Kapo_Polenton
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I love the tone on this album and obviously, Jab's playing. He's a total monster and the king of the guitar fill between verses in my opinion. The only guy i may like slightly more in this style of playing is Michael Shenker but love both of these guys.
Anyways, like Shenker, I think the early tone came from 100 and 50 watter NMV Marshalls and then the early JCM 800's before going to the 2210's in the later 80's. Seeing as this album came out in 1982, I am guessing his tone comes from either NMV or JMP Marshalls cranked. I am able to approximate the rythm tone with my 2204 with the MV on 7 and preamp on 7 (everything elsed pinned) and a hot humbucker (JB or aldrich) but it sounds like he was juicing slightly with something on the leads.
I have read that for a while he had an echoplex that he would run into his Marshalls because it gave him a slight increase in gain. I listen to this album and I hear slight chorus and the standard reverb and short delay. When he taps with legato or does some muted pentatonic runs, sounds like there is more sustain and compression than just the amp. What do you guys hear? Treble boost or maybe just an EQ boost or is that what the echoplex pre can do to an already hot amp?
Anyways, like Shenker, I think the early tone came from 100 and 50 watter NMV Marshalls and then the early JCM 800's before going to the 2210's in the later 80's. Seeing as this album came out in 1982, I am guessing his tone comes from either NMV or JMP Marshalls cranked. I am able to approximate the rythm tone with my 2204 with the MV on 7 and preamp on 7 (everything elsed pinned) and a hot humbucker (JB or aldrich) but it sounds like he was juicing slightly with something on the leads.
I have read that for a while he had an echoplex that he would run into his Marshalls because it gave him a slight increase in gain. I listen to this album and I hear slight chorus and the standard reverb and short delay. When he taps with legato or does some muted pentatonic runs, sounds like there is more sustain and compression than just the amp. What do you guys hear? Treble boost or maybe just an EQ boost or is that what the echoplex pre can do to an already hot amp?
Some early 80's albums sound terrible, but this one is amazing.
my faves!
But I finally got to see the Scorps in 2001 and they were awesome! 
