Thanks guys, it was an amazing turn out. We had so many talented amp guys and musicians on hand. For me the Marshall's ruled. We shotout the first 5 or 6 amps and I started to lose perspective, hearing so many different unfamiliar amps in my studio. So I wanted to get perspective back so we threw my '71 Marshall up and with the first chord it just slayed everything we had just heard. Just my opinion but everyone in the room gasped on the first chord of the '71. It felt right and sounded familiar. It sounded like a record.
But so many amps did so great to my ears;
-Mesa Dual Rec was enormous
-Sovtek had the coolest sound, I want one!!!
-Marsha was massive and everyone had so much fun playing it
-Tritone is a new company but really sounded fabulous
-a lot of us in the room really dug the 20th Anniversary XTC
-the Soldano's crunched really nice
-both Diezels sounded really killer in person, almost God like when you stand in front of them
To me the '71 Marshall Super Tremolo (Friedman modded) was my favorite, it's also my personal amp but I'm honestly not being biased. I just felt the vocal sat most comfortably in the mix with that amp, some of the amps have such a hot/wet midrange that they fight the lead vocal but the '71 is perfect. It was intense but welcoming, a very slippery slope sonically that the '71 rules. They will bury me with that amp in my coffin.
The Jose was killer, so bright. We had the treble and the presence on 0, I'm not kidding. Not sure if I could get either my '76 or '71 that bright to sound like the Jose by turning up their treble and presence. I don't usually play or record that bright anyway, especially in digital. To me that was a bigger thing with tape to circumvent the lose of high end by the time mixing came, kind of thinking ahead. But overly bright guitars in digital can be ear splitting.
What a great day guys, I'm beaming today and the fact that everyone enjoyed it and it was such a success does my heart good. Listen to the clips and go crazy.
James
Sound Clips:
https://www.soundclick.com/bands/default ... rentPage=1
Video Clips:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGO5frt69Q
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIFUt4Kj4vY
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOdDlQgG6IE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9zDhzhwRa0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55umNiqJgw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrgBF7v9fo
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwutjYMURN0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2ahamueRM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2fxsgaXRLw
Pics:
http://www.getdropbox.com/gallery/477715/1/High Gain Amp Shoot-Out?h=7d44ab