My 2x12 is an Avatar, and I think it's great. It's huge, for a typical 2x12. It's almost the same size as my 1960. I haven't put them side by side, but I think it's considerably bigger than your standard Mesa, Marshall, or Orange 2x12. Often you look into a 2x12 and the speakers go right to the edge of the framing. Not on this one. It could almost be a 4x10. Maybe if you staggered the speakers a little you could fit four 10s in it. It's big. And it has a convertible open/closed back. It sounds like a big cab. That's what I've got the Vintage 30s sitting in.
From what I've been reading and with my limited amp knowledge, it makes sense to me that your little DSL would be a good pairing with the Greenback. I'm gonna ramble here for a minute....For one, the amp's tiny wattage almost plays right into a Greenbacks sweet spot. But also, the DSL is a pretty "tight" amp. I'm gonna assume your little DSL has theoretically the same power section topology as the bigger ones. It's got a modern flavor and with Marshalls that usually means a lot of negative feedback in the power section. That kind of sound works well with a loose speaker like a Greenback. And it's also why those old 4-hole Super Leads worked awesome with Greenbacks. They too were tight amps with a lot of negative feedback and why you had to literally crank them to the moon to get them to break up. And like my JVM....it LOVES my Greenbacks. It too is naturally a very tight amp. On the flip side, the master volume 800s, and my JMP, are "loose" amps with supposedly the least amount of negative feedback in stock form from Marshall. The 70s MV JMPs and vertical input JCM 800s are Marshall's most balls-out amps. Not the highest gain, but the most perceived power and punch. They get wild and wooly right away, and they like a tighter speaker like the common G12-65s and G12T-75s.....which each came on the scene right as these MV amps were introduced. It's like the Marshall people realized, hey, these 2203s are murdering Greenbacks, we need something tougher. The JMP 2203/04 era cabs mostly came with G12-65s, the 800 cabs mostly came with the 65s and later the 75s. Generally speaking, of course. You could get Greenbacks too back then, but by the mid/late 70s they made 65s and later 75s the standard, common speakers for 1960 cabs. Those speakers were better suited for the looser 2203/2204s, and my own experience confirms this, to me anyway. My slutty loose JMP sounds better through the "tighter" G12-65s and G12T-75s than it does through my Greenbacks. But really, the G12T-75 is a good all-around speaker that will work with anything, but maybe not sound the best all the time. I have two laying around right now, and will soon have two more when I fix up this B cab. Gimme a little time and if you're interested I'll sell you one.
Good description on the speakers/amps dude, I'd never thought about that before, but it does make sense...Other than the power tubes, I'm assuming my DSL-1 is pretty much the same circuit that's in the big DSL's, I may be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that Marshall pretty much put the circuits into these 1w amps their big brothers have, but the power section (of course) is different......Would be cool to have a T-75, keep me in mind if/when that ever happens dude....
Lol. That's hilarious. Those guys are retards over there. I do hear a pretty significant difference in your 3 clips. The amp alone clip is obviously much different, but the one I thought was the real SD-1 has a more open, natural kind of sound to it to me. Turns out it was the sim version, and that's pretty cool. Your real SD-1 clip sounds thinner and more compressed to me......like a sim. Maybe you should un-mod it.
Yeah, the guy was like " turn this up, turn this down on your amp, set the delay to "X" pre-delay, & "Y" milliseconds, have it hitting the reverb with "Z" db level...remember to have your mic at "ZZ" inches away from the grill on a "YY" degree angle, & you
have to use the $1,000,0000 mic or it won't even be close..." & all this crazy shit. I bet he felt pretty fuckin' stupid when I told him it was an ampsim...
I'm eventually gonna re-solder my pedal back to original dude, I even bought a new soldering iron/solder/kit a while back, I'm just a lazy fucker while I'm at home....I do bust ass at work (literally dude, I've got a physically demanding job to say the least), so I take it pretty fuckin' easy while I'm at home...ask the wife...
I will. I got some ready. I can only attribute the earth shaking to the looser power section in the JMP. It gets power tubey really fast. It's not by any means a bedroom amp. Lol. For being *only* 50 watts, it sounds friggin gigantic. The JVM is loud as fuck too, but it's a more sophisticated loud. They're totally night and day, like race cars. The JVM is an Indy Car, the JMP is a Top-Fuel Dragster.
You know, that's the coolest description I've ever heard comparing 2 amps dude, but it makes sense to me....Maybe when you're trying to hammer something into my head, you can come up with one of these to descriptions to make sure my dumb ass "gets it".....
Post the clips dude, I'm dying to hear a "real" Marshall over here...
antichef: That's funny man, a pink tutu...I remember those days when I played in bands, both of your are right, it just ain't the same without a 4x12...I went through a buch of little amps while playing in that band, Marshall micro-stack (the original 12 w, w 2x10 cabs...LOL), a couple Peavey solid-state combos (which both sucked ass....LOL), & a bunch of others...BUT, when my parents bought me the white full-stack, all that shit went away....Fuck me sideways I wish I'd kept that amp, but live-n-learn I suppose. I know where it's at, the guy I sold it to still has it btw, but won't even take it out of his house, let alone sell it...
