Art of Self Defense is a masterpiece. The mediocre sound quality, overdriven mics, intense and raw performance... it's sonic masochism and I can listen to it on repeat for days.

@@obsessedwithguitars3157 Sonic masochism is the EXACT phrase I've been trying to find ! Mind if I use it in the future ? Haha Cheers !

It's all yours!

Thanks so much!

You’d probably love the modern Matamps. Matamp is still alive, kickin’, and making amps better than ever before. Check out the GT-1 and GT-2, almost like a cross between a fuzzed out Matamp GT-120 and a more modern Orange sound like a Thunderverb or Rockerverb.

One of my favorites!

It would delight me to no end if I was even the smallest assistance in any decision you made. Thanks!

Absolutely, you are responsible in every single case.

Thanks! Matamps do rule!

Thanks! Once my daughter gets beyond needing me to feed/clothe/ change her all the time, I'll get to making more! Heck, I'm hoping she'll be able to help me make 'me someday.

Makes me wish I hadn't sold it. Nothing I've owned since has come close.

I'm humbled that you watch them! Your effects are fantastic, as is your channel!

It's a different goal/experience. a lot of the secret sauce in stoner doom stuff is messing with the soundwaves and the weird flubby gargling sort of growling sounds you can get out of hitting a really fat chord getting pushed through a cranked, fuzzed out amp. It feels and sounds awesome.

Thanks! The Sword is one of my favorite bands. Age of Winters, Gods of the Earth, and Apocryphon are among my top metal albums.

@@obsessedwithguitars3157 Same here, Age of Winters is one of my go-to head-banging albums...representing Tejas!!!!

I absolutely LOVE Alton Brown. He's a guitar player, too... hmmm... maybe I'll do an homage to him in a future video...

Lmao

Thanks, love that Matamp massiveness!

Dang I completely forgot to do this, so here it goes now! Most important thing is that you're relying a lot on power amp distortion, so I had this thing cranked. Matt Pike likes mids, so while you might be tempted to get rid of them, don't! At this point his tone wasn't so bright, either, so don't add in a bunch of highs. If I recall correctly, I had the master volume on 10, drive lower, maybe 7 or 8, the EQ was fairly flat with slightly raised low and mid, and the depth control was at its deepest setting.

Yup! They opened for The Sword a few years ago on the High Country tour. Awesome group. And the shirt glows in the dark!

​@@obsessedwithguitars3157 That's sweet! Also been perusing your videos pretty religiously since I'm huge into stoner/doom/sludge and the orange/matamp tone. Granted a lot of these amps are out of my price range, but your mention on the 007 got me really excited since I currently play on one. I'm hoping to grab a Hinds terror or Root terror soon to get the house acceptable level of tones!

@@SocksworthRiffs Yeah, the 007 is one of my few pieces of gear I regret selling. I go through a LOT of gear, and rarely have an emotional attachment, but that one stung in the weeks after. And you would certainly have an awesome doom tone with one of the Brent Hinds Terrors, awesome little amps.

I read a long time ago that was what was standard in their cabs at that point and was most likely in High On Fire's. Unfortunately those cabs had their speakers changed years ago by Hank III and I've yet to find an interview where he's said what speakers were in there before.

Okay, thanks for the response.

@@obsessedwithguitars3157 Yooo! Check this out: instagram.com/p/B7gLi7mn57H/?igshid=1glu97fuz6je

Hahahaha, if I hadn't discovered the Doug DeMuro style of reviews, I'd totally be Alton Brown of amps. Alton Brown Sound? Hmm.

My understanding is that it's more like a GT120 but with an FMV tone stack.

Celestion G12T 75s. They should get more respect than they do, I've always loved them. At the time, the specific ones in that can would have been original English made ones. I have some modern production ones in there now and, well, I can't tell the difference!

Yeah, I always thought that Matamps and Oranges sounded better through a Marshal cab.

@@Myself6M the 1960B

Thank you. It's decided Marshall 1960b for me.

Pretty much! Kind of like how metal bands use JCM800s.

Cranking the volume to the point where you get that Dopesmoker tone will eat tubes. That said, in the time I owned it, I worked to preserve tube life by playing clean and the tubes lasted a good six months.

Awww man i just oreder a Gt120MV from Matamp and i was planning on running a bunch of fuzz threw that amp to get that dopesmoker/early HOF tone...i didnt know that was bad for the amp??

Also i was planning on using that amp in my band so it will be used pretty regularly..

Oh, it's not bad for the amp at all. Just hard on the tubes to get that sound. Although the Master Volume version will probably be better for tubes in the long run since you can dial in more preamp distortion and not rely on deafening volume for that sound! Great amp, I definitely want to get one of those someday.

Ok awesome that makes me feel a little better. Thanks for the quick response!

I have bad news. I had contacted Mike Reilander of Reilander Pickups to make me this set. I was also searching for John Birch pickups, and Mike was willing to tackle trying to clone them. By my estimation, he succeeded! Also, when he posted about the project on social media, he got so much response, he decided to make them a regular production pickup. Then, John Birch Guitars (then owned by John Carling) asked him to cease and desist, which he did. As far as I know, the set that I used to own in that SG and one other set were made before Reilander stopped making them. The news gets worse, because I don't think Mike makes pickups anymore. Your best bet is to save up some cash and order from Jaydee. It'll be pricey and you'll have to wait a while, of course.

@@obsessedwithguitars3157 Ik I bought a set of old boy pickups and they’re great but they do a different thing than the John birch magnums, and when I asked about them they said that they wouldn’t make me a magnum

@@matthewajello1299 Dang, that's too bad, I know they'll do pickups that look like them, at least!

Basically the volume and gain on ten, the Deep control all the way to the left, and the EQ close to noon. I did a little fine tuning of the EQ, but not much.

@@obsessedwithguitars3157sounds absolutely killer like that, I guess all it really takes to make a tone shine is volume.

@@caseyking8394 That's partly why I sold it. To get that tone you have be earth shakingly, paint peelingly, small animal killingly loud. Or run through an attenuator, but a lot of that tone comes from speaker distortion and the feedback from the guitar's pickups.

@@obsessedwithguitars3157 the absolute volume of those thing is what keeps me from buying one

I will say, the sustain on the SG could be better, it's pretty thin... But I could have let a lot of those notes ring out more, too!

Tube Screamer?

10000 Years by High on Fire. It's off the album, The Art of Self Defense.

@@obsessedwithguitars3157 yaaay thank you!

The sale of many other valuable things!

@@obsessedwithguitars3157 haha!