best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

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Hello
have you tried a pedal which would give a good sound for

jcm 800
jcm 900
jcm 2000/tsl

jmp
jvm ?

i've tried: ibanez tube king : very good pedal very Marshall, rock more than rectifier
Marshall jackhammer : very very good sound if we take time
PLexitube : good and a big sound for plexi!!

i look for a warm sound in neck like gary moore, john sykes, thin lizzy, sambora etc
harmonics, sustain

i've heard good reviews about wampler:
plextortion, triple wreck(for mesa boogie)
pinnacle for van halen sound


weehbo: jmp, jtm/jcm, jvm

plextortion: i think there will not be enough sustain or warm sound but the sound seems good
triple wreck: superb but too much metal

weehbo: jvm would be good

and the plexitone carl martin?
ocd is fantastic?
m studio: crunch box?
 
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Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

Check the Youtube videos for the Tech 21 British..Thats one of the pedals I use.
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

yes
i have the tube driver with line 6 pod farm 2
and it has a good sound in videos too
 
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Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

BBE boosta grande (clean boost pedal) work well for plexis.
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

The ZVEX Box of Rock is supposed to be a Marshall in a pedal.


Lovepedal makes great pedals for that. You can start your quest with the Purple Plexi.

Also...the 1 watt heads that they release last year or two years ago are great and very accurate.
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

Distortron.

Plextortion

Carl martin plexitone


Good stuff.
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

I have an OCD type pedal that I like a lot. It sounds great through my TSL as well.
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

thanks :)
ocd : i hope that i will have one one day
zvex maybe too
wampler and weebho too
i don' t know if i've made a good choice but i wait for the amt M2
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

MI Audio Crunch Box, it's very good at the Marshall sound.
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

I would consider an Ibanez Tube King with a NOS 12au7 or 12ax7 swapped in (GE, Sylvania, etc.).
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

If you throw an ocd in front of a fendery amp it can get very marshally. Pretty much what I use now. I say the ocd can do it but it depends on the amp it's going with. I guess the same could be said for all pedals. But all in all I think if you get the Rivera Double Shaman, you will be able to get a hotrodded marshall stack tone out of almost anything while preserving the characteristics of the amp. Check it out.
http://www.premierguitar.com/articl...Shaman_and_Double_Shaman_Pedal_Reviews?page=4
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

Agree with posters above re:

MI Audio Crunch Box
Love Pedal Purple Plexi

I own and like 'em both....
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

I have the plextortion and several other wampler pedals as well. They are extremely accurate, to the point that they mimic some of the qualities I don't like. The plextortion has a sweet spot. Lower gain settings sound better than the real thing. But don't go past that sweet spot, it turns into a sizzling, flubby, jcm 800, just like the real thing.
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

i saw all the videos of wampler and weehbo
wampler plextorsion: i want sustain, big tube amp sound

think to gary moore, john sykes with thin lizzy etc
i was not sure the pedal would give me that sound with my Laney lc 15-110
i've seen a little sound and not enough gain (or needed a boost pedal) but maybe i was wrong

-crunch box : a lot of good comments but there is a new version with more sound options
-the ocd is a famous pedal which has a lot of positives comments

i have re tube king: a very big sound but too much sometimes
don't need a tube!

- i haven't tried the ht dual blackstar too
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

i'm going to buy Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret iII
purle plexi is as good as the catalinbread? warm tube sound for both ?
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

The Weehbo stuff is just a notch above everyone else IMHO... of course the pedals are fairly expensive, more so than most of the other models mentioned, but well worth the extra bucks.

The raw amp sound coming from my JMP Drive is ferocious and badgerlike... I've never heard a pedal capture the raw essence of an amp before until the Weehbp JMP Drive.

Here's a couple of clips I just recorded the other day... they are raw and fairly unprocessed (I boost mids to tape) but I think they capture the amp's bad attitude and thick yet detailed sound.



I think it quite capably turns my little vintage 6V6 1x10 combo into a very heavy hitter.
 
Re: best pedal for MArshall tone with a full tubes amp at home

it rocks!
i think gary moore used jmp : in my point of the view this is the most high mediums Marshall amp

weehbo is hard to find but the jvm must be terrible too because high gain
 
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