What type of music do you use the VM with?

[LivewireBlanco]

Check out my myspace below for the kinds of music I use it for. It's called Texas Country, but I guess for anyone not living in Texas it's more like southern rock....but not.

[firdy]

I have a feeling that slashwannabe feels that I am bashing the VM, I'm not. I've had offers to trade my VM for a Triple Rec(with some top up on my side) which I rejected due to the fact that I don't want a gain monster, I'm happy with the VM as it is. The VM has enough gain for much of my rhythm playing, but I don't have the liberty to raise the MV high enough to enjoy this.

Bands I like to play and listen to:

Metallica
Megadeth
Pantera
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Rage Against the Machine
Alice in Chains
Audioslave
Bob Marley
The Clash
Deep Purple
Loudness
Ozzy Osbourne
Pink Floyd
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Van Halen
Slayer

[Riffraff]

Slashwannabe, again you're assuming that nobody else but you has got it. When we are talking about "gain" or the term "high gain", we are not always talking about the amount of gain, but the character for the distorted sound. I think we're all aware that the VM is capable of deliver alot of gain. But for modern metal it's not always the right sound. Some may want that crushy sound with a very tight bottom, a sound that usually is described with the term "modern high gain". I can fully understand why people don't wanna use the VM for i.e. Death Metal, and describes the VM as not being a "high gain" amp.

Unless you get it modded like this.

[TonyC]

Slashwannabe, again you're assuming that nobody else but you has got it. When we are talking about "gain" or the term "high gain", we are not always talking about the amount of gain, but the character for the distorted sound. I think we're all aware that the VM is capable of deliver alot of gain. But for modern metal it's not always the right sound. Some may want that crushy sound with a very tight bottom, a sound that usually is described with the term "modern high gain". I can fully understand why people don't wanna use the VM for i.e. Death Metal, and describes the VM as not being a "high gain" amp.

Unless you get it modded like this.

Yep, that's what I mean. This clip was up for discussion in this forum some time ago and I gave the sound

[Riffraff]

Exactly. If I had a second one I'd want it to sound like that. Mesa what?

[Slashwannabe1]

I have a feeling that slashwannabe feels that I am bashing the VM, I'm not.

Don't beat yourself up worrying about that, I know you aren't bashing it and I've never felt that way. I think you and a few others thought I was hostile when I wasn't I was just being detailed on my personal expirence as a reffernce and I meant no ill harm. Honestly I think you would absolutly love what a MXR-10 or Boss GE-7 sounds like in front of this amp, it really gives the natural distortion of the amp a boost! and makes it easy to achieve Metallica heavyness at neighbor friendly volume. It gives you the power to play a wide spectrum of music without the fakness of a pedal.

I tried the GE-7 today on full 15db boost at resonable volume and it wasn't too much louder than normal but it really helped add more distortion to the allready full sound, but I don't need that much so I left the level normal as I always do. Volume per gain I'd say even though you get the volume boost its not a whole lot louder than stock but since you are working the preamp harder with a input boost such as the GE-7 and it really just adds that bit of gain thats missing even at low volumes. Infact with a GE-7 you can get very heavy at 1-2 on the master volume without ever engaging the midboost.

I play a bunch of stuff ranging from the most obvious (my Name) to pop to early 70s to even Elvis Presleys 70s music.

Guns N Roses
Velvet Revolver
Slash's Snakepit
Elvis Presley
Johnny Cash
Metallica
AC/DC
Megadeth
Creedence Clearwater Revival
John Fogerty
Ted Nugent
Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoades
Nelly Furtado (I spice her songs up with VM Rock N Roll!)
Creed
Matchbox Twenty
Rob Zombie
Bon Jovi
Van Halen
Nightwish

The VM does it all!

[HappyBlues]

With Vintage Modern I play a bit jazzy tunes, a bit bluesy tunes, rocky tunes, poppy tunes, more rocky tunes... Little bit of everything except metal. And VM does it real good.

[cadaver_occulta]

Black Metal!

[Tnjpekar]

with the two bands I gig with we play
priest, vh, stp, collective soul, zz top, beck, dregs, pom, green day, zepplin, grand funk, srv, ozzy, vai, satch
in the blues band its Georgia satellites, Gary moore, zz top, george thorogood, joe walsh, montrose, black crows, govt mule
(does the SLO thing really well)
the ganged preamps can be dialed in really nicely for a great organic high gain thing, but it retains it articulate character. if you are going for the buzzsaw sound that is common in metal, throw a big muff out in front and be done with it.
me, I just use the vol controll, but thats me.

[slowpokerhino]

I use my VM to play good music. :lick me

[DeanM]

I use my VM to play good music. :lick me

haha!!

[Vintager]

All but not classical, jazz or metal

Mustly rock,classic rock,blues rock,blues :Bounce

[Slashwannabe1]

All but not classical, jazz or metal

Mustly rock,classic rock,blues rock,blues :Bounce

This amp was made for that!

The best thing about this amp is how great it sounds on both pick up either seperatly or together its always a great sound.

[Slash1337]

I can honestly say I've played stuff thats drop C, and the amp deleivers man. Maybe not as great as a Bogner, Mesa, etc. But I just love that every sting ringing sound behind the crunch. And I Keep my mids fairly high, and I get a fairly "flabby" bottom end but I can fix it up alot with the body. Anyways, I've played alot of stuff through the amp and my friends have played other stuff too.

On a daily base I play covers that range from:
Guns N' Roses
Velvet Revolver
Black Stone Cherry
AC/DC
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
Pantera
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Rolling Stones
Hendrix
Aerosmith
Allman Brothers
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Black Crowes
The Raconteurs(jack White)
Black Label Society
Whitesnake
George Thorogood
The Eagles
Motley Crue
the list goes on...

I mean, for stuff like Pantera it doesn't capture the same sound amazingly, but it does it way above average. Enough that I have never had a comment saying i shouldn't use the amp for that stuff, but more so "So the VM can actually sound like that?"
I mean, I've had a friend play even heavier stuff through it and play stuff from Alter Bridge and stuff, and like Avneged Sevenfold, and they actually like the sound. It's all about what your ear likes though. Just my two cents.

[Slashwannabe1]

I gota say that my VM certainly delivers when I need it to, and its great to hear my Seymore Duncan Alnico 2 pros the way they were meant through an awesomely distorted amp. Its responsive to pick ups a lot and each guitars individual character shines through.

Here's a video I made of the stuff I play with the VM.



I'm sloppy on the Metallica and Sabbath a bit but in the week and a half since this video I have been getting a lot better at them :)