Make METAL GUITARS sound EVIL again!

Can we make metal guitar tones more extreme?
What about blending different fuzz pedals for more MOJO?
German producer Kristian Kohle (Aborted, Powerwolf, Hämatom, Eskimo Callboy, Van Canto, Benighted) has returned to make your guitar tone less sterile!
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[@kianmacleod379]

As a doom/prog/noise guy, I can confirm I have been doing this for years. Love the stuff man

[@AkiWataru]

preffer rat but you right

[@disnoise]

Nice! me as well, I use a Boss LS-2 to blend Fuzz and distortion pedals. I bought a Revv G4 and the blend with an HM-2 is killer!

[@disnoise]

The Revv distortion and the HM-2 blend is basically Glenn's pedal, The Mauler. Nice stuff

[@kianmacleod379]

@@disnoise hell yeah

[@Zappabain]

@@disnoise I'll try it with the Helix Revv G4 and my real HM2!! Thanks for the trick! love it when people share things that make them happy and can help others.

[@PraiseTheSaw]

Praise the saw!

[@juanvaldez5422]

Nice!

[@the8bithesher433]

T H E Is The Law/Family S A W

[@AustinTheDeathMetalUnicorn]

I approve of your pfp

[@apothecide.1]

Chain gang

[@BlueMoonFuzz]

Sun*

[@cyanideanima]

The Big Muff and Behringer pedals sounded so cool paired with the Revv. Great stuff, Kohle!

[@BrickNewton]

I'm running a TS9 into a Beringer HD300 into a Big Muff, into a Orange amp and speaker and sounds awesome

[@revelationssoloprojectdisc8489]

Best Behringer pedal is the SF300 superfuzz change my mind lol

[@DonnieDistortion]

The main guitar tones on Sepultura - Roots were achieved with a modified Big Muff (added tube gain stage) by Indigo Ranch Studios owner Richard Kaplan (RIP). Add a bit more presence and/or treble to those guitar tones and you get something quite similar to what you hear in this video. Fuzz tone that chugs. Love it.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Follow me to the Dark side of Distortion! What are you guys doing to sound dirty?

[@primateproduccionescr]

It sounds amazing!!! Thank you for sharing this olistic approach to guitar distortion. Kind Regards from Costa Rica !

[@mrcoatsworth429]

Cranking every knob on my Orange

[@johngallant3321]

6505+/rhythm channel/bright/crunch/fairly high preamp setting---------OD pedal up front with level around 10 o'clock gain at 2:30 and tone at 2o'clock. With everything engaged, i get that sort of distortion that is just about to fall off the rails but still has clarity. It is thick but not overly muddy for faster riffs and has loads of harmonics.

[@lucasiciliano]

Hello Kristian great question time ! Fuzz pedals should be first pedal after the guitar and before the wha wha ! They're allergic to buffers, but works well with EQs and noise gates ! I brown my tone with Krush OD, then into Marshall JMP-1 (tube preamp) ! This is the way I walk to have a fast response and defined tone, than I split the sound sending the signal to power amp and mic cab, in parallel the speaker simulator output to the desk and effects send to the racks to triamplify all !

[@runander]

Any kind of HM-2 like pedal or the Audiority Heavy Pedal VST! Such great fun to play with.

[@LeviJules]

Holy shit that was great. And the best part is... is that i have all of these fuzz pedals bahaha Time for some fun on my day off!

[@junkawakami3193]

watching how you blend basic metal tone with HM2 on the Aborted session, i start blending mine with RAT when the genre calls.

[@Mindartcreativity]

Have you heard END? It‘s Will Putney‘s band where he also plays live (with members from different well known metalcore bands). There he has a really nice aggressive, heavy tone. He uses a Way Huge Swollen Pickle (muff type) into a 6505+ but he uses the fuzz to get kind of an HM-2 chainsaw tone. Then he adds a low octave for the chugga chugga and it sounds SUPER heavy. And they play in Drop C!

