This is EXACTLY what *This amp sounds like thread

[jon the art guy]

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The slide on this old James Gang song is a Tweed Champ. Pretty crusty...

 

[jon the art guy]

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Anyone an STP fan and can dissect the Tiny Music Song from the Vatican Gift Shop album and point out some particular amp tones? Dean DeLeo used all sorts of wacky little old amps on that album...

 

[ImmortalSix]

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Fender Hot Rod Deluxe

I don't know anyone who records with a Hot Rod Deluxe, but this guy does, and it definitely has a unique sound.

--- That all the millions of dudes with a Hot Rod Deluxe in their basement will recognize.

I don't think it's a particularly good sound, but as a Hot Rod owner, I can say it definitely represents the amp's drive sound accurately.

Here's an interview with the guy, oddly praising it's sound. I only say oddly because I don't think they're that great of amps, sound-wise. Toughness / reliability, yeah, but to record an album, I'd look for something else.

 

[ImmortalSix]

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Anyone an STP fan and can dissect the Tiny Music Song from the Vatican Gift Shop album and point out some particular amp tones? Dean DeLeo used all sorts of wacky little old amps on that album...

Dude

that's in my top 10 favorite albums

don't know anything, just an e-five for a Tiny Music bro

 

[jon the art guy]

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Dude

that's in my top 10 favorite albums

don't know anything, just an e-five for a Tiny Music bro

Dean DeLeo's a beast, and he managed to evolve out of the scoop tone pretty well. In Purple he started venturing into vintagey sounds instead of the Core scoop sound, and then that album was way off the charts on preferred amp choice. It actually turned me off from them, tell the truth. I didn't understand why he would abandon big powerful amps for rinky-dink turds, and I disliked the whole thing on principle. The intervening years have turned me into a devoted fan of turd amps, and now I really need to revisit Purple and Tiny Music.

Even then, I couldn't argue with Vasoline, Big Bang Baby and Tumble in the Rough GIT THE F**K UP ON IT. If that torn-up sound of Tumble in the Rough doesn't get your blood pumping, you'd better check your pulse.

 

[King IzzO)))]

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LOL

 

[El Supremo]

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Wall of JCM 800's Cranked;

Didn't Priest use Treble Boosters for a long time before going for active pickups?
Great thread btw.

 

[jon the art guy]

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LOL

I kept wanting to post something with Sunn amps, but I couldn't find something I knew was completely free of anything else in the signal. I thought SunnO))) used fuzz too. I was bummed to find out that Earth's Album Bees...Lion's Skull was played on a solid state bass amp instead of a Sunn.

 

[erksin]

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Found a good page on a search, and found a good source for this Supro Thunderbolt tone.

Um except that wasn't a Supro he was playing through, and he never used a Thunderbolt ever.

 

[erksin]

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I kept wanting to post something with Sunn amps, but I couldn't find something I knew was completely free of anything else in the signal. I thought SunnO))) used fuzz too. I was bummed to find out that Earth's Album Bees...Lion's Skull was played on a solid state bass amp instead of a Sunn.

Pretty good Sunn demo courtesy of Leslie West:

 

[Myaccount876]

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Didn't Priest use Treble Boosters for a long time before going for active pickups?
Great thread btw.

Yep. Glenn Tipton and his Dallas Rangemaster. Brian May also used the same treble booster for the first four Queen albums before going to the Pete Cornish TB. I made a Rangemaster for myself, and it's great.

 

[erksin]

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How 'bout an old tweed Deluxe on the verge of catching fire?

 

[erksin]

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Or a cranked AC30..?

 

[J E C]

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This is a GREAT thread. I have nothing to add to it other that......Thanks guys! It has given me a couple of hours of jammin time to stuff I haven't heard in a wile and some that I haven't heard before.

 

[erksin]

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These were Ampeg SVT prototype heads - even the guitars are going through them, though not through what became the standard 'fridge' 8x10" bass cabs:

 

[erksin]

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Sound City/Hiwatt CP-103

 

[MetalManiac]

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Sound City/Hiwatt CP-103

Pete Townshend had his Hiwatts modified I think. Nice post.

 

[erksin]

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Pete Townshend had his Hiwatts modified I think. Nice post.

That was a prototype head as well - it's in a pre-Hiwatt Sound City shell that became the Hiwatt CP-103. Dave Reeves was doing a lot of custom builds for guys like him and Page at the time:

 

[MetalManiac]

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LOL

I don't play Drone, but I do like to get that sound, so I got the Russian Muff, and the Sunn Concert Lead, to try and get that big thick saturated botom heavy thing. For me, SUNNO)) is overkill.Granted, I may not get the expereince.I'd use that SUNNO)) sound as part of a song, but not as the whole album.

 

[erksin]

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How 'bout some SS amps? Vox Super Beatles - these were the amps Petty and Campbell used on the first three records: