When did the GT-75 hate start? You’re deaf, clips inside.

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Heartwork also had a tiny 8 or 10” combo amp speaker blended in at all times to give it that distinctive bite.
 
I don’t care for them standing in front of them and to me they are scooped. The singer I jam with has a stack of them I play thru. With the plexi and Wizard the tone controls always end up with bass and treble cut way back and mids way up. They are ok that way, but just ok. Never tried recording with them, might work good that way. This clip sounds good.
 
thegame said:
Heartwork also had a tiny 8 or 10” combo amp speaker blended in at all times to give it that distinctive bite.
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I believe this is a myth, but I could be wrongX keith Andrew’s the head engineer on heartwork is a friend of mine, and the head tech here at full sail, I’ll have to ask. I’ve been trying to find that interview he did that gives a run down on everything but I can’t find it. The “frankencab” was for sure a real thing however.
 
VESmedic said:
I believe this is a myth, but I could be wrongX keith Andrew’s the head engineer on heartwork is a friend of mine, and the head tech here at full sail, I’ll have to ask. I’ve been trying to find that interview he did that gives a run down on everything but I can’t find it. The “frankencab” was for sure a real thing however.
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I’ll try to find the magazine where Bill Steer or Mike Hickey mentioned it and upload pics.
 
JLR said:
Had a 1960 cab with 75's from 1998. Tried to like it. It was a happy day when the cab left my house for the last time. Few years later found a pair of 75's made in '87. I use these speakers in an oversized 2x12 Avatar partial open back cab and my Friedman and Marshall amps sound great.
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There are noticeable differences in 75s over the years, it's undeniable.
 
RaceU4her said:
I thought it was one of those little Marshall micro amps?
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Not Micro. The legend has it that was the Lead 12. The mini stack. Not the micro. The micros are those POS battery amps wit a 2" speaker.
 
Rex Rocker said:
I don't mind 75's in the room, personally.

I just never know where you're supposed to point the mic in those. The dust cap is so huge, and there are usually no visual aids like with V30's or Greenbacks. If you point the mic where the dustap meets the cone, they sound so dull (if you use your ears to dial in the amp to get an in-the-room sound that translates to a recording kinda like how you would with V30's). And if you start moving the mic in, it's hard to tell when you've moved it in too much unless you're using a dynamount or something like that.

I mean... I like DHIADW as much as anyone for the fact that the tone is so unique compared to pretty much anything else Andy Sneap. It's Andy Sneap, after all. People can argue all they want about how his mixes are so generic and whatnot, but they're "generic" because everyone is trying to copy him. But even by his standards, that tone is pretty unique.

And I didn't know Hearwork was T-75's. I would have never guessed. That tone is so up-front and I associate T-75's with more laid back mix-filling (kinda like DHIADW) rather than mix-slicing tones.

My own 75's were from 2013. I'm not sure if mine were from a good year or not, but I always thought mine had almost Eminence-y mids. Kinda hollow, and even phase-y-ish. I didn't love them for that reason, but TBH, those are the only 75's I ever tried mic'ing.
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What is DHIADW?
 
RaceU4her said:
I thought it was one of those little Marshall micro amps?
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You’re the winner again!

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VESmedic said:
I’m obsessed with these speakers, and these aren’t even the older 80s vented models. Little too much low end but who cares, this is so sick to me. Little messy because of the Octive pedal as well but it adds to the vibe of the riff, just thought it was cool.
Jackson B7 dimarzio deactivators
Recto orange modern
Real pepers dirty tree


https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rl6o...aish.wav?rlkey=a87eerjqc35nxd6n1gx45nd9z&dl=0


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Morin modded Marshall with 75s

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/es4h...aish.wav?rlkey=xw131wy43kg9i7ojht11bp6zq&dl=0
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That sounds effin GREAT. I've got T75's. May have to get some DiMarzio Deactivators!
 
thegame said:
I don’t like promoting the name but the amp is made by the Teutonic Caterpillar-philiac. That clue should narrow it down.
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Hmm...out of the dozens of amp builders that fit this description yes, I have narrowed it down to 5 or 6. Talk about cryptic though.
 
Greazygeo said:
I don’t care for them standing in front of them and to me they are scooped.
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The ones from the 90's and later, yes, definitely. Early/mid 80's versions, heck nah.

My '86 (non-vented) versions sound huge with thick juicy mids, but a bit more top-end crunch than a K85/K100 or a G12-65.
My favourite cab at home (and I tried a shit load of speaker combinations there) is a Marshall 1966B 2x12 (diagonal) with one '86 G12-T75 and one Mesa V30. That cab has it all.
 
JohnnyGtar said:
That sounds effin GREAT. I've got T75's. May have to get some DiMarzio Deactivators!
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Love the deactivators man. I’m about to get a set of lundgren M7’s for another 7 string I own, but the deactivators are quite possibly my favorite these days.
 
You guys that mix the T75 with the Vintage 30. How are you dealing with the volume disparity? There’s a 3dB difference in the sensitivity and I find that way too much. All you can hear is the Vintage 30. It’s almost to where you may as well leave out the T75.

I guess in a 4x12 you could put 3 G12-T75s and one Vintage 30 help balance out the difference but that would probably push the disparity the other way.
 
homespun said:
You guys that mix the T75 with the Vintage 30. How are you dealing with the volume disparity? There’s a 3dB difference in the sensitivity and I find that way too much. All you can hear is the Vintage 30. It’s almost to where you may as well leave out the T75.

I guess in a 4x12 you could put 3 G12-T75s and one Vintage 30 help balance out the difference but that would probably push the disparity the other way.
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Step 1: keep the V30's in the lower spot.
Step 2: use a beam blocker for the V30

And balance wise, it's the thicker lows and low-mids of the T75 that fill out the overall sound of the V30, even if it's a little bit lower in volume.

Note that while a 3dB difference technically means a doubling of power, due to logarithmic nature of sound and our ears, we do perceive a volume difference, but just a small one.
To actually *hear/perceive* a doubling of volume, you'd need a 10dB difference. FWIW.
 
I too love the GT-75's. Don't mind the hate, because I can still pick them up pretty cheap used.
 
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