[@kylelyons6088]

Was wondering about how he got that tone! I love END

[@SimonKranzDrums]

Very HM-2-ish sounds - which confirms my suspicion that the HM-2 is actually a fuzz pedal on steroids. The split setup certainly gives you more options then the HM-2 alone, without losing any br00tality. I personally liked the sounds with the Big Muff and the Behringer pedal best. Great video, as always - keep 'em coming!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Indeed. The HM2 is somewhere in between dist and fuzz.

[@Fromagreatheight]

HM-2 is definitely a fuzz pedal. Sounds like a big muff tailored for metal sounds, with like a more dynamic EQ section.

[@atrumluminarium]

The HM2 also has the EQ knobs tuned to very specific frequencies which is why it gets the "characteristic sound" only when they're maxed out. Varying said frequencies completely destroys the chainsaw effect

[@lumpenada977]

I actually used my hm2 into a vtm 120 as a fuzz pedal when i played in a doom band.

[@coverman4435]

Think I liked the cheap 'n nasty Behringer the best, loved the bite that it had. Bender came in last for me, too mid/boxy driven for my taste. Another great vid, driving home that it's important to experiment w/your guitar tone!

[@rk28984]

Maybe also try a Proco Rat pedal, I really dig it as a raw sounding boost with lots of character. The Boss JB2 might also be a intersting pedal as you can do a parallel blend of OD and distortion.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Got two Rats here. Need to try them again once I find some time!

[@torontotonto6189]

@@KohleAudioKult protip: try it with the distortion at 0 and 100

[@itdies2dayyo]

I run a rat after my muff and it's super nasty. It just gives the muff a real nice bite.

[@malevolentsound]

Rat is the best pedal

[@salzulli6290]

The Katzenkonig is a Rat/Tone Tonebender hybrid. Makes me think that will sound really well for a metal sound.

[@pogle2034]

When you add the TS to the Big Muff, it sounds like an HM2!

[@NutsTesticles]

The HM-2 tone stack is based on a Big Muff.

[@JanXD]

You have to try a bit crusher pedal. You can get extremely nasty tones with them.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Good idea. That might be fun!

[@Tedris4]

I was wondering if a bitcrusher was used on the savage and disgusting tone on Ho99o9’s Death Kult It’s most likely multiple super cheap fuzzes and distortions but the crunch of the tone sounds very bitcrushed so even if they didn’t use one it might work to get that tone

[@florian_metalgandalf]

That moment at 11:39 when Kohle realised that it sounds "Black Metal"..... priceless

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

Kinda makes sense when you consider that a lot of early black metal is basically noise rock with extra use of minor chords.

[@theolang3566]

i can also recommend using a 'range-master' type treble booster before a lower gain fuzz. it can really break through the muddyness while still being harsh and aggressive!

[@dq7860]

Treble Boosters and Tube Screamers go very well with Big Muffs, brings back the mids and highs.

[@mattwhite399]

That big muff combo is incredible! All of these tones are unique, and seem like they have solid applications. Killer video!

[@ErikEkholm]

The plasma distortion. Enough fukken said!!!

[@illyadass]

thanks for being our crazy german metal scientist, we appreciate it!!

[@joesinclair8910]

Plays the most hyped pedal of all time "this sounds REALLY SHITTY"

[@KohleAudioKult]

Hypes are shitty too 🤪

[@deathmetal0914]

I have a boss ls-2 line selector that works pretty well for mixing pedals. A big muff mixed with a boss sd-1 was pretty interesting. I also like to run a hm-2 in one loop and leave the other loop empty to use as a clean blend. Definitely recommend for anyone who wants to experiment around.

[@santoclemenzi]

I hate fuzz pedals XD but man, that blending technique is mind-blowing. The Big Muff + Revv is the best combination to my ears but I'm impressed by the behringer, as you said it sounds shitty but it's incredible the sound you can have blending in the Revv! Great video Kohle!!!

[@outdatedgear5036]

If you don’t have a parallel fx loop inside your amp, check out the keymaster from pigtronix.

[@diskovolos]

ssssssh ... stop revealing all the secrets ! I have been using an ocd and russian big muff in parallel and its a killer sound for bass distortion. This kind of setup would be nice for d-beat or crust tone where you don't wanna have the most "clean/tight" distortion but sth nasty instead. Also, instead of messing with an amp's fx loop *which is not always running in parrallel* a Boss LS-2 can do the same job. Ok wanna have another cool tone ? Go gtr-> TS-> chorus and distortion in parallel . Instant atmospheric black metal !

