The New Tone Thread

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Seeker of Rock said:
Nice. I can't remember if your 900 model has hi and low sensitivity inputs, but you're still getting a little growl on the chords. Low sens. input would clean that up if you have it. The delay sounds really good. Surf is one of my favorite musical styles, one that never seems to grow old on me no matter how many times I listen. :rockin:
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Thanks, yeah surf is great. It's been a big influence on me and I still play it and listen to it to this day. Ever heard Man or Astroman? Great surfpunk stuff.

The 900 only has the one input. This delay pedal is pretty amazing. I really like it.
 
Greg_L said:
Ever heard Man or Astroman? Great surfpunk stuff.
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I haven't but I googled them. I listen to a lot of mixed period stuff original and revival like the ventures, the breakers, the surftones, dick dale, surfaris, stuff like that. I never get tired of it and it's one of the reasons I sold my Jazz Chorus amp and got the Super Reverb several years ago.
 
Seeker of Rock said:
I haven't but I googled them. I listen to a lot of mixed period stuff original and revival like the ventures, the breakers, the surftones, dick dale, surfaris, stuff like that. I never get tired of it and it's one of the reasons I sold my Jazz Chorus amp and got the Super Reverb several years ago.
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I had a cheeseburger with Dick Dale once. Awesome dude. We opened up for him and then took him to eat afterwards. He signed the door of my buddies 64 Falcon. :D
 
Greg_L said:
I had a cheeseburger with Dick Dale once. Awesome dude. We opened up for him and then took him to eat afterwards. He signed the door of my buddies 64 Falcon. :D
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That's cool. His history with Fender amps and the Showman in particular is interesting to me. It is funny to think there was a time when you couldn't get enough volume from an amp.
 
Cool tone Greg, has that Fender "twang" with the Strat, but still has a little bite to it.....the more I hear your amp, the more I want a full size Marshall.........but it just wouldn't work here man, as much as I'd love to have one......

One more fucking shift guys, it's been a long, long 6 months.....can't wait to lay on my ass for a whole week!!!:D
 
minerman said:
Cool tone Greg, has that Fender "twang" with the Strat, but still has a little bite to it.....the more I hear your amp, the more I want a full size Marshall.........but it just wouldn't work here man, as much as I'd love to have one......
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I will add this, if full-size is not an option for you...I remember playing the combo version of my amp back when they were in stores, and it was about the same as hearing my half stack but with 3 less speakers. 4010 (50W 1x12) and 4104 (50w 2x12) are the single channel combos and they sound really awesome.
 
Something else I'll add while I'm being a chatterbox...I was at the Marshall Amps forum the other day and people were raving about the MOSFETs of the '80s and how one of them got one and how awesome it sounded. Do not believe this if you hear it. One of my closest friends had a MOSFET half stack and it is nothing like vintage tube Marshalls except for the font and color of the nameplate. I realize this is subjective opinion, but I did not care for the sound of his amp at all, and I spent a lot of hours messing around on it hanging out at his pad to get a good idea of what it was and was not.
 
Thanks Seeker,
I've already been down the solid state road, I even borrowed an amp just like you mentioned for a gig (years ago), & it sucked. Even through a 4x12 Celestion cab, it sucked......I remember that gig in particular, because no matter what I did, my guitar sound just wasn't there. I'll check out those combos you mentioned.....

Time to head out the door, & pull what's gonna possibly be the longest shift of my life...:laughings:
 
minerman said:
Cool tone Greg, has that Fender "twang" with the Strat, but still has a little bite to it.....the more I hear your amp, the more I want a full size Marshall.........but it just wouldn't work here man, as much as I'd love to have one......

One more fucking shift guys, it's been a long, long 6 months.....can't wait to lay on my ass for a whole week!!!:D
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Thanks. I'm actually kind of surprised my amp even pulled that tone off reasonably well. Pleasantly surprised. I don't know if it was all the mods done to this thing, or if it's just a really nice amp on it's own, but it really reacts to whatever you throw at it. My 50w version of this same amp wasn't nearly this versatile. Not bad for a bare-bones one-channel loud monster.

I'm gonna try another surfy tone test with the Vintage 30's. That might even make it better.
 
Seeker of Rock said:
I will add this, if full-size is not an option for you...I remember playing the combo version of my amp back when they were in stores, and it was about the same as hearing my half stack but with 3 less speakers. 4010 (50W 1x12) and 4104 (50w 2x12) are the single channel combos and they sound really awesome.
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Yup, they do. I played with a guy that used a JCM800 2x12 combo at our rehearsals. He used a 2205 halfstack live, and the combo at practice. Great combo amp if that's your thing. It more than held up in the full band mix and totally blew away the other guys SS rig. Problem is....they're expensive.
 
Here's some new tone....trying for the surfy twang again.

Two clips merged into one. Both same amp settings - except "Sleepwalk" done with the Strat mid pickup, "Walk Don't Run" done with the Strat bridge pickup.

Marshall JCM900 MkIII > TC elec Flashback Delay in efx loop > Avatar 2x12 w/ Vintage 30's > SM57 on grill just off-center > Reaper > slight spring reverb added in DAW. No EQ.
Presence - 3
Bass - 7
Mid - 6
Treb - 6
Preamp gain - 2
Sensitivity gain - 0
Master Vol - 5

sleepwalkdon'trun
 
That's nice.
The eq is better, more base gave it a bit more body.
Skills are improving too, eh?
Been woodshedding.
I'm planning to post up some "walk don't run" soon as well.
 
Telegram Sam said:
That's nice.
The eq is better, more base gave it a bit more body.
Skills are improving too, eh?
Been woodshedding.
I'm planning to post up some "walk don't run" soon as well.
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Thanks. I don't know about "improving" though. Lol. I've been playing those songs since I was 15. I'm still not very good at it.
 
Seeker of Rock said:
That one sounds much less gainy on the chords, great clean surf sound.
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Thanks. Yeah it sounds pretty good to me. A little too clean really, but I'm happy with it overall. I'd dirty it up a hair if I were to record something wild and wooly. I got a surftard original in the works right now, so this was more like a test run with a purpose. :D
 
Damn I just realized that clip is only 124 kb/s. Lol. That sucks. I forget to set my bounce down to 320 quality. Oh well.
 
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