You’ve got three jack plugs: one for your input, one as a kind of auxiliary input for attaching an MP3 player or something, and then an output which you can use for headphones, or as a line out for recording directly. Looking at the top panel, and the Metal 1 comes with a minimalist control selection as far as amps go. In case the name didn’t give it away, this little amp has been voiced and set up to play all of the metal. But, we’re looking specifically at voicing here, and with that in mind, this little combo certainly won’t disappoint. However, this packs a couple of tubes into its diminutive casing, which makes things a little louder than you might expect: the sound here will be cranked by an ECC83 and an ECC82. It has just one single watt of output, which sounds measly, and you know, it a lot of amps it would be. This may not be a gigging amp, but it packs more than enough of a punch for practicing your shredding, and for recording sessions. The market for dedicated amps for metal players is very small. With this in mind, there aren’t really alternatives for most of the amps here. If these are still beyond your budget, the metal setting of a modeling amp may well be your best bet, but a round up of the metal settings of modeling amps is a different listicle (and practice amp vs live performances amp, etc…).
It’ll cover a range of budget, and focus on tube-driven amps: these are the best! Let’s say your budget is $1,000: you can probably get an amp head with digital modelling (digital amps) that has a metal setting, that you’re never going to get to fully crank anyway, or, you can a decent tube-driven combo amp, that’ll come with a bit of warmth, and a generally rounder, fuller, and better quality tone.įor this roundup, I’ll take you through a few of the high-quality combos on the market that will be well-paired Famwith a metal player. A half stack rig will typically be more expensive than a tube combo. There’s also the matter of balancing cost with tone. A combo is much easier to fit in with a guitar, backup guitar, pedalboard, and that band member who doesn’t drive.
Let’s face it: most of us are not playing ginormous stages, and have to lug our gear in and out of venues ourselves, and usually get there via an average car rather than a van or truck. To be honest, by “not always practical,” I actually mean “rarely practical.” Firstly, it’s not always dudes, and secondly, a minimum of a half stack is not always practical. There are two things about that imagined picture.
When you imagine an image of a generic metal guitarist, I think it’s easy to go straight to an image of some dude in front of a half stack at a small gig, or a wall of stacks at a bigger gig.
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