If you think Bass doesn't matter, listen to AJFA and tell me it's well produced.

Neat video. I would like to see this done with bass amps and solid state guitar amps used with modeling preamplifiers, as it is my understanding that loudness and wattage are different for tube amps than solid state designs (tube amps are louder at lower wattage than solid state amps, generally, is my understanding). When I was coming up in the 90s, the standard was a 100 watt tube head and a 4x12 cab. You could use this with a full stack if you really wanted to show off. Occasionally people would use higher wattage, like 150 watts. My solid state Randall Cyclone circa 2000 is 300 watts. Much of this was marketing of the time that more watts = better, I think. We have now gone the other direction with the emphasis on more portable rigs at lower wattage. "Lunchbox" amps became popular around 2010 with Mesa's Trans-Atlantic and others. Some constructive criticism: 1) If you are playing with two guitars and a bass, the volume of the summed guitars will probably be greater, so each guitar will need to turn itself down vs. one guitar. 2) Having a bass would be helpful here as low end frequencies would add more complexity to the mix and make the guitar harder to hear. That said, I can see how having one might make the sound blurry and boomy in the room for demonstration purposes. 3) I would go with 50 watts and the amp turned down to an appropriate level for live playing. The reason is you should have more clean headroom at higher wattage and playing at 10 can damage speakers. I had this happen to me once on my Marshall JCM800/900 style Carvin MTS3200 100 watt head and cab. One of the speakers blew when the volume and gain were cranked. There was no boost. Carvin told me not to 10 everything to protect the speakers. The head was 4, 8, and 16 ohms and the cabinet wattage was quite high at 300 watts per cab connected in parallel I believe. A speaker was still blown by a fully cranked head using 1/3rd the rated wattage. Amps with switchable wattage are mainly there so you can get more signal breakup at practice volume and to make heads easier to transport by having fewer power tubes. My Carvin MTS3200 even had switchable wattage with 50 and 100 watt settings as early as the year 2000, but it is a full sized head. 4) I'm concerned about a grounding issue in the signal chain or guitar. The hum is very loud without the noise gate engaged. I would expect hiss and feedback, but not that much hum. The boost, noise gate, and compressor really help. It's interesting that you have them in the loop after the preamp instead of in front of the amp like many people do. Positioning these in the signal chain would largely be a matter of taste I think. I tend to put boosts up front and effects in the fx loop. 5) *It is my understanding that with tube amps for every 100 watts loudness is increased by 3 db. If you want a lot more volume, you need a full stack and thus more speakers pushing more air.* In such a situation, you may need a higher wattage amp to push the speakers hard enough. I am not an expert on calculating Ohms to obtain the optimal wattage and all the various ways speakers can be wired in a cabinet or to a head, but there are many things to consider when matching an amplifier/power amplifier to a given number and type of speakers. The reverse of this logic is if you need less volume use a 2x12 cab. Great riffs and drumming. The video was very helpful. Thanks.

You need to to rise the low and mids and low the highs And your is great but you to learn more about the bass

Reasons for bass in metal IMO: 1) Glues together the mix. 2) Melodic counterpoint. As a guitar player, I play bass much like I would lead guitar--as a melodic instrument an octave below. 3) Determining chord identities and key by determining the root note in chords like dim7 where any note can be the root (more of a thing in jazz influenced metal). The problem is thrash metal in the 80s often scooped the bass and pushed the guitar upper mids in the mix. Since the bass usually just doubled everything, it wasn't important that the bass be loud in the mix. In the 90s and 00s and drumming became more complicated and the guitar tones became thicker and more scooped, often the kick would come down on *every single guitar pick attack*, making the bass even harder to hear because it was being covered by guitars with increased low end and sampled bass drums with a click in the high end. There was nowhere for the bass to live in the mix. The recent popularity of djent and 8 string guitars only makes this worse. Also, most guitarists playing picked or fingerstyle bass at fast tempos can be sloppy, considering bass is not their primary instrument and bass takes even more right hand strength and precision than guitar does. I believe the bass is often buried to cover sloppy playing. The lows are boosted on quad or even 6 tracked rhythm guitars to make it sound like the bass and guitars are locked in when it is really just the guitar.

Probably should of hit that body with lacquer too because that head stock looks STELLER!!! GREAT JOB!!!

Great video, so in love situation you're connection through XLR straight into the mixer? So the sound comes only from the pa?

Bugera needs a tube swap/replacement

i want one with a hardtail too. the floyds are cool and all but its just one more guitar with parts you have to maintain. the hardtail is just more reliable in the long run when you start getting more and more guitars lol. great job man. edit.. also, i never thought to sand the headstock for stain when refinishing. thanks for that lol.

The truth: 4x12 Wins

You should’ve winded the strings the other way and cleaned the fretboard before you strung it up 😢

What is your output pal? Esp when you go to rehearsals you definitely won't use monitoring speakers for that purpose So do you use a headphone or something else? Tnx for your video btw

It's been about a year. Do you still recommend this for the Quad Cortex? I just got my Quad Cortex and looking at the Neural DSP forum, users recommend the Morningstar MC8. I'm wondering if it's worth dropping the $300 on that or $170 on the Blackstar Live Logic 6

People (musicians) forget in a live show what that people feel is a deep wave of frequeicies .. studio sound is one thing .. when people feel it in the crowd is a whole different experience

Would it be possible to use the gloss spray you applied to the headstock on the body instead of the true oil?

