Bad Cat 2-tone
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@DiegoINSOMNIA I think he uses a Boss distortion for the more metal aspects of Porcupine Tree. I think he uses this as more of the clean boost.
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@Bp2383 The tightness will come if you use ceramic humbuckers....obviously not the cheapo ceramics that come on the affinity fat strat, but good ceramic 'buckers with cerami-8 bars and wide steel polepieces, and maybe a 4x12 with G12T-75s. You end up with a much sweeter metal tone when you start with a bluesy sound and tighten it up in my opinion. Like my classic 30. I use a 2x15 and a 2x10 instead of a 4x12, and clean-boost with a duncan twin tube classic, and I can "chug" for days! On EL84s!
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@Bp2383 And all you gotta do is tap the top of your head (I mean amp head, but if you want you can tap your head too) and you have a percussion instruments too!
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not bad! especially when your messing around with talkes to angels in standard e so much easier to play in open e isnt it...........
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Wwith the gain past noon and a fairly high output humbucker, you can do the metal thing superbly. Well, maybe not the old-school heavy metal, with palm mutes and tight lows... you would need a clean boost in front of the 2-Tone, for that. I use a Keeley TS-9 in front of my 2-Tone both for tightening the lows and soloing. It's an excellent match.
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The only video I can find about this pedal.. Im interested because Steven Willson from "porcupine tree" uses it... but I dont know if the distortion is good enough for a heavy metal distortion.
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Bp2383 6 months ago
DiegoINSOMNIA - I wouldn't consider the 2-tone a metal friendly pedal...it's too bluesy and not tight enough in the bass region for metal. But that's just one opinion.
Bp2383 1 year ago
Haha thanks :) that REALLY is Rich's actual amp purchased from west coast guitars after it had been tour with the Crowes for years. hint hint...it's got over 20 mods performed by George Scholz making it very different from a stock HJ. So you can't just buy an HJ and sound like Rich. Many of those ringing overtones are coming from microphonic eh's that Rich had in it...guess bad can good sometimes.
Bp2383 1 year ago