Cameron CCV clip

Techdeth said:
Almost all these amps are underwhelming after all the hype
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I suspect that mark has an amazing ear, and tuned a lot of amps. People loved having top of the game amp. At the time, the competition in high gain was low, so people flocked to his amps. Some made mistakes and seeking high gain went after the lower gain mods and were disappointed.

Others the amp wasnt their cup of tea, but rather than risk persecution went with it and tried to enjoy the amp and or sold it claiming financial strife. Others hung on to it and cashed out when they became rare.

Now there are so many talented guys out there doing the high gain thing that you can find your flavor. And if dark and smooth and easy to play is it, and you dont mind supporting a brand that has ripped off so many that steve k made youtube videos about it, then go wild.
 
Smashedguitaris⸸ said:
I suspect that mark has an amazing ear, and tuned a lot of amps. People loved having top of the game amp. At the time, the competition in high gain was low, so people flocked to his amps. Some made mistakes and seeking high gain went after the lower gain mods and were disappointed.

Others the amp wasnt their cup of tea, but rather than risk persecution went with it and tried to enjoy the amp and or sold it claiming financial strife. Others hung on to it and cashed out when they became rare.

Now there are so many talented guys out there doing the high gain thing that you can find your flavor. And if dark and smooth and easy to play is it, and you dont mind supporting a brand that has ripped off so many that steve k made youtube videos about it, then go wild.
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Yeah 15 years ago when I joined the forum and was actively gigging I wanted an ocean mod plexi and hung around to snag one. He hadn’t screwed a lot of people over by then and there wasn’t much around for mods.

Fast forward and I can design and build my own as can many others. In a world now dominated by digital modeling we are going to have to carry the torch of new tones since the rest of the world is all about characterization of what already exists.
 
glpg80 said:
Yeah 15 years ago when I joined the forum and was actively gigging I wanted an ocean mod plexi and hung around to snag one. He hadn’t screwed a lot of people over by then and there wasn’t much around for mods.

Fast forward and I can design and build my own as can many others. In a world now dominated by digital modeling we are going to have to carry the torch of new tones since the rest of the world is all about characterization of what already exists.
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That is very interesting. I hadnt thought about it this way, but it is so simple.
There are tons of modders out there modding existing amps, and there are tons of guys doing their own thing. But so many people are stuck on a certain amp's sound that they are not really looking to what is happening now. I like trying a bunch of amps for different flavor, and I love the old jmp and jcm songs in classic rock, and i love the recto era nu metal and rock. But i am not trying to cop anyone's tone. It is just nostalgia.
 
RedPlated said:
It’s a Brad era. Which is not a negative by any means. I’ve had both versions. This holds its own for sure.

I’d prefer not to list the sales price out of respect for the buyer, who is on this forum.
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It’s ok. I’ll tell them. I bought it for $350.00 plus my GG20.
 
novosibir said:
If you read the signature of this frustrated, bitter pensioner who is filled with hatred and envy of my life without thinking, then some people might initially get the impression that I am a despicable person from whom it is better to keep a distance...

... in any case, that would correspond to the longing wish of this obviously psychopathic person and the real events only become clear once you have heard the response from the other side, my side, in addition to his subjective, falsified and drastically dramatized presentation.

In any case, I doubt the mental health of this senior citizen if events that happened 13 years ago and through which he suffered no disadvantage or damage are still burning in his soul so much today that he sends them out into the world through his signature, fanatically like a sex offender, with the sole aim of doing me the greatest possible harm and dragging my reputation through the mud.

Below I will examine the details and then ask you to use common sense to judge how mentally ill someone appears to be who, like a defiant preschool child, cries and denounces 13-year-old events that a normal-thinking person would only laugh at:

"Demanded wire transfer payment on the balance due to their Step-Daughter's German bank account in order to evade the financial authorities"

We used to have frequent financial transactions in the past, but here I had asked him once to transfer the money to another account this time and it was for another reason than he claimed.

This didn't put him at any disadvantage and it didn't cost him a single cent more.

Why is he crying about it now 13 years later and wanting the rest of the world to know about it?

Does he really think others will find this information interesting? How mentally ill is he really?