[@O5krUrrutia]

Very good point about the parallel FX Loop. Do you put the LS-2 on the FX loop or in front of the amp?

[@diskovolos]

@@O5krUrrutia in front

[@michanowak7060]

LS-2 doesn't have polarity switch, how big issue can it be? Or is it just bender problem and I shouldn't care about it too much?

[@diskovolos]

@@michanowak7060 If it is an issue you will immediately tell , because the combination of two pedals will drop the volume by a great extent. However, the good thing is that when parallely mixing you can experiment with so many pedals and don't have to be particularly picky. In other words , if polarity is an issue , use another pedal.

[@michanowak7060]

@@diskovolos I guess 'buy more pedals' is always an answer, thanks :p

[@Elektronijaenis]

The "common wisdom" about the fuzzface is that it needs to be connected straight to a guitar with passive pickups to do its thing. Well... The thing most people like it for. It will load down the pickup (impedance mismatch) in a way that actually sounds better with the gain and distortion/fuzz it makes. And controlling it with your guitars volume knob is a big part of it too. And again... That only works well straight to the guitar with passive pickups. The sounds it is known for when used that way are quite far from modern fast metal though. Just for your information though... There's nothing wrong in experimenting. I loved the SF300 combination, but then again, I like fuzzy and nasty. :)

[@javiceres]

That’s absolutely the key to a great Fuzz Face sound. There’s the MXR Classic 108 with a dedicated switchable buffer that might do the trick in environments like these.

[@josuastangl7140]

Sounds just great man, this is exactly the devilish science we need! I'm definately gonna try this in the digital, once I get my Neural DSP Quad Cortex.

[@maxjjk]

I have a Line 6 HX Stomp patch where I blend a Hyperfuzz on mode 2 with a ProCo Rat. I wasn't using it for modern metal, but rather really slow stoner/doom/drone. I wanted a cross between the Electric Wizard Dopethrone tone and the huge thick low end of SunnO))). In the A/B in this video, I actually preferred the Tone Bender! Don't really like the sound on its own, but the midrange really popped out of the mix.

[@MrPeteBaker]

It's so sad to live in Brasil, I need to be rich to have any of this stuff.

[@TonyHookedonVanlife]

BOSS FZ-2 mode 2 is your key to Electric Wizard insanity - welcome to the dopethrone of hell. ;0)

[@tymime]

Fuzz is pretty common in stoner metal. I've been thinking fuzz could be in extreme metal for years!

[@tymime]

I'll bet a distortion with a blend knob could achieve a similar effect in series.

[@jacksmith4460]

You should have tried the Behringer and the Fuzzface without the Tubescreamer on. Fuzzfaces really like to be first in the chain, and the Hyper Fuzz that the Behringer is a clone of , was based on the Fuzface

[@bigpiper2103]

I was just gonna point out the same thing. After other pedals they tend to sound thinner and more gainy/aggressive, which may be an overkill.

[@riverryan6216]

Fuck yeah! This is exactly what I do! I blend a Diezel VH-4 PREAMP PEDAL with the preamp of my Marshall JVM 410H using a parallel mixer pedal, back into the power amp of the JVM 410 out to a single 4x12. It gives me that huge Adam Jones type of tone in a much smaller and less expensive setup. BUT I can and often do run a fuzz into the Marshall on a clean channel and CRANK the VH4's overdrive channel pushing both with a boost. Absolutely massive sounding. 10/10 highly recommend. What I haven't tried is alternatly putting a fuzz in front of the VH4 pedal, and cranking the Marshall 🤔 Think I'll try that today! Thanks for the sharing this technique with your audience. Metal tones need soul again. All be it an evil one 🤘😉. Cheers!

[@SuperGalagonya]

Smart solution! 👌 Which mixer pedal do you use?

[@SuperGalagonya]

Have you tried to use the par.loop of the jvm instead of a mix pedal?

