ah, i should update my thing actually, ive sold the iiC+, sacraligious as it may seem, i prefer the mark iii. And i have far from succeeded with the metal core. Early on in the peice, with the iic+, i was kinda happy with some of the 'heavy' tone i was getting, but i have a lot of work to do to get it right in this curent setup. As so many have done before me, i primarily go for the 'hetfield' tone, and the mark iii dominates that on its own, more so even than the iiC+ (i think the addition of the GEQ accounts for that). I have come to the realisation that i wont be able to do rammstein without a wall of recto's and a bass player pumping about 2000W's, so the metal core might go soon. I will persist a little longer....