Well, let's make this an EVH board lol
With Slash, Eddie etc you will find they overcame the overprocessed tones of the era a la racks etc by sticking with Plexi's, hot rods, and 800s.
you push an 800 too hard it gets nasty.
With EVH, remember he did a lot of stuff with a SOLDANO, NOT a 5150 as people believe.
Slash also used older Marshalls til AFTER Appetite. even Live at the Ritz is 800s, NOT Jubes.
With the aforementioned MIXING of Soldanos and Marshalls - EVH showed how well it works. Most people do not make Soldanos sit beautifully on their own save maybe EC himself! As always he breaks all the rules! Warren Haynes and EVH to this day mix Soldanos and Plexis with great results!
Marshall has a chance to redefine the High Gain market rather than chasing Mesa and the Dual Rec. I am not a huge Dual Rec fan. The Darkness (not my fave band by any stretch) prove it Live when Justin uses Recs and Dan uses SLPs - SLP have that gorgeous FAT tone and crunch, the Recs are a little buzzier). Don't get me wrong, I respect Recs, but I think music might be headed back the right way, and a good Hot Rod Marshall tone might be what's in order for this decade. I would prefer Nu-Metal be left in the dust, in my rear view mirror.
What this all comes down to is MARSHALLS are the real deal!
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Or, take that design for the overdrive and boost channel and then add another channel for cleans, and I mean cleans. It would still be a 2-channel amp except that the OD channel would have the switchable master volumes. Now that I would be all over.
