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No problem, I'm happy to chat about all of this stuff. RE: Andy, I believe the answer is (unsatisfyingly) that it's really a result of a holistic process where his personal taste and skills are a crucial piece of the puzzle. He does whatever it takes to get the tone to where he wants it to be...

Thanks man, that's so cool to hear! I feel extremely lucky that part of my job enables me to go down these rabbit holes. For me at least, there has been nothing more elusive in the world of recording than the conundrums of top tier high-gain guitar tone, so it's been extremely cathartic to be...

Hey stratjacket, thanks for enduring the 45 minute video, I hope you enjoyed it! You can export .wav files from Cali and then stick those on your Axe-FX to use. More details - bypass the cab on the axe-fx then run into Cali either as a standalone app or a plugin in your DAW, so you can audition...

Thanks so much for the lovely complements, it's very kind of you to say so many nice things! Mark is great, very passionate about sound and a lot more open-minded than people assume from his online persona. We recently reconnected and from our conversations he seems to be heading towards the...

Thanks man, that's really kind of you to say! I'm glad you and others are on a similar path, and also very grateful I've had the time and space to do the necessary experimentation. I'm extremely happy that others seem interested in the findings, and that they seem to enjoy using this plugin as...

Hey VESMedic, I'm so glad Cali has grown on you - excellent tones there, love the snarl from the Morin, killer. The 5150 adds a lovely mid thickness and blunt attack in the mix. Great sounds!

I've got a drawer full of old 80s JBs (mostly JBJs), and while most are around that typical 16.4k mark, a couple are in the upper 15s and one is a total outlier at 17.1k. I don't believe the roughcast (old) vs polished (modern) magnet causes much audible difference in a JB - I've tested this...

Hey! Yes, please don't read that I'm bashing Scott in the above, or any other designer for that matter. The schematic only tells a part of the story - taking an amp to market involves a huge amount more factors, and aspects like circuit layout and being careful what voicing options you give the...

Great, let me know how you get on (y) That sounds probable, yeah. I wonder if your Nitro has the 10K pot with a switchable series resistor or if it's got a 25k with switchable parallel resistor to lower the max resistance - the latter is more sensible since you can still get the mids to "0"...

The overdrive channel of the Nitro has a 10k mid pot, instead of the typical Marshall-derived 22k or 25k that the Quickrod and most other Marshall-derived high gain amps use. This basically means that on the Nitro your mids are a lot more scooped at comparable settings and even on maximum won't...

The Duncan Solar pickups are indeed a Custom 5 and '59 wind, but crucially they have copper tape around the outside of each coil (like the Dimarzio Super Distortion/Gibson Dirty Fingers), which is a common feature of most of the pickups SD has come out with aimed at "modern", "progressive"...

Weird that this would be called a pickup comparison when they are all in different guitars. A Les Paul or Explorer with tone pot is going to sound a hell of a lot different to a super strat with a single volume even if all have the same pickups. Either way, great tones.

He made another video soon after acknowledging that he was wrong, and that it was indeed a 4x12:

Interesting stuff, I would dare say that your findings with the 50W vs Stealth red channels must come down to the different power sections especially the size of the output tranny. Glad you found your sound in the Stealth! Yep, literally just change two components and your 5150II/6505+ red...

Gotcha. Are you using the Blue channel primarily? Because, believe it or not, the 6L6 50W and the 100W Stealth red channels are actually identical circuit-wise. EDIT: The Stealth blue channel is a lot gainier and closer to the red channel in voicing though

I personally wouldn't put the Knucklehead drive channel in the Marshall or JCM800 bracket, or anywhere near really. If anything it's closer to an Orange Rockerverb circuit-wise, with a fairly unique tone-stack that gives more mids and a much more extended low end/deeper low bump.

Honestly, the Miracle Man is not the BKP I'd go to for clarity; I think if that's the goal you'd be best served by checking out the Impulse, Rebel Yell, True Grit, Emerald, Black Dog or Riff Raff (in descending output). Any of those can sound incredible through the sort of rig you're using, I'd...

Yup, magnet and DC resistance are highly overrated when people talk about pickups. As with many aspects of electric guitar tone, these stereotypes come from a time when there was a far more limited range of options and so those differentiators told you more than they do now that the scope of...

If neither of those hit the spot, the Wampler Pinnacle Drive could be worth a look in. Also the JHS AT+ has loads of gain, lovely tone and feels great fun to play.

PRS MT-15?