recording with jcm 2000 dsl 100

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i've a question about recording with a jcm 2000 dsl 100 head. i want to record something at home with this head without linking it to a loudspeaker but it doesn't have a line out. Can i use the loudspeaker output or the fx loop linked to an m-audio preamp&audio interface?
thank you very much for the attention

Marco
 
No you can't. In fact, if you run the head without a speaker, you will melt the output transformer. If your really good, it will start on fire.

Tube amps must have a cabinet attached. (or a load box) There is no way around it.


The effects output will work, but it will sound like poop. Much of the sound of the amp is in the output tubes and the speaker cabinet, the effects loop is before all of that.


Never, ever, ever run a speaker output to a line input. A line input is expecting a fraction of a watt, you would be feeding it 100 watts.
 
farview is correct. the amp needs a load (speaker or proper loading device). I own one of those amps and it can record well at low volume attqched toa spkr, but you must have a load. if you do not use a load/spkr or hotplate etc.. YOU WILL FRY something.
 
akros said:
hi!
i've a question about recording with a jcm 2000 dsl 100 head. i want to record something at home with this head without linking it to a loudspeaker but it doesn't have a line out. Can i use the loudspeaker output or the fx loop linked to an m-audio preamp&audio interface?
thank you very much for the attention

Marco
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Oh god no. You'll blow the power transformer, and probably fry the m-audio pre while you're at it.

FWIW, the TSL-100 has a surprisingly good sounding speaker emulated out. I used to own one, and that was probably, in retrostpect, the one thing about that amp that was really done 100% right.
 
In addition to what everybody has said, I'll say that I've owned and recorded through several very decent amps (Mesa Boogie Single Single Rectifier & Triple Rectifier, Marshall JCM2000 DSL, Framus Dragon, and Rivera Knucklehead Reverb to name a few) and the Marshall was one of my favorite recording amps. Regardless of what others have said on this particular thread, most everyone can agree that Marshalls sound their best when using tube distortion (ie: turning the volume way up & keeping the gain at a reasonable level). Unfortunately, this means the sucker's gonna be face-meltingly loud to get the best tone, but it's worth it.
 
I bought a Tube Cube so I could crank my Marshall 100w but not destroy the foundations of the house.
It works well - amp head to tube cube tube cube to speaker. Super saturated breaking up marshall tone with adjustable low levels of vol.
I bought it on ebay.
 
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