Recent content by Binnerscot

💯 I love the percussive nature and attack of the sound on AJFA, but playing it is horrible. Love the expressive mids on Rust in Peace, but it's a muddy, undefined mess playing it with that tone. EVH tone on the early albums is so good, it works for those types of playing with an amp that does...

I have an AXE-FX II XL+......I tinkered with the modeling when I rewired the rack. It's remarkably good, but it isn't like the real thing. It's functional, sounds decent, and the feel is reasonable but take their Fish model back-to-back with a Fish re-issue and it's not the same. Chicken head...

This. The Custom 5 solves lots of things.

This is great insight. I do like the Full Shred in the bridge for how percussive the attack is, and very defined (I wouldn't say any brighter than the Custom line). I've always fought with the FS neck, though. I prefer the Jazz or 59n depending on the guitar. I have always suspected that the...

I can see that perspective in some respects. My take: 5150 = obtainable high gain based on a legacy of playing Plexis, add a few years of Soldano play time, and given as input to the design Dual Rec = straight Soldano preamp and Mesa magic in the power section, Mesa low mids of a Mark 1 Ecstasy...

THAT is an awesome story

That he did, he was a little shit. One little note I picked up from a Pete Thorn/Dave Friedman geek session was that Ed's Plexi was stock except for a manufacturing variance. The mid control pot was out of spec, at a higher value, per Friedman. If Ed ran everything on 10, which is highly...

That is a possibility, but even your comment about '63 - those are all Fender amps. Far more interesting to me: Peavey = 5150 = ~1.5 channel (barely two channel?) Mesa = Recto = 2 channel (cleans weren't anything to write home about) Bogner = XTC = 3 channel Diezel = VH4 = 4 channel While each...

Can't disagree. A lot of stuff wasn't that secret or difficult, just not inexpensive or at the local store for young guys at the time. EVH was the only odd ball.... anyone plugging into a plexi can tell there was some secret sauce with Ed, mostly his playing.... but some gear things too.

When I started playing, the tones were unobtainium for broke kids. Metallica was cranking Mark IICs, and there weren't many high gain amp in general. Higher output pickups helped and most stock pickups were pretty lackluster

I'm aware of all the same amp history, which is absolutely fascinating. There are lots of legendary amps and tones over the years. What I find as interesting trivia is that everyone of these is highly respected, staple amps for artists and studios, still around today, and all introduced at...

I think I just read "clean" amp four times in a row? 😆

1992 saw the introduction/release of the following noteable amps: Peavey 5150 Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Diezel VH4 Bogner Ecstasy 100A/B Those are some heavy weight contenders!

I saw these pop up recently and thought it was kind of humorous. One, the red model screams Jack Butler (cool, I like that). Two, they are advertising the J90c and J50 for the pickups as a "thing". From what I remember of these pickups, they are what led me to replace them with Duncans back...

I have a few amps, the one that always puts a smile on my face is the Uberschall. It's the sound in my head.....Van Halen 1 meets And Justice For All. So much fun. Thump, but defined, mids that rip your face off like We Die Young from AIC, articulate like Yngwie and early EVH. For you older...