anyone have one of these or heard them in action????? i'v heard a few samples on the krank site and it sounded pretty good.

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Shitty amps made by shitty people.

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i'm with bls %1000 here...

their amps are just as shitty as the people that work for them..

they got kicked off of harmony central because they had their employees go post a shitload of straight 10 reviews. i've seen them spamming and talking up their shit on other forums...

the chadwick, is like a poser jcm 800.. it's actually modded off of a sovtek mig i think... which is basically a jcm 800 clone... they fuck up the tone to be totally shitty, put some plad tolex on it and a huge pricetag, then endorse some metal band... walla. so so clean tones, incapable of high gain tones and almost unusable medium gain tones.

the revolution, the "kleen" channel is actually pretty good, very scoopy and lots of headroom on that channel... but i could get just as good of cleans out of alot cheaper amps with more honest employees and versitility..
distortion was seriously unusable, but now it's common knowlegde in the gear world that there is a fault in the preamp design, it breaks up very unpredictably, shrill and grainy no matter what you do, no balls at all. it's not even that high gain. that channel sounds like white noise when you strum a chord.

the cab that i played, was a matching red one with the revolution... it wasnt to bad.. nice eminence speakers, and a decent cab design... i give them no credit here because cabs are pretty hard to fuck up. it's a wooden fucking box(you can easily rip off another companies designs), then you throw some nice speakers(that they didn't make) in it and slap a $900 price tag.
what bothers me is they claim they're solid wood cabs. nope, just thick plywood.. insider info.

havent played the pedals, but i'd be willing to go out on a limb here and say their pretty shitty too.

they first started claiming they created a recto killer... my friend that works at guitar center was telling me some krank dude brought in the revolution,probably trying to convince some store to carry them(which they're having a really hard time doing), and told him to a/b it next to the fucking mesa road king. he was like "get that thing out of here, it sounds like that head is throwing garbage at my face."


friends don't let friends play kranks.

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hahahahahahahahaha.i'd like to read more opinions on the krank amps from more people on the forum.

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Seems I read somewhere that they payed Dicksnot to say they use the amps... well that would make since too now that I think of it.

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They pay ALOT of artist to say they play their amps.

Lets see..

Mike (Darkest Hour)
Micheal Ammot (Arch Enemy)

They both play(ed) 5150's and I assume they still do.

Oh and Dimebag.. see the attached picture all you'll see his REAL rig http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...420/dimerig.gif

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Looks like Randall SS to me. I know it's like an evil thing to say around here but I really love some SS amps. Randall being one of them.

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Yep randall SS amps and the new randall X2

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I really love the Cyclone AMP by like a ton. I played one and I dare say next to a Mesa X3 rec and it killed the Mesa by far imo. Don't tell anyone though.

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Yeah im pretty fond of randall s.s,especially the cyclone.

Yeah this guys just s**cks ass. I saw Arch Enemy and Michael Ammot had this Krank stack that was totally horrible, the distortion had no tone, i think he might of had some effects or racks because the leads where good, in the other hand, his brother had a Peavey 6505 stack, and he totally had a better sound than his older brother, hehehe

P.S. Krank is sh*t

Krank amps are hype. that is all there is to them. once you hear them or play one you know they are not as cool as they claim.

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dime switched endorsements shortly before he was killed... from randall to krank, from washburn to dean.

and sadly, krank is still probably trying to take advantage of his name, because now they don't have to write checks.

if only they'd put as much effort into building quality amps as they do into making them look retarded. they'd probably survive the shady reputation.

slipknot... ha, they have alot of endorsments.. line 6, krank, bc rich, jackson, i think maybe even carvin... eh.. hard to keep track of a band like that's gear loyalties...

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Dont forget the new Ibanez deal..

But yeh, Krank is still gonna release the KRANENSTIEN!!!111

But unlike Dean, I doubt they will give Dime's royalties to his family.

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whaaaa???

WHAAA????

hella...

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I know, the KRANKENSTIEN!!!1 is a pretty cool name huh?

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funny story here, kinda. i was looking at amps at my local shop, and the guy kept talking up this Krank. so im like no, i dont want that piece of monkey shit. so he gets all mad and hes like, just try it. so i go to try it, and i turn it to 10. i blew 3 of the 4 speakers in the cabinet, it was pretty awesome. i didnt have to pay for it.

PPPPFFFF!!!! LMAO! Right

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I guess they did manage to fuck up the cab after all...

