I've been looking for a really good way to get really good sounding tones, I got a line 6 spider 4 with 75 watts, it sounds good for 300 bucks but I want to get that warm tube sound, so I'm thinking that I can still use the line 6, but I can get an overdrive pedal with tubes to get my gain to sustain more, so what do you guys think i should do?
@myskull54 if you want a good 'overdrive' which is warm i should get the carl martin dc drive which i have too and ive got a line 6 too, if you really want a good 'distortion' i would take a look at for a samp;e the mxr fullbore metal really good pedal go to thomann.de btw if you want the most cheap no shipping costs i always get my stuff there ;) good luck
not worth the money. i mean if it was cheaper i would buy it but its too muddy for the price. i have a boss metal zone that i got for 20 bucks and it sounds way better than that.
so i just bought one of these pedals used but it didnt come with the included power supply. so i e-mailed scott miller, who some of you may be familiar with from youtube demos, and they are sending me a power supply free of charge. its little things like that which make seymour duncan a great company. i was thrilled with the pickups i got which are the distortion mayhem set and i cant wait to see what this pedal sounds like. Thank you to the people at seymour duncan for their great products.
i watchhed another video showing what the seymour duncan pickup booster does for your tone. i was wondering if putting the pickup booster in front of this twin tube mayhem would be similar to overdriving a high gain amp. any ideas?
i WANT THE SOUND OF 3:50 i like MIDS i HATEEEEEEE scooped mids. but i want reaaaal hi gain and most pedals that have tubess and mids are made for playing clasick rock blues funk and stuff. im about to buy that thing but everybody seams to be disapointet at it! is it beacause the were looking for some heartless ULTRAscooped metal noise and they are stuck with some WARM hi gain? or the pedal is disapointing in every way????
"I owned this pedal and it sounds nothing like this in person" Maybe cuz he's good and you suck? Not the pedals fault. Crawl back into your parents garage.
@tllsknnybastrd89 Yes, the pickups are one of the influences on sound, this guy is using a very expensive set of pickups, so you need to take that into consideration.
I owned this pedal and it sounds nothing like this in person. This pedal cost $230 and based on the sound qaulity its worth about $100. The auther emailed me and said that he ran this pedal direct. I tried that, i have a ESP ec1000 and two JBL EON15 and still crap. So the pedal in the video is a special one made for this video or hes got something going on that we cant see. Before buying this pedal hear it in person first, dont make the same mistake I did and waste $230.
"In the video, I'm just hitting a tube power amp. So you could set your clean channel flat, or witn some amps you may get a better sound bypassing their preamps altogether, runnning into the effects return for example. The sound in the video is very representative of what the pedal sounds like, but some amps impart their own tonal voice that's obtrusive enough to limit the sound of your distortion pedals."
"In the video, I'm just hitting a tube power amp. So you could set your clean channel flat, or witn some amps you may get a better sound bypassing their preamps altogether, runnning into the effects return for example. The sound in the video is very representative of what the pedal sounds like, but some amps impart their own tonal voice that's obtrusive enough to limit the sound of your distortion pedals."
I own one and i wouldnt trade it for any transistor driven pedal. U should think of it as a tube amp. I run mine overdriven and I get plenty of gain even though im boosting it just a little. Another thing I've heard of is that an EQ pedal really opens this thing up. Gets a lot tighter that way.
Dont believe this demo it sounds nothing like it in person. I had it and couldnt believe how little distortion it put out. It had some of the attributes of a high gain amp such as the bass and sizzle but no GAIN.. These excuses people make that its meant to sound like a high gain amp and not a pedal which explains why a metalzone sounds more distorted is BS. My 6505 has far more brutal gain then any metalzone.
I have a question for anyone who may know: I use a pod/ headphones for practicing quietly at night but I really don't like the sterile high gain sounds I get from that set-up. I am thinking of getting this pedal and running it into a clean setting on the pod for a warmer, more realisitic high gain sound; has anyone tried this? good idea? thanks
I bought a Pittbull UL and sold every pedal I had a year ago. Volume just above half way will drown out my drummer and bring the cops to my remote home. It was a sacrifice, but I never looked back.
Now I'm stuck with this thing....anyone need a good deal on one of these used like four times? I can't use any tone this thing makes through my rigs. Maybe a trade, I don't really care, not doing anything but taking up pedal space now. Lol
metal was never meant to have a tube driven effect before a tube amp. You need some kind of solid state distortion pedal for all those pitch harmonics. Or just buy a marshall?
