Death, Chuck Schuldiner Type of Tone. Marshall Valvestate 8100

[@SCX10HILUX]

Let me make myself clear.Chuck Schuldiner is in my opinion one of the most original guitarists since Jimi Hendrix really.He made Death Metal a legitimate form of music and made people take notice just by way of his playing.He's in my opinion the greatest metal guitarist of the 90's.The last three Death albums are amazing, You get the feeling he was working hard, learning, enjoying playing ang getting better all the time.

[@davidsnakedoe7322]

+SCX10HILUX to me Chuck has been the greatest of all times ;) but I respect your opinion dude

[@alexmurphy5289]

He's so underrated and it's criminal. So melodic and yet heavy, RIP

[@doom3380]

Greatest musician of our time

[@bsplay3r]

Problably the best guitar player ever, in my opinion, just genious, you see all death guitar players were very good musicians, and playing Next to him they look mediocre, its just crazy...

[@vincentzombi3916]

Chuck has been my idol for years, 20 years to be exact.. his music changed my life and even saved it… now when I play death on guitar it’s a homage to his greatness! Keep the metal faith alive

[@LasseLammert]

Bass: max Mid: 3-4 treb: 5 Gain: max contour: 7-8 Volume: Max Master: 3

[@samirisku9835]

Were you using any Boost/OD in the front?

[@timmbosliice]

@@samirisku9835 definitely sounds like an overdrive is used

[@JanXD]

@@samirisku9835 Probably not because Chuck didn't use a boost either.

[@ZZEROO99]

thank you for the settings will be getting a VS100 combo amp used very soon will try these settings.

[@kayraates4881]

@@JanXD true

[@iCathal]

This is real metal

[@AdamYoudell]

You're goddamn right.

[@metalhusky]

Please tell us the settings! I want to come at least near this sound! *EDIT* i found the settings guys, he posted them in the comments 2 years ago, here: Bass: max Mid: 3-4 treb: 5 Gain: max contour: 7-8 Volume: Max Master: 3 (^^ eddited the comment just so that you can find it easier)

[@metalhusky]

metalhusky i found the settings guys, he posted them in the comments 2 years ago, here: Bass: max Mid: 3-4 treb: 5 Gain: max contour: 7-8 Volume: Max Master: 3

[@hennibbale]

Thanks!

[@neapolis7570]

metalhusky Chuck bless you!

[@marcelcourchesne9519]

thanks going to try it after my workout today :) cant wait.

[@ellistheshredlord8077]

metalhusky I think he has some flanger or chorus on his lead tone

[@zestymordent5098]

this tone is fucking godly

[@dougsmith8107]

i've paid for my valvestate probably 3 times over in parts and overhauls and service, but you know what? it was worth every penny. Just found out a couple days ago that this was Chuck's go-to amp, I had no idea! Bought this thing new in 1991, just cleaned all the pots the other day, and its still badass! :)

[@TheBillproject]

do you know what causes that cycle hum ? tried everything... only thing bad about this amp lol

[@chrissumaya5055]

Yeah me too! Just found out I had his amp all along. Cool.

[@naad1914]

Holy Shit!. This sounds just like it. You're amazing!

[@AlistairMaxwell77]

this is the most hated combination of marshall kit in the modern heavy metal world and its totally awesome

[@crazeyjoe]

@War Zone Snobs looked down their nose at them because they were not tube powered. The Valvestate was a great amp for metal. If one plays jazz, blues etc, then it would not be the proper amp for those genres.

[@crazeyjoe]

@War Zone That is why I stated that they are not tube powered. No tubes provides power to the amp. Yes, there is a single ecc83 preamp tube in the amp.

[@piotrpiotrowski4681]

G12-T75s are awesome for classic heavy metal like Judas Priest or Iron Maiden, and Valvestate was the backbone of Death's sound, so anyone saying that that gear is bad or sth, needs to get his ears out of his ass.

[@ArticLight14]

Had a valvestate combo back in the day. I changed out the stock tube with a better one. Sounded good boosted with a tube screamer.

