn Nitro
4. Bogner (I hardly knew her) Ecstasy
5. FAS Modern, 1, 2 or 3, easily
6. 5153

Honorable Mentions:
Cameron Atomica
Legato 100
JMP-1/JCM900 model
 
Wow, I first responded to this thread 4 years ago... my updated list, which looks nothing like my original post:

Revv Purple 2
Revv Red 2
Recto 1 Red
Mark V IIc+ and IV modes
5153 Stealth Blue
Bogner Uber
 
Budda said:
Boosted marshalls cover tons of ground, probably why. Oversaturate, dial in a brighter tone (tight low end) and it’s gonna melt faces. Im more surprised you’re surprised haha.
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Yeah, the sound of 80s metal is basically a boosted Marshall. High on Fire sounds brutal to me, and that’s just an SG style guitar into a Marshall Kerry King with every knob at 10.
 
Budda said:
Boosted marshalls cover tons of ground, probably why. Oversaturate, dial in a brighter tone (tight low end) and it’s gonna melt faces. Im more surprised you’re surprised haha.
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A boosted MARSHALL, sure absolutely. But Friedman’s are all super neutered in the high end, and round. That’s why I’m surprised. It’s like Friedman took out all the sick high end that makes a Marshall sound like, well, a Marshall: In a mix. This is far from a strange opinion either, many feel this way, but that’s why I’m surprised to see people have that amp in their “top brutal metal amps” or whatever, with all of the other options available in the axe. Does the Friedman stuff sound great? Sure absolutely, but far from a top pick for me for anything super heavy.
 
VESmedic said:
A boosted MARSHALL, sure absolutely. But Friedman’s are all super neutered in the high end, and round. That’s why I’m surprised. It’s like Friedman took out all the sick high end that makes a Marshall sound like, well, a Marshall: In a mix. This is far from a strange opinion either, many feel this way, but that’s why I’m surprised to see people have that amp in their “top brutal metal amps” or whatever, with all of the other options available in the axe. Does the Friedman stuff sound great? Sure absolutely, but far from a top pick for me for anything super heavy.
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You know you can turn the treble and presence knobs up, right?
 
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