It's got WAY more gain than necessary for the most brutal metal. At just 12:00 I can drive the clean setting on my Sansamp into searing saturation. BUT IT'S NOT TIGHT. The breakup is very loose, and so is the bass. Very inarticulate. Backing off the gain doesn't help. Another thing: the low-mid is useless. Boosting it muddies the tone, even with the bass dialed down. I'm thinking the Q is too wide. All in all, it does sound a bit more tubey than the Maxon ROD-881, but it's a mess in comparison.
i got a good advice for TTM owners. i got this pedal in feb 2008, and, as many have said here, i couldn't get enough distortion..but i didn't give up...it's seymour duncan... bought a new amp for it ...and still the same.... now comes the best part: i read a review on harmony central (thanks toneseeker). this guy used the TTM with digitech bad monkey in front of it , and a berhinger 7 band eq after. And that's what i did. It's brutal ,man! Just brutal. And clear. Now i really love this pedal!
Sorry if this is stupid! I have pedals but not like this! Does it have to be on clean to play it without excessive noice and odd tone like a regular distortion pedal? Also i kneed someone to explain the whole concept of things like tube screamers! Are they a overdrive boost on lead channel?
what sort of amp du u use? coz i heard that this only works on solid state amps. i want this pedal but i have a marshall jcm 2000 and i hope it works on valve amps aswel
With a TS9, it's great? This does not nail true heavy metal tone though! Maybe it sounds pleasing, but It sounds super cruddy on this demo. I'm not impressed, I'm disappointed. I expected much more for that asking price, and those specs. I expected it to nail metal! Guyatone metal monster sounds so much better for a heavy metal distortion tone, going from reviews and demos. It has one tube, as a slave, meaning it's mostly for show. I want that, or a Krank Distortus Maximus as a second choice.
I bit the bullet and bought this thing.. Anyway its somewhat limited in getting that extreme tone although its possible to do by setting the treble and bass to ten and mids to zero then engaging the boost however, putting an EQ pedal like the MXR M-109 makes this thing sound like a high gain stack without having an amp head. In otherwords put an EQ pedal in front of it and it will give you a real extreme metal amp tone with piercing highs booming lows and over the top distortion
You could get that sound.. But honestly, I sold the twin mayhem because even with the EQ, it lacked the focus I was looking for. I got a Behringer VAMP which blows this crap away even though it is digital it sounds every bit as tube
You want a power tube distortion box? I understand, I have two of them, a Garnet Herzog 6v6, and a gjika mini, el84 distortion pedal. Neither of them can do high gain.
To make a metal pedal, hand wire it, use 1 6L6( power tube, 1 12ax7 and some diode stages too, with more than enough eq for real heavy metal glory. That would be one bad ass 1000 buck distortion unit. I dream of it my friend. I would have to save up and buy one. I wish I could design pedals like this.
Funny if it were true, but the guitar is loaded with a Seymour Duncan Blackouts pickup. Remember, Alexi replaced all of his EMG's with Seymour Duncan Blackouts. Then, EMG hired the same artist relations person that brought him to Seymour Duncan, and months later Alexi had a signature EMG pickup. Such is business...
HA! I have a gigantic Italian nose, everything is a close-up! :)
The Mayhem is a certain kind of heavy. It's an amplifier, tube sag kind of heavy. It records phenominally, and sits into a track really well. It also takes post-EQ very well. You can really manipulate it (scooped mids, sub-lows, chainsaw highs, etc) and it still retains the tube character.
Well, in a sense, any pedal you put in front of your amp is serving as a preamplification unit. It takes your signal, and buffers it, gives you external control of the gain, volume, and tone, independent of the power amp. This is enough of a preamp, if your amp has mic/instrument level inputs, but it will not bring your signal up to a level high enough to drive a power amp from it's line input. Like some old Marshall Rack amps, they require a preamp that is stronger than this. Good pedal though
Tube amps. I started with solid state, a Spider III 150 watt as a matter of fact. Every pedal I ran through that thing sounded like crap. I saved up and bought a tube amp and and I am much happier.
Its about time a Distortion pedal like this is available, so many usable features,so many unbelievable tones not muddy just mean and nasty. These are hard to get in Australia could I buy from USA its voltage is 110Volt in the USA, in Aus we are 230/240 volt how can I get around this problem? Congratulations Seymour Duncan, best Pickups in the world now the best Distortion Pedal on the Planet!!!!!!!
Transformer is the solution, here in Argentina we have the same problem, we use 220Vrms in the home power line, and a lot of stuff is imported from the USA. It´s not a big deal, a transformer would bring it down to 110V.
Thanx for posting this. It convinced me of bying one. I ordered a used one today (Y) (couldn't find new ones anywhere) But it will propably still rock!
