Just installed mine and holy shit if they didn't make it sound exactly like my AFD.. all the characteristics of the .1uf/10k cold clipper with the swirly presence and artifacts are there...I wonder how they did it. I'm keeping the amp gain at 7 to maintain some of the bright cap in the mix. Damn, if you like the early van halen nasty top end splatt and the afd tone, this will do it.
do you mean the slash signature marshall?
or are you saying you had one of those treasures to compare?
mine is on its way... im a bit sour.
immediately when it came out, i put in my order no delays speaking to david.
few weeks and were chatting during this time, friendly. i get a heads up in the next few days shipping.
to my surprise a youtuber received his early.
mine was forgotten and not dropped off. so now i get another week waiting.
im probably the only one who is frustrated and this was probably just the straw breaking the camels back.
i missed out on an omega granophyre and a youtuber got it instead. im not one to judge but they were unloading like 120k worth of stuff because of restructuring and bad life. like either let us mere mortals grab it when we have free funds. or dont flip it to make a buck after you finish.
on the plus side i did get a gz hellion, fair price. great condition. (the things i can control on this amp its nuts. not so much crazy controls. but what i can control i can do way more. EQ im not guessing if it added or cut. you hear and feel it clear as day, it just cuts. the range on NFB man that is what vintage to modern should always incorporate. it is incredibly quiet. i didnt get it for its perfect organic sound or pure raw tone. i got it because it is a gain machine that can get aggressive AF, or i can put NFB full left and have something that sings powerfully. everything in between. this is the low end usuable punch and girdth i thought was mythical. that said. I spend 1k more on mesa*. and the gz was about 2k more that i intended. so the all access ceriatones, moleculars, splawns. or hell all the scumbacks 55 cones i want. i need to wait on all my plans.
*I had to return a new mesa was pretty much broken. gc would not apply or honor previous discount because the event ended. i sort of get it. but i was pissed spending extra 1k.
plexi sounded 1000x better with these mods but the damn thing just stopped working. turns out it was NOT my fault. but yeah it was frustrating. and again gc would not honor event discount. so ive kept my eye out (leaning toward 1959 or ceriatone all access though).
i fried my first pedal, expensive noise gate. replacement, the mk 3 of pedal, not as good as mk 2.
i dont know if old guitar is combusting, creaking. or what. but new slash pickup in bridge sounds great. everything else the tech touched sounds like its a chalk board being scratched.
my headfirst amp that I love. it has been having issues for a bit. good news is i think its power tubes. bad news it doesnt seem to have easier access for biasing and voltage readings and such. no idea what to do yet. but it will cost. and its taking its toll because i was using this thing daily. it sounds like i am runing 1 power amp tube now.... and that its turning into a rice crispys cereal with those sounds.
i digressed more than i planned but yeah. i got frustrated. heres to next week. maybe ill have my scumbacks too and everything will be cool/bygones be bygones.
