Recent content by Dave L

A Model 1C, if I'm not mistaken. Pretty!

Never had much luck boosting my "vintage" José-style amp from another manufacturer, at least, it has so much bass cut out at the input as is that it sounds like a squawky telephone when boosted. At least with the SD/TS stuff, maybe something more fullrange will do better. Also, and again only...

What do you need your delays to do, and why do they need to be modern? Sounds like you´re looking for something simple, but maybe what you´re looking for is presets and such.

Yeah, by this point we´re way beyond those transitionals, this is into the early PCB era. But still, a good and very familiar sound.

In related news I went by my local shop to pick up some strings and came home with a cheapo EH LPB1. Works pretty well with the JMP, I only tried it with a strat just now and it rolled off the highs quite nicely and added some muscle in a natural way. Another score for "vintage warmth" by way of...

I´ve had two 1987 heads before... a JCM 800 version and one of the X ones from the 90s... but never a proper Super Lead. Long story short I did a swap with a store and sent a horizontal input 2204 I didn´t bond with and cash the other way, and I´ve played this for a couple of days now. Just a...

Having the G-Major mixed in parallel also means having it on kill-dry, which puts some limitations on it. Here is an excerpt from the manual: "Kill Dry Settings: On/Off We always recommend using G-Major 2 in a serial or loop setup as this will allow you to benefit from all the unit’s effects...

Yeah, I get some real whiplash from late 90s stuff being over 25 years old now. To me the mid 90s feels like a long time ago and the late 90s much less so.

I don´t think I ever heard any albums after Theater of salvation, I lost interest in most straight-up power stuff somewhere around the late 90s, but they had both some catchy songs and some cool songs on those first two, three albums.

I mostly use greenbacks and barely use the EQ on my III+, just a little tweak, so I can vouch that greenies have a nice sound together with the base sound of the Marks. This is more for rock stuff, though, can't vouch for the chugs.

That solo has all of Eddie's tricks, but one thing that actually is different is that it is comped from several takes when he was just winging it. So it's part Eddie, part Quincy.

Yeah, Lari is cool and has a signature sound, for sure. Maybe not for me, personally, but I appreciate what she does and how she gets players like Lee, Vinnie and Nathan East for her records. I remember when she was part of some big youtube shred fest years ago and just smoked everyone by...

Lehle does very nice stuff, I´ve used the P-split for various things for many years, both for transparent splitting and/or isolation of stuff where I can´t lift the shield. Seems a bit funny that a simple pedalboard like that would need one, though, it´s more often multi amp rigs and...

Always thought of the crunch channel as more plexi-ish myself, but maybe JMP 2203 is the right answer. Anyhoo, like I said I think it´s best to think of it as a classic Marshall but voiced to take an overdrive without thinning out too much. Sounds fat with strats too, as a bonus, as Clapton and...

The crunch channel on the SLO is a bit too fat to nail the typical Marshall vibe, but it really is heaven when hit with a Tubescreamer and I have to imagine it was designed with that in mind back in the mid 80s.