[@antonkovalenko364]

Not "proper" for jazz or blues? Billy Gibbons used an 8100 for years.

[@JawedKarim763]

I have listened to this multiple times on multiple occasions because of how damn good it sounds

[@bebopsamurai_music]

What a classic tone! Sometimes I really miss this kind of metal tone on newer records The brutalness of this setup is real!

[@MosheAlvarez]

The 8100 Valvestate head was part of my first stack ever and it still sounds good. So good in fact that I bought it again after having sold it a few years ago. It's here to stay now!

[@TheMusicIsMyReason]

Solid state has been the secret voice of metal. I'm a Randall man myself, but I used to have a valvestate amp and it could nail just about any metal or hard rock tone you could ever need. Great playing, and long live the memory of Chuck. \m/ \m/

[@alpahetmk]

Bro this is insane it also sounds like dimes tone too

[@kingpossie]

U really nailed it . Thanks for posting. Most metal bands fade over time - Death is not one of them bands

[@5ub2ero]

A legendary guitarist/lyricist/song writer/philosopher and a "human being" who had left us too early... RIP bro...... You're one of the milestones in my entire life. On the other hand, the sound is really awesome in this vid! The tone of the bass and drums are a bit deceptive and overshadowing the true quality of the guitar tone but you've pretty much nailed it. I'm quite impressed.

[@alexandergraf8855]

Playing this rig causes cancer and this is how he died!

[@alexandergraf8855]

Too many harsh frequencies around 3kHz

[@AdamRainStopper]

!!!!!!!ALL THE TRAPS ARE SET, TO CONFINE . . . ALL WHO GET IN THE WWWWWAAAAYYYYYYY OF THE DIVINE!!!!!!!!!

[@sharkedog6007]

INFLICTING WOUNDS WITH YOUR CROSS TURNED DAGGER!

[@sonysoni5079]

Actually this is bay far best sounding clip that you produced.

[@megatop412]

I owned a Valvestate stack back in the day, bought it BECAUSE Chuck used it and loved his tone. Bought the matching cabs to go with the head. The other amp in the band was an Ampeg half stack that had very pronounced lows, so the Valvestate complimented it perfectly on our recordings. Sold it in '08 because I was tired of the problems that apparently couldn't be fixed.

[@FelipeRoquini]

Took me a bit to realize it wasn't a 'The Philosopher' cover, great work...

[@ultranoobguitar]

This sounds fucking sick! Very good tribute to Death, Lasse. This Marshall is indeed underrated. Cheers, Laurens.

[@RobcadRadDad]

perfect tone man. you nailed it. and those 8100 heads are amazing gems. i want to pick one up now. \m/

[@nicolofaettini7458]

Crystal mountain....hell yeah!!

[@soulsonicfx3826]

Nailed it. Thanks for showing Chuck's tone the love it deserves!

[@alexandrucristian3816]

I was excpecting a death tune played with this amp. Keep rockin' !

[@aeugmk2]

Oh man, that is some glorious stuff right there. Great job man!!

[@deadforth6617]

The sound is so pure coming from this Marshall, Chuck's songs were made to be played on this amp, thanks for sharing this video, rock on !!!!! \m/

[@AXESLINGER2112]

i must say, i watch a lot of your stuff and this is tops man....you took a $350 halfstack and out did a lot of $3500 rigs...i used to have a valvestate half'r and it did rock man. my setting it came out a lot like PRONG.....great tone

[@TheAir97]

Holy shit! At first I thought you were just playing a part of the actual song

[@derrickvoricci7529]

Nice job. I’m a huge Death fan, and you nailed it man. 🤜🏼🤛🏼

[@moreguitarplease6199]

I own 3 Valvestates to make sure to have this sound forever! ;)

[@demisemedia]

This was absolutely brilliant!! Sounds incredible.

[@replicant8532]

Excellent tone bud. Works especially well on the Misanthrope.

[@seinthomas]

Amazing tone and track. Congrats !

[@JustRockMySoul]

remarkably close to the original tone, excellent job!

