How do you like that tone? What's your favorite signal path for filthy tones?

I want to sample him saying “Listen to the palm mutes” right before a breakdown now.

The huge majority of tones on the internet are too boring and generic. And this is why i love you Kohle. You really make this different. You bring something exciting and original. Thanks a lot for that. Huge fan from Brazil 💥🔥

WOW! Truly nasty, ugly guitar tones!! Love this!

I've tried something similar to this myself, you can get some really chunky sounds by mixing in a subtle bit of sub octave into a distorted guitar tone. It works well with a more conventional distortion sound too. Plus if your bass player is late you can just turn up the octave to taste lol.

It’s about time ‘metal heads’ got tired of nice and neatly folded hospital corners tied with pink bows on their production. Imperfections make it perfect.

Never expected that a grind core tone ‘how to’ video will reveal the secret of the HIM 666 album guitar tone 🤘🏻

This is dedinitely not an ugly tone... This is a very heavy yet transparent and original, beautiful tone🥰

So nice! Thanks for showing some alternative ways to go. In These days we are often taught that everything is possible " in the box" and that there is no need for any outboard gear anymore. This is the proof they're all wrong. If you want to create non-standard-sound, you need to use a non-standard-setup.

What I have really loved is running 2 fuzzes into each other with a Horizon Drive in front and an eq boosting 250 and 8k after to bring out the growl and attack. I'm running a doom bloom into a wooly mammoth and the mix of gated fuzz and bass fuzz balances everything out for huge and nasty tone. I primarily use a 9 string but it sounds sick all the way up to standard E.

This is awesome! We love the "wrong" tones and nastiness. Thanks, Kohle!

So the signal chain is: Guitar --> Mudkiller --> Lehle P-Split and from the splitter goes: Line A: Revv G4 --> direct to Power amp channel Line B: Big Muff --> Octave pedal --> Clean channel You can use his signal chain in this video of him as some kind of a template, and tweak to your preference, maybe replace some of the pedals mentioned with what you have.

"A broken bulldozer... Grinding bones... In slow motion." Love it!

Love this! I started blending OD pedals with the OBNE Signal Blender to get some insane Distortion sounds! its a great trick!

I've been doing similar things... Tonebender variants work great. I highly recommend the ultra versatile Minos pedal... It even has an anger control

I got a pretty ugly tone by downtuning my guitar a step below the intended tuning then pitchshifting the DI back up...the pitchshifter just seemed to give it a touch of ugly artifacting. But I think it did need stacking with something else a little more safe, more Rainbow though. 😏 Definitely wanna try more weird shit to get tones.💀

One of the greatest tones Ive ever heard! You should definitely make it plugin or pedal 🥵

This seems like a "multiple beers" Kohle video! Great shit, hahaha

Yep - PLEASE add me to the "Lovely Fucked Up Broken Bulldozer Sounds" club and I am stealing that quote!!

I got a pretty nasty sound using my Friedman be-od into the lead channel of my 6505+. Gain on 2 on the amp. Pedal volume maxed gain at zero. Running the pedal at 18v helps too. Just absolutely crushing.

For even more crazy setups you should check out EHX Tri Parallel Mixer. It's like BOSS LS2 on steroids and doesn't need parallel effects loop.

Please make a plug-in with this setup. Would love a hardware unit too, but a plug-in is much more doable I’m sure. Maybe something where you change out the models of each of the different pedals. Idk about that, but it would be something different from typical amp sims.

Thanks for giving inspiration, Kohle. Grrrrreat sound! The way you use the mudkiller is exactly how I use my boost. I like that you don't cut that much lowend. Keeps the sound alive.

It's like you punch someone in the face (the splittet fuzz - octave combo) and afterwards give 'em a hug (the mud killer)

Boltthrower for Life! An outside air of composure-inside You're screaming! 🙂

Love this. So many videos on here trying to find clean, tight tones. This is what we really need.

Wow man. You already have my like before watching the video just for that Yamaha AES620 !!

