New Interview with Jason Tong from Headfirst Amplification on Marshall Amp Modding and Tone

[SaberRed]

Hope you all don't mind me plugging another interview I did with some colleagues.

I've recently uploaded our full interview with Jason Tong of Headfirst Amplification, recorded as part of The Marshall Modification Project, which is an academic research series exploring the history, technology, and culture of Marshall amp modding (academic articles and book in the pipeline)

This video release comes after our interview with Dave Friedman (link on our Youtube channel), and features over two and a half hours of discussion on Jason’s background, design philosophy, circuit approaches, working with players, the evolution of high-gain tone, online culture, modelling and captures etc.

There’s a lot of good stuff in here.

Enjoy!

 

[Monkey Man]

Jason's a stand-up guy based on my "experience" with him.

All-good bro'.

 

[SaberRed]

Jason's a stand-up guy based on my "experience" with him.

All-good bro'.

Yes, Jason is a great guy. Fantastic builder, very knowledgeable and great at explaining tech in a way musicians can understand.

 

[Monkey Man]

Indeed.

 

[BABMusic]

How would you describe his amps in comparison to the others?

 

[shar-vell Dan]

2.5 hrs yikes.
Seems the"amp mod" industry is beyond full circle w/ nothing left to conquer.

 

[griff10672]

2.5 hrs yikes.
Seems the"amp mod" industry is beyond full circle w/ nothing left to conquer.

the premise for these interviews are great ..... but it leaves the person getting interviewed up to carrying the whole podcast ...

I watched the Friedman one ..... it was all him ..... they ask one question and then you have to talk for an hour

 

[Bloodrock]

His Jose modded Marshall Origins sound killer. Wish I could find one.

 

[SaberRed]

the premise for these interviews are great ..... but it leaves the person getting interviewed up to carrying the whole podcast ...

I watched the Friedman one ..... it was all him ..... they ask one question and then you have to talk for an hour

That’s intentional by design. The idea behind these interviews, which are for academic research, is to keep the focus entirely on the guest.

We use the same ten open-ended questions with all guests and then step back so they can take the discussion wherever they want. It’s part of the project’s research approach: the goal is to document their thoughts and experiences as fully as possible, not to turn it into a back-and-forth chat. Hope that makes sense; we've tried to make this clear in the intros.

The actual background is that we never intended to release these to the public on YouTube. We recorded the interviews solely for our analysis, but the material was too good to sit on. So, we decided to release them with the short intros added retrospectively.

If people want back-and-forth chat, Tonetalk is the place