"and then sabotaged that very same product with circuit destroying epoxy resin"

The partially epoxy covering did not damage the circuit, but actually had a protective function for the components and is comparable to how H. A. Dumble completely covered his circuits with goop.
The reason for this at that time was so that his then best friend Mike Fortin, near whom this grandpa lives, would not again drill his curious eyes into my then very current circuit of my preamp and not copy another Larry circuit and then use it as his own development presented, just as Mike Fortin had done several times before.

I only had the 'top secret' area of my preamp cast with resin. See for yourself and judge how 'destructive' this was:

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By the way, I recently heard from someone that Mike Fortin had promised him a certain amount of money and other benefits if he brought his Larry preamp to him for re-engineering after receiving it. This was no longer possible after my copy protection. Did that upset him?

"Sold tubes worth 440 EUR to a loyal customer but refused to ship them, which resulted in a 5 YEAR odyssey to get his money back"

This has NOT HIM affected, but someone else. I didn't send the tubes he ordered because the other person bad-mouthed me on another forum and so I transferred his money back to him.

A few years later, the other person complained that he hadn't gotten his money back.

I could no longer prove the repayment because I had Wirecard Bank at the time, which has since been liquidated and I no longer had access to past transactions online.

Just for the sake of peace, I transferred this 440 EUR to the other person again.

But if that was the only thing Grandpa found to criticize from my transactions over the past 13 years, then I'm really good and it would be a mark of quality for me.

Other manufacturers sometimes have 100 cases of discrepancies in payment transactions within 13 years - and if there was another case, Grandpa would know about it, because he has been spending a lot of his time for several years researching my life in CIA style and probably knows about it even my shoe size.

Again, how mentally ill does a person have to be to waste so much energy trying to portray mosquitoes as elephants on the Internet?

"Sold a fully rebuilt custom amp to another loyal customer that had design flaws and parts that made the amp break down 10 days after receivership, which resulted in the customer paying almost half a grand USD out of pocket to fix it"

Ouch, how to make a long story short? Ok I'll try my very best.

Grandpa had bought a Marshall amp in Hamburg on eBay Germany, which I rebuilt to a 3-channel amp already in 1994 and initially just wanted the amp to be checked and serviced by me, so the seller sent it to me.

When the amp was with me, grandpa had new modding ideas almost every day, which he discussed extensively with me and it ended with me rebuilding the amp from scratch based on Dino 939 and he even wanted the original Marshall/Dagnall trannys replaced with my Dino trannys.

That was a pilot project for me to build a unique piece, for which I had to design a lot of new things just for this single amp, since the conditions in a Marshall chassis are completely different than in a Dino chassis.

Preamp tubes are at the back and not at the front like on the Dino, input is on the right and not on the left like on the Dino, trannys are both on the right and not right/left like on the Dino, etc. etc.

When the amp was in his hands after the complete rebuild, one of the filter caps failed 10 days later - but for cost reasons it was previously agreed not to change the old electrolytics after they showed me good readings, but that doesn't mean a guarantee. Why is he still crying about it still today?

A little later, Grandpa complained that when the gain was fully turned up in the British or Scream channel, a slight cross-talk could be heard in the Clean channel. A phenomenon that didn't appear here for me, otherwise I wouldn't have sent the amp. It wasn't my ears either, because before sending it, other guitarists with good ears had also played the amp and found it perfect.

But no matter, I simply believed him and in order to save him the high costs of shipping the amp back to Germany and back to Canada, I made a special board with a relay and sent it to him with very detailed instructions for installation.

Anyone with even a little bit of mechanical skill could have installed the board himselv within an hour and only 4 cables had to be soldered on.

Grandpa however was apparently too fine for it and had it installed by a technician who probably saw on his face that he was being ripped off regarding the costs?

As a thank you for everything and for more than 200 emails back and forth I now can read his signature dripping with hatred and bitterness under each of his posts? But it's not just me - he's so malicious that he wants everyone in the world to read his subjective, falsified and distorted version of history.

But he forgot that I had deducted about 20% of the actual costs to be calculated with the costs for the new rebuild - just so that the costs for the rebuild together with the costs for the amp he has payed wouldn't be too close to the price of a real Dino.

How can you help such a frustrated, bitter and mentally lost person to see things clearly and realistically again? Unfortunately, he is already too old for psychotherapy to be promising - this is over by the age of 40 at the latest, after which you are resistant to therapy. Yes, I know that, because I also used to study psychology in the past.

