Video Idea: Dialling in Lead and Rhythm tone in terms of ambient heavy sound. Where to set a limit in gain, eq, reverb, delay, etc. How one effect has influence on the other, and overall tone. How to sound massive, but wide and open (and spooky) at the time. I'd gladly see some Fuzz base here! ;)

@Killall12

9 ай бұрын

Totally would love to see more explorations of sounding heavy and scary while in a spaceship. AKA Russian Circles

@alexandertorrente198

8 ай бұрын

Dual delay is a big thing with this, I am releasing a heavily ambient influenced hardcore record, and I run two signal chains: For lead metal, I run this: Gibson LP > any one knob noise gate > TC integrated pre > any modded marshall, though preferably a bogner XTC or a Cameron CCV > Zilla 412 w/H75 creams > dual delay > a tinge of spacial reverb. The rhythm is this: LP > SLO > HESU > dual delay > a lightish reverb. For the B-M-T-D-P pattern, I run lead at 6-2-9-2-9. I typically run rhythm at 8-6-4-7-4.5~

8 ай бұрын

@@alexandertorrente198 Yeah, I thought Keeley AT Halo would be a killer in this type of tone. That's why I'm getting my hands on it in the future 👌🏿

@alexandertorrente198

8 ай бұрын

@ I don't think I've tried this one! I use a strymom timeline for the delay though, I personally enjoy the screen that reads the times and whatnot. But there is no right or wrong way to do it. There is only tone 😎

Love that you shouted out the respect to Ola for his amazing channel too! You guys are both so humble when you’re both amazing

@sv650ftw4

8 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, so humble. It's got nothing to do with Ola dropping a new video promoting (oh sorry "reviewing") the brand new Kraken MKII. Interesting that the MKII has a presence knob now after he was making a big deal about it missing on their old ones...

Watching this kind of stuff unfold organically and hearing you discuss your thought process along the way is a huge value. I'd love to see an episode where you dial in some quacky mid-gain cranked single coil tones for single-note riffing.

The Peavey sounds really good here! The 5150 through a closed back Orange 2x12 was the best high gain tone I ever played. Your tone is really good either way. 👍

That Killswitch riff... 😋

@mentox6592

9 ай бұрын

This is my curse!

Lambchopper678 is one of the best “tone dialing” channels on KZread! You are welcome if you hadn’t known of him prior.

@barry3045

9 ай бұрын

🐐

I think one thing that makes a difference for new players is realizing how much low tuning makes a difference (like drop C, drop B, whatever), particularly in modern metal guitar tones. Man I love an old school 5150ii and a tube screamer. Great video!

@bolle_83

9 ай бұрын

Yeah drop c and a tube sreamer on a 6505+ iss my go to… 🔥

Truly helpful. I've always been driven nuts by that fizz, and watching you dial out and in tones is super useful and fun! Cheers Rabea!

Amazing content as always. Just love how you simply jam alone playing mind blowing licks Awesome Bea

Rabea: I'm not really a metal guy...... has a signature baritone chug machine being made as we speak lol I get it Rabea

Tip : you can put the active EQ in the loop and you get a sort of Presence and Resonance 😊

Hey bro! Great video, and thanks for taking the time to do this. I would love to see a vid with you dialling in a mesa recto. As in my opinion they are the hardest to get that tight heavy sound, that also feels nice to play. Cheers. Tobias🤟

Aside from a great tutorial and great tones , im loving the cinematography , cheers bea !

That's one of the things I absolutely love about you man. Humble AF. Awesome shout out to Ola

Tried this and holy fuck has my tone never sounded better. Rabea you're a genius. This made my day.

Absolutley dig the Informative content and awesome tones and playing style you have Bea ! Cant wait for grinding gears 4 ,bring it on !

This is a great video! Very interesting and informative. Please do more of these!

Well done Rabea! Very informativ Video. I learned a lot. 👍

Thank u for doing this video. I've been wanting for this video 😊

Maybe so, but I’ve always watched these vids for the fact that Bea is So Good at dialling and playing extremely heavy tones.. The nuno stuff and huge chords

Absolutely love the new merch man!

