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AprioriMark
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Late 60s Fender Super Reverb
Marshall JCM 800 2x12
Fender M80 and matched 4x12 (don't laugh, it's an amazingly tight clean tone)
early 70s bassman 100 and the crazy matching 4x12
line 6 spider III 1x12 for recording demos
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Marshall JCM 800 2x12
Fender M80 and matched 4x12 (don't laugh, it's an amazingly tight clean tone)
early 70s bassman 100 and the crazy matching 4x12
line 6 spider III 1x12 for recording demos
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koshersteel
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too many to list but my main stage rig is a Marshall JMP preamp a Mesa stereo poweramp and a 2x12 THD cabinet wired in stereo...
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The exact same thing your using, a Marshall DSL 401, it works for now, but I'm definitely going to replace it with a Ceriatone Overtone Special :toothy10:
Death by Uberschall
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Too much to list, but my main set-up is my pedal board into my Bogner Uberschall into my Mesa Recto 4x12 V30 cabs.
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Fractal Axe-FX Ultra into a QSC HRP 112i controlled by a Liquidfoot.
Sold most of the gear. Next to go is the 69 Fender Bandmaster Reverb.
Sold most of the gear. Next to go is the 69 Fender Bandmaster Reverb.
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Fender Blues Junior
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I've got a Fender Cyber Deluxe - which is what I've done all of my recordings with so far (check my signature if you want to hear some of what it can do).
I've got an 18 watt EL84 clone type tube amp by Hawkins Amps with a 2x12 Avatar cab with Eminence Legend speakers.
Recently picked up a Vox Tonelab LE from a guy here. Enjoying that so far - planning on getting a Tech 21 Power Engine to go along with it.
I've got an 18 watt EL84 clone type tube amp by Hawkins Amps with a 2x12 Avatar cab with Eminence Legend speakers.
Recently picked up a Vox Tonelab LE from a guy here. Enjoying that so far - planning on getting a Tech 21 Power Engine to go along with it.
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1979 Marshall JMP 2104 50W 2 x 12 (Celestion Greenbacks) w/varius Overdrive & Distortion Pedals...
- 90s Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
- 80s Boss SD-1 MIJ Black, Label
- MXR Wylde Overdrive
- 90s Boss Metal Zone Keeley Modded to "Twilight Zone"
- 90s Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer Reissue MIJ Silver Label
- 80s Ibanez SM-9 Super Metal
- Tech21 Double Driver
- Tech21 SansAmp GT
- DOD Big Pig Fat Distortion
- Guyatone Micro Chorus...
- 90s Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
- 80s Boss SD-1 MIJ Black, Label
- MXR Wylde Overdrive
- 90s Boss Metal Zone Keeley Modded to "Twilight Zone"
- 90s Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer Reissue MIJ Silver Label
- 80s Ibanez SM-9 Super Metal
- Tech21 Double Driver
- Tech21 SansAmp GT
- DOD Big Pig Fat Distortion
- Guyatone Micro Chorus...
AprioriMark
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jimh said:
If you don't mind my asking, what did you do to it? I am always blowing transformers because of heat. I love how the thing sounds, and mine is ugly as sin, but I have never found anyone who could make this thing not EXPLODE from time to time.
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Nightclub Dwight
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I'm seriously due for an update. but for now I'm using gear I bought in the late 1980's.
Amp is a Dean Markley RM-80-DRM 1X12 combo with an additional 1X12 matching slant cabinet. This is one of those deals with a "tube preamp" which I thought was pretty neat back in the day. But now I jones for overdriven power tube sound which you can't quite get.
The only effects I use are my vintage Tom Scholz rack gear. I have the Rockman Sustainer unit and the Rockman Chorus/Delay.
I know, tube preamp and rack gear, I'm showing my age. But really, it was cool when I bought it. If you truly want to cringe, at about this same time I traded in two vintage 1950's tweed amps, a Gibson and a Maestro Reverb-Echo. I got a Ric 360 for them, which I sadly no longer have either.
Amp is a Dean Markley RM-80-DRM 1X12 combo with an additional 1X12 matching slant cabinet. This is one of those deals with a "tube preamp" which I thought was pretty neat back in the day. But now I jones for overdriven power tube sound which you can't quite get.
The only effects I use are my vintage Tom Scholz rack gear. I have the Rockman Sustainer unit and the Rockman Chorus/Delay.
I know, tube preamp and rack gear, I'm showing my age. But really, it was cool when I bought it. If you truly want to cringe, at about this same time I traded in two vintage 1950's tweed amps, a Gibson and a Maestro Reverb-Echo. I got a Ric 360 for them, which I sadly no longer have either.
AprioriMark said:
Randomly I saw it in a shop. I wasn't looking to buy an amp, but had to 'have a go'. The guy plugged it and switched it on, but one of the valves (sorry,,,,Tubes :icon_tongue: ) Didnt light up. 4x6L6s. Didnt bother me as there's nothing terribly complicated inside these things, so I made the guy a stupid low offer since it was broken. He accepted the offer, and I walked away with it.
Got it home, and replaced 1 large resistor which had cracked completely in half and the valve lit up and hey presto I got some audio. So the amp was working.
BUT, I then got a whole new set of valves, pre and power. The amp was pretty noisy and crackly, so I cleaned up all the pots with some contact cleaner, replaced the big power supply caps which were looking a bit worse for wear. I took out the strange bias balance circuit and replaced it with a regular variable bias circuit. Biased the new valves, plugged in, switched on and rocked out.
My Transformers are original but look to be in pretty good condition, so I dont really know how to help you there. Are your tubes biased properly? They could be working too hard and pushing the tranny past its comfort zone?? I'd have thoughts it pretty unlikely as Fender used to go overkill on the transformers. Correct speaker impedance? Mine has a fixed 4ohm (non-switchable) output transformer, so I rewired my Orange 2x12 for 4ohms (2 x Celestion V30s 8ohms parallel). If you've got a speaker impedance mis-match that would definitely blow your trans.
Mine sounds brilliant now. No noise (apart from a small hum when its cranked up really high - you get that from any valve amp regardless of how new or old it is). Really powerful, clean up until the about 6 on the master vol so you can really hear what the drive pedals are doing. Its classic fender clean yet pushy (not drivey, but pushy, cant really find a better way to describe it), but it will break up nicely if you really crank it. Loud as hell through my Orange 2x12 though.
