Fish Luke
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Using the DR Manson and fuelling speculation of next year's tour, drones tour DVD and Defector. Interesting day for Matt haha. Surely they may well play Aftermath tomorrow as well.
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Not sure it says Marshall VLVE-000092 on the EL34. Tung-sol arrived today so I will do some swaps. The EL34s do sound different I think as you said.
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Yeah I don't intend on paying for more tubes for V2/V3 unless it was really necessary. Got the Svetlana EL34 in today. Initial reaction is that it sounds better but I'm not really qualified to explain how. Less muddy/dark maybe? I'll have to put the old one in tomorrow maybe just to be sure. Out of interest how long do tubes normally take to cool down?
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Yeah it is probably a better tube as the yellow one is definitely V1. I guess we'll see what type of tube it is based on how it compares to the tung-sol!
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Ahh well it was only a tenner so doesn't hurt to try! There are 3 12ax7, all Chinese but the first one is yellow label and the other two or white label. Could always order a tung-sol to try since one barely costs anything.
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Managed to get a Svetlana EL34 cheap on eBay so going to try that in the SL5. Couldn't find a conclusive answer as to whether any of the current production pre-amp tubes are better than the Shuguang ones for the SL5 so think I will just leave those alone.
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On the subject of amps... what pre-amp tubes do people like?
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Nah they just work normally. I think I read that both the treble and bass knobs both just alter the amount of treble more than anything else.
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Stockholm Syndrome now.
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There's three versions of the amp, one with a 10" speaker, one with 12" and the HW with 12". I just have the regular 12" one. "All-Valve, the legendary VOX AC30 Top-Boost sound, now in a compact, portable amplifier!" http://www.voxamps.com/ac4c1-12 It does have a master volume but overall it was no good for me. I think the fact it is a tiny amp for a 12" speaker has a lot to do with it as well as the poor amp controls. The cabinet was almost closed back but had a small slit at the bottom and there was no division between the amp PCB and the speaker it was all in the same space. For example I originally bought a G12H to replace the Celestion Seventy 80 but it was too big and hit the transformer. The Greenback G12M only just fits.
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See the AC4 I have really distorts my view of what a Vox sounds like since I couldn't get it to sound remotely similar to that or muse even though I upgraded it to JJ tubes and Greenback which the AC4HW have. Sounded nice clean but fuzz was too treblely and distortion too boxy and it was a loud amp that didn't sound great with the volume down. All of the controls seemed to have sharp thresholds rather than acting linear as well. Does sound like the amp in the video could be a core muse sound but couldn't get anything like it out of my AC4.
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Another interesting point on there is that he used the Fuzz Factory a lot on drones supposedly then. If anything I thought the distortion on Drones was more from amps or something like Fuzz Head. Maybe the Fuzz Head is used less on the guitar then otherwise it would have appeared in the article for sure.
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A lot of people seem to get something that I think sounds like Slash in their YouTube videos but they're always using a Les Paul. I'm using the Cort and to me it sounds more like what I thought an average Marshall would sound like which is what I wanted. Just had another go on the overdrive channel and got fairly near now I think. Gain on max, volume 1/3, treble, prescence and mids max and bass on 1/2. Funnily enough the opposite EQ settings to what people say on Marshall forums but I guess they were using Les Pauls or something. However this is on the 1 watt mode as OD channel is too loud and I expect the other people were using 5 watt mode which you have to dial in different. I had my clean mode with pedals dialled in differently and on the full 5 watts as it is quieter than the other channel so may well have to have another tinker or see how it sounds on the OD settings I have. As for the Vox I couldn't really get anywhere near what the Marshall is doing, probably because the Marshall is so much bigger than the Vox and probably just better thought out overall. Possibly the Vintage 30 in the Marshall may help as well since in the tour rig video Matt was using those. The Vox seemed to go from no volume to way too loud easily and was so hard to dial in with fuzz (too trebly) or built in gain (not enough treble) even though I upgraded the speaker to a Greenback. I don't think Vox do a low watt amp that would do any better so I looked elsewhere. As for Matt's distortion sound are you sure he doesn't used the Fuzz Head more widely? It seems to appear so much in limited pictures and videos of his setup and I feel like I can get it to sound like Knights, basic chords like PIB/Mercy and even like Handler/Psycho on the D string. I've also seen a fair few covers on YouTube sound really similar to Matt using it too. I've changed the capacitor in my Fuzz Head to the treble one and adjusted the internal trim pots to max settings so Matt may well have had some funny things done to his anyway. Before I did this I didn't think it had enough treble or drive for what I wanted. I'll have to compare my new setting on the OD channel to what I got before with the Fuzz Head on the clean channel.
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Just got a Marshall SL5 to replace the Vox AC4C1-12. Managed to get dial in some good Matt-ish tones using Fuzz Head (and FF) through clean channel but couldn't manage to get the overdrive channel to sound good (with or without pedals). The amp has proper channel EQ, prescence and reverb unlike the Vox. Anybody know if Matt uses Fuzz Head much as a general distortion or if he just relies on amp distortion still? I'm talking about chords as well as riffs. I know he at least used to use a cranked DSL 100 which perhaps I could get something similar out of the SL5. Same for the Diezel but I imagine I wouldn't be able to get near that.
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Ah fair enough. Good to know since I was there on the first night!
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90% sure HAARP doesn't contain footage of both nights but it's a perfectly reasonable idea. Might ruin the flow a bit though as I like the fact that previous DVDs were literally pretty much fluid video of the whole concert.
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Both will be crazy loud for bedroom volume. I have the AC4C1-12 and it's a bit loud for my bedroom really.
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Looked alright from the videos I saw of the Austria gig.
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According to reddit they have already played Psycho and Reapers.
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Turns out Matt has broken his toe. Won't effect shows except for reigning him in a bit, maybe he'll concentrate more on the music . Also TAB confirmed for one night in Madrid. (He's going on a twitter streak).
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I lol'd when I saw that xD.
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The tour is saved by the fact that Drones is a strong album, especially live. Imagine if they also played Defector.
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Nobody came up with a definite ID yet but there are a few comments They really seem to think it's a Cort of some sort but no proper ID yet.
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Someone on reddit found this page: http://museandamuse3.free.fr/instruments/otherguitars.html . Not much info but "Matthew Bellamy used this strange guitar during the 1999 and 2000 tours. It is a travel guitar with two built-in amps."
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I've asked on reddit. I see so many posts of completely random guitars and someone usually knows what it is.