Hey, great video. You don’t experience any latency with this setup?

wonder if the are noticeable change in tone if you cut the body top and replace with premium wood like mahogany or something

Great ! Your preset is avaible on tonecloud !

have you seen Matt Horn?....

Where is the review for the Boss wireless system? You pointed to the corner but no card there lol

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I don't understand how the head wattage matters. Is it what drives the power to the cab? So even though the cab is 300 watts, if you have a small head, the cab can't go that loud? What if you had like a 20w head, but a 2 - 300w cabs? Would 20w be loud enough because now you have more speakers, or would 20w not be able to drive a full stack?

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For most situations, excluding live, BIAS would be totally fine I think. If you're a gigging guitarist having self-reliant hardware is the way to go however. That said I have BIAS and have no need of an expensive hardware modeller. Works fine for me.

Metallica learned that the hard way on the ...And Justice For All. Despite the actual songwriting being good the albums sounds thin and weak due to inaudible bass.

There are a number of people saying their XTone stopped working after a few months. Did yours?

playing on stage with no amps and in ear only is so dull for those playing. explains the shitty live bands out there

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Using the MIDI footswitch, you can't see what you are controlling. If you are using different scenes for each song, the MIDI footswitch would not be an option, you need to see the screen.

Giaggin' with the Orange OR 15 (15watts) we usually are on 3 to 5/10 on the volume. Same goes with the Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 50 (50watts) 3 to 4/10 is usually there. We play melodic punk rock and these settings apply on super small to big stages.

There are a necessity to use a DAW in live situation? Or can i use Just plugins with no DAW?

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The Bugera sounds better to me. I've had the 6260 for like 15 years and Im ready to sell it because I don't need 120 Watts hahaha. That T50 should be more than enough.

Well my only complaint so far in this video is that you talked too much on the beginning of the video and no audio samples at that just opinion everything else good video

Great result! How did you manage to get the bridge studs and the string through ferrules out without damaging the guitar body? I'm about to start a similar project. Thanks!

It sounds too thin and empty with no bass so I think it’s essential

interesting. Could you also use the hotone ampero control connected through midi or usb (not via bluetooth) to control bias fx presets?

If you play with an app on your iPad you cannot make anything else on your iPad.if you have an interface with a dsp like Steinberg ur22 you can do it.

What’s the point of bass? It’s the low-end, counterpoint, and the rhythm driver, that’s what the point is.

What's amp is that? Thank's

I was considering a Warrior for my first guitar. Would that be a bad idea?

Hi, Just watched your video. I've been considering this or the Midi Captain, however I'm not sure they will do what I want. I would like to have my Quad Cortex in Scene mode and use the Quad to change scenes. At the same time I would like to have my Midi controller set up to change pedals on and off. Not sure if the Quad has to be in Stomp mode first. Can you tell me if this is possible with the Quad Cortex. Thank You.

Bias fx better

Listen to the CD version of And Justice For All and then listen to the KZbin edits where the people add the bass lines in and tell me which one is better and why its the KZbin edit....

You have to get closer with your spraying, 8-10 inches , quick passes , this gives a flatter coat

I dont know, I kinda like the stained finish better. I mean if you smoke it off the edge of a desk or something, it might leave a notch. But its better than a notch AND a gigantic white spot.

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I personally think that tone is very important for bass in general, more so than guitar. Obviously, tone matters for every instrument, but for bass I feel like EQ and fine-tuning effects to nail a certain tone can really let the bass shine in the song without sounding boring or muddy. Look at TOOL for example. Justin Chancellor's tone is a HUGE aspect of his bass parts and you never wonder where the bass is. You hear it clearly, the mix sounds crisp and it all just ties together. Then you have KoЯn, where Fieldy basically cuts all the mids to let the guitars play in there and the bass itself keeping that punchy, metallic low and top end. Add some unique playing to bass that compliments the guitar tracks and doesn't just play the guitar parts an octave lower and you've got a very good sound. I'm trying to learn some Meshuggah songs on my 5 string bass and the tone I ended up sitting on is similar to the bass tone in their album "Nothing", where it has a very rich midrange zing with distortion and honestly, it sounds huge. It does effectively just play guitar, but on bass, but the tone difference is huge, because the guitars most of the time have a very loose, palm-muted low sound while the bass actually ends up cutting with the more tight, sharp, aggressive sounding mids and highs where palm muting is mostly gone on bass. You can hear it very clearly in Electric Red and Lethargica, where you can hear a very honky growl come through on the high notes and that's the bass. Like a reverse KoЯn situation. And neither the guitars, nor the bass in those 3 bands overpower one another. So even if the guitar and bass play the exact same thing like in Meshuggah, the difference in the tone can completely change the sound and feel of the whole track.

Hello mate, I have the Blackstar Logic but I am not able to program it with the quad cortex, I have seen your other video but it is not what I need, how would I have to do so that every time I change the preset in the logic, the previous one turns off preset? They all stay on for me. Thank you so much.