Recent content by Dave L

I watched that the other day and I did not expect Neal to be such a friendly dude, that was awesome to see. I would have loved to see them go later into the 80s and early 90s, but I suppose that his status as boy wonder of the late 60s and early 70s up to the first albums with Perry is the main bit.

Various George Dennis stuff did float around a bit in the 90s here in Europe, I have seen that particular model a few times but I can´t recall ever playing it. I assume it was intended to steal a smidge of the JCM 900/2000 market and I recall it was priced about the same, much in the same...

As with almost all the japanese production of the era, it´s all basically the same guitar with different tiers of hardware and electronics.

How cheap is cheap? They´re nice guitars, maybe nothing truly special but definitely solid enough. Depending on the year the 3 has the dreaded Kahler fulcrum trem or the Jackson JT6 Floyd, which isn´t great either but OK, and the bridge probably is the weak spot overall. Before the pricing of...

Yeah, the Gotoh should be fine in there. The FR Special is better than most of the licensed stuff from the 90s, that kind of pot-metal junk you just don´t see anymore. There were good and even great licensed Floyds too, of course, but anything cheaper than a Takeuchi model was not to be trusted.

The Blackmore is a nice amp, I can say that much, and if the Artist was tweaked from there for Doug Aldrich it probably is nice too. Lots of the other Engl stuff sounds a bit off for me, but then again I´m more of an 80s rock guy and not in it for the chugs.

Yeah, I was also thinking you just might be used to something very different-sounding and/or not dig the T75s at all. If I bought a H30-loaded cab I probably would return it as defective too 😄

The 90s processors are getting to be a handful, that´s for sure. I have to keep an old laptop running Vista around to communicate with my Eventide GTR4000 😄

I have a nice clone of those old 14-pin OD1s, it is very particular indeed. Not that similar to the SD1, which was a surprise, and like you say it´s one big squawk of mids and nothing else. Really brash in that way, which can be cool but also awfully thin in some rigs. When I´m not looking for...

I´m only a fan of slight boosting, for me it never works out slamming the input. Lots of folks dig it and sound good that way, but it´s not for me. But getting a boost dialed in juuust right into a Super Lead-ish amp, pure heaven.

Been thinking about exploring some fuzz stuff lately, thanks for the added GAS :thumbsup:

Interesting, I suppose some of them ended up with those resistors and EL34s even if mostly was a 6550 thing. I guess any combination might have happened on any given day at the Marshall plant, as always :giggle:

It does sound good as is, and like I mentioned I will not be doing work on it myself. Just trying to orientate myself on the state of it before the tech takes a look, never know what you´ll find in a fifty-year old amp. But the bias is one thing we will be talking about, for sure.

This was sold in Sweden originally, so it´s from those scandinavian export lines that also differed a bit sometimes. I don´t know if we ever got the 6550s, though.

I checked the bias with my old Eurotubes probe now, and they were in the 26,5-27 range. Not entirely out of spec for the EL34s and some dudes do like them a bit below 30, so going off of that I can´t tell if it is set up for biasing 6550s or not. It´s going to the shop to swap a broken pilot...