I do something similar with my Stereo rig. On the right is my 5150iii Stealth with an Airis Parallel OD in front. On the left is my Diezel Einstein 100 with a ThorpyFX Fallout & Ryra Klone (to tighten) in front. Both with a Fortin Zuul in the FX Loop. Chain: > ThorpyFX Fallout > Ryra Klone > Diezel Einstein 100 > Guitar > Tuner > Split Line 6 Helix > Delays > Reverbs > Cab Impluse. > Airis Parallel OD > 5150iii Stealth > Sounds HUGE!

love the big muff. do you have the black box sovtek version? its a very different beast. if not you should defo give that one a go.

I love this kind of vids!

Do you have a plexi type amp with multi-inputs? maybe try that instead of parallel fx loop circuit to get a different blend and make a profile a bit easier?... Havent had a chance to do this myself yet, but this instantly made me think of that.

It sounds like something in the fabric of space and time is about to disintegrate. :)))

The Tyler Frequency Splitter from KMA Audio Machines would be another option instead of that palmer. One loop has a low cut and the other one has a high cut. I use it for my bass but it would work damn well for this too.

Sounds like you recreated the Boss HM-2 sound without a HM-2 pedal. Reminds me of the Bloodbath - Bloodbath over Bloodstock guitar tone. Thick as hell.

this is a great example how to create an interesting sound with the gear you already own. fun fact: I just listed my Nano Big Muff for sale on the local used market, as I could not make it work with my Orange Dual Dark head. the sound was muffled, as if I would have a blanket over my speakers, no matter the settings. not all heads respond/work well with the pedals, it turns out the Dual Dark does not takes Muffs well, but is shines with Tonebender style of fuzzes.

Great tone, but how does it sound in a full mix with dual / quad tracking ? I think the phase issues you have in plugins is inherent to the way DSP works, while in analog electronics there is pretty much no phase delay, which is why you get an actually usable tone.

Absolutely disgusting! I love it. Plugin please!

Man Christian! That is a next Level Killertone!!! Thx for the inspiration! Sadly Iam not able to set it up like you, because my amp does not have a clean channel nor a parallel loop. BUT!! for people like me, who are missing such things (iam missing the splitter too) it works (kind of) too by putting the Big muff in the loop and pushing the front of the amp with a tubesreamer...my Sigil does a great job like that...maybe consider a noisegate in the loop too... Cheers from a fellow german!

Hell yeah, man! That’s THE filth! I’ve been barking up this tree since you put out the other video. Been using a Wampler Fuzztration, has an independent octave circuit and a switch so the octave can be placed pre or post fuzz. You’re an evil genius, bro!

"Broken bulldozer grinding bones on slow motion" 🏴‍☠

There's a pedal by Ground FX called the Grayskull it's kind of based on a Life Pedal but it has digital octave down instead of an analog octave up. It's based on a Rat circuit with an additional gain stage and you can use just the drive section or just the octave down it sounds insane i feel like it could be really cool in this context.

Just today I've been playing with my pedals boosting a big muff with the joyo uzi distortion. Nasty filthy tone for my sludgy band Wülfcrown that will be opening for EyeHateGod here in Madrid on May 2nd. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Channeling some serious Soundgarden Superunknown vibes here. Love it!

Did this with my Drop-Pedal in octaver mode into my HM-2 Plugin for your challenge last year. I loved it!

Just remember though, Justin Broadrick did GODFLESH for years with a Fender Strat MIJ HSS, a Boss HM2 Petal, a delay pedal, a Marshall JCM800 and C guitar tuning. It doesn't take much. He has some different gear now but it sounds mostly the same. He used Schecter for a while and has an 8 string signature guitar now.

I been thinking on doing something similar for some crust punk.

I'm gonna try this with a Maestro FZ-M and a Boss Mega Distortion.

This is how my guitar sounds like, but only because i have no idea wtf I am even doing.

This is what I miss about old school extreme metal, so many modern bands would be more interesting if their guitar tones and mixing weren't all so same-y. There are still a handful of modern extreme metal bands that still sound nasty, mostly in the doom/sludge/grind world, but most modern death metal is so sterile, I crave more stuff like Disma and Cruciamentum.