[@firdeye2681]

The way Kohle mimics his guitar sound with his voice is some kind of art and hilarious. Also toneblender is a cool name

[@guitaristssuck8979]

Fender Blender exists

[@MetalHeadProductions]

My Hail Satan Fuzz has a 50% dry wet blend on it and I use that to hit the front end of the blue channel of my 5153. Huge, monstrous sound that could do doom or death metal handily.

[@Ochatach]

How about making a video showcasing how to do this with an interface and some pedals? :D

[@KohleAudioKult]

You mean with plugins instead of real amps?

[@Ochatach]

@@KohleAudioKult yeah, but some real pedals or vst effects, would be really cool

[@joemarta8221]

Just reamp it twice one for each configuration, have a submix/buss and increase the level of each send to blend it. For pure plugins, duplicate your DI track, setup your inserts on each one for fuzz one for distortion, send to a submix/buss like above

[@tsbdgaming69s96]

I use an EHX Metal Muff with top boost and a Pro Co Rat 2 in parallel using an EHX Tri Parallel Mixer. I have never heard such a good tone in my life

[@creativeheadroom]

The intro song could easily have Svencho growling away on top of all these riffs. It's got an Aborted vibe to it for sure. Also, that nasty tone w/ the Boss pedal would work nicely on an upcoming Benighted record, don't you think? It's the kind of disgusting tone that fits their music perfectly.

[@KohleAudioKult]

Double yes! ❤️🍺

[@jacksmith4460]

you can do this very easily with a Boss line selector (LS-2) no polarity switch though, but this is how I do this

[@rolfrolf9176]

Also, if you're double tracking rhythm guitar, try one extremely tight amp with smooth distortion (like a Randall Diavlo 100) on one side and one that has a very rough distortion (like an ENGL Thunder 50) on the other side. The combination is great!

[@plaguesofwrath]

Interesting. I wonder if this would work the other way around. I mean like, the fuzz going into the fx return while using the amp’s distortion. I didn’t buy an ENGL for the clean channel 😂

[@guitaristssuck8979]

I used the fuzz in the fx return of a delay (in the amp fx return) for lead

[@avrahampatino2580]

I’m wondering the same with my VH4!

[@nakamurasupermario64miyamo61]

No experience with doing this in a live setting, but for recording, I generally just record a separate track with the fuzz and blend it with the center "normal" track.

[@thesystima]

"The Behringer sounds shitty" bro do you even Electric Wizard That pedal solo is literally the thing that makes Electric Wizard Also, for the boring distortion sound, try emulating Memoriam, they have some fucking amazing tones and I'd watch the hell outta that

[@se7en5es]

To me, the most evil sounding of them all was the Behringer.

[@juanvaldez5422]

I love raunchy fuzz and I have a beard..... seriously though, the behringer super fuzz is my favorite fuzz by far. Its only 25 bucks which is amazing

[@samuliauno8163]

Awesome tones! I think I liked the Behringer blend the most. So nasty.

[@SSPGwemlin]

Now play it on an old solid state Randall and it’ll sound like Crowbar. Sick.

[@luanventura6569]

If Hagrid saw this video, he'd say: "You're a wizard, Kohle." Making fuzz sound good, holy shit! Please, have my like.

[@KohleAudioKult]

❤️🍺

[@bolland83]

Now mix the metal muff with the metalzone.

[@kuzWich]

17:01 Behringer+G4 = made in hell marriage

[@jounikorhonen]

I have done this a few times. :D ...Turned into Stoner/Doom/Sludge at my old age. I don't gig anymore, so I use only pedals and IR's to record. A Palmer ss-power-amp if I need to jam with guys. Or just PA-speakers, active. I too split the signal, the first usually to Neunaber Neuron as the "Metal" and the other channel usually has a treblebooster into a fuzz into a Matamp-style preamp-pedal. BUT I have not found a way to join them into mono again, so I record it stereo, or put the otherone into a poweramp-cab and the other into a PA-speaker. Oddly enough, the fuzz-channel sometimes needs a buffer somewhere, but it might have actually been a phase issue. Must check. Cheers!

