Experience with Analogman Sunface

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Experience with Analogman Sunface

noone had fender amps?
--we are talkign about jimi hendrix!- he was imported too! lol - hes not british made!
...but ill see if i can dig up the info for ya....
http://www.jimihendrix.dk/index.php?lang=en&page=gear

this video is from 1969 and hes switched back to a dual showman for this concert (dunno why hes not using a marshall here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LXNitTF_C8&feature=related

to be honest i cant find anything that definitively states he used a dual showman (same goes for any othet type of amp- marshalls included) on "are you experienced" - it may have been twins as well....apparently he took his first delivery of a marshall in october 1966.

however....you have a twin....plug in with your fuzz faces and a strat and youll see how scarily similar the sound is to his "are you experienced" sounds. I know everyone equates hendrix to jtm marshalls, but that is all post 1966. "are you experienced" A dual showman is just a twin in a head cabinet anyway.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id...&resnum=7&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false

i dunno - i could be wrong about the dual showmans in the studio....but for a convincing hendrix tone, i reckon if its a marshall it needs to be an old non-master type model...or a fender twin/showman. Not a later marshall with preamp gain etc.

I looked thought those pages, no mention of Fender amps in the studio...and you have to remember, in 1966 Jimi was still a nobody!

There are 3 things that don't sit well with me about Are You experienced being a Showman/Twin...

First at that time no one used big amps in the studio, that same year Cream used 100 watt Marshalls in the studio to record Frresh Cream but it was a big deal, the engineers threatened to quit, the label had to get involved and the only reason it was done is because it was Eric Clapton and in 1966 EC was already somebody, Jimi was not...

Second, in England in 1966 most places simply didn't have Fender amps, even big name acts from the states used english amps at the time...

Third the sound...you can listen to live Hendrix and hear the various amps used over the years...Fender, Sound City, HiWatt, Sunn and of course Marshall but Are You Experienced...sounds like anything but Fenders to me...

That said it's all speculation at this point from me...

 

[J.C.R.W]

Re: Experience with Analogman Sunface

He asked for early Hendrix, Jimi started usign a Fuzz Face in 1966, DA didn;t go to Silicon until late 1969...the Dunlop Hendrix Fuzz Face is based on Jimi's 1970 BC-108 Fuzz Face...it nails later Hendrix but not the early Hendrix.

Just curious, have you also tried out the Analogman BC-108 sunface? If so, how did that fare to the Dunlop Hendrix Fuzz Face?

Red Dot Sunface is also on order, thanks for everyones input here!

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Experience with Analogman Sunface

That said it's all speculation at this point from me...

me too i guess! lol

 

[macki]

Re: Experience with Analogman Sunface

I realize you are asking about the Analogman fuzz but after reading some of the comments wrt temp sensitivity you may want to check out the Retro Fuzz. I don't have one but it seems they have an "almost" temp insensitive design (Retro Channel is Lance Keltner's company I think). Not a lot of info on the Retro Channel site but some comments at TGP;

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=865609&highlight=retro+channel

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Experience with Analogman Sunface

Just curious, have you also tried out the Analogman BC-108 sunface? If so, how did that fare to the Dunlop Hendrix Fuzz Face?

Yep, sure have.

Mike made some changes to his BC108 Sunface a few years ago and the one I tried was the older one...

So keep that in mind.

When compared to the Jimi Hendrix from Dunlop (the blue one) the BC Sunface was fuzzier, more gainy and brighter...due to the lower gain the Dunlop cleaned up a little better and it's a little fatter sounding to me but it is less gainy so it has less fuzz...

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Experience with Analogman Sunface

I realize you are asking about the Analogman fuzz but after reading some of the comments wrt temp sensitivity you may want to check out the Retro Fuzz. I don't have one but it seems they have an "almost" temp insensitive design (Retro Channel is Lance Keltner's company I think). Not a lot of info on the Retro Channel site but some comments at TGP;

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=865609&highlight=retro+channel

The Retro Fuzz is based on a Tone Bender, not at all like a Fuzz Face and IMO the Retro Fuzz is a neat idea but I have yet to hear a clip that really floored me...