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I think my PC1 is the only guitar I´ve ever had without any inlays or fretboard markers, but it is a very sleek look. Sorry for the crappy pic, low light in the music room and an old phone...

No, on these it actually is pre and post EQ. That's real special José master sauce, but I couldn't begin to tell you why he wanted the volume pre EQ when the diodes are in. My Zé that Ossie Ahsen built from his real José has the same deal, and he has several videos explaining and exploring that...

Absolutely. Once he left and Janick came in they were left with two guys that (in comparison) are a collection of speedy licks strung together, and they lost a big part of the sound without that balance, even if I appreciate the Blackmore-ish stylings of Janick a lot more now than I did back then.

Not really a surprise, I guess, seems like they've mostly just used the current flagship Marshall for decades. JCM2000s and the JMP1 prior to these. Too bad he isn't bringing out the fancier Lado he used on Maiden England or one of his vintage Jacksons, I'm a sucker for the late 80s era.

Yeah, almost certainly just a practical choice, for whatever reason. Maybe a few of all the other amps coming out of that factory already runs those 6L6 tubes, and they cut down on the purchase list. Lots of economy of scale at play.

Yeah, that sounds fine and it´s probably a great amp IRL, but nothing there so far to move me off my 3 Monkeys Zé. The last clipping option sounds like that 2000s interpretation of the José that every modder on the forums used to do a variation of, were the real ones really ever that "modern"...

Well, to nitpick a bit, the typical 800 doesn´t have diode clipping - as in the 2203 and 2204 - but the two-channel 2205 och 2210 do. As does the Jubilee, which is contemporary to that line, anyway. As for the Snorkler, I´ve never tried it, but I seem to remember it has an extra tube gain stage...

Yes, I understand that circuit-wise much of the Marshall-based high gain stuff is fairly similar, but there are some different schools. Extra tube stages or not, diode clipping or not, just component value swaps, the use of cathode followers or plate driven tone stacks, combinations of all or...

The lead channel of the original, non-SE Custom Audio 3+ is what the JCM900s should/could have been. Maybe not super modern by the standards of today, but definitely top notch in the early 90s when folks had used modded and boosted Marshalls for a long while and was looking for the next thing in...

Yeah, until 1990 or so Jackson didn´t really have models as such, they were all custom orders in the end even if they had some standard shapes and the Student package with less cosmetics. But yeah, that´s just a custom Soloist, and the Kahler bridge is a hint that it´s from the mid 80s. You saw...

I don´t know why these didn´t really fly when he launched them, at the time it seemed like everyone just kept buying the PTs instead. I´ve played a 50 a few times and thought it was cool.

Sure is! Lovely piece of gear, had it for about seven years now and it's always in heavy rotation. You have one of these as well, don't you?

Very pretty, congrats! Also reminds me that I need to refret my Greco RR95K soon.

Just saw today that John is going to Hiwatt for the next tour, and some interesting tidbits.

Albeit I haven´t tried the latest and greatest attenuators, but in my experience an attenuator works great for going from super loud to still pretty damn loud and everything beyond that is debatable. I would much rather use a load and either IRs or another power section depending on if you...

I have 8-38 in standard tuning on one 25.5" guitar and it definitely works. I originally tried it as a last ditch effort to help the truss rod get in a better range for adjustments, but once you´ve jacked up the bridge a bit to allow for the bigger excursion and make it feel less like playing...

Well, I guess it begs the question if there ever was any hype to begin with or just marketing. Because the marketing is probably moving on to the next thing already, the limited IIC++ heads.

I wonder where Dann is at musically these days, I really have no idea which direction this album might be headed.

Well, here are todays prices from the biggest retailer in Europe.

Yeah, I´ve heard some good clips of this but the price point is an issue. A bit more than 1,5X the price of the handwired for some diodes and a master volume is a stretch.