[@HOGANMW]

Amazing as always :-)

[@lucasiciliano]

Thank you Kristian for the question ! It depends on gears, if I'm tube ready, or transistors (solid state technology), digital or software (plug ins), anyway I always crank up the gain on my Krush OD, then into Marshall JMP-1 (tube preamp) than I play the game in every metal contest ! 🍻🍻🍻 👑👑👑🎸🎸🎸🔥🔥🔥

[@sekritdokumint9326]

Mode 2 on Behringer SF300 sounds shitty?! What?! Have you ever heard Dopethrone by Electric Wizard? How does that sound shit at all! This is the nastiest most broken and evil sound ever! It's fucking amazing

[@KohleAudioKult]

It sounds shitty in this setup. Combined with the distortion

[@vincentemerald2574]

Killer idea!! Your vids are top notch!!

[@mattlauer6817]

What If you dont have a parallel effects loop?

[@sski]

I was getting Triptykon vibes off the JHS/Revv blend. Thanks for the video. Things that make you go 'hmmm' and lab-worthy.

[@salzulli6290]

I want to hear that 3 way splitter/ mixer with the revv, bender, and muff. That seems like it would be killer.

[@Phillisteum]

Love these experiments! Please keep going! I have a non-metal amp, the Laney GH30R-112 combo, its definitely more voiced towards Blues Rock and some hard rock tones, but I've been having great nasty monstrous results mixing fuzz and distortion pedals! Maybe get some non metal amps and experiment with pedals to see what you can get. Cheers!

[@jackrose6996]

My first Randall was very much the "not metal" bluesy amp I was looking for at the time. It's turned out to be the second heaviest amp I have.

[@jacksmith4460]

Same idea ...but on a budget: Boss Lineselector performs an A+B mix function, has built in volume/pre so you can blend really easy I have used this splitting (but with 2 different distortions) before to record. You can go DI through a single pre or into the front of single amp

[@mee887]

Hey Kristian! Really love this idea for unique tone. I have a chance to buy a Brunetti XL REVO 60 watt version. Maybe you know if 60 watt version is also good and should I buy it or not? I'm looking for some amp what can to more then just metal so would you recommend Brunetti XL REVO 60watt head?

[@KohleAudioKult]

I got the 50 or 60W version my self. It's just the Mark 1 and not the REVO. But I'm pretty sure it will do a great job!

[@mee887]

@@KohleAudioKult Oh this amp on video is also only 60 watts. Cool so I will buy this Brunetti. Thanks a lot.

[@JesterDyne]

I also thought of that before. I think Paradise Lost did something like that on "Medusa"... really heavy broken up sound. Perfect for Doomy slow Riffing... Or like the Hesse say "Is gut für Unnarum" ;)

[@KohleAudioKult]

I'll ask Aaron about that!

[@JesterDyne]

That was just a Guess from listening. The overall sound is really something different and refreshing. So bonebraeking dirty and dark. I forgot how small the World is nowadays :) Yeah i'm really interested in that Info.

[@soulfare333]

I do that. But I do it differently. I run a Marshall DSL 100 watt and an Orange Crush 120 side by side. The Marshall takes the fuzz pedal (Catalinbred Giygas) The Crush is just normal gain. These go through separate speakers and volumes are adjusted to be equal. Mids mostly out. EQ to mix the sound. Kinda like how Jay Yuenger did his Mesas and Randall amps.

[@CraigFlowersMusic]

I too want my own channel to grow. So we have that in common. But the list basically ends there. For one thing, my channel, unlike yours, does not grow.

[@ElectromagneDikk]

Thats so funny that this popped in my feed. I just got a new tube head and i have an hx effects ao ive been experimenting with different tones of gain stacking a lot lately using the 4 cable method and some creative signal routing and ive got great results lately from blending overdrives, distortions, and fuzzes. It seems like you're getting the same results, the tightness and brutality of a great metal tone, and The shining personality of the fuzz coming through at the same time. It just gives such good character to your tone

[@antonycharest4719]

men that surprised me how good that sound! By the way thanks now I know how to pronounce behringer men thanks

[@KohleAudioKult]

That’s my main mission. To get all German names in the audio industry straight! 🤪

[@jacksmith4460]

13:20 not sure why but I'm getting a Converge vibe from that sound

[@blacktoothfox677]

I ADORE fuzz..!!! One must be very strategic in it's usage however. I got the Vox Tonebender sound down, with added disco phaser... for CRAZY solos! haha bless you man. Only just found your channel; instant sub! Stay healthy out there

[@frankcifarelli3473]

When you blended in the REVV for the first time, I laughed out loud with the joy of a child. I'll never not use this approach from now on. World-breaking in the best way.

