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Ok, a few months ago I sold my mesa express and bought a battered old Marshall JCM900 1x12 combo from a friend as the mesa, as sweet as it sounded, just couldn't cut the mustard live.
Last night the Marshall had it's first gig.
Now for those of you who have been following my amp exploits over the last few months you may have noticed me mentioning my rather loud drummer, the fact I play in a free piece, we play blues rock and that I'm never going to be satisfied with my amp.
Also I like to have quite a thick sound so the end result is full and powerful without making peoples ears bleed.
The little 900 is a top little amp, I'm not sure about the diode clipping 'b' channel, but channel 'a' does that Marshall thing, which is almost what I want but I'd prefer something a bit thicker in the low mids, so I added a bad Monkey o/d and a boss eq pedal to the chain (bad monkey at the front, eq in the loop).
I also have a 1912 1x12 cab for gigs, although last night it was facing the wrong way to help the drummer hear.
The result was pretty much just what I was after. Using mainly my JB8/59 equiped RG notes were full and musical, feedback induced sustained notes were just there with out then ramping into uncontrolled screaming.
All in all it is just the ticket.
So the chain is:
Boss tuner, Bad Monkey OD, channel 'a' only of a 50w JCM900, loop to danelectro fab chorus, ibanez sound tank delay, boss eq. Not sure why the chorus and delay are there... they're not great pedals and I rarely use them.
Tonight I may ditch the chorus and drop in a battered old dunlop wah I've got knocking around.
Now all we need is more gigs, we may have had two in one weekend but that looks like it for a while. It's getting harder and harder to find gigs round these parts with so many pubs going to the wall.
Last night the Marshall had it's first gig.
Now for those of you who have been following my amp exploits over the last few months you may have noticed me mentioning my rather loud drummer, the fact I play in a free piece, we play blues rock and that I'm never going to be satisfied with my amp.
Also I like to have quite a thick sound so the end result is full and powerful without making peoples ears bleed.
The little 900 is a top little amp, I'm not sure about the diode clipping 'b' channel, but channel 'a' does that Marshall thing, which is almost what I want but I'd prefer something a bit thicker in the low mids, so I added a bad Monkey o/d and a boss eq pedal to the chain (bad monkey at the front, eq in the loop).
I also have a 1912 1x12 cab for gigs, although last night it was facing the wrong way to help the drummer hear.
The result was pretty much just what I was after. Using mainly my JB8/59 equiped RG notes were full and musical, feedback induced sustained notes were just there with out then ramping into uncontrolled screaming.
All in all it is just the ticket.
So the chain is:
Boss tuner, Bad Monkey OD, channel 'a' only of a 50w JCM900, loop to danelectro fab chorus, ibanez sound tank delay, boss eq. Not sure why the chorus and delay are there... they're not great pedals and I rarely use them.
Tonight I may ditch the chorus and drop in a battered old dunlop wah I've got knocking around.
Now all we need is more gigs, we may have had two in one weekend but that looks like it for a while. It's getting harder and harder to find gigs round these parts with so many pubs going to the wall.
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