Bagel and Creamcheese
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YabbaDabbaDoo
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Very nice woody sounding amp and George is such a GREAT GREAT guy.
If it were at least 30yrs ago and I was still playing I'd buy one in a heartbeat...........fuck it, I'd buy 2.
I wish him the very best with this...............he deserves it and then some.
If it were at least 30yrs ago and I was still playing I'd buy one in a heartbeat...........fuck it, I'd buy 2.
I wish him the very best with this...............he deserves it and then some.
Ben Waylin
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I'll wait for the Pete Thorn demo.
Bagel and Creamcheese
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I have NO use for this amp. I'd never gig it, I'd never rehearse it and I'd play it at volume 1 at home - completely useless to me.
But I WANT one.
I agree about George. I met him at one of the old Amp Days they did at a hotel. Nice guy.
psychodave
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I doesn't sound like VH in the slightest bit. lol
FWIW, I've owned a 67 plexi since 1991 and know the plexi sound. His clone sounds good, but I can hear the nuance in his original that the clone doesn't have.
FWIW, I've owned a 67 plexi since 1991 and know the plexi sound. His clone sounds good, but I can hear the nuance in his original that the clone doesn't have.
rsm
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c'mon man, a Marshall Code sounds better.
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Ben Waylin
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Ben Waylin
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Bagel and Creamcheese
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Ben Waylin
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green line = 25k mid pot
red line = 50k pot
red line = 50k pot
psychodave
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Thanks. Still don’t hear it. Sounds like AC/DC. Not even close to EVH.
FWIW, I was at Chris Merrens parents house 20+ years ago and played his late 67 Plexi. That amp sounded like VH and had a shit ton of gain. I have pictures of the guts somewhere with it being stock.
Ben Waylin
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psychodave
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Took me a while to find this pic... Chris Merrens 67 plexi.
Monkey Man
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Moved to the main RT sub-forum. 
PDC
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I’d like to hear someone like Al Estrada plug a strat style guitar in with a bit of verb in the loop before I give my ‘final answer’ on how close it gets to those early VH tones.
SpiderWars
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I’ve experimented with the mid pot and fat cap mods and they make a big difference but certain amps seem to take to those mods better than others. I recently put the fat cap on a switch and I go back and forth with it. With slight overwound PAF types it’s ON but with hotter pickups I prefer no cap there.
He could get closer if it was variac’d down…and got someone else to demo the amp. EVH always had sweet tuning…that LP not so much. That makes the distortion sound different.
But that Mk II Metro does sound great. Just getting that close to an original ‘68 is an accomplishment…and two modes.
He could get closer if it was variac’d down…and got someone else to demo the amp. EVH always had sweet tuning…that LP not so much. That makes the distortion sound different.
But that Mk II Metro does sound great. Just getting that close to an original ‘68 is an accomplishment…and two modes.
Ben Waylin
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Going back and reading the old MetroAmp forum nowadays, it's pretty amazing how much those guys had wrong about getting that early VH tone.
If you go and try what this guy here is doing, it all makes sense.
If you go and try what this guy here is doing, it all makes sense.
RaceU4her
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dude can play
TheGreatGreen
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I kind of agree here. With these super old vintage plexi style circuits, it almost seems like the amp is just about the least impactful thing in the chain, or maybe it's better to say it's the most "easily influenced by everything else in the chain" thing in the chain. The guitar, pickups, speakers and mic'ing, and how you play make all the difference in the world with these amps.