Youtube has improved their audio quite a bit in the last year. We posted this video over a year ago. Watch the video on the SD website. The audio is cleaner.
I agree with people who say its not a gain beast. It is not but it is very very awesome. I have this and metal zone and metal core. They are all awesome pedals.
This has a very unique thick tone tho as opposed to boss pedals having that sharp tone.
Gyro- Simple reason really, Peaveys are appalling sounding for there price, the lil valve king is great but anything else is a waste of money, plus not everybody likes there Amp distortion! pretty obvious really! and The Duncan valve Pedals are great having owned a classic for 12 months!!!
The volume during the demo was pretty low, and the Maymem went straight into a power amp. So the sound is of the pedal into a microphone. I think the difference is in the way it overdrives. A distortion pedal can drive in a really cutting, square wave manner. There's an insane amount of gain in the Mayhem, but it's all tube gain, so it still feels spongy. Maybe my pick attack is part of it too.
I bought it too, I have a Peavey VK stack and it sounds really good but not as good as in the video. Buy a EQ that will help but not as much as buying a marshal.
FYI Guys.... the Marshal in the back was just "eye-candy" it wasn't even plugged in. Signal was very clean to represent what the pedal sounds like if you were standing in the room.
Here's Frank's reply from a while back to a simliar thread of questions...
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"In the video, I'm just hitting a tube power amp. So you could set your clean channel flat, or witn some amps you may get a better sound bypassing their preamps altogether, runnning into the effects return for example. The sound in the video is very representative of what the pedal sounds like, but some amps impart their own tonal voice that's obtrusive enough to limit the sound of your distortion pedals."
Probably because he's got the volume cranked to 10 and is picking real hard. I regular demo's and this pedal does not have the biting distoriton necessary for modern metal. Its good for classic Judas priest Sabbath type stuff
us ur amps gain god ........its a pedal its not going to give all the gain needed plz think much jk but really use ur amp gain and it will work great....
Ewwwww, 40$ pedal repackaged.
stevethebot 7 months ago
I've been looking for a really good way to get really good sounding tones, I got a line 6 spider 4 with 75 watts, it sounds good for 300 bucks but I want to get that warm tube sound, so I'm thinking that I can still use the line 6, but I can get an overdrive pedal with tubes to get my gain to sustain more, so what do you guys think i should do?
myskull54 8 months ago
@myskull54 if you want a good 'overdrive' which is warm i should get the carl martin dc drive which i have too and ive got a line 6 too, if you really want a good 'distortion' i would take a look at for a samp;e the mxr fullbore metal really good pedal go to thomann.de btw if you want the most cheap no shipping costs i always get my stuff there ;) good luck
own4ger 8 months ago
I dunno about you guys, but I can picture myself making this pedal scream....
sharrer2 9 months ago
does somebody know what kind of flower is painted on that?
420Fuzzer 10 months ago
Maybe it sounds cool cuz it's plugged into Marshall JCM800 2203?
TonyThrash94 10 months ago
@TonyThrash94 It's not actually. The Marshall was just a prop in the shot.
stevetosborne 3 months ago
@stevetosborne aw, then it seems to be good.
TonyThrash94 3 months ago
not worth the money. i mean if it was cheaper i would buy it but its too muddy for the price. i have a boss metal zone that i got for 20 bucks and it sounds way better than that.
xxDlABOLlCALxx 11 months ago
frank falbo is an extraordinary player i really like his style
eowli 1 year ago
THE PEDAL SUCKS BALLS...MUDDY AS HELL!!!
wolfgar926 1 year ago
Get a Rocktron Silver Dragon instead. It beats the hell out of this. The Mayhem has no distortion gain and sounds like a broken tube amp
Gyro911 1 year ago
my ass makes nicer noises than that
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pizzapit2 1 year ago
can i play other genreas like punk and rock with this pedal or just metal?
Igrandov 1 year ago
the angles are so metal!
twistedXjustice 1 year ago
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Igrandov 1 year ago
For this price sounds like shit... :( to much fizzy... sounds bad to my ears in the recording...
/me disapointed!!!
nunoinocencio 1 year ago
seymour duncan demoing on EMGs
Satansbitch101 1 year ago
@Satansbitch101 No. This was the window Alexi was with Duncan.
stevetosborne 3 months ago
mudddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
ENGL555 1 year ago
great pedal if you like mud and not be heard in the mix...
