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    Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano

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    Honestly, anything from Fender during that era is excellent. Get the Princeton a cap job and play the hell out of it. Those little Fenders have been on thousands of recordings. A compressor will turn it into an epic country machine too.

     

    I had a great Standard back in the early 90's. Terrible pickups though.

     

    I'm thinking of looking for one of the maple topped Studios from the early 00's. They are cheap, easy to fix up and I don't love binding on the neck so it might be a good way to get the tone without the $4k price tag.

     

    JT

    Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano

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    James,

    It's a 2009 SG Special. Plays wonderfully and as soon as I swap the buckers and rewire it with real components it will be an epic Gibson. I'm going with new 500k pots and better caps wired like the early Les Paul's were and then Seymour Duncan Jazz in the neck and a 59 in the bridge. Low power and classic tone.

     

    The little Ampeg is a 1962 Reverb-O-Rocket. It's a tube rectified two 6V6, 18 watt circuit. It's extremely clean and doesn't like to be forced to break up in the preamp, but sounds great with a pedal that is creating the overdrive internally. It sounds much like a Fender Deluxe with more midrange. I installed a Aiken amps version of a Greenback which was voiced for small combo amps and it sounds unreal. I love that little amp. I'll do some clips soon of it alone and it in stereo with my '62 Fender. It's awesome.

     

    JT

    Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano

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    Like whatcha see? :eyebrows:

     

    Nope, not refretted yet, but it's getting there. Already figuring out whether I want to trust it to a local guy who's really good or send it somewhere like Chicago Music Exchange.

     

    Where are you located? I send my stuff to Pete Skermeta in Austin and I live an hour from The Chicago Music Exchange. Pete's work is as good as Suhr or Tyler.

     

    JT

    Plug Your own Band & Mp3 thread.

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    Feel free to rip away.

     

     

    A quick users guide:

    0:00 Don't tell me you love me. Solo@1:27

    3:34 Tainted Love Whammy Solo@4:48

    7:03 Crazy Train solo@9:31

     

    I know one of the runs was out of key in the DTMYLM solo, I was trying not to think of the five chicks bouncing in front of me.

    :)

     

     

    JT

    Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano

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    Very cool James. Grab a few different OD pedals and try them in front of it with the gain no more than 70%. Go from boost to full on OD and let me know how it sounds.

     

    I dig running a single channel amp slightly dirty and using pedals to get it over the top. The clean tone is just a guitar volume knob away. That's how I've been running the VHT for a while. That Tiger Boost sound killer in front of it and my Flex Drive takes it into high gain territory. Maybe I'll record a clip or two and post it.

     

    JT

    Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano

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    Go away for a couple of days and....

     

    Jaicen is right on the math, I rechecked it. That's what I get for posting when dealing with my kids in the background. Didn't mean to get your panties in a bundle.

     

    All of this is mostly theoretical anyway. No one who want's to keep a gig runs their amp at 100% anyway. Even if the tubes are running at full all the time the input level that they are boosting is lowered (non MV). That's how the first stage of my Guytron runs, the 2xEL84 power tubes work harder at "rest" than they do when amplifying a signal because they are trying to boost the non-existent. Guy Hedrick is a genius, but a twisted one who loves to torture tubes. Luckily that power section is dummy loaded into a real 100 watt EL-34 power section that runs so cleanly that the tubes last for two years. The first power section runs at full load all of the time, those tubes last six months tops.

     

    Where the rubber really hits the road is clean headroom. The power section of most 100 watt heads is barely kicking in at stage volumes in a club. The AC15 was pretty juicy they way that I ran it, but it was ear bleedingly loud and I only got away with it for a little while. A 50 watt amp is just as loud as a 100 watt in use, but you stand a running chance of getting some power tube distortion IF you play really fucking loud. I've only done it in the studio because my bandmates will lose their gourds if I tried to get that loud on stage.

     

    I still use 100 watt heads on stage, the Guytron has the dual power section and the preamp section of my VHT/Fryette Deliverance 120 is pretty amazing. (no way in hell that I'll EVER push it's 4xKT88 power section into overdrive or anything close to it. I've tried with a 400 watt cabinet and it wasn't happening without killing everything in a 3 mile radius of my house.

     

    Since we went to IEM's, I'm actually running my amp far lower than I ever thought I would and I love it. It sounds great and our sound guy doesn't have to bitch at me anymore. Life is good.

     

    JT

    Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano

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    It is? I thought it was his take on the 1968 super lead. Did he do any particularly high gain mods? I would assume he did a few different ones.

     

    But yeah, I doubt I'll get anything else in the way of modded Marshalls unless I want something really different. Dave's mods are basically the sound you hear in your head

     

    ...Which makes no sense as I only hear voices, but you know what I mean.

     

    I have high expectations for this one.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6mPJsaNSvs

     

    You're correct the sl68 is a super lead clone. He makes a few handwired and a few PC single channel models that do a little of everything that he's modded stuff for over the years. The SE-100 is the highest gain of the single channel handwired amps. He does a single channel version of the gain channel from the PT-100 that is pretty awesome too.

     

    JT

    Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano

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    It's plain. I won't do figured necks, they are not as stable as a plain maple neck. I don't mind some "show" with my "go" but business comes before beauty. John Suhr doesn't like to do figured necks for the same reason.

     

    Dave's amps are one of the finest Marshall style amps you can buy anywhere. I've heard some Suhr modded heads that are very similar and just as good and some other guys too but if that was my thing I'd go to Dave and be done with it. I saw Billy Idol last week and Steve Stevens had a HBE, his new Freidman SS-100 and two Suhr PT-100 heads. He used his sig and the PT-100 most often and they both sound fucking killer.

     

     

     

    JT

    Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano

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    A bunch of new stuff. I've been playing around with different tones and textures. My favorites are the Soundblox Multiwave Distortion Pro and the Mr. Black Tunnelworm Flanger. Some old favorites have been pulled out of storage too, like my really old MIJ Boss PH-2 Phaser. I've gone through a couple of chorus and delay pedals, but nothing has really caught my ear as being better than my rack stuff.

     

    I need to take some better pictures of the red Suhr, it took a bunch when I first got it but I haven't taken any since. It's a great guitar, perfect for playing out in any weather with the roasted neck and locking trem. This spring I've done five or six shows outside where the temp swung from 70 to 40 and it stayed in tune perfectly.

     

    JT

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