Hardcore

[daseb]

https://mellow-harsher.bandcamp.com/alb ... ed-cold-ep

new Mellow Harsher. Yes it's grind, whatever. It's good.

[WORMDIRT]

https://haggus.bandcamp.com/
Dat mincecore

[whitecapsof]

[WORMDIRT]

Dude. Mountain Man is life. I rip off their riffs all the time

[whitecapsof]

oh really? i know them because they're local to me and some of the guys in the band are friends of friends

[WORMDIRT]

That they're life? Hellz yeah. I hope they get some west coast dates in one of these days. TWO has been on repeat on my record player for eons.

[resincum]

Dude. Mountain Man is life. I rip off their riffs all the time

the different direction on their new stuff reminds of what Xerxes did with their new album. loving them both.

[whitecapsof]

the first time i heard that song i was like "welp...these guys listen to swans"

i dig it though

[daseb]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcYbR-Bocu8[/youtube]

[PeteeBee]

All right. Lame gear question. Obviously there is a massive variety of rigs used to get the tones covered in this thread, but what's the thoughts on using fuzz, distortion, slamming the front of the amp with a boost, or something else? Seems most bands I see go guitar>tuner>one pedal of the dirt variety>half stack.

My amp is a peavey musician into orange 2x12. I'm going into the practice spot tomorrow to try all sorts of combos of boosting it hard, overdrive a ton, distortion, fuzz. Everything.
I get tones I really dig from the micro terror at home but somehow the wayyyy more powerful amp just doesn't bring the same air, I have no idea why.

[Muff_Diver]

All right. Lame gear question. Obviously there is a massive variety of rigs used to get the tones covered in this thread, but what's the thoughts on using fuzz, distortion, slamming the front of the amp with a boost, or something else? Seems most bands I see go guitar>tuner>one pedal of the dirt variety>half stack.

My amp is a peavey musician into orange 2x12. I'm going into the practice spot tomorrow to try all sorts of combos of boosting it hard, overdrive a ton, distortion, fuzz. Everything.
I get tones I really dig from the micro terror at home but somehow the wayyyy more powerful amp just doesn't bring the same air, I have no idea why.

toobz

[BoatRich]

All right. Lame gear question. Obviously there is a massive variety of rigs used to get the tones covered in this thread, but what's the thoughts on using fuzz, distortion, slamming the front of the amp with a boost, or something else? Seems most bands I see go guitar>tuner>one pedal of the dirt variety>half stack.

My amp is a peavey musician into orange 2x12. I'm going into the practice spot tomorrow to try all sorts of combos of boosting it hard, overdrive a ton, distortion, fuzz. Everything.
I get tones I really dig from the micro terror at home but somehow the wayyyy more powerful amp just doesn't bring the same air, I have no idea why.

More speakers/volume would be my suggestion. I tend to like a slightly higher gain boost (OCD, rat, etc) going into a loud Marshall sounding amp.

[PeteeBee]

Guess I'm buying a new amp haha

[casecandy]

Honestly, i'd love to say I'm using some limited edition doom machine or whatever, but in truth it's just an OCD...

Sometimes you do not need to dig very deep to get the best stuff... sometimes it's popular for a reason. I worship the OCD, TBH.

[lordgalvar]

Everybody I ever saw doing any thing remotely punk way back in the 90s used whatever loud amp they could find at the time and just pushed it (noise and all)...I ran a Sovtek Mig100h into a Carvin 4x12 with an MT-2 (set as a treble boost to get away from the bass player's freqs). My friend used a Peavy 5150 2x12 with a 4x12 ext cab. A ton of other people used Peavy, Acoustic, Randall, Kustom, and Carvin heads into whatever cab they salvaged (all about cheap and replacable). Speakers wern't a big deal...just had to hold up (I had celestions and didn't like them, but they did the job...lots of peavy speakers around because they were cheap).

In the eighties I think it was similar too...

Some people had Marshalls, but they were usually the kids that had lessons or jobs haha. Not much fender in those days, but a few people used the fender PA heads. Oh, one dude had a fender 4x10...but he was doing jangle, jangle indie pop recording only project...his buds in the hardcore band used Carvins.

My first setup I played a show was with a peavy 2x10 combo with the preamp out going to a randall 2x10 combo...sounded horrible and just did feedback...which was cool I guess.

These were indie rock, pop punk, emo, hardcore, peace punk, etc bands. Nobody really used pedals until that Providence, RI No-Wave stuff came around (USAISAMONSTER, Arab on Radar, Lightning Bolt, etc).

Metal guys were using mesa/boogie heads or rack setups with mesa/boogie in there somewhere.

I got a lot of crap when I started using Ring Mod back then.

But also, there was no micing at venues...they had a 4 channel for mics and that was it...so you had to fill the venue with whatever you brought. In all the shows I played, we only got mic'd twice (once at a country/western bar and once in Oakland...both were to record us so the venue could profit by selling us our recording haha).

I knew a guy back in the 1960s (when he played...knew him in the 1990s) doing psych/garage stuff in SF, and he used JBL (or was it jenson) PA cabs and fender bassmaster (or bandmaster or something) so that they could play the smaller venues with no mics. Said it sounded great. Also seen bands take old PA cabs (like the stacked 4x12s) and run two from Music Mans or something to get loud. A few people I ran across ran two 2x12 combos (probably 5150s or something)