The riffs, the heft... Great job man!!

This is perfect! I know that part of my plugin is inspired by the 5150 and I really wanted a mean rhythm tone. This video helped me shape my tone perfectly!

I could watch Rabea noodle for hours. You're a breath of fresh air and an amazing player.

I feel like the use of the mids on the 5150 (closest I own is a 6505+) rely a bit on the speakers that you are running in your cab. Scooping can sound great and mix well on certain speakers while a slight boost in mids is important with other speakers. Glad to hear the Ola shoutout,: great video, it chugs!

Rabea, just wanted to show you respect for the great live show at summer breeze! You are a genius. Whole playing was fabulous! Much respect!

one thing I struggle with is dialing in a good Fuzz tone for both lead and riffing out. personally I absolutely suck at using fuzz effectively so its been something I avoid for live performances. thanks for the awesome content as always.

Great video! Would love a dialing in lead (metal) tone vid as well! keep em coming :)

That Victory sounds dope as he'll Rabea... you're a great player!

11:02 "Alllllllright" 😂 Awesome video. Respect for all you do 🤘

I really love your way of dialing in aggressiv tones. The traditionell way has it's flaws with richer cords that your style can still manage. What i would suggest is kind of a mini series on it's own. How do you dial in a lead vs rythm guitar in different genres. Also with a view words about leacing room for vocals and bass. But not in a mixing/mastering context, just in a gear and live scenario.

id like to see modulated clean tones dialed in with choruses/flangers/phasers etc

When you made your comment about the Kraken sounding more like an American amp, I was just thinking as you were playing that it sounded like a triple rectifier. Awesome brother

Crushing tones my dude

Great video Rabea 👍

Thank you for the info and vids bro!!!!

Love this style of video! You should do a crunch tone as well!

I'd love to see a video about how you might work through a specific writing situation. The situation is you've written a part / progression and you're happy with it as a chorus or what have you and maybe developed by adding drums / bass/ other guitar overdubs etc, but you can't come up with any other parts that seem to do it justice. How would you tackle this to try and develop a song from the part you're really happy with?

Mate! Loved it! Don’t think the nod to Killswitch went unnoticed! That was very informative!

Revv purple channel, aggression 1 (blue), EQ at noon is a sound I am loving currently.

Genius Sir! The pinched harmonic squeal comes in dead early at around 8:56 of a 27:36 video! Total Metal!!!

You got some guitar mouth in the end there. Sweet licks man! Will def use this to tighten up my tone

Great tones!

I love your tone, Rabea! Funnily enough, I usually approach high gain amps in the almost opposite way: Push bass right before it gets too "woofy" / flubby, boost mids until it starts sounding like a tube screamer is in front, keep treble as close to 12 o' clock as possible (so the highs don't take your head off when standing in front of the amp at loud volumes). Then push the presence as high as you can before it starts to thin out.

Killer tones as usual Rabea. Wild amount of string noise coming through. Not sure if it was the nut or bridge.

Always great to hear/read/see your input on guitar and guitar tone. This is great, I think the Victory won here!

Love the serie ! Great tones as always ! 😊 Just wanted to point out, your guitar might need a tad of string dampening, could ear qui a bit of ringing during some of the chugs :)

Nice video, I would love to watch a high gain leads video, specially about liquid gain and dealing with dynamics & feedback.

Great vid and series idea! I’d love to see a video on dialing in fuzz tones. Single coil vs humbucker w fuzz, fuzz for good classic tones vs fuzz for metal. Just a thought, have a good one!

when I used to play guitar in the death metal band Suffocation, I always used one of the following amps, Peavey 5150II, 6505+, 3120, XXX, or XXXII which is the one I still use, along with the Maxon OD 808 my other guitar player used the Maxon, OD 909 the only other pedal we always used was the BOSS Noise Suppressor NS-2 and once in a while, we may use a delay pedal. I currently use the neural DSP quad cortex.

