Recent content by Dave L

Will I ever play out with tube amps again, probably not. Will I ever play modelers when I just want to feel good and pretend to be a rock star at home, probably not. Horses for courses, as they say.

Yeah, the thing is, that Wolfgang set-up with a non-recessed Floyd that actually rests on the body is pretty rare, and I guess it came about for the D-tuna. Most non-recessed Floyds float above the body to some degree, and the recess originally just eliminated the need for a neck angle like...

Easier to get away with using a more cost-effective passive solution if you are feeding it a buffered signal. With that said, transformer isolation and phase flip is key if you´re ever going to use several amps at the same time.

I love Great White, one of my absolute favorite bands in high school. To this day I always play the beginning of Rock me as part of sound check and when testing amps.

Well, not actual older Super Leads, but a Germino and a Bray which are in that style.

Lots to digest here, folks, killer info and several words of wisdom. Thanks! I probably should just leave it alone, maybe do some small tweaks, and leave the earlier sounds to my ´68 style amps.

Hi guys, I got a fresh-looking ´75 Super Lead a while back, and even if it sounds great as is you always end up second guessing yourself with these. The question is, if you were leaning toward an earlier metal panel spec, say 69-70, which changes would you start your tinkering with? From looking...

Yeah, I´m not saying a Telefunken makes a whole amp lean-sounding on their own, but maybe that they´re just not as pushed-sounding or woofy as some other tubes. Good to see you´re digging it, I´ll experiment some more with mine too.

I got a Super Lead from ´75 a while back, which had Telefunken ECC83s in v2 and v3. The amp sounds really nice, and it made me remember I had a few of those old Telefunkens in my box of spares from god knows when or where. Seems like lots of folks like these, but maybe not really for guitar...

I seem to remember that the A2 JB is the Rattus Maximus, or whatever it was called... the DeMartini special. A JB with a regular ceramic is sometimes called a Distortion Lite, but I´m not sure if that was ever offered or just is a homebrew recipe.

The Kahler Fulcrum is well avoided and has a different spacing from all the typical Floyds. However, it has the same spacing as the Kahler Killer, which is awesome if a bit funky-looking.

I haven´t had a modeler since the original Axe-FX Ultra and probably won´t go that route again any time soon, so I´m not really up to speed here, but yes - modelers are boring. Whether that has anything to do with the actual sound and feel of them, or if I just want to play my amps (thru a...

Tried it with a José-style amp last night, that one can be a bit picky with boosts and ODs since the preamp is so lean in the bass to begin with... a Tubescreamer just sounds like an old squawky telephone... but the Guvnor was pretty cool when you left some lows in on the dial.

Yeah, there is a big zone there where it´s sort of a boost and sort of a traditional overdrive at the same time. It really does sound better with a bit of gain dialed in and not just doing an EQ curve and level boosting. Splitting hairs, I suppose, but it cooks with an overdriven amp.

Absolutely, I´ve tried it with a ´75 Super Lead and the crunch channel of a Soldano so far. The Marshall really gobbled it up anywhere you dialed the Guvnor, but with the Soldano you had to roll out a bit of the bass knob since it´s voiced a lot thicker.