[@benjamincaupin1366]

this tone is the best guitar tone ever made ... R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner...

[@westwaffels]

Whoa! That sounds almost identical to chuck's tone. Friggin sweet dude

[@axlh.1827]

Nailed it, brutal tone

[@dg082306]

I bought this one about 4 years ago for $100. STILL love it. STILL play it. Sadly, this and the Ampeg VH-140 are sounds you just can't get anymore. MASSIVELY underrated, but do your research... it's not for everybody.

[@WakizashiSabre]

Nice, I really like "vintage" sounding amps.It does not matter if for blues or thrash metal. The vibe of it is just great... Maybe because I was kid of 80's.

[@TheRickJohnston]

I bought this same head and cab a couple of years ago for my metalhead son, nut he prefers his 1st generation Marshall MG100, so I kept it for myself. Crushing metal tones, but also really good classic Marshall sounds as well. It takes some time to dial it in as there are so many tonal variations, but this and my Marshall Artist 3203 head are my favorites. Marshall is THE sound of hard rock and metal, nothing else comes close...

[@alexx0radd]

This video made me buy one, this is a very great amp! i don't even understand why its not over 500$ new, from classic rock to death metal, insane

[@Stretchwreckedem469]

I wonder how his tone would have sounded through a Randall RG1003H or a similar full solid state amplifier. I love the sound of completely analog Solid State amplifiers and the fact that Chuck used Valvestate blew me away. I feel as if the solid state components definitely tightened up his sound.

[@micahj9828]

The VS8100 is hard to replicate, since it has a tube in the preamp. The Ampeg/Crate Vh140C, GX130C, GX140CH, and GX2200H come close with their second stage op-amp that mimics a tube better than any other solid state, but for some reason are now more expensive than the VS8100. (Edit: I've heard the Crate VTX3500H has the same preamp and is usually under $400, but I haven't found one.)

[@traiviator]

Flesh, and the power it hooolds \m/ exzellente Aktion Lasse

[@decomposing1]

What a killer tone!

[@curtisthompson1615]

I bought this head a few months ago used at a guitar center. I couldn't be happier, its amazing especially for the bargain.

[@deadasfak]

This is just an awesome medly!

[@fredchet2523]

killer tone !!! great job !!!

[@raymondgomez2255]

Holy shit!!!!! Killer dude!!!!!! Awesome job \m/

[@SheaRecordmetal]

Sounds good. I just got one from a friend with the original cab. I may try and run this through my 1960A instead. I have to admit. It is very scooped but that was the loved tone back then!

[@DanielBenavides]

That was awesome dude! Killer tone! Sounds almost identical.

[@doctornerve]

I love this amp. I always come back to the 8100 and I feels like it understands me: the low end "krowf" it belches on palm muted low strings, and the knife-slice "shing" high end pick scrapes. It's vicious. Not especially reliable engineering (I own three, of which only one works reliably)... but it's vicious. Great recording.

[@Necronomicon66]

Lasse, this is SPOT ON! Great job man! :)

[@tonyiommi74]

Hail again Chuck! Very good work man! Greetings and respect \m/

[@DamianGDI2012]

Spot on. Good video man.

[@satarello]

very nice sound !!! very similar to Death sound. congratulations.

[@IronDuke_xX]

Very nice medley, perfect tone.

[@vblackened4108]

perfect death sound!!!

[@angelux6lasombra]

damn dude, that's the tone I've looking for

[@AdamYoudell]

I had this back in the 90's god damn I wish I still had it

[@Dilleuh]

Spot on dude! awesome!

[@benjaminpran2894]

Spot on, amazing! Please re-record whole songs with your sound. ;-D

[@marklotv]

Holy shit man!!! Sounds awesome!!!!!!!!!

[@zacharybaranek9492]

The VS100 is one incredible amp. I used to throw a CS-2 in front of it and it just fucking slayed. Other players at our rehearsal building would knock on the door all the time asking what was making THAT tone... and they always walked away looking quite dumbfounded. I was blessed in getting my JCM 2000 DSL head stolen back in the day (1999). I had no cash and had to "resort" to buying one of these. Incredible! fyi, the Boss CS pedals always make solid state distortion sound MUCH better

[@Deth43]

Gotta love what will never let you down :D

[@I_am_Angerer]

This is such a cool demo!