[@MaciejCzub]

The tone of guitars in modern metal has been discussed many times before. To be honest, what is more lacking is a really expert discussion of how stoner, sludge sounds are created and recorded (Ufomammut, Electric Wizard, Neurosis). Those bubbling, gurgling, fuzz sounds. I have an impression that often they are not as distorted as it seems at the beginning. Often it's more crunch than distortion - this gives them the power to create a real wall of sonic pressure. I know that Swedish black metal is also a wall of sound, but it's closer to white noise than a hydraulic press on a chest.

[@kibibu]

The Behringer fuzz in this very video is the Electric Wizard "Funeralopolis" tone machine.

[@JasonMelidonie]

I want to dedicate this comment to Mr. Kai!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Etwas mehr Hingabe wär schon schön gewesen. 💥😢

[@Agar4Life]

Beautiful! I know what I'm doing later tonight. BE-OD and a Mountainking Megalith (or the BAT Pharaoh) are gonna be brutal.

[@MDee-db7by]

Overdrive into fuzz on the clean channel of a triple rectifier. Sounds great, real sick metal tone. You can play any type of style, it sounds really ugly but the notes still come thru clear.

[@davidgarman5228]

I have been for awhile just hitting the front end of my Black Arts Pharohoh with my favorite Tubescreamer at the time and going straight in the the front end of my amp. Its been my go to thing for awhile. Key is that a little goes a long way.

[@rodrigogt4011]

This is exactly what I’m doing with a boss ls2, A channel my Mesa roadster (or any other amp) and in B channel black arts tone works pharaoh, and a precision drive before the boss

[@yoless42]

As a bass player, i split my signal in 2 channels for years, usually in a clean and a dirt signal. Seems that i have to split it in 3 channels from now on. 😁

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

As a guitar player I've been splitting my signal into two channels for years, but usually Marshall VS8100 dirt and Ampeg VH-140C dirt.

[@lokarrsboots9337]

I mean, yeah... The guitar tone is awesome. But the BASS TONE, man!

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks man! Check out my bass playlist for more information!

[@thechannelforeverything2170]

I think you might've just did a thing there.

[@guntherachterhof4876]

What do I do if I like pretty much every type of angry sound there is? Fuzz pedals, overdrive pedals (like the Tube Screamer), distortion pedals, and amp distortion boosted and upboosted. Kristian, wonderful video!

[@tatonghudas]

It sounds gnarly af, I wanna get one... Already had Revv G4 and ST9pro+, always wondered if I throw a muff in there or is it gonna be a bit excessive during live idk ( I wanna sound a bit like Suffocation, I know their gear but where I'm from its a unicorn to see those 6505s and whatnot). Been thinking about the behringer superfuzz tho

[@YsAbTones]

not bad ! did you tried a boogie mark IV B ? basically the bass knob of the preamp gives you those fuzzy to tight nuances, awesome amp

[@JDStone20]

The Behrigher pedal sounded the best, although I love fuzz, and you can never have a bad fuzz pedal, just mixed with a disortotion pedal the SF-300 sounded the best

[@BcBaxley]

Ever listen to Narrow Head? They have three deferent guitar tones going on 🤘😁

[@thejonathandoan]

This demo had some great sound! When I listened to the comparison at the end, I liked the final result with the JHS fuzz best, due to the artifacts/character on the high mids, and how they interacted with the bass guitar. I dug the mix with the JHS Bender the best in this group. Always great to learn from the masters, and this thorough comparison test was great fun! Thanks for the video.

