The fender/marshall/mesa sound?

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I see references on the net of different manufacturers having unique, identifiable sounds. Can someone describe to me the:

Marshall sound
Fender sound
Mesa Sound
Boutique sounds

OF all the clips I've heard, I am drawn to the Mesa sound the most.
 
marshall- lotsa upper mids
fender- lightly depressed mid range, bright.
mesa- depends on the model; similar to the fender but hot rodded.

I prefer orange and vox myself, though. :)
 
CyanJaguar said:
I see references on the net of different manufacturers having unique, identifiable sounds. Can someone describe to me the:

Marshall sound
Fender sound
Mesa Sound
Boutique sounds

OF all the clips I've heard, I am drawn to the Mesa sound the most.
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3,000+ posts and you are asking this?!?!?!?!

:D


lol

You crack me up. ;)
 
Outlaws said:
3,000+ posts and you are asking this?!?!?!?!

:D


lol

You crack me up. ;)
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I've only been playing guitar for 2 months now, but I feel I want a MESA DUAL RECTIFIER.
 
D@mn CJ, I ain't heard/seen from you in ages!!! How ya' doin' brother!!??
 
Hi Mr. Q, Been around the world in Yayaya and I still cant find my baby. Anyhow, just graduated college, lost a bunch of weight, and moved to a new city so I've been busy, but the guitar is bringing me back to my one love -music.

jr#97, I already have a nice amp. I am thinking of when I want to play a crowd. In that situation, I want my guitar, my amp(mesa), and nothing inbetween.
 
JR#97 said:
Classic Fender tones: Eric Johnson
Classic Marshall: AC/DC
Classic Mesa: Santana
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eric johnson uses a lot of amps, especially old marshalls.
 
JR#97 said:
Classic Fender tones: Eric Johnson
Classic Marshall: AC/DC
Classic Mesa: Santana
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Its nice that you see Mesa as something other than Linkin park lol...

But seriously...out of all the things Fender is famous for, Eric Johnson is the one person who you think most solidifies a Fender amp sound?! ...to each his own I guess. :D




CyanJaguar said:
I already have a nice amp. I am thinking of when I want to play a crowd. In that situation, I want my guitar, my amp(mesa), and nothing inbetween.
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I wouldn't count out "inbetween" stuff. Sure if a mesa does what you want then thats fine, but compessor can help make things work better. And boosters...well they are nothing to look down upon. I am not a big fan of extra stuff in my signal chain, but a compressor can and will work wonders.

Also, while I am not a fan of distortion boxes 90% of the time, I would put my Fender Super Reverb with my Budda PhatMan up again a nice Marshall any day of the week. -ie, don't count out the Mesa V-Twin just yet. :D ;)
 
CyanJaguar said:
I want my guitar, my amp(mesa), and nothing inbetween.
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Woah, this is SO different from my other forum folk (www.diystompboxes.com). There' it's all about obscure, hardly usable pedals that make funky sounds, and amp sims out the wazoo. There, the goal is to fill the stage floor with FX, so that when you play, it's more like Dance Dance Revolution, or whatever that game is called.
 
Kore said:
Woah, this is SO different from my other forum folk (www.diystompboxes.com). There' it's all about obscure, hardly usable pedals that make funky sounds, and amp sims out the wazoo. There, the goal is to fill the stage floor with FX, so that when you play, it's more like Dance Dance Revolution, or whatever that game is called.
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uh, look at what it's called. don't you think they would be a bit preoccupied with fx?
 
i love stomp boxes to death. i had the luxury to have a father who was a pedal collecting fiend for about 5 years so i would get to pick up some colorsound stuff, crazy foxx octave/fuzz-wahs, roland bee bahs, and just about every electro harmonix pedal that ever mattered. i like old pedals, new pedals, rack stuff... anything of any quality that sounds good. but my distortion sound still is just my guitar plugged into a triple rectifier. :)
 
I've got a Line 6 Spider II 15. It has a clean channel, which emulates a Fender, a Crunch channel, which emulates a modified Marshall plexi, a metal channel, Mesa Rectifier, and Insane, which is, well, insane.

Click on the music link in my sig. There is a section in a solo in "Psycho Surfer" were my guitar sounds like a cat; I think it's the Plexi sim. The pick attack is to die for. The solo in "nice b n young" is the Insane patch.
 
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