I do believe Eddie used a Variac to some extent. He was playing clubs in LA with a 100 Watt Plexi. And the only way he would play it was with all knobs on 10. Talk about loud! I believe he said he used the variac to keep the cranked Marshall tone but also considerably lower the volume.
I’ve...
It’s not a plexi but it is from the same school of thought. It’s a Jet City. Basically Soldano. But I run the preamp gain extremely low because of the added power tube distortion. Definitely in plexi territory as far as tone goes. I never bothered with the bias and the amp has been fine for 3+...
I use a variac. I run my amp on full blast, even the eq knobs (presence to taste though). Hendrix/early EVH tone for days, gets the power tubes cooking. But the problem is it’s too loud! That’s where the variac comes in. I adjust the voltage to the amp down—same tone but less than half the...
Hey everyone!
I’ve got this really unique looking custom guitar I built that I’ll post some pictures of. I just can’t seem to find a strap that seems to fit it’s relic’d/grungy vibe.
Does anyone have any ideas? Good strap companies you know of?
Also, I wear this guitar kinda low, if that...
Hello everyone, I’ve recently been on a compression kick and I’ve decided to bust out up to $120 on a compressor pedal.
The tones I’m going for are Andy Summers, Alex Lifeson, John Frusciante, Mac Demarco, etc. Just going for a great 80’s sound.
I’d like something that’s very tweakable...
Thanks, Jim. I tried contacting Bugera but their website was extremely glitchy (maybe just my phone lol). I’ll try again on a computer soon. BTW, loving the new M75’s I just bought.
And yeah, that’s actually an interesting idea. I like EL34’s but maybe I could try lower power tubes, or I...
I think it’s worth saying that in the Johan Segeborn video, he compares one of the old Weber (Blue Frame) M75’s with a Celestion G12M. The Weber cones seemed like they were lacking a little bass that the Celestions had. I had a Weber-coned M75 and I now have 2 new black framed M75’s, and I can...
You’re definitely right. I have a 2X12 with two Scumback M75’s for a total of 130W and even though technically they could handle 100W, I definitely do not want to take any chances with those speakers as they are expensive! I was thinking even if the amp is 150W RMS, I could technically remove...
Hello everyone!
I recently bought a Bugera 1960 Infinium (Marshall 1959 clone with mods) and I absolutely love it. I am questioning the advertisement by Bugera that they are 150W amps, however. Naturally, I want to know what cabs I can run it through without blowing valuable equipment, but I...
No, my second amp is coming in a few days. I did run an 80’s Boss Dimension C in the front of my amp and my dad’s amp and ran each amp into one side of his stereo 4x12. That sounded frickin amazing!
Haha thanks.
Well you know, I was searching for the longest time for a speaker to complement my greenback, and it finally dawned on me that maybe another greenback would be best :drool:
Ok, makes sense. It would probably make a cool studio effect but not so much live.
And you’re absolutely right about mixing speakers IMO I’ve tried it and it just sounds better with 1 type of speaker.
Ok, so then wouldn’t a wet/dry stereo chorus setup do this also? Because the wet signal would be creating the delay and modulating the delay time which in effect modulates the pitch.
Imagine this:
It’s the early 80’s. You’re the guitarist in the band (fill in the blank). You walk out on stage and you’ve got two Marshall full stacks behind you— one has you’re guitar direct into it, and the other is at a slight delay, very short, like a couple milliseconds.
Anyway I had...