Been using a boss Line Selector to blend in parallel a Lone wolf Audio Left hand wrath and the amp tweaker tight metal pedal. Been doing it this way for a while but got the idea from you last year! Thanks for all the videos! 🤘

This tone reminds me heavily of Crowbar. I like it.

I just got a new 7 string and this video is super helpful. I couldnt seem to dial in the tone on my jcm 2000 combo!

This has to be the sickest tone I’ve heard in a long time!!! I have a Orange Mark lll and I was thinking of getting one of those Lehle splitters if it but I was noticing that your effects loop has an adjustment on it so will my amp work with that?

I've been messing about with the Demiurge Doomy O))) which is a Life Pedal clone, might be worth checking something like that out. Super glitchy and gross sounding. I ought to experiment with some blending stuff to balance it out

TY for not doing the full on "modern mix BS" and everyone is just EQ-ing like everyone else is, some of the most successful crushing metal albums ever had filthy distortion and low end flub for example Korn Life is Peachy tone/1998 Slipknot self titled album tone, and it was all wild and free and filthy/gritty/had hair on nuts like metal should be and was, now all these "modern players try and tighten there tone/distortion up to much and put it in a nice office suit and give it a proper hair cut and make it clean and nice(gross) and they have to be out infront of the mix like a hey notice me, now all bands sound the same and lack luster and to mid focused when people overall are more attracted to low end grunt/rumbble in music(in general) and the lack of that in metal has been making metal less interesting for years. The late 90s-mid 2000s years where metal music was BIG and at its peak and was when most bands had major low end rumble and grunt. The best sounding and successful crushing platinum metal albums the guitars wernt cutting through or lost in the mix, it was THE MIX, every instrument played was all together to have that huge wall of metal sound hit that bands dont have today. LOVE this kind of distortion. I use the big muff into my Diezel VH4 pedal with half scooped mids and slightly boosted lows with the highs around 12-1 Oclock and im in Nu-Metal filthy/gritty heaven.

Great stuff !!! Experimenting is the best thing to do when searching new sounds ;)

I use a Earthquaker Swissthings pedal for splitting my signal, has the same options as this and then some, adjustable clean boost, 2 effects loops, 1 buffered and 1 unbuffered for drive effects. A truly disgusting tone would be adding the Boss HM2 on this, I love mine for this stuff lol. I love my DV-77 speaker, I put it in my Marshall JCM800 4010 and what a difference!

Im going to try this with a ring mod to a similar set up

I thought this was a video of someone fixing a broken disc cutting machine until i finally looked at the screen of my phone and saw it was someone dialing some tones

Love that Yamaha for these tones! I have a similar one (the semi-hollow model) and it actually rips for heavy tones in its own way

Awesome filthy tone, love it! If it were possible to get all that filth into one pedal and it sounded that good...damn.

So freaking inspirational! Gives me a lot of ideas

Klasse Video wie immer! Für solche spielerein nutze ich den "ehx tri parallel mixer" .Geiles Teil. Grüße aus Bayern - 🍻

Just subbed! Cool vid, looking forward to watching your other vids🧙‍♂️

When I saw that Muff and Octave Mux in there, Linde instantly came to mind

Loved this! I often have the most fun with tones when I tweak knobs to the extreme and use "bad" combination of pedals. Every guide says that it is wrong for a good guitar sound so I almost never actually use those sounds, even though I should.

As soon as the tones are especially crusty, you have my attention ;D. I actually did something similar to this with an old Boss fuzz and just a pitch shifter VST on my very first recording attempts, but I of course had no idea what I was doing and it sounded pretty shitty. Interesting that the concept wasn't completely terrible though. I was going to get the "Muffaletta" from JHS anyways, this may be something fun to play with and an excuse for octave fuzz round 2. In the unlikely event you haven't seen that pedal btw, it's basically all relevant variants of the Big Muff smashed into one, all-analog components, no emulation. They do similar models based on the RATs and Tube Screamers as well :). I have the "Pack Rat" model, and it's really cool so far.

