I recreate the most Meme’d heavy metal band in history! IMMORTAL
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- When it comes to black metal, nobody are more iconic than Immortal.
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Gear I used:
Guitar:
Tokai VC-75 superstrat with SD Pickups.
Boss Metalzone distortion pedal
My signature COT-100 Head
Celestion g12t-75 speaker
SM-57 center of cone 2” back. audix bass mic 4” back and halfway from center of cone.
Bass:
Epi Thunderbird
Vintage Crate SS Head
15” Jensen bass speaker.
They used:
Guitar:
1981 JCM800 2x12 combo
Celestion g12t-75 Speakers
Jackson/Ibanez/ESP Flying V or Super Strat
Metalzone boss distortion.
Bass:
BC Rich Warlock Bass
Trace Elliot 4x10 combo
15” extension bass cab
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Abbath laughs at himself as much as anyone else does....he gets it.
Yep. He’s a larger than life character.
People who could fill four different roles (five, if you count firebreathing, lol) in the same band with such success aren't exactly a dime a dozen, even if Hogh is an evidently superior drummer. And check Wanya "Nechtan" Groger's channel if you're looking for brutal black metal drumming, his videos without triggering are especially amazing.
One of the things that helped me to recreate a great, sufficiently "cold as a Norwegian corpse in winter" black metal tone was I read an article with Abbath saying that back in the day, everybody had these small Peavey Bandit combos because that's all they could afford... so, in designing patches I used a 5150 preamp but put it thru a 1x12 combo and BOOM! there was THAT sound! I was pulling my hair out because the guitar tone was sounding too, well, GOOD, using conventional 'tone-building wisdom'. The 1x12 combo was the missing KEY. **(Obviously, the preceding post is referring to what most would call the "old school" black metal tone, not the more modern... well, MODERN sound. ;0))
Yep. Cheap pedals, cheap amps and competing volume is at the heart of most true metal.
Can u try to get that early darkthrone or satyricon guitar tone?
Love Immortal, Abbath writes very original riffs, At The Heart Of Winter is full of them.
Yep. He had a great way with speed conveying emotion.
Once again you held my interest for the duration. You always do. That ain't easy. Maybe three other channels can do that.
Thanks Jeff. Lots more to come!
All of the goofing in the world won't change the fact that the early Immortal records are GREAT.
I'd like to hear your take on Cathedral!
Aaron Franks I’ll do a Doom genre one day and include them. They were a conundrum. Borrowing from the past and ahead of their time with the Doom revival thing.
CIRCLE OF TONE. If you’re going to do Doom metal, please do Solitude Aeturnus, my favorite doom band of all time.
And, of course, Sunn 0)))!
Nice intro man, glad to see you're working on your craft
Demonaz wrote the lyrics on the first album and the credits say the whole band wrote the music together. The drums were sped up after they were recorded, apparently.
goddamn it man, you did it! i was looking for this
Some of the old immortal riffs are a pig to play but a good challege to learn. Blizzard Beasts had some morbid angel style riffing. A very unique band who dont get the credit they deserve due to the meme status as you say!
Keep up the videos man, really enjoying them.
zanmato86 Yep. I thought the guitar was hard...then I had to play the damn thing on bass! My fingers are on strike.
I like the tone in Diabolical fullmoon mysticism
My favorite Black Metal band of all time!
They are top of the chain
And he also used metal zone! It's a meme inside a meme!
Yep. Full on.
Amazing! You got it again. Looking forward to picking up your amp.
Thanks man! The bass kicked my fingers ass!
*crab walking intensifies*
Splish splash, I was taking Abbath!
Great stuff ! Wish entombed will be next !
It is! I’m working on it now. Tough one to nail.
Greetings from Russia !
Thanks! I’d love to visit!
Awesome man! love the black metal videos.
Thanks dude! I’ll do a special on the genre in the future.
He is a very underrated musician..
He is a great guy but a kick ass musician ..
Down to earth and you are right, those drums are insane..and his solo album really was better then i expected.
Thanks for this
You NAILED that killer Immortal sound!! Have been a fan of them for many years now. Abbath is one of my favorite guitarists s well as metal personalities. This will probably seem like a ridiculous comparison, but he kind of puts me in mind of Alex Lifeson. No, they don't sound anything alike but the way that they both make 1 guitar sound like 2 or 3 at the same time is amazing. Keep up the great work!
