MKibanez
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Since a few month it is my Soldano Astro 20 in a 2 x 12 Celestion V30's
Greazygeo
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Found my tone long time ago. Probably 92-93. Modded a Marshall, ran it thru a loadbox, thru some fx then into two Marshall amp power sections into some 412 cabs. JC120 for cleans…lots to haul.
Scaled it down to my 69 Plexi into a 412 and some pedals…ultimately landed with my Wizard MC1 Rick built me in 05 and an RP1000 for fx. Still going strong.
japetus
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I just need a Bassman or a Twin and a boost, an Ibanez DE-7 and a strat
Simon Dorn
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Great choices. 
Simon Dorn
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Greazygeo
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The Mesa SoundWith a boost you'd have a Mark IV
That amp is hilarious. Bought it not working for cheap, easy fix to get working. Someone also tried to mod it, I put it back to stock and did a bunch of maintenance on it. Looking at the schematic, they basically borrowed heavily from a Mark II.
A bunch of various videos of this model but only the clean channel. Figured I would do one of the Lead channel. It’s not as bad as people make them out to be. Seems many just gut these and start over.
Simon Dorn
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Interesting. I read a bit about it now. I think Mesa "borrowed" it from Fender. Or maybe they both borrowed from each other, since Mesa invented cascading Tube Stages.
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Findthetone1
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It's a moving target for me it seems. One day it's high gain playing 80's Sunset strip rock. The next day it's a nice plexi crunch playing classic and southern rock. I will say the older I get, the more I appeciate the simplicity of a nice low to mid gain crunch tone.
Dimebag11
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Splawn Quickrod + Creamback 65s - been my go to for over nearly 20 years.
Simon Dorn
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Do you have fixed settings or do you change them?
thegame
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That sounds pretty decent!
Greazygeo
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It is surprising. It was filthy inside, took two solid afternoons cleaning the board and temoving the copper ground bus bar, it was black!
WGS ET 65 speaker is in it for now.
Dimebag11
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Subtly different depending on which guitar, nearly everything stays around noon though.
311boogieman
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Curious if you ever tried the Treble = 0 trick?
Simon Dorn
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Perfect
alund
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My Aiken Sabre does about everything I need with tone. Add salt and pepper with an eq. Bang bang. Hair nation
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GreenRust
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The tone I try to go for is a cross between Rory Gallagher (Irish Tour tone), Michael Schenker (Strangers), George Lynch (Under Lock and Key and Wicked Sensation) and Jerry Cantrell (Facelift).
I get close enough to have fun with an XTC and a Range master clone or an SD1 (a cheap one is fine)
I get close enough to have fun with an XTC and a Range master clone or an SD1 (a cheap one is fine)
Dimebag11
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I have, I dig it - but I prefer it my way
glpg80
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My perfect tone didn’t exist.
But it does now.
I had to build it from scratch using a broken Aldrich as a donor which became Abaddon.
I was absolutely sick of thin sounding amplifiers and modelers that sound just as anemic. I wanted low end punch from a guitar amp and a wall of full bodied sound.
But it does now.
I had to build it from scratch using a broken Aldrich as a donor which became Abaddon.
I was absolutely sick of thin sounding amplifiers and modelers that sound just as anemic. I wanted low end punch from a guitar amp and a wall of full bodied sound.
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