ENGL555 1 year ago
would have been nice if they mic'ed the amp instead of hearing the string scratching with the pick :S
bodomguitar91 1 year ago
so i just bought one of these pedals used but it didnt come with the included power supply. so i e-mailed scott miller, who some of you may be familiar with from youtube demos, and they are sending me a power supply free of charge. its little things like that which make seymour duncan a great company. i was thrilled with the pickups i got which are the distortion mayhem set and i cant wait to see what this pedal sounds like. Thank you to the people at seymour duncan for their great products.
luvz2sploogeify 1 year ago
clarity???????
lol
Woofspl 1 year ago
what tuning is this??? drop d / c???
MrBowchikawowwow 1 year ago
i LOVE this setting 5:55
MrBowchikawowwow 1 year ago
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MrBowchikawowwow 1 year ago
i watchhed another video showing what the seymour duncan pickup booster does for your tone. i was wondering if putting the pickup booster in front of this twin tube mayhem would be similar to overdriving a high gain amp. any ideas?
luvz2sploogeify 1 year ago
i want it !
kakarottoalejandro 1 year ago
Skip to the playing 1:58
dbenc 1 year ago 14
i WANT THE SOUND OF 3:50 i like MIDS i HATEEEEEEE scooped mids. but i want reaaaal hi gain and most pedals that have tubess and mids are made for playing clasick rock blues funk and stuff. im about to buy that thing but everybody seams to be disapointet at it! is it beacause the were looking for some heartless ULTRAscooped metal noise and they are stuck with some WARM hi gain? or the pedal is disapointing in every way????
TheXinomaiden 1 year ago
my mind instaly exploded after watching this video. my brains
1withguitar 1 year ago
"I owned this pedal and it sounds nothing like this in person" Maybe cuz he's good and you suck? Not the pedals fault. Crawl back into your parents garage.
DrSaxNJ 1 year ago
i used it. fat metal distortion \m/
XSCreno 1 year ago
would the type of pickups effect the sound of the pedal?
tllsknnybastrd89 1 year ago
@tllsknnybastrd89 Yes, the pickups are one of the influences on sound, this guy is using a very expensive set of pickups, so you need to take that into consideration.
mynameisDavid92 1 year ago
this video has such weird camera zooms and angles lol
zirconiumeffect 1 year ago
I owned this pedal and it sounds nothing like this in person. This pedal cost $230 and based on the sound qaulity its worth about $100. The auther emailed me and said that he ran this pedal direct. I tried that, i have a ESP ec1000 and two JBL EON15 and still crap. So the pedal in the video is a special one made for this video or hes got something going on that we cant see. Before buying this pedal hear it in person first, dont make the same mistake I did and waste $230.
bishrush 1 year ago 11
Who is the "author" your talking about...?
Here's how we did it...
"In the video, I'm just hitting a tube power amp. So you could set your clean channel flat, or witn some amps you may get a better sound bypassing their preamps altogether, runnning into the effects return for example. The sound in the video is very representative of what the pedal sounds like, but some amps impart their own tonal voice that's obtrusive enough to limit the sound of your distortion pedals."
stevetosborne 1 year ago 2
What author... Frank or myself? If not then...
What we did...
"In the video, I'm just hitting a tube power amp. So you could set your clean channel flat, or witn some amps you may get a better sound bypassing their preamps altogether, runnning into the effects return for example. The sound in the video is very representative of what the pedal sounds like, but some amps impart their own tonal voice that's obtrusive enough to limit the sound of your distortion pedals."
stevetosborne 1 year ago 2
I gtta agree with you for this, I went the the guitar store n tried it out and was kinda disappointed. Power Grid definitely is better than this.
KrankItVZ 1 year ago
@bishrush hes also playing blackouts with a marshall half stack that probley makes alot of diffrence
pittbullbill 1 year ago
@bishrush
This is worst pedal I have ever tried. Sounds crap on video too. Funny thing it has best reviews on harmonycentral. All above 9.1....
Woofspl 1 year ago
@bishrush Maybe you just suck?
ferbicus 11 months ago
@ferbicus I think U suck big fat hairy balls, bitch.
bishrush 11 months ago
@bishrush Wow, you can talk tough over the computer, good for you....
ferbicus 11 months ago
The power grid is way better than this one. This one has that fuzz pedal type tone.
RNRDOLL 1 year ago
I own one and i wouldnt trade it for any transistor driven pedal. U should think of it as a tube amp. I run mine overdriven and I get plenty of gain even though im boosting it just a little. Another thing I've heard of is that an EQ pedal really opens this thing up. Gets a lot tighter that way.
Olli285 2 years ago
Dont believe this demo it sounds nothing like it in person. I had it and couldnt believe how little distortion it put out. It had some of the attributes of a high gain amp such as the bass and sizzle but no GAIN.. These excuses people make that its meant to sound like a high gain amp and not a pedal which explains why a metalzone sounds more distorted is BS. My 6505 has far more brutal gain then any metalzone.
