Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 8 months ago. Active 2 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 20k times. Improve this question. Anjolina Anjolina 41 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Your best bet is probably a stomp box, like a Metal Zone if those are even around anymore! If you get the right distortion pedal, you will have a metal sound with this amp. I think your best bet at this point is actually a digital simulation plugin, which gives plenty of arbitrarily metally sounds. Add a comment.
Active Oldest Votes. Pedal vs. Amp First you should understand how these distorted sounds are created. Typically you either: Turn the gain on the amp up so much that it overdrives the amp itself Or you keep the amp sound clean and add the gain via a pedal before the amp. Tube vs. Solid-State Second you should understand the difference between tube and solid-state amps.
This is called "unity" gain and you are now at a neutral position to start tweaking your tone. Tweak the tone controls a bit to taste Optionally tweak the level knob in the same way again now that you've added gain if you want to use both clean no pedal and dirty pedal sounds.
Improve this answer. The amp tone has been described to me as "as loud as possible, and little louder than that". A fully pegged watt Marshall stack's tone is very hard to reproduce in a small practice amp. Mainly you will want a pedal that will give you high gain distortion with wide frequency representation. This will help with the limitations of running it through a low power and small speaker practice amp.
Alphonso Balvenie Alphonso Balvenie 7, 14 14 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. I don't know that much about those bands, but from what I've grasped metallers seem to consider tube amps as canonical and transistor amps as more of an oddity.
Yes, I was trying to be as vague as possible considering the long history and many, many opinions on what "Metal" is. Some of the tube using bands from the early days aren't even considered Metal anymore. My answer is based on discussions with a Guitar teacher that focused on the style, and my perception of where the questioner may coming from in looking for a "sound" from an amp.
You are correct though, there is a resurgence in interest in Tube amps I use a Hughes and Kettner. I'll edit amp type as opinion based, thanks. I took on an answer to this question because I didn't think the only answer should be to take apart your amp and start taking pieces out. Alphonso, your answer was useful clear and considerate and I regularly find through this stack exchange forums that people have widely different definitions of what being kind is.
I gave you an upvote. According to Fender Forums, you're pretty limited with this basic amp. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Updating close reasons to fit the new format. The Ultra channel's attack also gets you just about where you need to go for extreme metal.
Developed in collaboration with Misha Mansoor of Periphery, the Peavy invective. The included footswitch can control individual channels and functions and provides instant access to nine user-programmable presets or control of an external MIDI device. The invective. The amp can push high-gain distortion to extreme levels, yet the sound never gets compressed into mush.
With its versatile functions and performance features, the invective. Read our full Peavey Invective. The Orange Micro Dark sure is tiny but it's more than capable of tones that will scorch the earth around you, and perfectly voiced for any kind of high-gain, heavy metal hi-jinks. The set up is simple. The control panel has knobs for volume, shape and gain, with the shape control running from a predominantly mids-scooped tone at one extreme to a more mids-heavy, punchy tone at the other.
At watts, the Micro Dark is more than powerful enough for band practice or small gigs — cab permitting — and with an emulated headphones output it's ideal for late-night silent practice.
Read the full Orange Micro Dark review. A 5-band EQ can be selectable per-channel to be on, off or footswitch-enabled. Sonically, the Mark Five: 35 offers aggressive metal tones in its creamy yet sizzling high-gain settings - all with lots of beating overtones amid string bends - and delightfully malleable sustain and controlled feedback.
But the Mark Series amps have always been more than just shred machines, and judicious gain settings easily straddle classic rock, punk, garage, grunge, or whatever breed of more restrained dirt your heart desires. The Katana can pretty much do anything. Spanky clean country? There are five amp types onboard, which effectively means the Katana is a five-channel amp, with Clean, Crunch, Lead, Acoustic and Brown amp models.
Factor in all the Boss effects and you see what we mean about it being a Swiss Army Knife for tone. The spandex-legged of you might then want to park yourself in the Brown channel, which is lifted directly from the Boss Waza amplifier and will put the E into the VH of your rock tones. The Lead amp, meanwhile, has all the gain you need to turn your signal into something that could slice through steel.
Dialing in tones is a cinch. There is a variable power control so you can switch it down to half-power or a measly 0. There are two individually voiced channels - Classic, which delivers a variety of seminal Marshall tones, and Ultra, which straddles a fine line between the beloved Marshall tones of the late Seventies and Eighties and modern high-gain textures.
Each boasts its own Gain and Volume knobs, a shared set of EQ controls treble, middle, bass, presence and resonance and a reverb level control.
A highly versatile amp, the DSL20C delivers various flavors of classic, coveted Marshall tones, but priced low enough for beginners to consider as their first amp. Well, not without damaging neighborly-relations. Grabbing yourself an attenuator is always an option, but rather than spending more money you could save a fair bit if you treated yourself to something at a lower wattage. Other amps - the EVH III for instance - are much better suited to the sharp precision of higher gain metallic thunder, from the EVH-like tones its name would suggest though to Gojira levels of brain-melting.
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Guitar World. Included in this guide: 1. Simply one of the best hard rock and metal amps out there at this price point. Type: Lunchbox tube head. Output: 15W, switchable down to 7W. Number of channels: 2, with clean pull-boost. Tubes: 2x 6L6, 6x EC83S. Weight: Reasons to avoid - Clean channel doesn't really stand out - No reverb onboard. A serious tool with the capability to withstand just about anything a guitarist can throw at it. Type: Tube head with digital control and digital effects.
Number of channels: 4, with built-in effects. Tubes: 4x EL84, 3x 12AX7. Weight: 17 pounds.
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