Fake Tube Amps:

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Inspector #20

Ambassador of Tone
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Funny...

Black Veil Brides...

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Immortal....

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Wonder what tubes these have???

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Then there's Machine Head at the recent Metal Mayhem Festival.

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The response from Machine Head:

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Machine Head latest band to be (stupidly) called out for using "fake amps"
Wed, July 10, 2013 6:28 AM PT
You may recall a few weeks ago that Black Veil Brides were called out for using "fake amps" (i.e. staging or dummy cabinets) during Warped Tour. Bands have been using dummy cabs for decades now, so regardless of your thoughts on Black Veil Brides, the entire controversy was extremely dumb. Unfortunately, not everybody has gotten the memo, as a Texas radio station has now singled out Machine Head for doing the same thing during the Rockstar Metal Mayhem Festival. You can view the KLAQ article here, which includes the following smoking gun (lol) photos:


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Not surprisingly, Machine Head themselves have responded to the matter:

"Wow?

While it seems absurd that El Paso, Texas based radio station 95.5 FM, KLAQ Official would choose to go through the effort to post this on their website, we guess in-light of the big hub-bub about Black Veil Brides getting "called out" by the drummer for The Bronx for having "fake cabs" on the Warped tour earlier this month, some "brain-donor" over at the station has decided to drop the "newsflash of the century" and "call out" Machine Head for having "fake amps" too! A practice that for over 40 years now has been common-place in rock 'n roll going back to the days of Van Halen and AC/DC.

For the record, Machine Head "back" ANY band that uses dummy cabs in hopes of giving their fans a better, more impressive show. That includes the Black Veil Brides, who like many young musicians (and Machine Head) use direct-to-PA amp modeling gear like Fractals and Kempers. At least Black Veil Brides are playing their instruments, and not waving their hands along to a intercourse laptop!!

Machine Head have 2 cabinet set-carts in the shape of our diamond logo, we use half of the 4 cabs for live sound, the ones labeled "live" in the "smoking gun photos" are actually that, a real LIVE cabinet, that's plugged in (as you can see in the photo), that make sound, have real speakers, plug into a "real amp", and has a mic in front of it that sends our face-melting guitar tones out to the crowd via the PA.

The ones that our guitar techs labeled (for some reason, in bright green flourescent gaff tape)"dummy" are actually real cabs too, with real speakers and everything, but we only have so many amps to power them, and really who gives a poop, because ALL the cabs are REAL!!

Quick history lesson for grizzled 24 year-old heavy metal veteran Lisa Sanchez: Since the dawn of heavy music, bands have used dummy cabinets as part of an often-impressive looking stage design. When Slayer played the Mayhem Festival last year and had 2 giant upside-down crosses made out of Marshall cabinets, that lit on fire, guess what? They weren't all plugged in!

When Rob Halford of Judas Priest rides his Harley thru a swinging gate of Marshall stacks, guess what? Those are "dummies" too. In fact, the only "dummy" here is the one taking pictures, taking liberties, while standing on our stage, as our uninvited guest, and writing up the "controversial scoop", and then Tweeting and Facebooking about it.

How about calling out someone for something that really matters instead of bands who are only helping people escape for a little while? What exactly are you trying to do here?

Here's what, you're attempting to create a controversy to get hits on your website, and this response should do just that. In fact, we're already giving you and your radio station website too much traffic via this response.

Hope you enjoy the free press. You're welcome!"

I see no issue with it, as 90% of the performance is being a performer...but it's still interesting to me.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
I remember when I went to see Kiss, there was about 200 Marshall cabs. But only 2 were real of course...
You can see the real one, it has the microphone.
Marshall used to sell dummy cabs...
there was probably a Peavey Voodoo hidden backstage which was mic'd to all the marshalls of course.

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I had this poster when i got my SLX lol
 
gball said:
So what? People like the way a “wall” of amps looks. They’re still playing through at least one real (tube) amp that’s going to FOH.

The only idiot I ever saw that had them all turned on was Yngwie and he sounded like deep fried poo.
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Maybe.

"For the record, Machine Head "back" ANY band that uses dummy cabs in hopes of giving their fans a better, more impressive show. That includes the Black Veil Brides, who like many young musicians (and Machine Head) use direct-to-PA amp modeling gear like Fractals and Kempers. At least Black Veil Brides are playing their instruments, and not waving their hands along to a intercourse laptop!!"
 
Just more proof that a lot of younger "metalheads" don't get it. From their generation's "stars" who are just bedroom players seeking YT hits, to this sort of nonsense. SMH. Metal/Rock and Roll is supposed to look/feel/sound larger than life & louder than hell and a wall of Marshall cabinets does just that.

Could you imagine what a kid like this would do if they actually stood in front of 20+ Marshall 412s all pushed by Marshall JCM800's running at 9 on the volume? Or, Peavey 6505+'s? They'd be too busy looking for a safe space to clean the contents of their recently emptied bowels from their underwear to bother writing about it.

People like this make Lemmy roll in his grave.

Get off my lawn kid! #EndOldMetalheadRant
 
For me, the most important thing is that we don’t show disdain for one another’s tastes and regard our own preferences as inherently, objectively, superior to someone else’s. For, these really are very subjective preferences.

Those who prefer tube amps should not be made to feel like “dinosaurs” (which is actually one of the dumbest comparisons that can be made!) for continuing to use or prefer them. Likewise, those who prefer tube amps should not view those who choose SS amps or modeling pejoratively, as if those people can’t recognize good tone. Those who prefer modeling or profiling should not fancy themselves “enlightened” above adherents to physical amplifiers.

I think there is room for all such equipment choices under this big tent called, “music.” I’m totally fine with people having very strong opinions about what they like; I bristle when such preferences spill over and begin to impugn other peoples’ preferences for themselves.

I’ve chronicled before how I’ve used all types: processors, SS amps, and tube amps. There are things I like and dislike about all three in various settings and situations.
 
smitty_p said:
For me, the most important thing is that we don’t show disdain for one another’s tastes and regard our own preferences as inherently, objectively, superior to someone else’s. For, these really are very subjective preferences.

Those who prefer tube amps should not be made to feel like “dinosaurs” (which is actually one of the dumbest comparisons that can be made!) for continuing to use or prefer them. Likewise, those who prefer tube amps should not view those who choose SS amps or modeling pejoratively, as if those people can’t recognize good tone. Those who prefer modeling or profiling should not fancy themselves “enlightened” above adherents to physical amplifiers.

I think there is room for all such equipment choices under this big tent called, “music.” I’m totally fine with people having very strong opinions about what they like; I bristle when such preferences spill over and begin to impugn other peoples’ preferences for themselves.

I’ve chronicled before how I’ve used all types: processors, SS amps, and tube amps. There are things I like and dislike about all three in various settings and situations.
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Well said Smitty.
 
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