Gyro911 2 years ago
5:20 sounds like In Flames
Shyuum 2 years ago
I would take my Big Muff over this thing any day. And it's about 1/4 the cost.
advilbrewer 2 years ago
I have a question for anyone who may know: I use a pod/ headphones for practicing quietly at night but I really don't like the sterile high gain sounds I get from that set-up. I am thinking of getting this pedal and running it into a clean setting on the pod for a warmer, more realisitic high gain sound; has anyone tried this? good idea? thanks
EC1000 2 years ago
it doesnt sound all that great try skullcandy headphones. there small but put out better sound than any headphones
westtoledotigers1 2 years ago
They also break easily.
punk9999643 2 years ago 2
The sound of Shit exploding out of my ass sounds better than skullcandy headphones...
guns1rose 2 years ago 4
@guns1rose Hahahaha! I absolutey DIED from laughing when I read that!
thesouthafricanguy 2 years ago
No, you didn't.
Jharenc 2 years ago
@Jharenc Whats it to you?!
thesouthafricanguy 2 years ago
See? I knew you didn't die!
Jharenc 2 years ago
@Jharenc Hahahaha! Youre a very Literal person, arent you? :)
thesouthafricanguy 2 years ago
If you are using small in-ear headphones, get bigger headphones like professional monitoring types used in recording or live sound.
PoliticalDestruction 2 years ago
I bought a Pittbull UL and sold every pedal I had a year ago. Volume just above half way will drown out my drummer and bring the cops to my remote home. It was a sacrifice, but I never looked back.
FracturedSkeletonCom 2 years ago
sounds like a wasp nest burried in mud
not a fan of any duncan pedals
Wampler Pinnacle II is the best distortion ever! Bring on the hate mail....lol
Peace
Axeman2006 2 years ago
I NEED THIS!!!!
Sephiroth78941 2 years ago
Just got tired of all the emails.
caveman5577 2 years ago
For all that have asked... I'm putting it on eBay. Thanx
caveman5577 2 years ago
damn i could do a better job at demoing that pedal
christslayer666 2 years ago
Now I'm stuck with this thing....anyone need a good deal on one of these used like four times? I can't use any tone this thing makes through my rigs. Maybe a trade, I don't really care, not doing anything but taking up pedal space now. Lol
caveman5577 2 years ago
HAHAHA! itll probably blow out your computer speakers! Fuckin AWESOME!!! nice raunchy heavy tone too. \m/
cars463 2 years ago
metal was never meant to have a tube driven effect before a tube amp. You need some kind of solid state distortion pedal for all those pitch harmonics. Or just buy a marshall?
minibikedude04 2 years ago
marshal for metal?
i dont think so man... mabe a few classic metal tunes...
joeyrotten101 2 years ago
Nile - Marshall JCM2000
DedeAsPsichas 2 years ago 2
marshall is great for metal.death metal black metal,thrash metal use marshall
christslayer666 2 years ago
hhhmmm i agree they are used there are better amps for that kind of thing tho..
joeyrotten101 2 years ago
most metal bands use marshals....
godlikecharacta 2 years ago
your a douchebag
Natanuus 2 years ago
no more metal bands these days use messa, for a better lower end
joeyrotten101 2 years ago
yeah ya got a point there man, like they mostly use engl, rivera and orange these days
Natanuus 2 years ago
whats with all of the ppl that demo metal pedals dont know how to fucking play metal
christslayer666 2 years ago 14
So true.
It seems to work in old fashion hard rock.
He doesnt even try to play metal. Maybe cant get decent metal sound.
Woofspl 2 years ago
i bought this thing thinking it was gonna melt my face......not even close.....
this pedal is weak! (for metal)
if you play music from the 70's its ok, or even smooth jazztype tones.
it was so weak as a metal pedal i actually opened it up to make sure both tubes were on! (they were)....
so i got a bloody mary from t-rex and put it in front of my boss me-50 and now faces are melted and panties are dropped!..
nice try seymour duncan...love your pickups, but your pedals,..try again
caveman5577 2 years ago
It's got WAY more gain than necessary for the most brutal metal. At just 12:00 I can drive the clean setting on my Sansamp into searing saturation. BUT IT'S NOT TIGHT. The breakup is very loose, and so is the bass. Very inarticulate. Backing off the gain doesn't help. Another thing: the low-mid is useless. Boosting it muddies the tone, even with the bass dialed down. I'm thinking the Q is too wide. All in all, it does sound a bit more tubey than the Maxon ROD-881, but it's a mess in comparison.
