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  • A visit of an old friend: JCM 800 2204 MKII Super Lead, 50W

    Recently an old 'amp friend' of mine parked here a little and I made a short play-through video with it (no EQ/processing on the guitar tracks, only a DD6 stomped on for the solo). Despite that it's more than 30 years old, it is still kicking ass and as far as I know, apart from the occassional tube changes it's inact inside, no component failures breakdowns whatsoever. One of my fav Marshall amp heads ever I guess. Unfortunately the friend who bought it back in time doesn't want me to buy it back. Well, never sell stuff that you're too fond of

    Last edited by NecroPolo; 01-22-2016, 11:30 AM.
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    Re: A visit of an old friend: JCM 800 2204 MKII Super Lead, 50W

    Wow - great tone, riffs, vocals, & tune!

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      Re: A visit of an old friend: JCM 800 2204 MKII Super Lead, 50W

      Speaking of old pieces of awesome, is that the same Warmoth you've been playing for what…15 years?
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        Re: A visit of an old friend: JCM 800 2204 MKII Super Lead, 50W

        Thanks for the feedback!

        Originally posted by ex-250 View Post
        Speaking of old pieces of awesome, is that the same Warmoth you've been playing for what…15 years?
        Yep it's that old dawg of mine. I age much worse than this axe
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          Re: A visit of an old friend: JCM 800 2204 MKII Super Lead, 50W

          Sounds great. Pls tell more about the recording chain used.
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            Re: A visit of an old friend: JCM 800 2204 MKII Super Lead, 50W

            guitar -> OneWay DI / signal splitter, #A into the left TLA preamp as can be seen for possible future reamping, #B into the Marshall JCM800

            Laney 4x12" cab with Greenbacks -> RODE M3 mic -> the right TLA preamp -> Focusrite interface -> Reaper DAW

            The original song track was given a parametric EQ where I chopped out much of the mids around 3KHz and applied a very transparent bus compressor to give space to the spectrum and dynamics of my new guitar tracks.

            I shot 3 video takes of the rhythm tracks with a Nokia PureView 808 phone (that I just strapped onto a mic stand) from 2 different angles through the whole song and 3 solo takes from 2 different angles that the DAW recorded simultaneously. Then I picked the audio takes that I preferred the most, synched the video with the DAW tracks using the cam onboard audio, muted the cam sound and panned the good quality DAW audio to L/R then started chopping all the silent video takes. The solo take in the mix is #3 and video takes #2 + #1 don't match everywhere but what the hell, it's still better this way than one static angle.

            I used a simple Ozone master limiter with a very subtle compensation for the harsh frequencies and a Voxengo Span to check the RMS as I did not want to go overboard. I guess, that's all.
            Last edited by NecroPolo; 01-23-2016, 03:07 PM.
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              Re: A visit of an old friend: JCM 800 2204 MKII Super Lead, 50W

              Thanks for the details. You should check out the Bogner Harlow, I think you would like it. It's quite squishy, but you can blend it in for a parallel compression that sounds super musical. I know a lot of high gain players do not like tracking with compression in front of the amp, but I have grown to totally love it.
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                Re: A visit of an old friend: JCM 800 2204 MKII Super Lead, 50W

                Thanks for the advice! I'll be trying that.
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