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I love my Vanguard. This is my first quality guitar with passive pickups and it screams. It is louder than both my Schecter and BC Rich. This guitar is great for 80s thrash. I love mine. I wish the inlays were a little different but I love it.

Definitely surprised by the drastic difference in the pickups. Obviously modern vs. vintage voiced. Those thrash factors just cut.

The pickups are the major difference between the Mustaine Vs and the normal ones, which usually come with 7-8k output pickups. My Original V has BB2 and BB3 pickups in the neck and bridge respectively and they sound like the one you used here for comparison. For anyone who already has a V, my advice is to just keep the old pickups, put in new ones, and rock on. No sense in spending 3 grand on another guitar.

Absolutely great review! You earned a new sub my friend!

Nice...definitely big difference in tones between both guitars pickups...Dave's midrange sings

GREAT review!! Two very cool axes.🤘🤘🤘

Another home run, brother!

I just got the 2023 white plain top 60's natural back and man oh man is it AWESOME! I got the OG case with the baby pic and all the goodies! I traded my 2016 Gibson Lespaul standard T trans amber AAA for it. Didn't even have the original case it was a SKB made in Canada hard plastic and was SUPER sticker bombed! I was floored when I drove away with that Gibson hardshell in my van!

I just installed some on my PRS 594, and I felt like the Allen wrench managed to get the thread of the plunger tight enough… but now I’m worrying maybe it didn’t! Thanks for the heads up man. Sorry to hear that happened to your guitar

The first riff sounded a lot like Triumph, Never Say Never

I think an eq pedal with a volume slider would be a better investment and you have the option of tone shaping. Good ones can be found for a reasonable price.

Next time slap an overdrive or boost upfront, that's the key with Crate amps.

I have owned the Blue Voodoo 120 not the 120H since the early 90's. It sounds amazing and I played everything from Clapton to thrash metal. I still have it right now sitting in my living room.

Chainsaw sound ? WTF ? Dude Were not playing Jackyl

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Maybe as a matter of test it would be better to stick with less intrusive guitars. I honestly can’t hear much of th bass.

I have a trident with the hollywood mod! Its really awesome! I love it! Pushed with a maxon 808 it's really good and can be pushed into the metal territory!

Low key you deserve more views this was the best review I’ve seen of this guitar

The after to me sounds growlier, more sustain, cleaner in that you can hear the tones better. Maybe not a huge difference, but there's definitely a difference to my ears 🤷🏻

Totally agree on the LTD sounding better than the Schecter. The Schecter sounded a bit muddy whereas the LTD had a crispness to the tone that gave the riffs more punch IMO. Great vid as always dude!

I used one as a teen in a hardcore punk band and it sounded great!!!

i play my brendon smalls ghost horse sitting down all the time and find it is extremely comfortable lol explorers are perfect sitting down

In my experience and to my ears, 7 strings have a distinctive and super characteristic high-midrange that screams "djent djent djent". It's not a Honky/nosey midrange, I find it actually makes for a nicely defined sound, they sit in a mix differently than a baritone would. Love the feel of a baritone but there's something about the sound of a 7 string that I personally gravitate towards.

Great mix. What drums are you using? Sounding great!! Sub'd

Another hit! That 800 is fire. Can't wait for your videos in the new facility💙

Man, the demos sound great with that guitar. The tune you wrote shows it off spectacularly.

Crate was the amps back in the 80s

Had the head and matching cab. Picked them up real cheap around 2008. Didn't fully know how to dial it in back then. Sold them in 2018.

They are super dependable. I like them .

Sounds cleaner, clearer, less muddied tone after the upgrades. Ive been playing a Squier P Bass since 2005. Thats the only difference i can hear

My bud had the crate g40 c . The chorus was sweet for us teenagers. I had the g60xl😅

Great unit

Singlecoil in highgain amp = 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

I just picked up a 90's era production model of one these badboys for $400 Australian which is approx $300, maybe a bit less. Damn I love this thing. I also have a Mesa Dual Rec Multiwatt and a Marshall JVM, however I would have absolutely no problem gigging this to save the risk of busting one of those. I love this thing and worth every cent. Great demo mate! Some really great tones you got out of this thing.

I use D'Addario universal strap lock currently, so far so good

And don't undervalue the geniune notion of bald being beautiful, my bro! Nice riffs, nice review. I have one these and was instantly impressed with it, even more than any of my previous variety of fantastic effects pedals. Peace!

Pretty scooped tone

If this doesn’t work out you can fall back on that collection of Marshall heads you got going there

I liked this better than the Royal Atlantic

What Tubes do you have in it? I happen to have one. Always wanted one when they first came out. I also started out using crate. I like it. Not as good as my JCM2000 DSL50, but sometimes I feel it comes pretty close. I got JJ 5881's in the power section, a Sovtek 12AX7WC in the first gain stage and Sovtek 12AX7WA in the rest of the pre-amp section. I also feel the wrong tubes can make this amp sound pretty bad. JJ ECC83s don't sound good in this amp for example, in my opinion.

I had an opportunity to try one about a year ago, and while it certainly wasn’t the worst amp I’ve played through, I didn’t care for it either. With a boost and maybe an eq in the loop I could get it where i want.

You have to condider this: *) Guitar forums most active posters are retired people, so they are probably fairly old. These people think anything beyond light breakup is garbage. Like most people, they generally have a secret agenda to convince you of their opinion, so they go to extremes to trash talk things that challenge their opinion. My favorite amp for a while was the Peavey Triumph and Rockmaster, and everyone trash talked the amp because Peavey has to suck. But, when I played, everyone wanted to know how I got that sound.

I am a marshall user for over 40 yrs, primarily non master models. I could easily dial this in to use for the 70's 80's hard rock I play

Yup, I remember in high school that these were called Blue Dudu

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Sounds fine to me

Crates are great amps. People are too picky, and don't practice enough. The reason you sound like garbage isn't your gear, it is your playing. You can get a good sound out of almost anything if you try. I have a Crate GFX-1200H, Solid State amp with DSP, and it works fine. Cork sniffers are douches or shills for guitar equipment companies that need to sell you the latest and greatest gear. I have enough gear to last me three lifetimes. I need to practice, practice, practice. Nothing wrong with a little tone chasing, that helps you learn how to use your gear. But still it is practice that makes the difference in your sound, not a pick, strings, pickups, tonewoods, amps, speakers, pedals. If your playing sucks it doesn't matter what gear you are playing out of.

What’s with the 300 jump cut edits… holy a.d.d. Visualization

It sounds like a rockman to me. For better or worse. The rockman drove alot of hits in the 80's. It really just sounds like it has to much 1K frequency. Push a lower mid frequency like 250 and it would probably sound pretty good.

Anyone that has a Crate tube they dont like feel free to send it to me