some people knock those old 800s as being a "one trick pony" but i think it does that one trick amazingly well. i'm glad he switched back. in my opinion, his tone was much better in the old days when he played a wall of marshalls. i go back and listen to alot of the old boots and his tone is much more punchy and thick back then. then he switched to the boutique stuff for years and i think his tone suffered, now it is more ballsy like it used to be. for example, im my experience i have a jcm 900 i used to use, then switched to a 1994 matchless clubman, which i thought lacked that "oomph i was going for so i bought a '74 marshall jmp that blows away anything i have ever owned before. i think stone finally realized that nothing will top his old vintage jcm 800s...
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I know. You can get a pretty decent cleanish sound out of them. But they're better when you drive them hot. And if I mess with the guitar volume I always forget to roll it down or back up and always end up with blazing gain in balladesque parts and stuff like that.
I don't know. To me a clean JCM always feels like it's begging me to crank it back up.
I know. You can get a pretty decent cleanish sound out of them. But they're better when you drive them hot. And if I mess with the guitar volume I always forget to roll it down or back up and always end up with blazing gain in balladesque parts and stuff like that.
I don't know. To me a clean JCM always feels like it's begging me to crank it back up.
ha ha yeah i know what you mean. i used to have that problem when i switched to single channel amps a few years ago. it was a bit of a learning curve to control everything with pickup switch and volume and pick attack, but now that i have learned how to do it i would not have it any other way. i just turn my neck pickup down so its clean and use that and i dirty up the bridge pickup and use the middle and treble positions for semi dirt and dirt when i need some distortion.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
I know. You can get a pretty decent cleanish sound out of them. But they're better when you drive them hot. And if I mess with the guitar volume I always forget to roll it down or back up and always end up with blazing gain in balladesque parts and stuff like that.
I don't know. To me a clean JCM always feels like it's begging me to crank it back up.
ha ha yeah i know what you mean. i used to have that problem when i switched to single channel amps a few years ago. it was a bit of a learning curve to control everything with pickup switch and volume and pick attack, but now that i have learned how to do it i would not have it any other way. i just turn my neck pickup down so its clean and use that and i dirty up the bridge pickup and use the middle and treble positions for semi dirt and dirt when i need some distortion.
Yeah. That's something I do too when I play my Les Paul. But unfotunately that doesn't work with the Fenders I usually play these days. I play a single channel amp too, but usually keep that fairly clean and use boosters for more gain. Tried the volume thing, but, as I said, somehow that didn't workfor me. I even built a volume switch pedal to do the volume drop but I gave it away to a friend a while ago because I didn't really feel the need for it. Maybe I have to build another one.
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I don't know. To me a clean JCM always feels like it's begging me to crank it back up.
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i thought i heard it when i heard alive played on one of the boots! reminded me of a 1992 era stone tone!
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