Next time they should used speakers that can hnndle the amps load... just a hint

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nice.... what cab was it?

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LMFAO, doesn't sound like the head I want... It blows speakers out!

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im thinkin it was a Krank cab, though i dont remember for sure. it was like 3 months ago, i cant be arsed to remember things for that long

did it happen to be bright red with a metal grill?

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They do look fucked as hell.

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i'm not sure if i'm buying the cab thing, the one i played had nice eminences in it, more than enough power handling to handle a 100w head.

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I dunno some music shop owners are pretty fucking stupid.My local one couldnt workout how to use a crybaby.Not even to make a sale!.I dunno it was kinda weird,and he was some churchie.

haha, i promise you it happened. no it wasnt bright red, whoever asked that.

but he has a washburn in that pic.didn't he switch like a month before his death?

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He got endorsed a month before his death.

He did use the Deans... but the Kranks just served as eye candy much like the warheads did.

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Those sounds files on the site sound like dirty horse shit.

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Krank's marketing ventures reek of pure sensationalism. On a very dastardly level.

I dont know what that means exactly but i agree,im seeing alot of Krank adds.And they have Josh Rand from Stone Sour endorsing it,as if he would use those peices of crap.But then again,hardly anyone uses their own products that they endorse.

Marshall, Crate, Randall, VHT, Soldano, Engl, sell amplifiers. Krank does'nt.

hmm i have a guitar world magazine showing josh rand's rig and he uses a peavey XXX.

guitar world will burn in hell for that section. i would give my left nut for Kevin Bond's setup (superjoint ritual)

Dude guitar world,holidays 2004.Inside the cover it has Rand endorsing the krank revolution head. I didnt say he used it.

i refuse to trust magazine articles... why? because i read a review from guitarworld or something... and it's all kranks the shit, blah blah... all of their reviews are good... even if the amps arent... why? turn the page and there is a fucking krank ad.

you wont get an honest opinion from a magazine that's getting paid by the company...

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The rig section at the back of guitar world is nice, alays correct strait from the guitar tech's

but other than that they have NO fucking idea what their talking about.. apparently The Haunted use Marshall 5150 Signatures!

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yeah. Here's the pic of his gear.

woah, he has Ibanez BSB

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yeh eddie is now endorsed by marshall i guess and they're making his own marshall. but keeping the 5150 name....

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So The Haunted use an amp that isent even out yet??

Dont forget that Jensen uses a ESP Eclipse II... but for some reason in the pic he's holding a LTD EC-1000..

fucking idiots.

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the late dimbag darell used randall amps from day one ,now for the news and this is fact the reason why he went to krank amps is he and his brother vinnie were part owners of the buisness krank amps,now just vinnie and dime widow are the part owners ,and this info cam from one of the employees at krank,if you owned part of a amp co ,wouldnt you use your own gear to?

Thanks, I was dying to know that from like a month ago.

From their product catalog:



"More overall tone"? What's that supposed to mean? Did people begin to measure "tone" by quantity when I wasn't looking?

yeah, some people refer to tone like that. Like, "This amp has little tone", "This amp has a lot of tone". Basically, it means it has good tone.

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i call bullshit.

i would trust my ex girlfriend before i'd trust a krank employee's word.
besides, dime talked in an interview about how he found out about krank amps and shit. nothing to do with being a partial owner of that peice of shit company.

and please don't pull up old threads like this. especially to spread bullshit.

krank sucks, period. and the only reason dime even used them as stage props was because they paid him too say he played krank.

fuck, if they'd pay me, i'd sport an empty krank chasis with my triamp hanging around behind the cab supplying the real sounds. i gotta eat and gas prices are getting higher..

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Then the next question is, what is a "good tone"? Edit: This was gonna be the question before xdx decided to sandwhich his damn post inbetween ours...

Up on the Zakk wylde forum, the admin got himself a Krank Chadwick head, and everyone's like and everyone's liek "dude that's kick ass" and "kranks are the shit". Haha, I posted your comments on there to see what they'd make of them.

Still I wouldn't use it in a catalog which is supposed to be informative not cool sounding (that is, if I was a boo-teek amp manufacturer). I really pity these people, they seem to be going bankrupt.

I suggest everyone download that catalog from the Krank website, it's hilarious.

ok, they do have a lot of endorsments, but they are not endorsed by krank or bcrich. they use rivera heads and cabs. i dont think they use jacksons either, just ibanez and fenders. i dunno whats up with line 6 tho...