[@sconni666]

I always put a K or TS circuits before fuzz to tighten it up. Works great 🎛

[@Lahey1579]

Awesome video man! That’s a killer method for developing new heavy guitar tones! Thanks so much for sharing! Here’s some other cheap dirt pedals for blending that work for me: EHX Flatiron Fuzz (Warmer Rat Distortion) Behringer HM300 (Boss HM-2 Clone) ProCo Rat 2 Tone City Matcha Cream (EHX Green Russian Muff Clone, this is the most focused muff model I’ve played, I also own the Triangle and Ram’s Head). I personally think these 3 models are the best sounding muffs, I like them all more than the standard muff models I’ve played. Since these pedals sound better boosted, here’s a couple of cheap tube screamer models too: Behringer TO100 (TS9 Clone) Behringer TO800 (TS808 Clone) I think you’re a killer producer & engineer man! Keep up the great content!

[@BrunoGomes666]

Hi Kristian. Seeing that you´re using the DV-77 speaker, Mick Thompson always uses a blend of fuzz in his tones. In fact, he has a big collection of fuzz pedals and is constantly using different ones live. The Behringer SF300 has two fuzz modes. You used only the one that is scooped. The other mode is more conventional. But, there is a third hidden fuzz mode. If you put the switch in a position between fuzz 1 and fuzz 2, you'll actually get a third mode that is a mix of the two. By the way, I just bought your Rainbows and Chainsaws IR pack and WOW! I love it! Getting great tones on a Two Notes Torpedo CAB M+. 🤘😎🤘

[@KohleAudioKult]

Thanks for the tip! I’ll try!

[@dorrianstone7264]

👋 Anybody know what kind of guitar that is?

[@KohleAudioKult]

Fernandes Ravelle Baritone. You're welcome! ;)

[@VesiustheBoneCruncher]

In the mix that Behringer sounds like *pure* evil. Perfect for like a two bar highlight of “now we are not fucking about”. You can’t mix an entire song like that. But every now and then. Argh.

[@Zoidberg13197]

This is definitely a very "at the gates" feeling tone for sure!

[@Zappabain]

I thought the same! In fact I already felt it with the Revv alone.

[@mikemnij3038]

Great video as awaited :-) 14:40 is a super oldschool death metal guitar tone. Reminded something like Banished - Deliver Me Unto Pain, my fav metal video, by the way.

[@docf.n.t.2310]

The Revv with the Big Muff sounded best to me. Ihad a big muff back in the mid 70s, and I had forgotten how goid the sound with distortion. (I had a PV Duece with a master volume for distortion, mixed with the big muff for fuzz. I was a bit ahead of my time because everyone thought I was insane for that tone back then. KISS songs with this tone was awesome, but most thought I had went "over the wall" !!! I think this type of tone could work well with modern Symphonic Metal, I'll have to try ! 😉

[@JDESTR0Y]

Peavey JSX, XXX, 6505, EVH 5150 iii Stealth (all spawned from the OG 5150) is by far the best tone in the game and that is facts.... Big facts, Full truth, No lies, No cries, Cant denies, Ham and fries, Really tho the Peavey amps are the best thing Ive ever heard, By far, In a League above, I will say this is my own opinion... It is NOT subject to change I will stand on this hill till the day i die, No Tube screamer needed, pure tone, Basically on every Metal Record you've heard (modern) The Mesa Dual Rec needs the tube scream to even be good, Peavey for life, Hide your wife, Tone for Life....

[@DeanClean42069]

Kristian, try out some Randalls! This is my current rig! Try this out: Left and Right channels: Grindstein first, through a Randall RG100, through to parametric EQ and IRs. Center: Got a splitter to run both a Randall Lynchbox Grail and a Randall T2 in the center I blend these 4 amps together and it makes my sound so fucking thick. Distortion can sound even MEANER when you BLEND transistor / solid state distortion WITH tube distortion. it creates this weird but gnarly saturation without having to do a whole lot of compression to gain "thickness" if I'm making any sense. I know some people like to only double track or quad track, but I like to tri-track. I put guitars in the extreme left and right, but I leave one dead center, and the dead center one I use TWO amps on it. God its so fucking thick (and LOUD!). I have to turn the amps DOWN so the drums and bass can still be heard, lol.