Can always count on you to bring the nasty.

This is incredible, I'm inspired! I have a question about the p-split. I have one but I have a problem where when I split a signal from a guitar with passive pickups the output sounds like sh*t. I read the manual and it says you should use some kind of a signal boost before the p-split when trying to split a passive pickup signal but it seems like you didn't have any trouble with the setup in this video. Is there something I should be doing differently if I want to use passive pickups with my p-split?

Yo Kohle, kann es sein, dass du ein wenig von dem Big Muff-Zauber in das Grindstein-PlugIn gepackt hast? Ich hab kürzlich einen recht ähnlichen Sound damit zusammenbekommen. Also ohne den Octaver.

I really think this might be the sickest tone I’ve ever heard!!! I’d like to to hear this setup with the Revv 3 instead of the 4 though.

Laughs in Metasonix TX-3 iC**t & DOD Grunge, and why use a parallel box when you can wire one of the pots to activate stereo outputs so you can use your neck and bridge pickup separately, can be done on active PU, must have 2 vol setup

this is so cool, thanx man!

Now that's a Bad Ass Set up... 💯🤘

A plugin will be awesome bro, sounds really killer

Love your videos. Huge grind core scene where I’m from in south Louisiana. I wish I could make a distortion of my hopped up chainsaws sounds. 😂😂😂. I like tight and full distortion too for thrashy metal as well. Any metal can be fun!

Hey do you think you could do a speaker comparison between the fane F70, F90 and a V30. There are no videos comparing those two fanes on KZfaq and I like a V30 for reference. Would be much appreciated. Keep it heavy🤘🏻🤘🏻

You should check out Digitech's Whammy DT or The Drop. The octave effect in those is polyphonic so they don't have any tracking issues.

Luscious toneage🤘

Sounds a lot like Sepultura's Roots tone. Legend has it they used Ratt pedals with Marshalls.

Inspiring stuff 👍🏻

hahaha... that's funny we don't hear much about the big muff in the Metal World! I actually use a Metal Muff as my main distortion!!!! Koodos to you Kristian!

That is one of the nastiest tones I’ve ever heard 🤘

I have a similar tone using the new hizumitas pedal into a discontinued $30 metal zone clone straight into a mixer using my 7 string. The cost: lots of feedback.

I'd love to here this with an Earthquaker Hoof instead of the Big Muff. It supports fat palm mutes like no other fuzz pedal.

I do almost the same but with tc eyemaster (sounds mean as hell) and with a blender pedal, so the chain goes like whatever guitar-whatever od/ts-blender pedal with a loop with the eyemaster in it-noisegate-amp. Not as a great solution as yours, but usually gets the job done on adding some chainsaw to a tight guitar sound.

awesome brother

You could also use a Boss LS2 pedal, then you wouldn't need the splitter or the effects loop! If I'm understanding correctly.

Great video!!!! Laughed my ass off !!!! I may try my oh my goat with my Engl fireball 25 with od and polyphonic pedals!!! Maybe a fuzz too ! Will let you know!!

I'm impressed by your tone imagination XD

Hey Kristian! I think you could profile that with the Kemper using a good load box (I think you have the Red Seven one right?). You'd need to work with other IRs, which maybe most Kemper users don't like, but I actually prefer working with DI profiles + IRs. Of course you'd need to commit to ONE sound, but that's how Kemper works, right? I'm still a newbie on it :)

Amazing as usual.

Brumm, brumm böööööööse!! Very nice - what's the tuning here?

I just finished the pedalboard, and I would start everything from the beginning, got few idea that I never think, know what to buy for the future 😁

sounds like Sanguisugabogg. Badass

that setup should be named Grindstein 2.0

"Estamos aqui mais uma vez...

Mud killer seems like a super useful pedal but i feel like it kills a lot of what makes the previous pedals sound great

The Muff is always a good time. Can't imagine being without mine, as it's some of the most fun you can have playing this instrument

That's a very cool tone. I've been using a 37 year old pedal I got off ebay for £6.66 years ago, to get a nice dirty but tight tone.