He's just a pathetic and pitiable person, this thegame, and now I feel more sorry for him than I can be angry with him. He doesn't have a good life, otherwise he wouldn't be like that.

Finally, I would like to apologize to all of you in advance for the future.

I don't want to bother you with my posts, but I don't know in advance who will read a post from thegame for the first time and therefore read his signature for the first time, so unfortunately I have to quote his posts every time the game publishes a post with this signature in the future and explain it with this text – until perhaps enlightenment comes to his brain and he changes his signature.

I'm really sorry guys, but there's no other way.

Please understand and just scroll over this post if you already know it.

Thanks!

Larry
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Nobody’s going to read all that you retard
 
The problem with Cameron's circuits is usually the fact that each amp is slightly different than the other 60 Aldrich Marshalls, or CCVs, or Joses etc. He would sit and play them after finishing, then tweak this/that/other until it sounded/felt right. So although there's a 'general' design for his modded Marshalls and CCVs, they all vary slightly from one another and a cookie cutter schematic just won't cut it. Since, when you play the 'clone' and realize "It's really close BUT...." you'll never know WHICH part he tweaked...so the clone won't ever truly get there.

As good as Shea, Jeremy etc amps are, there are differences between their amps and the Cam stuff. But they are also really great in their own right, and IMO no need to shell out 4K for a Cam with those amps available.
For the record, the closest to a real Cam that I've had were the 4 Nick modded Marshalls. Killer. I've had 10 Cam amps...8 Marshalls and 2 MiGs.
 
Smashedguitaris⸸ said:
I suspect that mark has an amazing ear, and tuned a lot of amps. People loved having top of the game amp. At the time, the competition in high gain was low, so people flocked to his amps. Some made mistakes and seeking high gain went after the lower gain mods and were disappointed.

Others the amp wasnt their cup of tea, but rather than risk persecution went with it and tried to enjoy the amp and or sold it claiming financial strife. Others hung on to it and cashed out when they became rare.

Now there are so many talented guys out there doing the high gain thing that you can find your flavor. And if dark and smooth and easy to play is it, and you dont mind supporting a brand that has ripped off so many that steve k made youtube videos about it, then go wild.
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His production amps can be dark and smooth if set that way (good range in that way), but all the Cameron modded Marshall’s I’ve owned or tried have been the exact of opposite of dark and smooth, which is part of why they were some of my favorite mods. If anything almost all the modded Marshall’s I’ve owned besides just this Langner mod I had actually sounded dark and smooth when directly compared to the Cameron mods I’ve had in the past. I’d agree they’re easy to play. I ultimately did still prefer other amps over Cameron’s I had (including even a few modded Marshall’s), so I sold them all off a while ago now, but they were for a while my absolute favorite modded Marshall’s
 
FourT6and2 said:
I had one with an upside-down PCB. Some components were mounted on the "top" but most of them were on the underside. They were built/assembled by a third-party contractor company called Barrang or Berrang or something like that. I think they went out of business. Mine had a number of errors like swtiches/pots wired backward and colder solder joint
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Racerxrated said:
The problem with Cameron's circuits is usually the fact that each amp is slightly different than the other 60 Aldrich Marshalls, or CCVs, or Joses etc. He would sit and play them after finishing, then tweak this/that/other until it sounded/felt right. So although there's a 'general' design for his modded Marshalls and CCVs, they all vary slightly from one another and a cookie cutter schematic just won't cut it. Since, when you play the 'clone' and realize "It's really close BUT...." you'll never know WHICH part he tweaked...so the clone won't ever truly get there.

As good as Shea, Jeremy etc amps are, there are differences between their amps and the Cam stuff. But they are also really great in their own right, and IMO no need to shell out 4K for a Cam with those amps available.
For the record, the closest to a real Cam that I've had were the 4 Nick modded Marshalls. Killer. I've had 10 Cam amps...8 Marshalls and 2 MiGs.
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100% I translate that into a sloppy builder. Steve K had a Martin Golub JMP that destroyed anything MC ever soldered.
 
shar-vell Dan said:
100% I translate that into a sloppy builder. Steve K had a Martin Golub JMP that destroyed anything MC ever soldered.
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I've had 2 Golub lead modded Marshalls. They were both very good; almost identical to one of the Cam Aldrich Marshalls I had with one exception; they were both loose af. Needed a slight bump from my eq pedal to be tight. Cool amps though.

