greendy123
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Re: Your favourite rock amp?
Marshall has the rock tone totally.
Marshall has the rock tone totally.
Your favourite rock amp?
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twoheadedboy
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Re: Your favourite rock amp?
'68 plexi, baby
'68 plexi, baby
Gearjoneser
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That's an easy one. I've put them next to every model of Marshall, Rectifiers, H&K, Soldano, Peavey, Vox, you name it......Bogner eats them for lunch and sh!ts out cheap components. hahaha
That's an easy one. I've put them next to every model of Marshall, Rectifiers, H&K, Soldano, Peavey, Vox, you name it......Bogner eats them for lunch and sh!ts out cheap components. hahaha
bluskydiamond
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Re: Your favourite rock amp?
i love my tech 21....versitile, powerful...anyone else?
i love my tech 21....versitile, powerful...anyone else?
STRATDELUXER97
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Re: Your favourite rock amp?
I agree with you buddy,but everything is just a copy of the Marshall amp as far as grinding,cutting,midrange rock amps! The Marshall actually started out as a 59 Fender Bassman copy with a 4x12 cab and some minor circuit variances..
Bogner,Soldano,VHT,etc...are guys like myself taking something that is great and tweaking it further...I'm not knocking the boutique stuff at all,but it's still a copy in alot of ways of earlier designs and concepts...Always room for improvemement...Soldano modded tons of JCM 800s and lots of his ideas were put into the SLO 100....
Gearjoneser said:That's an easy one. I've put them next to every model of Marshall, Rectifiers, H&K, Soldano, Peavey, Vox, you name it......Bogner eats them for lunch and sh!ts out cheap components. hahaha
I agree with you buddy,but everything is just a copy of the Marshall amp as far as grinding,cutting,midrange rock amps! The Marshall actually started out as a 59 Fender Bassman copy with a 4x12 cab and some minor circuit variances..
Bogner,Soldano,VHT,etc...are guys like myself taking something that is great and tweaking it further...I'm not knocking the boutique stuff at all,but it's still a copy in alot of ways of earlier designs and concepts...Always room for improvemement...Soldano modded tons of JCM 800s and lots of his ideas were put into the SLO 100....
Neeradj
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The 1959SLPs are great, just can't turn those suckers up without making your ears bleed. Loudest 100W I've ever heard and ever hope to hear :smack: :laugh2: . That's why like the master volume models better (2203!)
Out of the boutique amp lines mentioned I think VHT has by far the most original sound. Bogner makes good stuff, but like SD97 said they're Marshall copies, in Bogners case sometimes very exact
The 1959SLPs are great, just can't turn those suckers up without making your ears bleed. Loudest 100W I've ever heard and ever hope to hear :smack: :laugh2: . That's why like the master volume models better (2203!)
Out of the boutique amp lines mentioned I think VHT has by far the most original sound. Bogner makes good stuff, but like SD97 said they're Marshall copies, in Bogners case sometimes very exact
Re: Your favourite rock amp?
For me, the Mesa Boogie Mark IV. As far as I'm concerned, Boogie ripped of the original Fenders in much the same way that Marshall did. They took the original concept and turned it into something that has elements of the original, but with more tonal possibilities and more versatility.
For me, the Mesa Boogie Mark IV. As far as I'm concerned, Boogie ripped of the original Fenders in much the same way that Marshall did. They took the original concept and turned it into something that has elements of the original, but with more tonal possibilities and more versatility.
strat_master
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i voted for mesa, those rectofier sure tickle my fancy!
i voted for mesa, those rectofier sure tickle my fancy!
DesertRose
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Does Soldano differ alot from MArshall sound ?
Does Soldano differ alot from MArshall sound ?
JeffB
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Heh..I played a Marshall Major once....thought it would be cool to crank it up....HOWY CWAP BATMAN....Felt like I was playing Madison Square Garden or Hammersmith or something.
I believe Mr. Richter would have had to invent a new scale
Seriously...it made a 100 W Marshall sound like a kitten.
Neeradj said:
Heh..I played a Marshall Major once....thought it would be cool to crank it up....HOWY CWAP BATMAN....Felt like I was playing Madison Square Garden or Hammersmith or something.
I believe Mr. Richter would have had to invent a new scale
Seriously...it made a 100 W Marshall sound like a kitten.
JeffB
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Not to a huge extent. To my ears it's a bit smoother, and more compressed than a Marshall. It's a little darker, but I don't mean MESA dark...more like it has bite and treble, but not as much presence as a Marshall. The low end is tight but voiced differently. It's a cool sound. I played the SLO100 a few times years back, and was just floored (same with VHT for that matter)
Great amps. Hellfire, I love *all* the Modded Marshalls ..Soldano, Rivera, VHT, Bogner, etc etc....
DesertRose said:
Not to a huge extent. To my ears it's a bit smoother, and more compressed than a Marshall. It's a little darker, but I don't mean MESA dark...more like it has bite and treble, but not as much presence as a Marshall. The low end is tight but voiced differently. It's a cool sound. I played the SLO100 a few times years back, and was just floored (same with VHT for that matter)
Great amps. Hellfire, I love *all* the Modded Marshalls
..Soldano, Rivera, VHT, Bogner, etc etc....fretburner
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My Marshall beats the hell out of Yngwie's Plexis!!!
