petejt
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charveldan":fejp1k0r said:
wtf...
I never knew he used (ore pretended to) racks & Lee Jackson amps...
wtf...
I never knew he used (ore pretended to) racks & Lee Jackson amps...
JerryP
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I thought the Lee Jackson preamp was horrible. I've had several here and didn't dig them at all. For almost every other amp or mod he did he used a pretty standard circuit, the preamp was totally different.
Jerry
Jerry
crankyrayhanky
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I have a lead on a LJ amp cheap, may buy back into the club
Can FJA turn it into a metal mod yet keep the cool Marshally rock sound available at lower settings? I'm guessing yes
Can FJA turn it into a metal mod yet keep the cool Marshally rock sound available at lower settings? I'm guessing yes
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Bill Brasky
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I used to have massive GAS for a Metaltronix amp when I was a ZW fan. Zakk used a wall of Metaltronix amps at that Moscow Music Peace festival. It sounded pretty great, I thought. His NRFTW tone is based around the LJ rack preamp. I read that there are at least three different versions of that rack preamp. One is more Fender voiced, one is Marshally and the other is modded Marshall, something like that.
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gtrwun
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I had an M-1000 but it never worked right. The pots were mounted directly to the board and any kind of rough handling on this thing was just a nightmare and caused the pots to crack where they were connected to the board. Certainly not the only manufacture to use this design, but it was impossible to locate someone who would work on it back when I had it. Too bad, it seemed like it had potential and I admire Lee's work on some of the modded stuff he did.......but in this day and age there are more reliable options.
metalmaniac93
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I had a XLS-1000 and it sounded really good, but I was moving away from the 80's type of sound in the early 90s and needed something with more gain so I sold it to my buddy who still has it.
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Anonymous
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What I remember about LJ amps...The XL series anyways..They were being fronted by Horizon Cables which is now owned by/partnered with Rapco. where and who built them? I do not know.
So...with that knowledge your no further along than when you started..
So...with that knowledge your no further along than when you started..
FUZZboat
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Bill Brasky":34oj64ot said:
LJ's website used to have all the info
he stated their were "2 different versions of the preamp -
one Fender voiced & one Marshall voiced"
He acknowledged that 99% people preferred the Marshall voiced
version and he even included the "mod" to change the Fender voiced
version into the Marshall voiced version.
been years since I went to LJ's website - the info might still be there
guitarmike
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The problem with any piece of gear from Lee Jackson is that it has to be played loud to get decent sounds out of it. The Metatronix head I had was without question the loudest amp I ever owned. If you play stadiums its a great amp, anywhere else not so much. the XLA/XLS are real hit and miss. You need to go through quite a few to find ones that sound good. I finally gave up and sold all of it except for the LJ cab I have. It is built incredibly well, someday I'll get some good speakers in it.
JTyson
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Agreed, that had to be the loudest 100 watts I've ever heard, and it def liked to be cranked. It was kinda annoying that I had to make a fire extinguisher part of my rig for that time.guitarmike":1wlx6rvs said:
Those cabs were built to withstand a nuclear blast.
petejt
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I read that Andy LaRoque and Mike Denner of King Diamond used the Metaltronix rack preamp with an Alesis Quadraverb for effects, to record 1987's 'Abigail'. It sounds okay and has this cutting "squawk", but compared to the boosted Marshall head with a mod pedal sound from a few years earlier (Mercyful Fate) it sounds thin. They used the same or similar rig for '1988's "Them" and it sounds even thinner.
The old Marshall sound had more guts and roar, not this hollowness with a forced mid-spike.
The old Marshall sound had more guts and roar, not this hollowness with a forced mid-spike.
Tonelover
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I'm selling an XLS1000 combo right now. It's been fun but I'm on to something else. It does not have to be loud to sound good because he put a built in attenuator sort of thing that works really well. The fricking thing has two preamps and has the most gain of any amp I've ever seen.
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Schaf
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Tonelover":2dq59x6n said:
Man. I have the ampeg 502. I call the attenuater knob the suck knob. Like a blanket over the speakers.
jerrydyer
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i know this is old topic but i have one at my house right now. it had a melted plug where the heaters come in off the trannie and then to the board.
uuuhh this thing sucks. i think the tone and gain are lame. whats the deal .. my friend told me they are discontinued? maybe lee said get these off the market cause they are lame and not a good representation of my work???/? I dont know but its not a good sounding amp.
uuuhh this thing sucks. i think the tone and gain are lame. whats the deal .. my friend told me they are discontinued? maybe lee said get these off the market cause they are lame and not a good representation of my work???/? I dont know but its not a good sounding amp.
JerEvil
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He has used them for years. Boosts with a Boss OD I believe.petejt":2i44xnz1 said:
bravedude2
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soc_monki
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petejt":2bb2hnsx said:
Yea, he used, or still uses, the GP1000, along with Roope. he MAY have boosted them with an SD-1 back in the day, but mostly its been the Jackson RR's with the MM04 boost/EQ circuit. various poweramps, Peavey 50/50, Engl, VHT, and Hatecrew was done with the GP1000 through a 5150's power section. i think Bloodrunk was the Marshall Kerry King sig amps, they might still use them some in the studio, but i believe after that one album they went back to the GP1000 setups, at least for live.
they also have PSA-1's in their racks. such a nasty tone
i would still love to get ahold of a GP1000, marshall style please. but theyre hard to get ahold of and are very expensive. and yea, Zakk supposedly used them as well, i think they were credited in the No Rest for the Wicked liner notes...dont know how true that is, because the tone between No Rest and No More Tears is pretty similar, and i think its pretty well known that it was JCM800s all over No More Tears. then again, the Lee Jackson stuff is based off Marshall style tones so...?
petejt
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soc_monki":2fn4akzd said:petejt":2fn4akzd said:
Yea, he used, or still uses, the GP1000, along with Roope. he MAY have boosted them with an SD-1 back in the day, but mostly its been the Jackson RR's with the MM04 boost/EQ circuit. various poweramps, Peavey 50/50, Engl, VHT, and Hatecrew was done with the GP1000 through a 5150's power section. i think Bloodrunk was the Marshall Kerry King sig amps, they might still use them some in the studio, but i believe after that one album they went back to the GP1000 setups, at least for live.
they also have PSA-1's in their racks. such a nasty tone
and yea, Zakk supposedly used them as well, i think they were credited in the No Rest for the Wicked liner notes...dont know how true that is, because the tone between No Rest and No More Tears is pretty similar, and i think its pretty well known that it was JCM800s all over No More Tears. then again, the Lee Jackson stuff is based off Marshall style tones so...?
Ah okay, thanks.
JerryP
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jerrydyer":3vmv8ets said:
Lee hasn't made amps in over 15 years. Which model do you have there?
Jerry
Chris6870
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jerrydyer":23ghmytq said:
The heater mod is well documented. Should be an easy fix for ya. If I recall undersized molex connectors were used that melted. Ditch the connector and solder directly if I remember correctly.
I bought one of those pictured above brand new. It blew up within a few weeks and the store said it was not repairable and gave me my money back.