YES! The Volume Crank Worked!!!

barbarianbrute

barbarianbrute

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i can hear it now like never before. even on the thinnest and fizziest sounding channel i got an immaculate tone. every note was juicy and dripping with ripe nectar. i was 2 1/2 hours late to work this morning because i just couldn't stop playing.

since most people in my neighborhood are gone by 8:00am, i got to crank my jvm 100 watt to almost half. it shook the very foundation of my house, but with such a satisfying rumble that it made my stomach turn in anticipation of each strike of the pick.

THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN THE SOUND OF A CRANKED MARSHALL - NOTHING!

i can't wait to put a song together and record it. i'm so invigorated with this tone. chances are that i'll still get teh boogie for space ecomony and overall volume decrease, but my marshall is going to be so sorely missed. some day i will get the best **** marshall i can buy. abso-friggin-lutely!
 
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Good to hear that you were convinced that some things have to be cranked. But before you sell and get a mesa try to find an attenuator to borrow for a few hours, who knows my be will like it just as much as the mesa.
 
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i can't afford it because i blew my wad on the jvm. after selling the jvm and buying the mesa, i'll have 500-600 left over to use for recording gear or maybe a down payment on a new strat. hell it's not a bad trade off. one day when i'm successful enough with my music i'll get a bad-ass marshall.
 
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Yup, nothin' sounds sweeter than a Marshall peakin' the meter. ;)
 
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barbarianbrute said:
i can't afford it because i blew my wad on the jvm. after selling the jvm and buying the mesa, i'll have 500-600 left over to use for recording gear or maybe a down payment on a new strat. hell it's not a bad trade off. one day when i'm successful enough with my music i'll get a bad-ass marshall.
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Well now that you've mentioned a strat, it all makes sense :friday: Anything is justifiable if we are talking about a strat. Just a few thoughts. Strat and mesa are both very bright instruments, I would advise for a JJ pre-amp tubes to darkn things up a bit and something non-jb, non-dd pup.
 
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jj tubes? hmm, i'll try that. i've read a lot of good things about jj tubes. and no, i'm not going jb with this strat. it's either going to be stock US strat pickups, paf pro, or a custom custom with virtual vintage solo pros.

if i don't get the standard US strat, i'm going for the malmsteen strat. i played that a couple of weeks ago and it was so much better than i ever thought it woudl be.
 
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barbarianbrute said:
jj tubes? hmm, i'll try that. i've read a lot of good things about jj tubes. and no, i'm not going jb with this strat. it's either going to be stock US strat pickups, paf pro, or a custom custom with virtual vintage solo pros.

if i don't get the standard US strat, i'm going for the malmsteen strat. i played that a couple of weeks ago and it was so much better than i ever thought it woudl be.
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I've played a YJM 1988 strat few months ago .... I am a big YJM fan but you know what? I love that feeling of maple under my finger tips. If I ever go for sculloped thing, I will just do the subtle Blackmore scullop. I am willing to bet a bottle of great California red that at least two JJ ECC83s gold pins in V1 V2 would give you typa gloss and smooth complex mids that you think is only possible in a single channel EL34 amp, and I think there would some major mojo between them and tubey in the rectum(amp's rectum that is) if you are getting a rectum frie that is ....
 
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Dr.Mavashi said:
I've played a YJM 1988 strat few months ago .... I am a big YJM fan but you know what? I love that feeling of maple under my finger tips. If I ever go for sculloped thing, I will just do the subtle Blackmore scullop. I am willing to bet a bottle of great California red that at least two JJ ECC83s gold pins in V1 V2 would give you typa gloss and smooth complex mids that you think is only possible in a single channel EL34 amp, and I think there would some major mojo between them and tubey in the rectum(amp's rectum that is) if you are getting a rectum frie that is ....
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on second thought... mesa won't honor the warranty if i use another brand of tubes. i actually like the amp as is. i used to think it was really thin, but reviewing some recordings i did of it made me realize that it wasn't thin at all. i just didn't crank it up enough. my marshall sounded thin until i cranked it. oh well like everyone has said, it's really not the tone of the amp but the tone i create with it. i'm going to master the tone of that amp and make it my sound.
 
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barbarianbrute said:
on second thought... mesa won't honor the warranty if i use another brand of tubes. i actually like the amp as is. i used to think it was really thin, but reviewing some recordings i did of it made me realize that it wasn't thin at all. i just didn't crank it up enough. my marshall sounded thin until i cranked it. oh well like everyone has said, it's really not the tone of the amp but the tone i create with it. i'm going to master the tone of that amp and make it my sound.
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What? they actually bust your balls if you experiment with non-mesa tubes? :bsflag: Its like fender not honoring warranty on their tone pots unless you use fender bullets strings. If it is true then mesa begins to make the same mistakes Marshall did decades ago. I didnt say thin, I said glossy and complex.
 
