Painkiller is nothing like the Miracle Man.
Really? Clips I've heard suggest it's upper-mids focused with strong treble. Perhaps too harsh to my ears like the MM is (in the treble region, not the bass)?? How would you characterize the differences?
The PK is a bit hotter, but a bit less compressed.
Its got a tighter low end, and its lows are more actual lows rather than low mids, whereas the MM has respectiable low end but gets lots of its thickness from a strong low mid. Not to say that the PK is ihn the least thin, thats crazy talk, but the low frequencies (like, sub 400Hz) have a different balance
Its got more mids and high mids, more grinds and cut in the mids and a similar amount of treble but it doesnt cut as much in the top end. The MM has a cutting, chimey (if under lower gain) high end that gets really crunchy really easily; the PKs top end is smoother but its mids have the cut, chime and grind.
Saying they're nothing alike is a bit silly, but they are quite disimlar. Most importantly, they are most similar in the low end (they the closest relations of each other, low end wise, in the range, IME), but differ mostly in the highs and mids