Jared James Nichols switched to Marshall

[DrewJD82]

I watched the full Rig Rundown last night and now I want to try some P90’s. Kinda like playing through a Marshall, I’ve managed to go over 30 years without trying P90’s.

 

[romanianreaper]

I saw him open for Michael Schenker last year and was really inpressed with him.

 

[Briman24]

I started with marshall and then tried every amp there is pretty much and am back with marshalls for last 10 years. Will play only Marshall now until I am dead.

 

[Music&Chaos]

I watched the full Rig Rundown last night and now I want to try some P90’s. Kinda like playing through a Marshall, I’ve managed to go over 30 years without trying P90’s.

I recently have fallen in love with P90s. I have a set I designed that seems to just be killing every other pickup I play, humbuckers included.

I have my custom 'G90' set.

Neck: Planet Tone 1956 wound a bit hotter with A4 magnets.

Bridge: Planet Tone 1956 Hot wound a touch hotter with A4 magnets.


They absolutely can go from clean to scream!!!

 

[Hamer95USA]

I like Jared James Nichols playing style and his switch over to Marshall amps. He's a breath of fresh air in today's guitar music, seems to be an honest & down to earth kind of guy who's a tone chaser, and getting real guitar tones with his fingers/guitar knob settings a la Jeff Beck on a tube amp instead of all the amp modeling that some of the guitar players are using onstage these days.

 

[cobrahead1030]

I watched the full Rig Rundown last night and now I want to try some P90’s. Kinda like playing through a Marshall, I’ve managed to go over 30 years without trying P90’s.

I recently got a couple of P90 guitars & wish I’d gotten into them years ago. They really are a kind of sweet spot between humbuckers & singles for me, and they have this growl & microphone’ish character that’s very unique.

 

[skoora]

I recently got a couple of P90 guitars & wish I’d gotten into them years ago. They really are a kind of sweet spot between humbuckers & singles for me, and they have this growl & microphone’ish character that’s very unique.

Don’t be afraid to use the tone pots. They make them really versatile. There are some amps where the top end will take your head off and rolling the tone back to 6-7 makes it really work.

 

[cobrahead1030]

Don’t be afraid to use the tone pots. They make them really versatile. There are some amps where the top end will take your head off and rolling the tone back to 6-7 makes it really work.

Yeah the Throbaks I put into my es330 are pretty bright & feedback prone, I usually keep the bridge tone around 5, neck around 6.

They’re pretty finicky with some amps, making me turn a few more knobs to get a sound I want on any given day. They sound so glorious when dialed in where I want them though. I need to record something using some gain on the verge of feedback.

 

[mytone]

I bought one of the 1959 Modified 3 months ago. I've had every boutique Marshall Clone there is in the last 20 years and well I plugged into my favorite 412 loaded with Blackbacks and as they say there it was, It immediately became I'll sure as hell never sell amp. So much fun to play and you know exactly where you are in the mix. No more guessing. Life is good. Love this amp like no other. Glad to see it getting some more coverage, and great coverage.

 

[John4021]

Also has great taste in beer. Looks like some HBs

I'd have slapped that interviewer guy setting the beer on his amp.

 

[John4021]

I recently got a couple of P90 guitars & wish I’d gotten into them years ago. They really are a kind of sweet spot between humbuckers & singles for me, and they have this growl & microphone’ish character that’s very unique.

I had a real 1958
Gibson double cut and that stock P90 killed.

 

[skoora]

I had a real 1958
Gibson double cut and that stock P90 killed.

I’ve been very lucky to play a few 50’s Juniors and Specials over the years and they always sounded incredible. Especially the dog ears. This perfect growl and never abrasive in the top end.

 

[cobrahead1030]

I had a real 1958
Gibson double cut and that stock P90 killed.

I got a real 1959 es330 last year, that unfortunately had the originals robbed long ago. I found some very nice Throbak recreations that sound fantastic, but I’d love to have heard what the stock p90’s sounded like.

 

[DanTravis62]

I’ve been very lucky to play a few 50’s Juniors and Specials over the years and they always sounded incredible. Especially the dog ears. This perfect growl and never abrasive in the top end.

There's some sort of magic or voodoo in those old P90s that's incredible

 

[valve]

found this. his old blackstar sounds pretty killer here, like it more than the marshall tones:

 

[Briman24]

Great tone. Reminds me of a old plexi mixed with a jmp........... which are Marsalls Why can't Marahall do that? Mix two great amps into one....

 

[Music&Chaos]

found this. his old blackstar sounds pretty killer here, like it more than the marshall tones:

Old rig has a 'flat' sound to me. All blackstars have an odd 'flat' EQ in the midrange. The tone can be midrange oriented but even here, sounds like it keeps trying to fall in the background instead of the front of the other instruments. No matter how loud it is - the detail will remain in the background and slightly muffled. I can't stand it. Just like here - you can hear the guitar but almost sounds distant, even when 'in front' as much as possible. He needed to move on and thank goodness he did. I wanna hear this guy's nuance - he has it in his playing and these amps mask it.

 

[valve]

Old rig has a 'flat' sound to me. All blackstars have an odd 'flat' EQ in the midrange. The tone can be midrange oriented but even here, sounds like it keeps trying to fall in the background instead of the front of the other instruments. No matter how loud it is - the detail will remain in the background and slightly muffled. I can't stand it. Just like here - you can hear the guitar but almost sounds distant, even when 'in front' as much as possible. He needed to move on and thank goodness he did. I wanna hear this guy's nuance - he has it in his playing and these amps mask it.

the muffled part comes from not using a pick
i don't know, i love the mids, nothing is too hyped. surely that's mostly the speaker i am liking, anyway.
well i am not too fond of all the hair and wild/messy stuff going on with plexi style amps and the upper mid heavy voicing can get annoying pretty quick at least to my ears.

 

[Music&Chaos]

the muffled part comes from not using a pick
i don't know, i love the mids, nothing is too hyped. surely that's mostly the speaker i am liking, anyway.
well i am not too fond of all the hair and wild/messy stuff going on with plexi style amps and the upper mid heavy voicing can get annoying pretty quick at least to my ears.

The mids in a Blackstar and the overall sound always fails to hit a certain part of my aural map for lack of a better way to describe it. There is nothing that can be done with them to fix it. Can be loud, treble boosted, mid boosted - they never excite the same part the new Marshall does.

 

[valve]

well never played one myself, but playing and hearing can be very different. if i played one i might never unhear it.
anything muffled drives me nuts when playing myself, so i think i have a glue what you're getting at