Getting some vintage tones out of new production amps….

[B2D]

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Re: Getting some vintage tones out of new production amps….

i've been able to get some decent classic rock sounds out of my rectoverb, mostly using the Raw mode on it. I love the vintage gain channel, but find i really have to back down on the gain alot for anything classic sounding. but it does sound good.

I had the gain up to about 7 or 6 on the amp in the vintage mode and EQ'ed it to sound kinda like Deep Purple/Eric Johnson with an attitude. Great stuff! :banana:

 

[pureoldsound]

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Well after all the search I think I found an amp that will go in par with my plexi, Kingsley Deluxe 32....

 

[proxy]

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What about a Bassman? They are basically a plexi with 6L6's.

 

[B2D]

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What about a Bassman? They are basically a plexi with 6L6's.

Oh LORDY, methinks you have some reading to do... :laugh2:

Jim Marshall and Ken Bran copied a specific Fender Bassman circuit with english parts and equivalent tubes to create the earliest JTM45s. By the time the plexis came to be they'd all but abandoned their Fender Heritage.

 

[pureoldsound]

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What about a Bassman? They are basically a plexi with 6L6's.

I agree with B2D, at one point, early on the development of Marshall, their amps were based on that circuitry but evolved to become something else. The Kingsley is an EL84 amp based more on the Vox side, even though does not sound like a vox. The lead tone sounds more like a Dumble to me, so even though it is an EL84 it is more fenderish with some vox chime…..

 

[proxy]

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Re: Getting some vintage tones out of new production amps….

Oh LORDY, methinks you have some reading to do... :laugh2:

Jim Marshall and Ken Bran copied a specific Fender Bassman circuit with english parts and equivalent tubes to create the earliest JTM45s. By the time the plexis came to be they'd all but abandoned their Fender Heritage.

I was pwned haha.

I do have to learn some how though. Thanks.

 

[B2D]

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I was pwned haha.

I do have to learn some how though. Thanks.

It's cool man... pick up some tube amp books with a little bit of history in them and you'll find a lot of cool stuff. There was a special edition of GP magazine a while back devoted to Marshall amps, and there was a REAL good article by Ken Fischer (maker of Trainwreck amps) in there and it explained exactly why the first Marshalls didn't sound exactly like their bassman counterparts even though they were basically exact copies. I think the thing that surprised me most was that Marshall and Bran reversed the polarity 180 degrees and that the outer chassis magnetic properties (whether it's ferrous or not) changes the tone as well. It was all little changes but it added up to one BIG change in the end.