Id love to see you do a comparison video of a tube screamer and a Boss DS1. The tone knob on the DS1 is magical. If you havent done a deep dive of it, I'd heavily suggest it. Hands down my favorite distortion/od pedal. Way better than the TS, IMO. Cheers Rabea. 🍻🍻

Killer improv riffing, very informative demonstration and the Super Kraken just kills - it’s like a more refined, smoother 5150 - both amps love boosts!

@eriklamelakillingspree7690

9 ай бұрын

Smoother, sure. More refined? Idk man, love that 5150 snarl. Feel like the Kraken loses that a bit but both are great.

@uncomfortablepenguin6579

9 ай бұрын

@@eriklamelakillingspree7690 it's kinda like comparing different kinds of coffee, you lose some characteristics but gain others or parts become more distinct. They are quite amazing to behold in person though.

I owned the kraken years ago. Sold it for a Kemper. Used the victory kraken official profiles for a while. Sold the kemper and got back the kraken again. Nothing compares to that box. Massive tones.

Rabea, saludos desde Colombia. ¡Qué gran sonido siempre!

Dialing in a stereo rig! Classic rabea tones 🤘🏼

A fun challenge is dialling in high gain tones on a completely unsuitable amp. I have a little Laney VC15 and it’s surprising what it will do on the drive channel with a Spark boost (min gain, max level, mid boost position on the switch).

ALL THE GAAAAAAAAAIIIN!!!!

@GiovanniFrau1996

9 ай бұрын

NO MIDS! SLAYER \m/ 😂

@296801

5 ай бұрын

More gain.

@pedrogarciarobleto

4 ай бұрын

Metal Zone!!!

8:33 Is my reference. I'm trying to simulate with Boos OD200 - Scream (Gain 10, Level 50, Low 0, Mid 20, High 20) Boss IR 200 - BGR UB (Gain 60, Level 80, Bass 50, Mid 75, Treble 70, Gain SW Middle) + York Audio Mesa 212 V30 SM57 1N. It doesn't sound as good as Bea's tone, but it's the best tone I can get

Bought my JVM410H because of you, thanks !

Your keep playing will keep watching.......that's all I can say.... cheers

I agree with it being a bit too messy sometimes. Still sounds mean as hell though! One of the reasons I like using the Precision Drive is because the attack control does a great job at reducing some of the gain and in my opinion that mixed with the gate it does tidy up some of the messiness.

Your pushed clean tones for ambient moods would be wonderful.

Salut from Poland (Wrocław) Great show. :)

Thanks Rabea for your insights. Now i want a Victory Kraken....

Dialing in clean/crunch/high gain on the quad cortex!

Ho BOY were they some delicious tones! That musicman beast definitely needs some damping past the nut haha, but thanks for demoing all those tones, good stuff to go on. As for video ideas, I'd be interested to see how you approach dialing in tones for recording vs jamming/playing live with a band - is there a difference or do you just futz with the tones once they're in the box?

That was awesome. I have to agree with you the presence knob they definitely abused it in the 80s and 90s.

That Kraken is massive sounding !!

Always a pleasure to hear you chug away.

This style is [fxxx] addictive.

Grinding Gears #4 is eagerly awaited

8:34 to be honest, that tone is 100 times better than 90% of what most people pass as a "good" metal tone. The Silos are passive Alnico V's with high output. Imo that'll do better than actives, especially EMG 81/85's, ever will or could.

Absolutely get what you said about fizziness. Most solid state amps also have that too and you can’t even dial it out. I find the sound better without it.

I'm desperately trying to dial in your sounds with an HX Stomp, but the base tone of your sig Victory amps is hard to replicate ;-) Tone for days my dude.

As an owner of the Super Kraken, it kills me to see the lack of content on it, on KZread. It's just a hidden gem. It's tempted me to make my own videos on it, because I love it so much.

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Great, thank you! I love clean feedback sounds and wrote a few very cool octave riffs using a clean sound going into feedback BUT...the amp is almost unusebly loud esp onstage. whats your take on dialling in such a sound, maybe by using certain pedals without getting too compressed?! THANK YOU!

Appreciate you brother.

Nailed it 🤘

@chefcraigorrell9057

7 ай бұрын

Super Kraken for the win.

