Cameron jose mods vs.voodoo amp jose mods

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[Meathead]

...the drummer and guitar player looked like they were the ancient sleeveless love children of willam defoe and david crosby and madly in love with each other, and kept time like two nickels in the dryer.

 

[Anonymous]

All of the people who posted on that thread who:

A) Got a gain structure closest to VHI
B) Actually saw the internals of the amp

think that he essentially used a stock plexi that di not have a Jose mod. John Suhr confirmed that most of the solder joints were original, speciafically the ones that would have needed to be changed for the "Jose mod".

Pete Thorn and others clearly got enough gain out of a stock amp to do VH. We all know that numerous other factors go into a recorded tone on an album, but it was clear that a mod is unnecessary to reach the level of gain actually used by Ed.

Agree, you don't need a modded Marshall to get VH tones. However, it's extremely hard to get that VH tone without cranking the shit out of a Marshall and pissing off the whole neighborhood. Modded amps can get it much much easier and at lower gains.

I have never chased the VH tone but i did a clip with my Fortin and i think i got in the ballpark but the volume on my amp was lower then my TV at what i call a normal TV volume and it was at 11:00pm with my 1 year old sleeping upstairs. Try doing that with your stock Superlead.

i don't think it's physically possible to get vh tone at tv volumes because of the speaker aspect. if you are trying to decide if it sounds brown because the volume isn't there to clearly feel it, it's not brown.

a speaker, barely moving, is lame.

mark knows the vh factor and his amps reflect that core thing, even at the highest gain, similar to what is heard in mojave and vht amps. the midrange growl and clarity that spanks open.

never played a voodoo but trace is cool and i'd bet he could get some happening vh tone from his circuits as well.

I agree with this. its a volume thing. Also if Trace is doing some cool things for a couple hundred, thats cool go with it he was one of the first dudes, who didnt have a huge ego, who was willing to help me. Ill say this again to all you guys, My buddy who never soldered in his life was able to build a metro 100 watt plexi so practice up on the solder and be carefull and ask for help and you can do your own cool stuff.

Agreed. Before I went to the Egnater Seminar and built a 50W Master Volume "Modded Marshall" the only thing I'd soldered were some guitar pickups. My second amp is the PlexRod 100, which I built completely from scratch with complex switching, etc... If you practice soldering and hang out at the right places and ask for help, you can do a lot of cool things...

Steve

 

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