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yeah i know, but i really like the sound. it's second to my marshall, but the truth is (i'm being very honest with myself here) the marshall jvm is too much amp for me. i can't handle it yet.

i need to take all my practice to a band and start learning to play live. when i can get comfortable playing crowds, i'll then start recording my compositions. after i accomplish that, i'll buy my most prized marshall. that's my exact plan.

it is a fenderish sound indeed - glossy and complex perhaps, but it is a great sound. it's very smooth and satisfying and probably the most bluesy sounding amp i've ever played... at least to MY ears.
 
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barbarianbrute said:
it is a fenderish sound indeed - glossy and complex perhaps, but it is a great sound. it's very smooth and satisfying and probably the most bluesy sounding amp i've ever played... at least to MY ears.
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JJ gold pins will give you that touch in a mesa, willing to bet a bottle of wine. Yep, 45 minutes on stage infront of people is worth 1000 hours in a bedroom.
 
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barbarianbrute said:
oh man i love that. can i use it? oh yeah, and i bet i'll lose that bet.
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yeah go ahead man. Its actually is saying from the sport of full contact Karate, for every second of tournament fight you need to train a 1000 hours.
Nah, man if JJ's work for you I got plenty of red.
 
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dr.mavashi, man you're a cool dude. i'm saying that sincerely. you're always helpful and informative. i like your style man. i'd love to hear some of your clips if you have some. you sound like you can really play.
 
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barbarianbrute said:
dr.mavashi, man you're a cool dude. i'm saying that sincerely. you're always helpful and informative. i like your style man. i'd love to hear some of your clips if you have some. you sound like you can really play.
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I actually suck, but I can fake metal, I should have some stuff posted by late december, so that everybody can ask the Lord during the holidays to make me better so that they dont have to listen to this hideous sonic masterbation of mine. Thanks man, I've been helped a great deal here by guys like John Spina, The Guy Who Inveted Fire, Kevlaar3000, Devastone, TheTone, Luke Duke, I was a total gear nimrod untill I started asking them Qs. Just trying to be of help here.
 
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Wait....did I miss something? Sell the Marshall JVM????? For a #$T@#%@$ Mesa????

[edit] OK, I saw the other thread.

What amazes me is that you're worried about buying a $200 attenuator, yet you've got another $1600 amp in mind, not to mention a home studio that's going to cost into the high thousands.

Buy a Weber 100 or 150. And get yourself out of the mindset of spending more. With an attenuator, OD pedal, and practicing till your fingers are sore, you'll find what you're looking for.

Don't question it......let it swirl around in your mind for awhile.
 
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Gearjoneser said:
Wait....did I miss something? Sell the Marshall JVM????? For a #$T@#%@$ Mesa????

[edit] OK, I saw the other thread.

What amazes me is that you're worried about buying a $200 attenuator, yet you've got another $1600 amp in mind, not to mention a home studio that's going to cost into the high thousands.

Buy a Weber 100 or 150. And get yourself out of the mindset of spending more. With an attenuator, OD pedal, and practicing till your fingers are sore, you'll find what you're looking for.

Don't question it......let it swirl around in your mind for awhile.
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I dunno. I've already tried this advice. Common sense ain't sticking to the sides too well.

Another approach: keep the JVM, seeing as you love it, and order a Power Scaling kit from London Power. Then get a qualified tech to install it. Power scaling can take your cranked amp from full throttle down to bedroom levels with no change in tone. I think they're under 300 dollars including the cost of your tech's install:

http://www.londonpower.com/kits/psbox.htm

-The advantage you have then is your JVM will be usable from bedroom to stadium. Power scaling is going to revolutionise the way we all look at high wattage amps.

To see power scaling at work, check out the Suhr badger, which comes power scaling equipped (power scaling demo is toward the clip's end):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBUxUB-6qjw

-Imagine that for a second. Your sh*t-hot JVM running, and feeling like it's cranked, at ANY volume.
 
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Hot _Grits said:
I dunno. I've already tried this advice. Common sense ain't sticking to the sides too well.

Another approach: keep the JVM, seeing as you love it, and order a Power Scaling kit from London Power. Then get a qualified tech to install it. Power scaling can take your cranked amp from full throttle down to bedroom levels with no change in tone. I think they're under 300 dollars including the cost of your tech's install:

http://www.londonpower.com/kits/psbox.htm

-The advantage you have then is your JVM will be usable from bedroom to stadium. Power scaling is going to revolutionise the way we all look at high wattage amps.

To see power scaling at work, check out the Suhr badger, which comes power scaling equipped (power scaling demo is toward the clip's end):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBUxUB-6qjw

-Imagine that for a second. Your sh*t-hot JVM running, and feeling like it's cranked, at ANY volume.
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All I have to say is...wow! :dance:
 
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