Thanx Rabea, very interesting video! Some weird noises are added to the guitar sound around 24'30... vibrato spring noises?

10:56 - You could be a virtuoso or you could very well just be starting out, but "My Curse" is undeniably a perfect chug test riff.

Crazy how much string ring you can hear at time. What tube screamer would you say is closest to what the preamp focus on the super Kraken gives you?

Super video Rabea. Could you record a tutorial on dialling in Billy Gibbons vintage blues rock tones please?

@screamengine

9 ай бұрын

Les Paul or SG style guitar preferred. Compressor about 60% Flat EQ the amp. Pickup selector in middle, dial the pickup volumes til they balance slightly in favour of the bridge, neck tone at about 30% or less, bridge tone about 70%. Dial that gain back til it isn't hissing, start to adjust your tone on the guitar til harmonics are just barely audible. Now go back to the gain and dial it up til the harmonics are apparent. Adjust tone again til the harmonics are where you want them. Adjust EQ one final time to your taste, presence at 30% roughly with treble halfway or 50% with treble at 30%. Finally adjust the gain 1 last time to your taste. Then let ol Billy sing! :)

The 5051 killing it at 22:28

Gotta love a great KsE riff

Common practice is when you carry your amp head into the venue you hold it so the nobs are facing you and all the nobs rub against your belly and you just run with that. Belly tone goes unmatched

Bro the non scoop sound is so sick on the 5150

I have a Maxon 808 and a Strymon El Capistan on my board too!

I know this may not be an amp you would be willing to dial in. Buttttt when the PRS MT-100 is released I’d love to see you demo it.

@27retrodaze

8 ай бұрын

As a proud owner of the MT15, Im right there with you on the 100... MT did not show enough of it in that video he did unveiling it... Stoked to hear it.

Great riffing man! For my taste i would go with the 5150, i bought a 6505 + and love it from the first play. In my taste the peavey needs definitely a loadbox, so you can crank up the post gain without killing your ears, the peavey comes to live after 3 in the post gain. Before iss it a little to harsh. In the a/b the vx not so angry in my opinion. Never played a vx in the room but the peavey has so much low end and i enjoy it every day when i playing my old friend… keep doing your content bea like watching it! Greetings!

Sounds like 5fdp tones...love it

Very useful. I've got a partscaster that I put some P90 in. Planning on using it for high gain C Standard tuning. Any tips?

I would love to hear you compare the Victory Super Jack and Super Kraken for metal tones and lead tones.

Cool vid man. Iv got a suggestion for you to have a try of with your set up esp because your amp has a low and high mid. Take your gain up to 5 put your highs to 1 o'clock. Take your low mids down between 3 to 4 and set your high mids around 5. Bass up to 4 minimum. Leave presence around 7 to 8. As you mentioned about noise gate if you put one in it will clean it up and you can then increase your gain. With your mics here's a little trick from a sound engineers prospective. On the cab turn one of the 57s 45 degrees as this will nock a little trebs off on the gain. Have a little tweak around I rek8n you will like what you hear with that set up. Good idea on your vid mate nice work man

Dialing in the loudest clean tones was one of the 1st things I was taught as a teenager before adding dirt pedals

Gotta try playing some metal on the old Peavey Vypyr Tube series.

I'll try with my ML Sound Lab Blockletter 5555, original 5150 Mk II are awesome.

A lead tone tutorial would be sick

Bean having a few arguments with myself about getting a 5150 it's carrying it a mile to the station that's putting me off 😂. another informative video cheers man

@woochyna

9 ай бұрын

Any amp is going to be horrible if you have to haul it around on foot. I retired my 5150 by getting a Jet City some 10 years ago. Played a gig last friday and had the gain on 1.5, the amp simply roared. Plus, it's only 10 kg, so much lighter and thus bearable to carry. Try lunchbox amps if you get mic'd up for gigs/rehearsals, there are some decent options around.

Rabea please demo the Friedman IR-X. Also thanks for this video and helping us home recordists get better tones!

@Ottophil

8 ай бұрын

I ordered one without a demo, I’m just assuming it will rock