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ummm.... when they first came out, they played jackson and bc rich guitars.
not to mention the mick thompson signature warlock....

as for krank, explain all the adds and shit in magazines and on the web i've seen with them posing with krank amps...

if they're currently not endorsed by bc rich or krank, then it's recent news. but that post was a long time ago anyways.

don't be an asshat and state faulse shit.

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I'm really disgusted by Krank's advertising campaign exploiting Dimebag's legacy and reputation. They're still printing the ads where Dime is holding a bag of marijuana, and the one where he is standing in front of 20 or so Krank cabinets ... If they had a shred of decency they would at least state their remorse for Dime's death in the advertisements, but apparently the folks at Krank are above such acts of kindness ...

You can get cabinets with 'less tone' i.e flat response- for instance some of the Line6 cabs designed to be used with their amp/cab modellers.... however, methinks they include 'more' to attract the nu-metallers so they think they can strum an open drop D and it'll be br00tal

Haha after I had first heard about kranks I went down to one of my local guitar shops and asked about them and they told me that they refuse to carry them.

The sound clips on the site were horrible.

And to think local guitar shops will carry Marshall MG's. But they won't sell Kranks.

In the world of amplifiers, Krank has become the pimpled middle schooler who has been shoved into lockers and had sweaty jock straps shot at.

Sounds like we'd get along just famously lol.

ha, speaking of slipknot... they were in my local guitar center yesterday.. they were in town because they were going to play a show here tonight with dillenger escape plan,shadows fall and lamb of god. but corey has some fungus growing in his throat or something so they had to cancel a couple tour dates.

on the positive side, my buddy sold mick a $3,000 les paul. yay for commission.

i might also add the mick is a fucking gaint. like 8 feet tall 300 pounds

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My friend is endorsing Krank amps, Iv Played his several times, heard it live. Thier ok, but beside the fact he get them for cost, id just assume go with a mesa or somthing.

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at cost? still to much money for me. maybe if it was like $50 i'd buy it..

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hmm well i havent read previous posts, but it seems you dont like krank amps...

they seem fine to me, not the best... but seriously. which amp is your band endorsing?

Not trying to rip on you, its just i thought it was pretty cool he got the endorsment.

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i suggest you read up before you post.


that's an opinion... personally i'd be just as satisfied with a marshall mg head as i would be with a krank revolution... same sound quality...

but at least the marshall is made by decent people and has a return policy..

umm what amp is your band endorsing? exactly, shut up then.

i'm not in a serious band right now. so i can't really be endorsed... but i play a hughes and kettner triamp, and that shits all over any krank head.

besides, all the serious guitarist with krank endorsements don't really play them.

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I just saw Soilwork/Dark Tanquility/Hypocrisy/Mnemic last night and I remember looking at their amps (I'm always curious to see what other's use) and I remember thinking, what the fuck is Krank. Then I come here this morning and I see this thread. I don't know shit about the amps (other than you people hate them ) but I thought I'd throw in that those bands all seem to use them (at least live). Sounded good but then again i'm sure they had plenty of effects and crap running through to make it sound right.

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i'd bet money those chasis's were empty...

the point of endoresments, it's advertising. put a pair of dummy krank cabs and an empty revolution chasis on top of them... the right behind it, have a mic'd up marshall 1936 and a hotrodded jcm 800...

nobody sees the marshall, they think man, his shit sounds tight, i need a krank now.

like evh and the 5150's... except 5150's don't suck.

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wow is the krank really that bad , I have a Marshall DSL 100 which is a mint amp . Ill also use a Koch powertone II which is a great boutique amp expensive as hell. I did want to check out the Krank but all u guyz are scaring me lol .Maybe Ill stick to the Marshall
jeeze

Your post did not make any sense.

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I saw Gwar recently and was horrified to realize they had Kranks on stage. I hope to god that they weren't actually really using them.

I saw GWAR July 8th and I saw a Marshall JMP and a Marshall Poweramp.

Hidden behind stage props of course.

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i saw gwar earlier this year with dying fetus... they were all out sporting crate blue voodoos.
but it's not like gwar has good tone or anything. i really went to fight during dying fetus, and watch gwar's crazyness on stage. cuz nobody "listens" to gwar
they're like the aquabats in hell.

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They used Crate Blue Voodoo cabinets.. never seen them with the ehads though.

And listen to Violence Has Arrived, and War Party.. GWAR is actually good now. The tone on War Party is pretty decent too.

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