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I've promised to find some modern metal music played on a 5 string for my daughter to learn but since most of the modern bands I like are just old blokes ripping off Sabbath or Bad Brains I haven't got a clue. There must be some! She's annoyingly good with a 4 string so looking for some interesting stuff. Kind of goth, emo, maybe a bit progressive.

Warning, contains an angry Canadian and some naughty words

Is that any good? The only review I've seen of Klark Teknik kit ended with a sledge hammer!

Basically I played my Stingray through an 1176 in a studio and it sounded amazing isolated and in a mix. I'd like to get as close to that as possible for under £300. I appreciate I'll never get exactly the same sound because I don't own a vintage Ampeg SVT although I played through the SVT with and without the compressor and it was with the 1167 that it really come alive.

It would be the FET mode that would interest me since that'll be closest to the 1176. I didn't think the 1176 was overly transparent with my Stingray, it had a fair effect on the tone.

@garyt Thanks, I'll take a look at that one.

I want to hear a Christian black metal band. Buddhist grundcore would be interesting as well.

Hold on, religious punk is a thing? How does that work? How can you be non conformist and follow a religion?

Are there any compressor pedals other than the Cali 76 that are based on the 1176 studio compressor?

For crust punk, dreadlocks and a complete lack of personal hygiene are essential. You should be offended by the smell when you see a photo of them

Typical punk tone - use whatever kit you find in a skip and hit it hard with a home made pick while jumping around.

Mine isn't as loud as my Orange 500 watt head. I'm not sure what effect the different impedance has on that though.

I'm definitely thinking the problem is my Trace 1x15. I've done some research and it seems they're really inefficient speakers plus it's over 30 years old. I'm going to try a modern Celestion speaker in that cab to hopefully draw less power.

The last singer I played with was a hippy woman who stank of patchouli, when she actually bothered to turn up for practice. She lived in a caravan and didn't have a shower so covered herself in patchouli. It got a bit overwhelming in a small rehearsal room. Good singer though.

My favourite Tool album is Fear Inoculum. I think there's some of their best work on there, Pneuma is as good as anything they've done. Aenema is a close second though.

A bit of research has show up that the Trace 1x15 cab I'm using is really inefficient, plus 30 years use won't have helped. That could be contributing to my problems. I think I'll try putting in a modern Celestion Pulse 15. It should be a straight swap and use a lot less power.

It sounds good alongside the rhythm guitar and drums. Haven't had chance to try it out with the lead as well. I'm just thinking it might change quite a bit with my new Stingray Ray35 which has a lot more balls than my SUB5 at the bottom end.

That's really cheap. I'll take a look at them

He's playing baritone rhythm guitar and the lead guitarist is tuned to drop A# as well so they're both pretty low.

To prevent ticks going in his pits?

Manual?? I haven't got one of them. I'll try your EQ tips and see how it goes. Maybe letting the guitarist adjust my EQ while I was bashing out some Stooges was a mistake, it does sound good with these settings.

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Good luck

This is exactly how I'm running the EQ. Input gain at 6 and output at 8.5