EXACTLY! It’s like the riffs are 3D but claustrophobic at the same time. I’m glad you got the vibe I was going for. Black metal is way more nuanced than people think. I’ll be doing prog rock soon so I’ll def include Lifeson’s rig. LP and Marshall on the old stuff I think. But he has a twist to or two.
I have always been a huge fan of Emperor as well. They take the sound layering to the next level. Nightside and Anthems simply blow me away every time I listen to them. Truly amazing works of art in the highest sense.
Looooooove Immortal!!! I totally agree, very underrated/overlooked band.
Immortal (post 'At the Heart of Winter'), Gorgoroth, Burzum, Taake, anything King ov Hell touches... it really doesn't get better than that as far as Black Metal goes.
Fantastic. I revisited Immortal recently after getting into some other black metal and I'm finally loving them now. What would be cool is your take on modern metal tone and how you'd fix it or how you would fix certain tones of modern metal bands.
As it happens, I’m going to do just that very soon. It’s going to be the rant to end all rants.
My man! Great one again..immortal is legendary in all ways...and you have the balls to use a metal zone.i hate when people think it sucks. They just don't understand it.
Big! Dom! Yep. Give me a metal zone over guitar forums insistence of sensible mids and low gain (yawn) any day. It’s so boring/cookie cutter.
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Same I'm using a Metal Zone as my main preamp on my Iron Maiden cover
Het Bro great job on these latest recreations! Anxiously awaiting the Venom episode...
Venom will be an interesting one.
Yes I'm sure it will be...cant wait!
For a long time Abbath was using a Dave Mustaine signature LTD V. I don't know when he started using it, but i know he uses it in the "All shall fall" Music video as well as in the lesson video he did a long time ago.
Nice. Thanks.
Great content and didn't know that they use the same bass that i have :)
Thanks for your work and can't wait for entombed or death !
Immortal - God bless them
Most DM/black metal bands used BC Rich. Spikes evil looking guitars. Well made back then too.
Another awesome video and tone recreation! Agree with you about Immortal being vastly underrated. Only got into black metal about 6 years ago (Outside of Cradle of Filth, Venom, and Dimmu Borgir) and Immortal was one of the 1st I got into and still one of my favorites. BTW, I am REALLY looking forward to you doing Death. Loving your channel more and more
Death is going to be a challenge to play. But I’m hoping I do Chuck justice. I still remember what I was doing when I heard leprosy.
That's the album that got me into them!!! I went to a friend's house and he had on "The Ultimate Revenge 2" VHS on and as soon as I heard "Pull The Plug" I was hooked! I am sure Death will be challenging, but I am also sure if you do it, you'll do Chuck justice.
Great video! The slope wipeout was the best!
pcbullets he took it like a champ.
I saw Abbath last year and he kept holding a banana up in the air between songs and threw it into the crowd at the end of their set. 🤣
He is a black treasure.
Immortal is one of my fav black metal bands.
With their image, I always thought that they did on purpose, that they saw it as a bit of fun. But its low hanging fruit.
Yep it’s a cool line that they walk between serious and having fun with it.
I loved the lavish sound of later Emperor. The IX Equilibrium and the Prometheus are for me the best sounding BM albums even though they are not lo-fi as their later efforts.
YES
@circleoftone Wow man I just came across your channel and I loved this episode cant wait to check out some more.🤘
I have interviewed them. They are fucking awesome guys with tons of humor and total control over how they are perceived. The fact that people think these guys put on corpse paint and ride sledges down snowy hills and expect people NOT to laugh is of course something that amuses them a great deal, but not as much as the fact that a substantial percentage of their fans actually DO take the spandex/corpsepaint in forests imagery dead serious. They do however take their music very seriously and they are a great live act.
I subbed after watching your video about recording basses through guitar amps, liked your opinions & ideas about modern metal bass recording & how it everything sounds now fake & similar. Since I consider Abbath my hero, and you really did an amazing job, I would say thank you sir!
Thanks man! Welcome to the circle ⭕️
I’m doing a new video soon on the state of modern production and how our ears are rebelling.
Yes we liked that!!!! My favourite Immortal album is At the heart of the winter!!!Although I'm a huge fan of the production
*not a huge fan of the production
machine head - burn my eyes, would be a cool one to do. i realise MH suck now but that is a bona fide classic.
Awesome video!
