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Is it a newer one? I used to have a newer one made in China that came in a Night Train cab. It's definitely not just a standard Greenback. The doping and the dustcap are different. More vintage-looking. From the front, it looked more like a Heritage Greenback than a standard current MIC one. It...

Interesting. I have a Dominion lying around. I've always wondered how it would sound in the neck since it's so tight and articulate (almost EMG 81-ish) in the bridge. Might have to give it a try.

30 as in G12H-30. :D

Mesa Rectifier oversized. :)

I've also got a pair of Relic 30's in my Marshall 1960A. They are dark, and they mix well with the sizzly H-75's which are also in my cab. They're discontinued, but they're not too hard to get ahold of. They were also known as the Vintage 30MF's and Hellatone 60L's. They only come in 16 ohms...

Eminence Texas Heats or Swamp Thangs, perhaps.

Yes! The 1W is not as open-sounding as the 5W, but it can still fool the mic into thinking it's bigger than it actually is. I assume you've probably already heard this demo, but just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfan4NB59js

Actually, yes! I did. It wasn't particularly good at that either, lol. At least not when recording the FX loop send. You can tell they voiced it with lots of bass and treble in the preamp to make up for the puny power section, so once you used it with a standard-sounding IR, it was just too...

I used to have one. I never tried it with a full band, but I did get to try it through my 4x12. It got loud, from what I recall, but probably not full-band loud. It also sounded terrible with the volume past like 2 o'clock, which you'd probably have to crank if you wanted it to even come close.

How are they? How do they compare to Tung Sol or Sovtek 5881's? :)

Not to steal the topic, but I wonder if anyone has tried the neck versions of the AHB-1's or 3's in the bridge. Is it an 85 vs 81 kinda deal where the neck pickup also sounds cool in the bridge? I have only had the AHB-1B, which I thought was a bit too bassy. I wonder if I'd like the EMTY's better.

I like produced clips. Ultimately, what I look for in an amp is how well it records.

I wouldn't say the 85 has more mids either, lol. Just different kinds of mids. The 85 has more lower mids, and the 81 has more high mids. It does sound fatter if you wanna stay in that EMG realm, but pretty much any passive will have more low-end girth (and top-end openness too) than any of the...

The 85 is as compressed if not more so than the 81. I have not tried the 57, though. Have you tried 18V-modding the 81? It opens up the pickup's dynamics and low-end (and high-end) a bit.

I think those V12's are fine until you throw an SM57 in front of them. SM57's just kinda hate them, IMO. They reveal a ton of fizz and weird, hollow, almost phase-y mids. Same with the Governors.

SH-14 has always been the Custom 5. It's just the Custom's symmetrically wound coils but with an A5 magnet. It was created by the folks from the Duncan forum by swapping the magnet in a regular Custom (or Custom Custom, for that matter) for Alnico 5. SH-16 is the '59/Custom Hybrid. That's the...

I don't know if it's more iconic than the Flying V, Explorer o Tele headstocks, but it's definitely right up there. The Dean, Ibanez, and PRS headstocks are probably right behind too.

I guess it depends on which speaker. I've heard of A LOT of people blowing up their Blues with Vox AC15's and 30's.

Yeah, my Classic Overdrive is not particularly noisy either. ZW mode has less mids, less output, and it's more compressed. GT-OD mode is fatter, louder, and more open. Both are very useable. I find both are kinda grainy in a good way. More raunchy than a Tube Screamer, but fatter and less...

The oldest gray/metal ones did not have the switch, AFAIK. It's the off-white ones that did. I have a Classic Overdrive that has the switch, and I think I like it better in GT-OD mode, but ZW-OD mode is cool too.