JoshuaSethComposer 2 years ago
i got a good advice for TTM owners. i got this pedal in feb 2008, and, as many have said here, i couldn't get enough distortion..but i didn't give up...it's seymour duncan... bought a new amp for it ...and still the same.... now comes the best part: i read a review on harmony central (thanks toneseeker). this guy used the TTM with digitech bad monkey in front of it , and a berhinger 7 band eq after. And that's what i did. It's brutal ,man! Just brutal. And clear. Now i really love this pedal!
undeilumetoporu 2 years ago
think its better than dime distortion
thehypersexxxual 2 years ago
He reminds me of Marty McFly's dad in Back To The Future 1. The one from the past.
MrWillyP100 2 years ago 3
my favorite toy for my guitar
g0atf1sh 2 years ago
this thing is a child eater!!!!!!
sexpistolio 2 years ago
ah!? :D he's using an Alexi-600 guitar!!
sk8rjj1 2 years ago
just a reminder... Alexi was using Blackouts when we shot this....
stevetosborne 2 years ago
@sk8rjj1 it's not the 600.. it's the esp not the ltd :P
Sonicsound636 1 year ago
I thought it was funny how he didn't show the 8 decibel boost at risk of blowing our computer speakers XD
mobman47 2 years ago
Lol i get a Presonus Studio Channel for my need of boost - Over 50db of gain !!
NuclearBanjo 2 years ago
Does this sound better through the effects loop rather then the clean channel. In otherwords is this a true preamp rather then just a pedal?
Gyro911 2 years ago
Sorry if this is stupid! I have pedals but not like this! Does it have to be on clean to play it without excessive noice and odd tone like a regular distortion pedal? Also i kneed someone to explain the whole concept of things like tube screamers! Are they a overdrive boost on lead channel?
jacobandnick321 2 years ago
i have this pedal, it is very amazing, i would recomend it to have the amp on clean, but it is still quite noisy.
AdrianSmithFan 2 years ago
oh well thank you!
jacobandnick321 2 years ago
what sort of amp du u use? coz i heard that this only works on solid state amps. i want this pedal but i have a marshall jcm 2000 and i hope it works on valve amps aswel
KG739 2 years ago
how heavy can the distortion get?
Tachikoma1111 2 years ago
I have this pedal, and as other said before me... it sounds great on it's on. with a Tubescreamer, it sounds even better for Metal.
the pedal on its own is missing some crunch and sustain, but with TS9, it shines, big time.
RealDeadOne666 2 years ago
With a TS9, it's great? This does not nail true heavy metal tone though! Maybe it sounds pleasing, but It sounds super cruddy on this demo. I'm not impressed, I'm disappointed. I expected much more for that asking price, and those specs. I expected it to nail metal! Guyatone metal monster sounds so much better for a heavy metal distortion tone, going from reviews and demos. It has one tube, as a slave, meaning it's mostly for show. I want that, or a Krank Distortus Maximus as a second choice.
philochs 2 years ago
I bit the bullet and bought this thing.. Anyway its somewhat limited in getting that extreme tone although its possible to do by setting the treble and bass to ten and mids to zero then engaging the boost however, putting an EQ pedal like the MXR M-109 makes this thing sound like a high gain stack without having an amp head. In otherwords put an EQ pedal in front of it and it will give you a real extreme metal amp tone with piercing highs booming lows and over the top distortion
Gyro911 2 years ago
With the setup you are talking about, Twin Tube Mayhem, and MXR M-109, would it be possible to get a Human Waste/Suffocation type sound?
Y2KExtacy 2 years ago
You could get that sound.. But honestly, I sold the twin mayhem because even with the EQ, it lacked the focus I was looking for. I got a Behringer VAMP which blows this crap away even though it is digital it sounds every bit as tube
Gyro911 2 years ago
Alright, thank you so much for your knowledge.
Keep it extreme metal. \m/
Y2KExtacy 2 years ago
and help on witch one i should choose?
Tachikoma1111 2 years ago
i cant decide between a metal muff and this. i play REALLY heavy distortion. like mids cut all the way and treable and bass all the way up
Tachikoma1111 2 years ago
great thing)
DanZilla2417 2 years ago
mmm....everything I hate about preamp tube distortion in one pedal.
pinholedstars 2 years ago
You want a power tube distortion box? I understand, I have two of them, a Garnet Herzog 6v6, and a gjika mini, el84 distortion pedal. Neither of them can do high gain.