I've always wondered how some of these atmospheric black metal bands got their strange guitar tones, like Blut Aus Nord (Level 1 - Nothing Is) or Drudkh (Summoning the Rain). If you figured it out I would bow to you.
One day I’ll do a black metal segment and cover burzum etc.
Great band and a great video! I was at the MetalDays show last summer where Abbath was running up and down the slope. It was an amazing show with an hilarious ending 😃
You legend! I would have loved to have seen that.
Abbath is a goofball on purpose, he actually has fun while playing black metal, and as far as I know he is a "part time stand up comedian". The guy is so god damn talented, yet people who don't know too much about him consider him the "generic black metal" guy...
Now, let's talk tone. Will you try to replicate the iconic "Peter Tagtgren" tone? It's being used on the last 4 Immortal albums as well (From "At the heart of winter" to "All Shall Fall"). I got sort of close to it with a modded Marshall DSL15 plugged into a Torpedo Captor Unit (can't afford recording properly...apartment life). I do not intend to "advertise" my 20 subs channel, but could you check it out and tell me what do you think?
Another thing, I used to record the bass on the few project songs I wrote using the clean channel of an amp and I was feeling a bit lazy because of it before seeing your video on that technique, then I tried "standard" technique every youtuber was suggesting and the clean channel technique worked way better for me. However, this made me wonder how would the clean of a guitar amp (or maybe slightly overdriven) compare to an actual bass amp through an actual bass cab.
Love the content man, keep up the good work :)
I think good guitar speakers sound better than dedicated bass speakers. (In general) but I do keep a vintage Jensen 1x15 around for that really deep tone if I need something swampy.
The only problem with running the bass through V30s would be that the speakers could be damaged if played at high volumes tho
i've heard that part of the Peter Tagtgren tone is multi micing and intentionally putting things out of phase. Could be a myth. Dunno
never heard of this but maybe it's true, who knows
Abbath also did some pretty interesting bass lines in Old Funeral, I was quite surprised
Cool. I forgot he did that.
I played after Immortal at Lichtenfells, Germany. Abbath used a rented Marshall mkIII JCM900. Sounded great. I used it afterwards.
Perfect amp for his style.
Brilliant video mate
Thanks man!
Great video once again. Now Im going to take Ashower!
Of blood.
Gotta love the early Black Metal scene when one guy did most of the job. Speaking of which, you should do a video about Darktrhone sometime in the future
Yep I’ll do a black metal week one day and do them, burzum etc.
spot on but even better :D
I wish! Thanks though. It’s easier to copy than create.
CIRCLE OF TONE. I agree in part, because if you create, you decide and know what you want to use. If you want to copy instead you have to try and try and be smart enough to figure out the gear because you're not the one who did that sound. Sorry for my bad english, i'm italian.
Another good one... I loved the napalm death vid you did, my fave band/album of all time, I didn’t think anyone cared about them any more?!! Anyway... CARCASS - I’d love to see your take on them, what a unique sound (I think? Maybe someone knows different?) referring to the earach discs, they got/did some production after the first few. Keep up the good work :-D
There are two carcasses. Pre 5150 and post 5150. I think I’ll do both.
Great content!
AMB AHMED cheers!
i saw them in the 90's and the guitarist got his hair stuck in the headstock of the guitar and ripped a large chunk of his hair out. poor guy.
Brutal. Haha.
Laughin' While playing makes those riff less morbid 😂😜
Next time you should try to smash your guitar into the dirt as well just to get that authentic live tone like he had xD Great stuff!
haha. Good point.
That meme with the dog was classic!...I had to hit pause for a minute to recompose myself
Joaquin Lance what makes it funnier is I think that was Ozzy’s dog.
Hahaaaaaaaa! I just googled images of "ozzy osbourne dog" and there's one of him holding it, it's called "Ozzy Osboune with his Japanese Chin"
Joaquin Lance I half suspect Jack his son picked the puppy. He was in to the old underground stuff.
Kind a midi sounding that kick in the intro, don't you think? hehe
my favorite album of theirs is actually Blizzard Beasts, with Demonaz, crazy guitar riffs, but I do love the Abbath guitar era as well
I risk to sound redundant but...DO "PIECE OF MIND" tone!!! PLEEEEASE!
IT IS COMING! Hopefully before NAMM.
This "Splish Splash" was spot on! lol
Lol. It’s great that he embraces it.