[@Thr4sh4lot]

sweet mother..

[@TheBillproject]

amazing amp best gem I found on craiglist ! one of a kind ! Amazing transistor cleans and killer tube distortion .. it goes to 20 not 11 lol I find the OD1 and OD2 with contour can get so many tones.. can get DEATH albums tone all the way to GNR (Apetite) album tone to Cream albums tone . Yes the artist makes the diff too I know but it is so fun getting close to that sound. it lasts like and old Corolla won't die. only bad is the mysterious cycle hum from high distortion. (not bad though but you got to dig for a flaw)

[@girolamo5637]

Total Badass!!

[@ДенисВульпе]

I love this sounds ❤

[@piotrpyczek]

Perfect!

[@shanepurcell123]

I have this head and its awsome! I recommend this amp!

[@Koziolrh]

crushing

[@Solidsaw]

PER-FECT

[@piotrpiotrowski4681]

This sounds fucking perfect. Hats off.

[@dsato85]

SICK TONE MAN!!!!!

[@DanielFantini]

What a fucking massive tone. Too scooped? I think of death as one of the first metal bands to use a midrangy tone. Maybe just me though...

[@Pabloignacioalvarez]

Even if it's a scooped type EQ, it certainly got a lot of mids, probably the marshall tho

[@Admiral_Bongo]

It has a decent amount of upper mids (1000-2000Hz), but the lower mids (300-800) are heavily scooped. This amp has a quite unique voicing.

[@carlosbolin596]

Perfect, man!

[@Lelahellband]

the best tone ever!

[@wrongnote85]

wow, this is very impressive.

[@srawdawg6188]

That is very close to the sound, impressive. Were you running something with an X2n humbucker in the bridge. I also have this head, I picked one up as I was a pretty big fan of Chuck and Dime back in the day. I used your settings just now and I like the tone. For anyone out there wondering, an 8100 is imo one of the best / cost effective solutions for a metal tone. It sounds really good on its on. Sounds even better if you boost it with a distortion pedal set to just act as a volume booster and also to run it like a preamp into an all tube power amp (which I believe is what Chuck did on Symbolic VS Individual Thought Patterns....Im guessing a JCM 800).

[@Shagrath786]

Great Mix...

[@akaboo69]

awesome death medley dude

[@SuperGuitarGasm]

I have a Valvestate 8100 Marshall, and a Crate GX130-C. They both have different sounds with different settings (of course) but I was able to manipulate them to get the exact same sound out of both for the clean, and distortion channels. It goes beautifully with an Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer though.

[@Ornitorrinco666]

i thought i was listening to a death recording, fucking genious, i envy you

[@oportmusik]

this is it , fu11111ing good job

[@screw66]

very nice! I'm impressed

[@nonzerologanpasies8050]

awesome tone...

[@MrDimesy77]

Nailed it!

[@DarioDiLeva]

LOVE!!!! R.I.P. ChucK!!! \o/

[@charlesandhisworld]

Man I think you nailed the tone

[@underpressureman]

Sick Dude! Circle of tone just released a cool video on Deaths tone and gear!

[@IamtheActionman]

Great tone

[@zAvAvAz]

great

[@akaboo69]

killer tone I just got me one of these bad boys I love it very warm tight and heavy

[@crilf5830]

well done

[@TheSpineSplitter1990]

Also the Ampeg SS70 or SS140C. I own the SS70 1x12 combo and its got enough gain to do old school Suffocation, Gorguts, Dying Fetus tone very well, Although it does need a slight boost or extra eq pedal.

[@replicant8532]

1:45 WOW that is a great tone. I can hear every note separately.

[@KKcesarin666]

I love it

[@joshuasalgado4694]

Perfect👏🏻

[@ivanfrank6246]

Hello Lesse. Can you add it in your stl tones suit?) Guys, like this comment, so he could see it.