To make a metal pedal, hand wire it, use 1 6L6( power tube, 1 12ax7 and some diode stages too, with more than enough eq for real heavy metal glory. That would be one bad ass 1000 buck distortion unit. I dream of it my friend. I would have to save up and buy one. I wish I could design pedals like this.
philochs 2 years ago
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LFRZ93 2 years ago
Funny its ESP Alexi's
with EMG and not Seymour Duncan!!
LOL
lironmotek 2 years ago
funny. its not the pickups but the pedal thats seymour duncan.
cosmicboi123 2 years ago
Funny if it were true, but the guitar is loaded with a Seymour Duncan Blackouts pickup. Remember, Alexi replaced all of his EMG's with Seymour Duncan Blackouts. Then, EMG hired the same artist relations person that brought him to Seymour Duncan, and months later Alexi had a signature EMG pickup. Such is business...
frankfalbo 2 years ago 2
Do you guys think this pedal would sound good on a Fender Blues Junior? I just got it and its great, but I have a cheap solid state amp.
54NT14G0 2 years ago
start messin with pedals,
and if it soudns good on a shityt amp, than a tube amp will only make it sound like fucking magic
minibikedude04 2 years ago
not heavy enough and the way this video was shot drove me insane close ups of his nose-etc.
scorpguitar79 2 years ago
HA! I have a gigantic Italian nose, everything is a close-up! :)
The Mayhem is a certain kind of heavy. It's an amplifier, tube sag kind of heavy. It records phenominally, and sits into a track really well. It also takes post-EQ very well. You can really manipulate it (scooped mids, sub-lows, chainsaw highs, etc) and it still retains the tube character.
frankfalbo 2 years ago 2
i personally find it perfect because i use it in combination with my randall which already has good distortion =D
dan2stories 2 years ago
Well, in a sense, any pedal you put in front of your amp is serving as a preamplification unit. It takes your signal, and buffers it, gives you external control of the gain, volume, and tone, independent of the power amp. This is enough of a preamp, if your amp has mic/instrument level inputs, but it will not bring your signal up to a level high enough to drive a power amp from it's line input. Like some old Marshall Rack amps, they require a preamp that is stronger than this. Good pedal though
punkeratheart 2 years ago
If i doesnt run good through a line 6 then which amps does it work good with??
steemguitardude 2 years ago
Tube amps. I started with solid state, a Spider III 150 watt as a matter of fact. Every pedal I ran through that thing sounded like crap. I saved up and bought a tube amp and and I am much happier.
Bieling3 2 years ago
woud this pedal run good through a line 6 spider 3 75 watt and jackson rr3
lastorma 2 years ago
no.
ScreamForMe88z 2 years ago
ESP Alexi
niahaa 2 years ago
he is now... he wasn't when we shot the video.
stevetosborne 2 years ago
Its about time a Distortion pedal like this is available, so many usable features,so many unbelievable tones not muddy just mean and nasty. These are hard to get in Australia could I buy from USA its voltage is 110Volt in the USA, in Aus we are 230/240 volt how can I get around this problem? Congratulations Seymour Duncan, best Pickups in the world now the best Distortion Pedal on the Planet!!!!!!!
BlackSG8 2 years ago
UK maybe?
Sickhead30000 2 years ago
Transformer is the solution, here in Argentina we have the same problem, we use 220Vrms in the home power line, and a lot of stuff is imported from the USA. It´s not a big deal, a transformer would bring it down to 110V.
Boneamps 2 years ago
Thank you for your help.
BlackSG8 2 years ago
This is the Pedal I've been looking for , awesome tone, heaps of features.
Xx1GuitarGodxX 2 years ago
this is a kinda cool demo but hes not really playing to many heavy riffs...
willworkformoney69 2 years ago
What is the amp used in this video?
Sapotenis 2 years ago
Not really an amp, just an old Seymour Duncan KTG tube power amp and a 2x12.
frankfalbo 2 years ago
seymour duncan has just now become my favorite company that doesnt make guitars.
ARTROXproductions 2 years ago
hey Frank over time would these tubes need to be changed and are there any other tubes that could be used in them.
JerichBlakk 2 years ago
Thanx for posting this. It convinced me of bying one. I ordered a used one today (Y) (couldn't find new ones anywhere) But it will propably still rock!
djaevulens 2 years ago
i want one!
DanGerving 3 years ago
The low end sounds really muddy.
themanwins 3 years ago 2
Youtube has improved their audio quite a bit in the last year. We posted this video over a year ago. Watch the video on the SD website. The audio is cleaner.
stevetosborne 2 years ago
it seems not bad...but i think dime dist. it's better because it have all u designed already!!
EADPE 3 years ago
Steve, you said that is was recorded on Seymour Duncan Power Amp. It is Seymour Duncan KTG 2100? How much does it cost?