Love your videos! Not a huge black/death metal fan, but I am a HUGE tone fiend and I find this stuff absolutely fascinating. You, sir, are doing the elder gods work. It's a great help if, as a guitarist, someone was trying for a certain tone-boom! Check Circle of Tone.
I would love to see any heavy band from the 70s-90s like early hardcore/punk Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, etc and some of the hard rock of that era-Deep Purple, oooo, how about Iron Butterfly or Blue Cheer? You see what's up...I'm old. BUT, I still play and will be forming a band soon so I need this kind of inspiration. Thank!
Love your enthusiasm. Yep I’m be doing early rock metal inspired bands and punk/crossover.
Abbath is part of a dying breed of guitarist who actually knows how to write amazing RIFFS.
7:36 They used Mesa Boogie in the studio since Pure Holocaust and used Marshall live www.guitarworld.com/artists/immortal-brothers-grim
Here in Recife concert with Amon Amarth he used a JCM800 and it sounded amazing!
Cool. It does sound like a JCM800 on the albums.
Fala meu consagrado!
I saw Abbath early last year and it was fantastic, would love a Burzum's Filosofem video or a Summoning video, or anything black metal really haha, keep those videos coming, looking forward for the Death one.
Alucard .Tepes I’ll be covering black metal in a series in the future and I’ll include Burzum etc.
Nice! Any idea what they used on sons of northern darkness?
Great video! Totally agree that Immortal is underrated. No reason you can't be a brilliant black metal band and also be funny :-) They have some of the best black metal tunes ever imo. So many great riffs!
The Don DeLuxe Yep. Beyond the meme there was a great band in there. It’s a shame Abbath has left. It will be interesting to hear the new stuff.
Yeah, me too. Shame he left, but I thought his solo album actually was pretty good. I wonder what they will sound like without Abbath. Should be interesting!
Hi man!!! good job!!! what setting do u use in the metal zone and the amp? Thanks!!!
You should try to emulate that really eerie tone from the first Immortal album. I have seen pics of Demonaz with a turbo distortion and a JCM 800. Not sure if that's what they used but that seemed to be the live rig. I have also heard a rumor that first album may have been a Peavey Bandit but have no verification. That 1st Immortal album tone is unbelievable
Good info. Thanks. I'll be doing a few more mainstream acts in the near future though. My channel is dying this month.
Where do I get that T shirt lmao it's awesome
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Actually, the drums on Battles in the North were sped up by 10-12% in the mix. That’s why they sound so odd. This was confirmed years ago.
Source?
THIS brings me back hahaha! How about doing Lynch Mob (kinda glammy....guilty pleasure). Maybe the heavy version of Tangled in the Web?
UncleRaab I will def do George Lynch. It’s on the horizon. Probably late Spring. Is that a ref to Raab C Nesbit? Pure gallas so it is.
Really like your videos, but for a channel about tone you really seem to miss out on talking about the tone in detail. The description of the gear used is detailed in the description, but I would really like to see you talk about it, and - in a vlog fashion - film the different pieces of gear you have hooked up as you're talking about then, which also would show the settings of all the gear used. Anyway, thanks and keep it up.
Can you try to recreate the tone off of mayhems “death crush” please
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hail the metal zone! also try doing emperor in the nightside eclipse
I’ll keep it in mind for future black metal features.
I would love to see a video on Discharge and Extol!
I failed miserably trying to do Extol. Ill try again though. I’ll do a punk week too.
CIRCLE OF TONE. Punk week would be fantastic!
any reccomendation for black metal settings on the metal zone? i fail at fine tune-dialing this thng
It's been a while...I can't remember to be honest.
i was thinking immortal's second era
Immortal without Abbath sounds like Arch Enemy with a HM2 pedal. I'm kinda sick of overbearing guitars and melody.
Marco Pitruzella actually does the blastbeats and gravity blasts with a very hard touch. He plays it untriggered loud as hell
what Immortal song was he playing
That sounded like Dark Funeral. I tell you like a fan of Immortal and Dark Funeral)
Immortal Graveyard hehe
Early sepultura Please! No one has done sepultura yet. Beneath the remains is an awesome album.
YES! I’ll be doing inner self.
I recently played in a doomish/black/melodic-glam outfit where I played on a JCM-800 and I loved it! It was brutal! And loud! I know puritans will look down their noses at it, but man it was a killer. Unfortunately it wasn't mine.
Great vid btw! Good work!
JCM800 is my all time fav amp.
