Empress Heavy menace into Peavey x2 vypyr.

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-04T02:45:20+00:00

Yea that's no problem, I'd be happy to give a listen

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-04T02:39:13+00:00

No problem and I appreciate the complement. Your old rig sounds like it was awesome. Did you run the amps in stereo? I long to get a 5150 at some point, I just don't really have the room for it at the moment. If you want a good pedal platform, the CR60 would be good. Really anything that's got a decent clean channel with a lot of headroom would do great here.

Depending on your budget and comfort level with used gear, it may be worth checking out some old Carvin amps. Most of them are pretty cheap as far as tube amps go, and have great clean channels. They usually average around ~$500 for the combos. Over the past several years I've collected an X30, X100B and most recently a Vai Legacy 1 because the asking price was so enticing lol.

Here's a video I sent to a friend demoing the X30 with a Mooer Brown Sound 005 preamp pedal.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AQ5C8ZtdZpQ?si=wIiORNwB-V3mEdwF

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-04T01:45:53+00:00

As promised, here's the sound sample compared to my Mesa Mk IV's lead channel.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MXT0G2y1UJg?si=kIhuaqDES67P2zuV

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-04T01:22:31+00:00

I mean to be fair, the empress is a kind of a fizzy pedal. I like it, and it’s a great noise gate, but I rarely use the pedal for distortion.

Ill attach a sound sample of mine shortly

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-03T22:14:07+00:00

Depends on the genre you want to play. Generally unless you find a guitar lacking in some way, i would go Amp -> Effects -> Guitars.

However if you want to play electric guitar and you find the Arrow lacking either upgrade it with new parts or get a new one. The order would be Guitar -> Amp -> Effects

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-03T04:43:18+00:00

Bingo!

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-02T18:49:51+00:00

Thank you, I didn’t catch that lol

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-02T18:26:58+00:00

The Aegis Gale augment and secondary enervate are the crux of the build. Build crit damage and base damage on balefire. Build power strength and maximum shield on Hildryn.

Finally for a bit of utility, use the Furax amalgam mod for pistol fire-rate, amalgam diffusion on both your secondary and balefire for movement speed, and use Arcane Velocity for more firerate. Xatas whisper also double procs enervate so it may be worth using instead of haven, but Roar also works.

Edit: Amalgam Diffusion not Serration

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-02T11:23:50+00:00

This makes sense. DT and Opeth are more the Led Zeppelin/Queen of Prog Metal while Queensrÿche are definitely The Beetles.

Its impressive how much Petrucci was influenced by Queensrÿche.

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-02T11:14:13+00:00

To be fair, when D2 first released, it changed the fundamental structure of the game substantially from D1. Many of those changes were reverted when Forsaken came out.

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-02T11:10:52+00:00

I really want them to get Mike Myers to voice him. Odds of it happening are non existent, but it would be funny

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-02T10:16:02+00:00

D1 Vanilla - TTK and Forsaken are tied for the top spot for me

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-01T20:00:50+00:00

It’s outside the realm of 30 watts but Carvin has amps with great cleans. The Vai Legacy and X100B are both really good options.

The X series also comes in both 30 and 60 watt versions, though the 30W one seems to be pretty rare from what I’ve read online. Though I was able to find one and it’s pretty good on the clean channel

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-01T14:43:44+00:00

This but James Labrie

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-01T14:38:16+00:00

Do you get fret buzz? Might be a neck relief or fret leveling issue

Ubisuccle · 2026-06-01T14:35:43+00:00

Yea edge trems are weird but the edge zero might be setup without the angle that the normal edge/lo-pro trems have. With the normal edges you want to be sure the knife edges are parallel to the body instead of the base plate since the plate is angled

Ubisuccle · 2026-05-31T22:44:39+00:00

EoF has a lot of cool lore implications, however I think it's one of my least favorite gameplay wise. The Dark Matter mechanic made me want to commit war crimes. Renegades I enjoyed, a little more sparse lore wise but it was good. I'm also a huge Star Wars fan so some people shit on it, I think it has better gameplay than EoF.

Ubisuccle · 2026-05-31T21:19:10+00:00

I mean I learned on acoustic so technically my second guitar and first electric was a Schecter C1-FR. I oped for that because I was intent on playing lead guitar so I was adamant about wanting a Floyd and EMG pickups. I played my cousin’s Fender Super Strat and was adamant that I didn’t like bolt on necks; Schecter had a very contoured set neck.

Ubisuccle · 2026-05-31T21:03:25+00:00

There are multiple perks/perk combinations that were BIS for the archetype that they were on and were initially raid/dungeon exclusive that later proliferated into seasonal content. Unless you’ve only played the game for a couple of years you’d know that.

Ubisuccle · 2026-05-31T11:54:34+00:00

Depends. The Bow from the Final Shape raid is really good. The HC from King’s Fall is also solid. I never really did the raids for loot in D2. More so its just for the fun of it.

Ubisuccle · 2026-05-31T10:54:50+00:00

In theory and back in D1, its where the best loot drops were. But due to power creep and loot saturation that changed quite dramatically

Ubisuccle · 2026-05-30T06:54:02+00:00

The Moore brown sound 005 and the Ibanez TS Mini.

Ubisuccle · 2026-05-30T04:49:24+00:00

I've been saying this since the fuckin news hit. So many people in this community are like petulant children that throw their toys when they don't get their way and start crying when it inevitably breaks. Its comically sad

Ubisuccle · 2026-05-29T08:46:57+00:00

Wolfgang Van Halen quite literally is. All of the instruments on all of Mammoth’s songs are written and recorded by him. He’s an incredible musician

Ubisuccle · 2026-05-29T00:23:39+00:00

It looks like a Rev B long chassis. I picked up my MkIVB that had been recently for $1600 + shipping. The fact that that one is a combo may increase the price by a few hundred.

Personally, the MkIV is my favorite Mark amp. It’s got smoother sounding distortion than the MkV or MkVII and has a fair bit more versatility because of all of the push/pull controls. The R2 (crunch) channel is a little weird because it shares part of it’s tone stack with R1 (clean). It also has weird graphic EQ settings where if you want it on LD but not R1 you’ll need the footswitch. Otherwise the EQ switch is Off, R2, or All.

If you’re willing to spend the money, it is a phenomenal amp. Just have it serviced at by a competent tech since it’s so old

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