:laugh2:
My Marshall beats the hell out of Yngwie's Plexis!!!
:laugh2:
Neeradj
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Re: Your favourite rock amp?
Those are 200W amps :smack: . I wouldn't dare try it, let alone crank it up :laugh2: . I was in the music store two weeks ago and the owner set things up for me in a soundproof room. My friend was standing on the other side of the room and I barely turned the volume knob a milimeter and he was reaching to save his ears. I was nearly knocked off my chair :newangel:JeffB said:Heh..I played a Marshall Major once....thought it would be cool to crank it up....HOWY CWAP BATMAN....Felt like I was playing Madison Square Garden or Hammersmith or something.
I believe Mr. Richter would have had to invent a new scale
Seriously...it made a 100 W Marshall sound like a kitten.
JeffB
Let it B
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:laugh2:
Yep they are certainly friggin loud. And the Major *was* painful, and we were outdoors! My buddy lived on a small non-working farm (basically nice farmhouse, couple ponds, about 50 acres mostly woods) It was a GREAT place to crank amps and practice/have parties, etc. He was a gear-ho and was constantly buying stacks. He got the Major and one cab (don't remember what speakers were in it). I brought my Explorer (Custom/59) over that day. I remember it quite clearly He grinned and said "just turn the vol off on your guitar dude, crank the amp, step to the side of the cab roll it up and hit an A chord" so I did.... :yell:
It was like a missle silo shooting off next to me Incredible. He had a mid 70's JMP 100 watter, and a Laney 100 watt at the time and we played them alongside and volume-wise the difference was significant.
I've read that Blackmore's amps actually put out around 250 watts, and that wouldn't surprise me one bit after experiencing one myself.
Neeradj said:
:laugh2:
Yep they are certainly friggin loud. And the Major *was* painful, and we were outdoors! My buddy lived on a small non-working farm (basically nice farmhouse, couple ponds, about 50 acres mostly woods) It was a GREAT place to crank amps and practice/have parties, etc. He was a gear-ho and was constantly buying stacks. He got the Major and one cab (don't remember what speakers were in it). I brought my Explorer (Custom/59) over that day. I remember it quite clearly
He grinned and said "just turn the vol off on your guitar dude, crank the amp, step to the side of the cab roll it up and hit an A chord" so I did.... :yell: It was like a missle silo shooting off next to me
Incredible. He had a mid 70's JMP 100 watter, and a Laney 100 watt at the time and we played them alongside and volume-wise the difference was significant.I've read that Blackmore's amps actually put out around 250 watts, and that wouldn't surprise me one bit after experiencing one myself.
ErikH
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Re: Your favourite rock amp?
IMO I think Soldano falls in to the Marshall category considering they are so dang close in design and sound.
Don't forget that before Mike Soldano introduced his own line of amps, he modded Marshalls so there are lots of Marshalls that sound like his stuff.JeffB said:Not to a huge extent. To my ears it's a bit smoother, and more compressed than a Marshall. It's a little darker, but I don't mean MESA dark...more like it has bite and treble, but not as much presence as a Marshall. The low end is tight but voiced differently. It's a cool sound. I played the SLO100 a few times years back, and was just floored (same with VHT for that matter)
Great amps. Hellfire, I love *all* the Modded Marshalls
IMO I think Soldano falls in to the Marshall category considering they are so dang close in design and sound.
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Forbes
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Marshall for sure, and seeing as im choosing, make sure its an JCM800.
Now THATS tone.
Marshall for sure, and seeing as im choosing, make sure its an JCM800.
Now THATS tone.
JeffB
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Opps missed your post Erik
Oh def...know about his mod-work prior to his own amps. And yes, they are very similar..maybe I wasn't terribly clear in my post. They are more marshally than most.
And I'm surprised at the lack of voting for Fender. AFAIC, Up until Marshall, Fender DEFINED rock.
MESA I guess is just a recent newcomer w/ the recs...I suspect Metallica really put MESA on the map w/ MOP/AJA, etc for the metal scene. Back then very few big name *rock* players were using them...Santana being an obvious one. Night Ranger and John Sykes were the only guys back then I cared for that used them, really. Most of the other people playing them were Jazz & Fusion guys, etc.
ErikH said:
Opps missed your post Erik
Oh def...know about his mod-work prior to his own amps. And yes, they are very similar..maybe I wasn't terribly clear in my post. They are more marshally than most.
And I'm surprised at the lack of voting for Fender. AFAIC, Up until Marshall, Fender DEFINED rock.
MESA I guess is just a recent newcomer w/ the recs...I suspect Metallica really put MESA on the map w/ MOP/AJA, etc for the metal scene. Back then very few big name *rock* players were using them...Santana being an obvious one. Night Ranger and John Sykes were the only guys back then I cared for that used them, really. Most of the other people playing them were Jazz & Fusion guys, etc.
DesertRose
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Re: Your favourite rock amp?
hhaa .. i see now. Anyway I'll be a Marshall guy. I like Marshalls, I haven't gotte mine modded yet, and I shall see how its going to be like after and before.
hhaa .. i see now. Anyway I'll be a Marshall guy. I like Marshalls, I haven't gotte mine modded yet, and I shall see how its going to be like after and before.
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