Wow! There you go! I should get one!
Or my COT-100 when it comes out...It will be cheaper ;-)
They should be on preorder in late Jan. It’s not going to be cheap cheap though.
I've kinda had my eye on that one too ;) It looks and sounds killer! Will you have European distribution of your gear at some point?
Entombed.....and Entrails?
Entombed is next!
Great stuff man! Loving your channel. How about giving Anacrusis a go? Loved their tones.
Thanks man. What is a good album for those? RUclips link me.
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Prolly their best sounds here on Manic Impressions for a rawer sound, as Screams and Whispers (which I personally preferred) was considered overly processed.
the noise gate on your voice is awkard when using headphones :D
Yeah I tried to cover it with music recently. Im trying to get a happy medium.
What duncan's do you have in your guitar? Are those distortions or JB? Now he uses EMG 57/66 which are great.
I think it’s a duncan custom SH5. The old Exodus pickup. I have not tried 57/66.
Sweet video! I have a couple of suggestions: Emperor, Hypocrisy, Deicide, COF, Gorgoroth, Amon Amarth, (dare I say)Pantera, and I know he's not metal, but, Buckethead(Marshall era, not the newer Mesa era)??
Splintered Company thanks man. Lots of good stuff. I’ll def hit a few of those this year.
Hey finally you do something on drumming. As a drummer I really hate much metal drumming. It's tippity tap as you say, but worse of all it suffers from the same generic formula engineering you criticised in your bass video. That being bass drums 'click', and snares 'snap,' what a wimpish sound. Bass drums should 'boom,' and religious use of bloody rims shots for every hit, you pay a fortune for a snare with a quality oak shell to get unique sound and resonance, then cover the qualities up with the crash of a cheap wood stick on a metal rim. These days I'm going with a phat snare sound, great for metal.......... The best drum sound I have heard recently is on Abbath's latest video, Winterbane, that's how metal drumming should sound..... You really need to do a how to produce drums video akin to your bass one.
Tezcatlipoca Yep. I’m trying t colab the get real drums as my backing tracks.
Booms get muddy fast at 300 bpm.
True, but click click click makes you sound like a samba band at anything below 300bpm
Under 300 BM is for posers ^^
Swing musicians say anything under 380 bpm is for wimps and death metallers.
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I cant be the only one to post this, and maybe you've already done this and I'm late to the game, but just to bring in a pedal workout how about Tim Sult and Clutch. I'm a huge fan and its obvious he loves his effects
Good shout. Great solid band. I never thought of doing them.
Thanks for the reply, even if you don't get to it, it's awesome that you noticed and responded!
That’s what Circle Of Tone is all about! Bringing you into the discussion. I learn loads from the comments. Welcome to the inner ⭕️!
I started playing the 80’s, everyone and their dog was playing JCM800 amps and 4x12’s with 75’s. “Thee” pedal was the Boss SD-1, Tube Screamers were for blues guys and the Metal Zone wasn’t even out yet. Seymour Duncan Super Distortion pickups were the go to. I ignored Immortal for decades and finally checked them out about 5 years ago, only to realize what a sheep moron I was to write them off as a joke like everyone else. imo there is no person on this earth more metal than Abbath, if you think there’s is, you’re wrong.
Keep up the good work Circle of Tone.
A couple of notes on this one -- Abbath's drumming was "cheated" on Pure Holocaust and Battles in the North, he didn't really play it that fast; they sped it up after it was recorded. Also, Pure Holocaust is tuned *up* a half-step, to F, something I've never seen any other band do! (yes, you could technically play it in standard by just playing everything up a half-step, but it gets weird at times -- this is why you see so many awkward things in tabs for that album online, because the person doing the tab doesn't realize they tuned up, so there's a lot of "end the song on a held power-chord on fret 1" going on. Good luck trying to play "The Sun No Longer Rises" in standard tuning a fret up, though, unless you can comfortably reach from fret 1 to fret 6 with the middle and ring finger on fret 4... kinda need the open F string on that one!)
I heard that was a rumor. Did he admit it etc? Do you have a link? Thanks!
Do you mean the tuning up is a rumor, or the speeding up of the drums?
For the tuning, you can prove it by just trying to play the "I believe... in tragedies/I believe... in desecration" riff from "The Sun No Longer Rises". The root note on those chords doesn't move, and if you're trying to play it on fret 1, you'd need an absolutely ridiculous reach; playing it with an open string is dead easy. The title track ending on an F power chord, which is the lowest note in the song (and, indeed, the entire album), is another pretty good clue; it'd be weird to write in that key if you were in standard tuning.
