spanny
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thenine":213dxgeq said:
I've read that he has never even changed tubes in that amp. Same (singular) amp used for all recordings and touring...
I've read that he has never even changed tubes in that amp. Same (singular) amp used for all recordings and touring...
spanny
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I can see that you have found your sound and you stick with it. But you also got to make sure you aren't so close minded that you wont try out other gear as well. I know plenty of people like that.
anomaly
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petejt":2byw5tbw said:
Angus also used a Mesa Studio pre-amp and power amp for the Razor's Edge tour. In the studio they are known for using a Wizard amps. The thing is they always sound like AC/DC no matter what they play through, their tone was a bit different in the early days though. Those old jtm marshall's are their staple rig, i believe??
anomaly
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spanny":36h8onky said:
Ya, i believe it's a 2 channel 50 watt JCM 800. He runs it through a Peavey Cab. But he did experiment a bit with amps and guitars a bit when he was in Audioslave, one of their last albums.
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TrueTone500
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It's difficult enough find that tone. When I first began playing in 1978, I played through a number of amplifiers. Peavey, Fender, Kitty Hawk, and Marshall's mainly. For me, the Marshall Super Lead (NMV) was the cream of the crop! Ross Compressor > MXR Distortion + > MXR EQ > Boss CE-1 > Roland RE-201 > Marshall was IMO the best sounding rig a rock player could own. My only regret, is that I wish I had gotten my hands on one of the many Vox AC30 amps that were selling for pennies at the time.
I may have changed brands, but my tastes haven't changed one bit. In attenuated mode - my RK100 amp gives me the clean, crunch, and distorted tones of my old Marshall Super Lead in spades. Shut-down the attenuation, and you unleash the Cornford beast! My MK50H II's had a fabulous clean channel, but is more of a Fender type clean, so they had to go. I'm sure a lot of you guys are the same as me... You may have started-out playing Fender amps, and then decided that Mesa/Boogie stepped it up a notch. To relive the early days, I'm subbing my old Marshall rig with a Bogner Harlow Compressor > Ibanez TS9 > MXR EQ > Fulltone Choralflange > EH DMM > Bogner Metropolis.
Back when Joe Perry was primarily using Music Man amplifiers, that IMO became a signature tone for him. You could hear it on Rocks, DTL, and his JPP solo albums. When Aerosmith got back together, that sound was gone.
George Lynch is another player who abandoned what IMO became his signature tone in the 80's. That guy could make a Rockman sound like Tom Scholtz could only dream!
Awesome tone!!!
I may have changed brands, but my tastes haven't changed one bit. In attenuated mode - my RK100 amp gives me the clean, crunch, and distorted tones of my old Marshall Super Lead in spades. Shut-down the attenuation, and you unleash the Cornford beast! My MK50H II's had a fabulous clean channel, but is more of a Fender type clean, so they had to go. I'm sure a lot of you guys are the same as me... You may have started-out playing Fender amps, and then decided that Mesa/Boogie stepped it up a notch. To relive the early days, I'm subbing my old Marshall rig with a Bogner Harlow Compressor > Ibanez TS9 > MXR EQ > Fulltone Choralflange > EH DMM > Bogner Metropolis.
Back when Joe Perry was primarily using Music Man amplifiers, that IMO became a signature tone for him. You could hear it on Rocks, DTL, and his JPP solo albums. When Aerosmith got back together, that sound was gone.
George Lynch is another player who abandoned what IMO became his signature tone in the 80's. That guy could make a Rockman sound like Tom Scholtz could only dream!
Awesome tone!!!
orionz06
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fuzzyguitars":ukob5otf said:
This is only because they keep playing the same song over and over.
glassjaw7
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Ok, not one rig but Petrucci has been a hardcore Mesa/Boogie guy. I like the tones he gets from them.
I agree though, not really anything to respect, but it is good for any musician to find what works for them. Personally I could never be tied down to one rig. Sometimes I'm inspired by a guitar straight into an AC30 or plexi-ish amp..sometimes loads o pedals, etc.
Would probably be different in a successful touting band where you're performing the same style of music every night. You find what works the best for that particular style
I agree though, not really anything to respect, but it is good for any musician to find what works for them. Personally I could never be tied down to one rig. Sometimes I'm inspired by a guitar straight into an AC30 or plexi-ish amp..sometimes loads o pedals, etc.
Would probably be different in a successful touting band where you're performing the same style of music every night. You find what works the best for that particular style
romanianreaper
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Badronald said:Big artists like Yngwie (legend) are not like you and I. They have a brand. It's a business.Speak for yourself, little man. Like Yngwie, I only drive Ferraris, wear gold, and ensure my bulge is encased in only the finest leathers.
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JohnSykes
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Well, John Sykes pretty much. With the amps you could say he changed to Mesa at some point and then to Marshall again, but still.
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paulyc
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I don't agree with John Sykes...there are whammy bar dives all over WS 1987, and I remember seeing a pic of a natural finish 2 humbucker with a black pick guard Charvel Strat head guitar in a guitar rack along with his Les Pauls, so between the Gibsons, Charvel, and the switch from Marshall to Boogie amps, that doesn't seem like one rig to me.
petejt
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anomaly":2elv0tcd said:
They used Wizard amps on their last album, and possibly for the recent album.
I prefer the older tone back on the TNT album. It was loud and clear, not too gainy, yet it was ANGRY. It had this gutsy power to it that blows away so many over distorted super gainy fizzy guitar tones ahead of it. And it also makes the more recent guitar tones from the Wizard amps seem piss-weak.
Even a shitty recording off the telly, that's been compressed to the moon when uploaded to YouTube, it still holds its ground.
ghosty999
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Dave and Adrian from Maiden have used pretty similar rigs all their lives
Super Strat -> TS808 -> Univibe -> Marshall JCM800 or JMP-1
Super Strat -> TS808 -> Univibe -> Marshall JCM800 or JMP-1
Moshaholic
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Bob Savage":3vaa9paa said:
Bob... I love you.
RJF
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I have a buddy with a 3ch Triple rec. He thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread and has had it for close to 10 years now. He doesn't even boost the triple. But, he's super happy with his tone, and it's probably saved him a ton of cash from flipping gear. Can't knock that.