Re: Rickenbacker - Worst guitars ever?
The Golden Boy,
Please, commercial success, well windows are complete crap from engineering stand point of view never the less they dominate PC's software support market, commercial succes yep, great let's use this as great indicator of a "super user" type of product quality in modern economy. They are commercial success exactly for the reasons i've mentioned: a snow ball of generations of "guitar" gods. The history of rock is full of stories that people used them for their loudness back in the day on stage but in the studio was a different story, i.e. the story of AC300 in a 4X12 cab by Blackmore while everybody thought it was marshall just because he used it on stage. I never said they emulated Page or Hendrix, cheap technique on your behalf. They just used because it was a prestige thing, you gotta have marshall to be cool on stage and the sound of marshall is "it" never mind the "Sabbath" - Laney, Queen - Vox, Pink Floyed - Hiwatt, ask around, in the U.K. they don't have the same "GOD" of amps status as they do here. You remind me of mine soviet union middle school teachers who went nuts when kids spoke againts the party line.
Re: Windows Comparison...
Is a Marshall the amplifier that's issued to you when you buy your guitar, or do you have a choice of what amplifier to use? On a typical store bought PC, do you have a wide choice upon purchase on operating systems? If your system does not come with Windows, do you go out and buy Windows?
Do you stop to think, perhaps the reason people used Marshalls is because they deliver what the artists desire? You can go back and find plenty of performance pictures and footage of people using amps and cabs other than Marshalls- Or did many bands find that audiences turned their backs on them if they used some other sort of amplification?
You didn't answer why amplifier companies, and a lot of them, still emulate Marshall designs and sounds? Whether in design or in digital modeling?
As far as using other amplifiers in the studio... I use different amps, different cabs, all kinds of things that may not be available to me. That's what recording is. Different layers, different textures- as far as I go though, the base of most everything I've recorded is the Marshall. And in every live application, I prefer the Marshall because it works.
You never said they emulated Page or Hendrix... So what is it you're saying here?
Like that amp company which still rides the history that of two Jimmie playing it.
I think Marshall got its popularity for the fact of Page and Hendrix playing them and looking so cool doing it,
Most of the "guitar gods" of blues/rock/hardrock/metal from early seventies and on mention Hendrix and Page as their influences with unprecedented frequency.
Or are you saying that Page and Hendrix just used Marshalls as a prestige thing?
Marshall has remained competitive in the market because they have the sound that is the "standard." Regardless if you choose to rail against the status quo,
the fact is Marshall has been THE sound of rock amplification for over 40 years. They've been on the forefront of rock amplification technology from the beginning. I don't know if you think you're David trying to knock down the Goliath, but Marshall's reputation has been built on performance before anything else.
Tell me about the successful EL-34 powered amps prior to Marshall.
Tell me about usable master volume amps prior to Marshall.
Tell me about usable cascading gain stages before Marshall/Park.
Tell me about 100w guitar amplifiers before Marshall.
Tell me about diode clipping gain stages in amplifier preamps prior to Marshall.
Although I like that whole "soviet union" thing,
the fact is unsubstantiated opinion does not constitute fact. To present it as such displays a lack of regard for logical thought. Prove your theory.
Yes, Marshall has a reputation. That reputation has been
earned through innovation over the course of 40+ years of amplifier design. Yes, a lot of "guitar gods" have used Marshall amplifiers. Their amplifiers have been quality amplifiers in terms of quality and reliability for decades. Keep in mind, Hendrix had an endorsement deal with Sunn which he ignored and bought his Marshalls on his own.
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