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I have your answer.....
Actually 2 answers.
1st is our very own Neils' Plexitone. If you are after anything Plexi: this mans pedal into the clean amp of your choice will do it like nothing else I've heard. Lush, warm, and just way cool plexi-vibe. Uncanny reproduction even at reasonable volumes.
For those of you like ME however whom LOVE Plexi's but really live for a cranked MF, JMP, or Hotrodded 800 any beyond...THIS
Is your answer. I got this bad boy last week, and have been fiddling with it for the past few days. From Live And Dangerous, to Live After Death, to Live In the Shadow of the Blues..this pedal will do it. AT BEDROOM VOLUME.
It's called a Plexitube, but Neil's pedal does a much better Plexi than this. But for everything else, the Plexitube is THERE. The amount of versatility in this pedal is incredible. It's a Gain monster for sure, but you can get JMP crunch all the way up to Soldano and TSL gain and I was even able to coax some AJFA/John Sykes MESA type tone out of it. Way too much gain for my needs on tap, but if you like that 5150 or TSL amount of extreme gain, you're set too.
It will get you a good sound right off the bat, but takes a little fiddling to get a GREAT sound. Once you learn how it interacts with your amp, it becomes pretty intuitive to tweak to what you need. I've been running it into my little Vox AD15VT, on the various models, and for my needs settled on the Fender Twin set clean as can be, with controls basically neutral (12 oclock). Its NOT a goose. Its meant to be a Distortion channel. You've got a rhythm channel (CH1), and a killer boost (CH2) that retains clarity but will give that nearly out of control full stack feel and sound. Even at low volume, notes take off into controlled feedback, with tons of overtones. It cleans up fairly well, but not the best. But turn the thing off and I'm back to sparkly cleans if I need them. It *IS* expensive, but its very much worth it for me because there's not a modelling set up out there I know of that can do what this pedal does. With the extreme amount of tonal control, I can get nasally V30 type sounds, Murky C75 sounds, Clear GB25 sounds. And also dial into the various marshall and similar type amps with taht kind of speaker variation. Or, get something inbetween which is what I have dialed up...somewhere between the clarity of a GB25 and the tightness of a 75. That sound I've been hearing in my head all these years. AND without killing my ears, pissing off the neighbors, or my GF while she's watching "Friends" :laugh2:
I will try to get some clips up in the next week. Its much more difficult for me to do them cos of some compy issues these days, but I'm working on it.
been a good couple of weeks for me, gear-wise..dang...:biglaugh: Happy New Year!
Actually 2 answers.
1st is our very own Neils' Plexitone. If you are after anything Plexi: this mans pedal into the clean amp of your choice will do it like nothing else I've heard. Lush, warm, and just way cool plexi-vibe. Uncanny reproduction even at reasonable volumes.
For those of you like ME however whom LOVE Plexi's but really live for a cranked MF, JMP, or Hotrodded 800 any beyond...THIS
Is your answer. I got this bad boy last week, and have been fiddling with it for the past few days. From Live And Dangerous, to Live After Death, to Live In the Shadow of the Blues..this pedal will do it. AT BEDROOM VOLUME.
It's called a Plexitube, but Neil's pedal does a much better Plexi than this. But for everything else, the Plexitube is THERE. The amount of versatility in this pedal is incredible. It's a Gain monster for sure, but you can get JMP crunch all the way up to Soldano and TSL gain and I was even able to coax some AJFA/John Sykes MESA type tone out of it. Way too much gain for my needs on tap, but if you like that 5150 or TSL amount of extreme gain, you're set too.
It will get you a good sound right off the bat, but takes a little fiddling to get a GREAT sound. Once you learn how it interacts with your amp, it becomes pretty intuitive to tweak to what you need. I've been running it into my little Vox AD15VT, on the various models, and for my needs settled on the Fender Twin set clean as can be, with controls basically neutral (12 oclock). Its NOT a goose. Its meant to be a Distortion channel. You've got a rhythm channel (CH1), and a killer boost (CH2) that retains clarity but will give that nearly out of control full stack feel and sound. Even at low volume, notes take off into controlled feedback, with tons of overtones. It cleans up fairly well, but not the best. But turn the thing off and I'm back to sparkly cleans if I need them. It *IS* expensive, but its very much worth it for me because there's not a modelling set up out there I know of that can do what this pedal does. With the extreme amount of tonal control, I can get nasally V30 type sounds, Murky C75 sounds, Clear GB25 sounds. And also dial into the various marshall and similar type amps with taht kind of speaker variation. Or, get something inbetween which is what I have dialed up...somewhere between the clarity of a GB25 and the tightness of a 75. That sound I've been hearing in my head all these years. AND without killing my ears, pissing off the neighbors, or my GF while she's watching "Friends" :laugh2:
I will try to get some clips up in the next week. Its much more difficult for me to do them cos of some compy issues these days, but I'm working on it.
been a good couple of weeks for me, gear-wise..dang...:biglaugh: Happy New Year!
