Recent content by stadidas

I bought my Knucklehead Reverb 55 in 2008 and haven't used my Rectifiers since. If you want to get a good idea of how they sound listen to Slipknot's Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses). It was the amp used to track that album, and if they used the same setup for recording as they did on the road...

I can heartily recommend the Blackouts. I mainly use the standard AHB-1 set and they are fantastic. I have a set of the Mick Thomson Emty Blackouts in an Ibanez MTM1; compared to the AHB-1 they have more top end and slightly tighter bottom. Overall I think the AHB-1s are a better choice...

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The D Activators sound like ****. If you want the active sound get actives. If not get passives. The D Activators are the worst of both worlds. Horrible.

For Metal? Rivera Knucklehead.

You've only been playing for four years? :o That's incredible.

If you're using high gain, I would suggest you consider the rack version of the decimator. The signal out of the pre-amp lacks the dynamics of the signal coming from the guitar, so it's much harder for the gate to decide when you actually want it to come in. The rack version (ProRackG) does the...

The Rivera Knucklehead destroys the recto on every count. First of all, the clean channel is amazing, not the rubbish you get from a recto. Also, under high gain the amp remains tight and focused, and allows the detail and dynamics of your paying to come through. Compared to the Knucklehead, the...

Root Teles? Yeah, I like them. :) Word of warning though - the quality does vary, and it varies greatly. Let me explain... I used to buy my guitars from a guy in New Jersey and import them from him (I live in England). He would get the guitars in, set them up with the strings and tuning I...

Same here; Blackouts rule.

Hi everyone, I recently bought another Fender Jim Root Tele, with the intention of using it in drop A tuning. The problem is that the tuners on it will only accept a maximum of a .054 gauge string, which is nowhere near thick enough; I need something more like a 60 or 62. I have heard that it...

Awesome guitar; I imagine the custom shop ones feel amazing.

Jim in Slipknot plays the Rockerverb 100 with the gain all the way up, and it's as clear as you like.

Indeed they are; the guitar is tuned to drop B, so they need to be :) .

D'Addario EXL115 and 116. I love DAddario strings. I have a set of Ernie Ball Not Even Slinky 12-56 on my main guitar and I hate them. Annoyingly it was set up that way and D'Addario don't make a set of strings in the gauges that I need. I think I will have to buy separate strings from them and...