GREETINGS ;]
TyskiDaro 3 years ago
Duncan was only in the "Amp Bizz" for a bit. The only way you'd get your hands on one, is after-market (ebay, e tc).
stevetosborne 3 years ago
This thing sounds hugely fat and chunky
IwishIwereJoe 3 years ago
Frank, way cool sounds. Just bought one. Going to run straight into a Marshall stereo power amp. Do you suggest this? Thanks, this rocks.
tatsandteles 3 years ago
I agree with people who say its not a gain beast. It is not but it is very very awesome. I have this and metal zone and metal core. They are all awesome pedals.
This has a very unique thick tone tho as opposed to boss pedals having that sharp tone.
kvltaholic 3 years ago
i see a hellraiser c-7
tigersrule6 3 years ago
Gyro- Simple reason really, Peaveys are appalling sounding for there price, the lil valve king is great but anything else is a waste of money, plus not everybody likes there Amp distortion! pretty obvious really! and The Duncan valve Pedals are great having owned a classic for 12 months!!!
kamikazimonk1987 3 years ago
I played one the other day, this would be great for a sabbath/priest sound, but if you wanna sound like metallica, zakk or dimebag, don't bother.
suckmuhcrank 3 years ago
The general consensus of people who used this pedal for metal is that it doesnt carry enough gain for brutal over the top metal distortion
Gyro911 3 years ago
The volume during the demo was pretty low, and the Maymem went straight into a power amp. So the sound is of the pedal into a microphone. I think the difference is in the way it overdrives. A distortion pedal can drive in a really cutting, square wave manner. There's an insane amount of gain in the Mayhem, but it's all tube gain, so it still feels spongy. Maybe my pick attack is part of it too.
frankfalbo 3 years ago
All I can say is that a 5150 sounds a lot heavier then any distortion pedal i've tried. I guess I have to try the Mayhem to judge its distortion
Gyro911 3 years ago
I got this pedal for christmas and it doesn't really sound like this,any reason why?
AspAdm123 3 years ago
I bought it too, I have a Peavey VK stack and it sounds really good but not as good as in the video. Buy a EQ that will help but not as much as buying a marshal.
bishrush 3 years ago
FYI Guys.... the Marshal in the back was just "eye-candy" it wasn't even plugged in. Signal was very clean to represent what the pedal sounds like if you were standing in the room.
stevetosborne 3 years ago
A peavey VK has massive distortion. Why would you get this?
Gyro911 3 years ago
You either have a different amp or arent using active pickups like the blackouts in that Alexi sig he's playing
Codysawesome1 3 years ago
Here's Frank's reply from a while back to a simliar thread of questions...
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"In the video, I'm just hitting a tube power amp. So you could set your clean channel flat, or witn some amps you may get a better sound bypassing their preamps altogether, runnning into the effects return for example. The sound in the video is very representative of what the pedal sounds like, but some amps impart their own tonal voice that's obtrusive enough to limit the sound of your distortion pedals."
stevetosborne 3 years ago
Probably because he's got the volume cranked to 10 and is picking real hard. I regular demo's and this pedal does not have the biting distoriton necessary for modern metal. Its good for classic Judas priest Sabbath type stuff
Gyro911 3 years ago
Ahh crap i got it because i thought it was good for stuff like All shall perish/The faceless stuff
AspAdm123 3 years ago
This pedal will probably sound heavey with the volume cranked but not at practice volumes.
Gyro911 3 years ago
us ur amps gain god ........its a pedal its not going to give all the gain needed plz think much jk but really use ur amp gain and it will work great....
vampreen12356 3 years ago
wow i rly need this pedal...or should i get the classic?
LastXzII 3 years ago
39 seconds in.
frankfalbo 3 years ago
well d oyou have to let the pedal warm up like you would a tube amp?
hondarider660R 3 years ago
yes
musicfuse 3 years ago
WHAT HE SAY ABOUT THE 8 db
cobshredder 3 years ago
That is true of Alexi's stock guitars, but NOT true in this case. The boost circuit was not wired in at all. It's just sitting inside there.
frankfalbo 3 years ago
fantastic, I love that "splattering" texture of the disortion.
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago
indeed that pedal...
cobshredder 3 years ago
can someone please answer me...im not sure about buying this..if anyone has this pedal or what they think....
can you get great metallica and justice for all distortion sound...actually to be more precise seattle 89 sound...
i think pedal is great and i will probably buy it but any thoughts would be great..
thanks
5rusina 3 years ago
does nebody know if you would need a noise suppressor with this pedal??
blackemissions 3 years ago