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Old 2008-03-12, 08:47
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Looking to get a death metal sound...

I bought a Behringer V-Tone GMX 1200H Head analog last year. I know alot of people hate Behringer and all, but its not a bad head for the money.

My main problem is it doesn't give enough disortion as I would want it too. I like a good death metal tone. I tried Death Metal pedals and they always have alot of static, cracks and whatnot. I have a noise reducer pedal as well that helps but it still sounds like shit. So Im wondering is there any pedal or anything for that matter I can get more of a stronger disortion tone or death metal sound out of my amp without buying another new head or buying a million pedals to get the sound Im looking for? or even advice on how I can raise some settings or lower them, or add in chours, flanger, etc....

All help is needed please. I do like the Spider III alot but im not ready to spend more money yet.
 
Old 2008-03-12, 15:30
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Try out some of the Line 6 Pod xt pedals.... your question can have thousands of answers. I've played through this pedal and fiddled around with it and got some balls to the wall sounds.
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Old 2008-03-12, 15:35
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Not even a handful of pedals compare to the quality and straight up TONE of a good 'ol from-the-amp distortion. The only real solution is to start saving some cash, and just buy a decent amp (or preamp).
The V-Tone's distortions should be alright enough for now, even for death metal stuff. Make sure you're not overdoing it with the gain. Keep effects to a bare minimum and keep the mids present in your sound.

EDIT ::: Having owned a POD XT Live, I can vouch for what Me_himself says. Personally the way I look at it is yeah, it's a badass unit, but for the price of one new ($400) you can find a Peavey 5150 combo, or Ampeg VH140c combo, if you save up a bit more and look around enough. Hell, sometimes not even $400 - I saw a slightly used VH140c combo go for $350 the other night.

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Old 2008-04-05, 16:31
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Sounds like pedals aren't the problem here, sounds like you should buy a new head or cab or both. If you decide to buy a new head, whatever it is make sure it's a tube amp. That will give you that warm death metal tone your looking for.
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Old 2008-04-05, 18:16
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What guitar are you playing? What kind of pickups are in it?
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Old 2008-04-05, 18:36
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crate blue voodoo 120w head. all tube, plenty of gain. you can find it used for less than $300
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Old 2008-04-05, 22:16
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firstly ditch the behringer head, i've owned some behringer equipment before and now it all just collects dust or is used fas a headphone amp to jam with MP3s


secondly what kind of Death metal tone are you looking for, are there artists out already that have a tone you like or something like that so that a sound can be compared
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Old 2008-04-06, 04:20
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POD XT

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Yeah, it's a badass unit, but for the price of one new ($400) you can find a Peavey 5150 combo, or Ampeg VH140c combo.


Hardly a fair comparison; New price of one vs used price of another.

You can get XT's for pretty cheap too: http://search.ebay.com/podxt

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