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Ola Testing Amps - MESA BADLANDER, JP2C VS. PEAVEY 5150 VS. EVH 5150
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Originally posted by Mike View PostThat Mesa OS sounds fucking great on everything.
The amps I like the sound of the most was the Badlander with the OD and the EVH on the blue channel with the overdrive, then the JP2C without the OD.Don't expect much, it's not like I'm a Rocket Surgeon...
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Originally posted by Mike View PostThat Mesa OS sounds fucking great on everything.
The amps I like the sound of the most was the Badlander with the OD and the EVH on the blue channel with the overdrive, then the JP2C without the OD.
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Originally posted by dahla View PostUgh, I can’t watch videos like that. I’ll enjoy it, look to my left and right, and realise that I don’t have an amp. Nevermind a wall of awesome amps… Then it’s a slippery slope of gas, misery, wants and wishes for a few days.
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Originally posted by thrashinbatman View Post
The JP2C is the only amp I've ever played that I've felt did not benefit from an OD. It has everything it needs straight-in.
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Originally posted by desertdweller View Post
Shred mode is an overdrive, so yeah you're absolutely right in that it's built in. Like any Mark amp, it sounds great without an overdrive engaged as well, whether that's shred mode or an overdrive pedal, especially once you really get the relationship between the treble knob and gain knob. For me, and rhythm guitar especially, I prefer using an overdrive pedal with mine and turning the treble knob up and the gain knob down a bit on the amp for metal tones.
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Originally posted by JJ Rodriguez View PostIt's amazing how bad that Marshall cab sounds, at least in the video, in comparison to both the Mesas and the Engl.I watched this video yesterday and my biggest takeaway was that every head sounds amazing and every cab sounds amazing except the Marshall, which just sounds muffled, weak, and flat. You go from those two crushing Mesa cabs to that miserable Marshall cab, then back to a massively crushing Engl cab. And I say that as someone who used a Marshall cab with a JCM800 for a while way back (and it sounded pretty kickass, though not as good, of course, as my Mesa cab I had later).
For the amps, I think the Badlander sounds the best, followed by the newer EVH 5150. For the cabs, I think the black Mesa sounds the best, followed by the Engl (though the other Mesa cab sounds really good too).
I tend to be in the "an OD is necessary for metal rhythm guitar" camp, but I do think both of the 5150s sound awesome without an overdrive. As much as I love all Mesa Boogie amps, I do tend to think they really need an OD to tighten them up.
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Originally posted by Josh View PostThe Marshall sounds fine to me. It's just way quieter than the V30-loaded cabs.
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Originally posted by thrashinbatman View Post
The JP2C is the only amp I've ever played that I've felt did not benefit from an OD. It has everything it needs straight-in.
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Originally posted by Leon View Post
In my AxeFx, I keep trying different OD's in front of the Mk4 model, which I like that it adds some compression, but I always lose girth, and so I just bumped the gain up a bit, and yeah, no OD needed there
For the real amps, it’s been an education having both the JP2C and the older Mark amp now for a few months, and being able to really compare the two. I still think they both sound best with the gain lowered and an OD added in front, but I get a clearer, less compressed tone from the Mark III. I’ve been playing through and teaching myself some older DT songs that I never learned when I was younger, like Innocence Faded or Caught in a Web, and I’m finding that the Mark III perfectly nails that tone without an OD, where the JP2C can sound a bit muddier with similar settings, which leads me to prefer shred mode or an overdrive in front when using it most of the time.
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