As for the drums, Abbath has never admitted it as far as I know (a google search is turning up a lot of people mentioning some interview where he mentions they were sped up by 10%, but no one provides a link), but the weird decay and pitch of the snare and kick kind of gives it away.
@@cynicanal111 2 years late, but "Pure Holocaust" is about a quarter step sharp, as are the early Burzum albums. I have no idea if Pytten did that intentionally in the mastering or not.
Love your vids man🙂🙂🙂🙂
What about the insane tones on heartwork by carcass?? Always wondered about that one! Cheers
Carcass will be covered. Thanks for watching!
I actually love immortal
Great!!!! Love this! (Great sound/great band) would you do Indie/alt rock/post rock/shoegazee type of rock sounds? If you only do hardrock i would like to know How clawfinger or Rammstein get their sounds ! :) :) Thanks
I’ll def do other scenes. I tried to do Adam and The Ants and failed recently. But I want to do new wave/romantics era soon. You would have liked the video I did that got copyright striked. It was full or indie bands.
I had to watch it again and share it on Facebook... I have a request man =) =) =) Dissection or at the gates.... or maybe some of the studio fredman / gothenburg metal sound
"Pain!" Love it.
:-)
Did you use the MT-2 up front or in the fx loop ?
kingpossie in front.
Do one on Arch Enemy
Great video! I would love to hear your interpretation of the guitar tone on Necrophobics album the nocturnal silence. A great underrated blackened deathmetal classic. Loaded with great riffs by the late David Parland aka Blackmoon.
Thanks Jim! I’m doing three more death metal bands this week then I’ll be changing tack. They are decided but send me a link to Necro and I’ll check them out.
CIRCLE OF TONE. ruclips.net/video/0_lt88Y_3ZE/видео.html
Damn! Good stuff. But they ripped the tubular bells style intro/riffs from Entombed. That was blatant. Then again everyone was stealing from everyone back then. A lot of the riffs from Scum were Celtic Frost riffs. Haha. I’m working on that exact Entombed riff as I type.
Absolutely love the video. Immortal is one of my favourite black metal bands. They have a certain energy that just gets me. Quick question, have you seen Judas Priest's new video? Any thoughts?Again awesome job👍🤘
Yes I saw it. It’s good. Great riffs. But it does that modern metal thing ...all drums/guitar/vocals with no bass guitar whatsoever and drums with no nuances. The cymbal strikes and hihat repetitions are really samey. So the little nuances of Priest’s earlier songs (the warts) are missing. Listen closely. Once you hear the hihats/cymbals with no bass in modern metal you can’t unhear it. My stupid brain has ruined most new music for me. Because I want to hear bass and drum nuances and time fluctuations. Not on the rails of a DAW’s metronome.
75s sound great btw! In the right amp they really provide balance. Grandpas bitch about the mids but in a mid heavy amp like a Marshall or Krank it provides a thick sound in the room.
Right! 75’s are “bad” on forums. I can count the forum bands that sound amazing/original on two hands so what do they know? It’s great to learn but we need to stress less rules.
CIRCLE OF TONE. I’m with you on this. I hear so many tones that make me cringe and before you hear them alone pre production. I’m committed to the John Petrucci “I want the tone in the room” method. I want a good base tone before I’ve touched any EQ beyond a little low passing which seems necessary often times. The mic process is so savage though. What is your input on monitors? I feel like I pretty much have to hit record and listen to playback to determine my mic position but that is extremely tedious.
reveal the dead kennedys guitar tone!
Entombed. HM-2 full out, am I right? :-)
They claim it’s all on 10 but there is no way. I think everything was on 10 apart from gain as you can’t make out the definition of notes that you hear clearly on the albums. Im working on it as we speak.
I have a creeping suspicion that there is a little bit of a tonal difference between the early and the later HM-2's as well.
Lasse Huhtala Yep. I have the early Japanese one.
My memory is a bit fuzzy, I used to have one of the newer ones in the late 80's, last year I bought one of the older ones, and I seem to remember that the newer ones had steeper tone controls, Ie. the older one doesn't scoop as hard (for those Shane tones I mentioned in your ND video). Anyway. Just reminiscing. :-D