Steve K NEVER said any Golub DESTROYED any Cameron. He always said his Camerons were the best modded Marshalls, like most of the rest of the population here in the early 2010s.
Dan, you've never even SEEN a Cameron let alone played one. You act like he ripped YOU off personally. It is strange.
But, as I've said before, the Cam Marshalls are killer. Cam himself owes lots of guys cash. It's too bad he can't get himself together enough to make it right.
 
Whats strange is Mark Cameron & why he's not in prison for grand larceny & wire fraud.
Like i said on page 2 of this thread i had gone so far as to get an address to send him my JMP.
It took 3 years of trying to weed out the bullshit about the guy to relize he's full of shit.
Any happiness MC has contributed to the amp world is at best cancelled out by his nafarious illegal behavoir and total disregard
for those he has hurt & wreaked havoc upon with no consquences.
People have a right to know the truth about him before getting sucked up into the cameroon vortex.
Other than that tired of hearing about the delinquent
And i never spoke for Steve K you have a terrible perception problem.
I heard his Golub JMP and it was amazing. Every scameron amp ive heard sounds like a cheap amp & a 10 band EQ with all sliders on 10.
Anything but a marshall.

* "i can be a Dick w/o coffee" : Steve K. [RIP]
 
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shar-vell Dan said:
Whats strange is Mark Cameron & why he's not in prison for grand larceny & wire fraud.
Like i said on page 2 of this thread i had gone so far as to get an address to send him my JMP.
It took 3 years of trying to weed out the bullshit about the guy to relize he's full of shit.
Any happiness MC has contributed to the amp world is at best cancelled out by his nafarious illegal behavoir and total disregard
for those he has hurt & wreaked havoc upon with no consquences.
People have a right to know the truth about him before getting sucked up into the cameroon vortex.
Other than that tired of hearing about the delinquent
And i never spoke for Steve K you have a terrible perception problem.
I heard his Golub JMP and it was amazing. Every scameron amp ive heard sounds like a cheap amp & a 10 band EQ with all sliders on 10.
Anything but a marshall.

* "i can be a Dick w/o coffee" : Steve K. [RIP]
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Why haven't any the folks involved pressed charges and/or filed civil suits? If it were me, that's what I would pursue rather than whining about it on a little-known gear forum for 15 years.
 
FourT6and2 said:
Why haven't any the folks involved pressed charges and/or filed civil suits? If it were me, that's what I would pursue rather than whining about it on a little-known gear forum for 15 years.
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I didn't bring it up.
Imagine that chatting on a chat forum who woulda thought ?
 
RedPlated said:
I just sold this amp but figured I’d make a quick clip. Very low volume using my iPad. This amp sounds really great. What’s funny is that I hadn’t played it in a while, and to me it sounds A LOT like my Hellion amps. I’ve never opened this amp or even seen a CCV schematic.

I think of my amps as a blend of Marshall and Mark series Mesa. I’ve heard the CCV described that way also….

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NICE!
 
FourT6and2 said:
Why haven't any the folks involved pressed charges and/or filed civil suits? If it were me, that's what I would pursue rather than whining about it on a little-known gear forum for 15 years.
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I think a couple did try to get authorities involved IIRC. Also I could be wrong but I believe MC is hard to track down if you don't know him personally. He's been called a bum due to him being a couch surfer or not having an actual place of residence. He stores and works on his amps in a storage unit. Again, that could be inaccurate but that's what I remember.
 
FourT6and2 said:
Why haven't any the folks involved pressed charges and/or filed civil suits? If it were me, that's what I would pursue rather than whining about it on a little-known gear forum for 15 years.
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Charges filed or not, i think we all try to help eachother not walk blindly into a scammer. Fatbagg became one, i got fucked over by arcane pickups. I think most of us just want to pay for gear and get it.

I personally find it trashy when someone fucks someone else. I didnt report arcane pickups dude to the police, because i am the kinda guy that likes to handle these situations more personal. If i ever get to LA, I will have a good time
 
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