[@Anerisian]

“sounds shitty?” nope... come my fanatics, listen... (Super/HyperFuzz, or FZ-2 originally) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fITchJVvrqybmqM

[@konnorfoxworth9632]

Other options for a metal fuzz: Boss HM…nothing more to say…just ALL GAIN! Greenhouse FX Sludgehammer…don’t really need a clean boost for it, the fuzz is huge even when cranked all the way down. Also has a solid EQ setting. EHX Metal Muff…slightly sensitive, but it does have a good amount of distortion and EQ. Has a boost button too for a bigger sound.

[@Yupppi]

Was it germanium or silicon fuzz face? My guess is silicon because it's the more aggressive one so probably more suited for metal. There's also something like four versions of tone benders that sound slightly different so you got some choices there as well, to get just the one you like. And a million of Big Muffs I suppose. The recent Op Amp Big Muff Pi (Pumpkin Pi after Smashing Pumpkins) might work really well with the metal rig. Like just for example Quiet by Smashing Pumpkins was probably my first touch to a song that actually sounded really heavy. And it was just a strat into op amp big muff into marshall head. Well, and 8 doubling tracks... There's also the univox super fuzz that one of the JHS fuzzes copy, another different fuzz sound. The Behringer was almost like HM-2 actually. Maybe HM-2 blend next? Or TC Eyemaster since it's cheaper. That one is kinda crazy messy alone, but might give a nice character blended. Interesting comparison - blues guys basically live by the rule that the fuzz face has volume and fuzz always turned to max and you ride the volume control of the guitar (to get it to clean up and get some note separation, some people's favourite clean tone is fuzz face with guitar volume turned down). It's not that crazy sound as is, but into a cruncy amp, probably closer to hendrix frying the amp. Tubescreamer was a good idea to begin with to help with the massive low end and lack of mids in fuzzes, perhaps it would've worked even better after them. Or maybe a klon would work even better. I feel like klon is the new secret sauce in metal since tubescreamer is such default choice. I know someone was already using klon into jcm800, but I forget who that was. There are quite a few options when playing with fuzzes. Luckily none of your fuzzes seemed to be picky about having something with a buffer in front of them, some old fuzz circuits hate buffers. Perhaps the fuzz face was a bit unhappy, I don't know for sure, sounded a bit odd to me. The fuzzes actually do give pretty fancy crunch to the sound. That knäckebrot tone. One thing would've also been interesting: the other channel (Brunetti preamp) without fuzz. How chunky would've that tone been? Two tracks after all give some body to the sound pretty much any way you set it up. Oh and one option for this might be like a rack system. Rack preamp and power amp, effects (distortions or whatever you want to put in there) in between, or two different preamps. Most of the rack gear had stereo output after all, and power amps two inputs as well. Almost like the way you mixed the stuff if you put a rack preamp in, one output dry and one to the pedal of your choice (perhaps one output to effects as well, one dry), then both into the same power amp, different channels, and those channels into the same 4x12". Made me kinda excited thinking about the options. Thanks for the video! I feel like you got pretty original ideas and you execute them properly.

[@accordv6er]

Haha been doing this with my EHX parallel mixer... All kinds of wacky sounds. Some of my bottom end going into a bass 115, rest into a 212 amp is a MG100, using Behringer and a Hot wax.... Need a muff soon

[@jorgea.9988]

It's been a while since I heard such a heavy and mean guitar tone!

[@SamThredder]

I've kind of been doing this in Slabdragger since we started, I figured I'd treat my Sovtek Muff as a valve amp and stick a Tube Screamer into it. Hey presto! Precise chugs with filthy fuzz and feedback on tap!

[@pauljvigeantjr]

I used to run my Bass VI into a DOD Bass Grunge, the clean output going into a Danelectro Black Licorice Beyond Metal, and both signals going into a JHS Summing Amp before going into my Randall.

[@daynetaib123]

i do use fuzz for my distortion.. but i put my blues driver first full gain then the full gain fuzz.. and i love it.. especially im using hamer california with emg active 81-85 pickups sets... and im playing blackened thrash metal...