Current Production Amp that gets closest to the Cameron Aldrich Mod?

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You should contact RedPlated. He is putting out a great amp now that just kills. It can do various Marshall tones with 2 gains, the added diodes with blend, dual masters. Great freakin amp. The Hellion. What’s more ‘80’s than that name? To me is has that Cameron Marshall with a touch of Mesa quality.
 
I don’t think there is anything wrong with being stuck in the 80s. My theory is we are all stuck in some decade, depending on your age. It’s a happy place. For me Miami Vice, Revenge of the Nerds, Ratt, and the introduction to shaved cooters in porn…. Nothing leaves scars like the above; I like it.
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Interesting you say that about the Suhr. I will say it is a versatile amp depending on how you dial it in. With treble below 5, it is pretty smooth, but when you bump the treble up and the bass back a bit it gets real bitey. The only real difference between the SE amp and martins modded amps were the depth control that John added. I talked to him a month back or so and he recommended making a change to the first coupling cap to shave some bass off and make it a bit more wild. I haven’t tried it yet but I assume that it is closer to the original circuit that Golub had learned from Suhr at CAE.


From what I’ve read, doug started with John’s SE mod and uses the same Suhr modified and tweaked amps to this day live. I haven’t seen anything concrete about Doug ever using the Cameron’s except maybe a recording or two.

Op feel free to message me if you have any more questions about the SE. I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to the CAE mods and history. You could also try finding a CAE 3+SE as well. That is the crunch mod and se mod along with a clean channel wrapped into one preamp.
Long ago here, there was a pic of Doug's live rack...he had a Cameron Standel I believe? Along with a Suhr modded Marshall. Killing the Dragon was where he used the Cameron Marshall he owned. At least that's what was mentioned here.
 
I would look into Monoylith.
-I bet his stuff could get you there and beyond.

I’d look into the Monoylith Skeleton Key,
-the lastest version, like the one I played
at Shea’s shop.
I could hear the bottom end punch with
that Aldrich upper-mid bite.
Nice liquid’y feel to the leads,
-especially when he toggled one of those switch’s.
I was also surprised how not overly tight it was.
The bottom end had just the right amount of
butter on the toast.

I was thinkin’,
-I want a purple one & an evil apple green one.
Get two of those bad boys scorchin’.
I agree . After my Hermansom and some other amps the Aldrich wasn’t for me . I can’t wait for the 100 watt skeleton key
 
I second the Ceriatone suggestions. The Yeti will get you there. Nik will even build one and fine-tune it to be even more Aldrich flavored if you ask him to.
 
Long ago here, there was a pic of Doug's live rack...he had a Cameron Standel I believe? Along with a Suhr modded Marshall. Killing the Dragon was where he used the Cameron Marshall he owned. At least that's what was mentioned here.
Gotcha. Heard some things back and forth from different parties but nothing concrete.
 
I don’t think there is anything wrong with being stuck in the 80s. My theory is we are all stuck in some decade, depending on your age. It’s a happy place. For me Miami Vice, Revenge of the Nerds, Ratt, and the introduction to shaved cooters in porn…. Nothing leaves scars like the above; I like it.
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Is nick psychoDave? Or someone else?
Nick owned/owns what he nicknamed the 'mutant' Aldrich...insane sounding amp. He blueprinted it and did some mods for guys over the years; myself included. I think at this point I've had 4 mods. All are killer....
 
No and Nick no longer mods amps. That was well before your active time - you’re about 10 years too late.

I bought this off of a friend who was helping a widow sell things that her husband once owned. This was one of his amps.

Was the husbands name Jeremy?
 
I owned an Aldrich Mod from Mark at the same time as many other amps. To be honest, I thought the CAA PT-100 got very close when I AB'd them. The mids were very slightly different. The Aldrich had very very very slightly better string definition--they were close. There is one on guitar center used for 1900-ish right now.

As another member alluded to, member redplated (ground zeo amps), does excellent mods. I just purchased a Hellion but have not played it yet, however, the build quality on it is on par with any high end builder. I also have the Marshall MOAB mod which is, to me, the best modded Marshall I have played. I prefer it significantly to the Cameron Aldrich. Blake Mansfield (a member here) has a video shooting out the MOAB with the Aldrich--there is overlap but there are definite differences. I believe he preferred the MOAB as well. Blake's Aldrich in that video sounds nearly identical to the one I had.
 
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I owned an Aldrich Mod from Mark at the same time as many other amps. To be honest, I thought the CAA PT-100 got very close when I AB'd them. The mids were very slightly different. The Aldrich had very very very slightly better string definition--they were close. There is on on guitar center used for 1900-ish right now.

As another member alluded to, member redplated (ground zeo amps), does excellent mods. I just purchased a Hellion but have not played it yet, however, the build quality on it is on par with any high end builder. I also have the Marshall MOAB mod which is, to me, the best modded Marshall I have played. I prefer it significantly to the Cameron Aldrich. Blake Mansfield (a member here) has a video shooting out the MOAB with the Aldrich--there is overlap but there are definite differences. I believe he preferred the MOAB as well. Blake's Aldrich in that video sounds nearly identical to the one I had.
If I ever want another modded Marshall I'd contact Jeremy for sure. Hermannson's sound great too; but that's a much more expensive venture and Jeremy is here in the states...plus he's one of our own. Not that Henric isn't; but at this point I'll bet he's backed up for quite a while.
 
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