ENGL Screamer heavy riffs - does it do metal well?

Alot of people say that the Engl Screamer does not handle metal well. I was messing around with the amp and I managed to dial in these settings which to me sounded very 5150-like, so I got some riffage on tape to show you all. It is not my typical sound, I prefer a middy less gain approach to my high gain sound but my settings were like this:

Lead (gain): Just over 9
Bass: 9
Middle: Just under 6
Treble: 6.5
Prescence: 6

Volume is halfway and master is on 1. For this style I would use a 5150 or dual rec but this little amp holds it's ground nicely.

I used my Ibanez RG7321 and I used no boost just the guitar straight into the amp.

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• engl
• screamer
• 50
• combo
• metal
• chuggy
• chug
• br00tulz
• guitar
• metal rock
• jamming

[luigiperso]

this amp doesn't do metal well? what a load of shit, this amp has one of the best distortions I have heard anywhere

[Guit3r4Ever]

@Ibik Depends on your neighbors. But yeas you can.

[PsychoticSausage]

If your going to play Lamb of God, Sylosis, etc, please do it properly... The riff that sounded like Teras wasn't even the right tuning...

Amp = Awesome.

Guitar Playing = Sloppy!

[nunofrg]

is the engl screamer combo 50 enough to play live?

[ThrashTilGrave]

what pickups man?nice vid.

[66XpRODIGyX66]

Sounds nice mate :)

[Ibik]

hey can you practice at home using this amp?

[DavidWorthMusic]

@KAMI13666 fairly tight, depends what you mean, it nails dream theater tones but maybe not tight enough for say... killswitch engage. This is my video just on my other account

[KAMI13666]

can you get tight sounds out of this amp??

[xboxnissan]

MAB :)