still love my mojave peacemaker!

[mentoneman]

plugged the vertex plexitone pedal in front of the head into a tone tubby hbomb cab and tc flashback from hotplate out to wet amp.

still amazed. with pt off the clean is so clear and rich. pedal on---brown.

love to get another carol ann, which is king of that tone heap, and im a big fan of two rock cleans, cameron fire, steve's cherry bombs are also smoking, and dirty shirley sounds sweet-

but the mojave is just a perfect plexi machine for me! i want the plexi 45 bad too!

 

[mentoneman]

ps it was a very audley freed tone kind of afternoon, then a dab of srv with the arc furnace pedal in place of the plexitone for a lower twangier kind of dirt.
if i had a super reverb cranked and blended in there it would have been a serious stevie moment!

 

[Shark Diver]

He is just up the hill from me and I have never played a Mojave. I hear great things and really need to. My gf was teaching vocals out of a shop he was in. Not sure how I've managed to never play one.

 

[jcj]

Really dig your playing; the Mojave suits you well!

 

[philnz]

Really dig your playing; the Mojave suits you well!
Really dig your playing; the Mojave suits you well!

+1

Absolutely love my Peacemaker.
Recently had a very good local tech do a LG/HG Jose mod to it, truly takes it to another level

Got my Mojave 4x12 cab back yesterday. The H30's were replaced with 65w M75's OMG
The Scummys were the final piece in the tone puzzle.
Warm woody chewy, everything I was looking for.
The perfect compliment

 

[mentoneman]

He is just up the hill from me and I have never played a Mojave. I hear great things and really need to. My gf was teaching vocals out of a shop he was in. Not sure how I've managed to never play one.

i spoke with vic friday-such a nice guy. he just built his final dirty boy so that anp is no longer available, along with the peacemaker, of which i have serial #2 and the only mojave HG modded one in existance.
but after talking with him i was messing around with mine and boy what a great amp. i know you are soldano to the bone so the lack of preamp gain may be an issue for you but for my pedal based rig it is awesome!

 

[mentoneman]

Really dig your playing; the Mojave suits you well!

thanks man-my hands love this amp!
like a bunch of us here-zachman, steve, carl, curt, mark...who have owned or own a peacemaker, there is a feel and tone about it that is really sweet and solid and pure and not so common in other marshall type amps. i keep playing modern marshalls and looking for mojave tone unsuccessfully!

 

[carlygtr]

It was a good amp. I always thought the tone controls were dialed to a VH II type tone. Plexi, but smooth. Sounded great with pedals, which is how I use any NMV Marshall type amp

 

[mentoneman]

Really dig your playing; the Mojave suits you well!
Really dig your playing; the Mojave suits you well!

+1

Absolutely love my Peacemaker.
Recently had a very good local tech do a LG/HG Jose mod to it, truly takes it to another level

Got my Mojave 4x12 cab back yesterday. The H30's were replaced with 65w M75's OMG
The Scummys were the final piece in the tone puzzle.
Warm woody chewy, everything I was looking for.
The perfect compliment

sweet! always cool meeting a fellow mojave player who relates to the most high tone!
when i was at vic's shop getting my amp tweaked, he kept struggling with the speakers in my cab-namely the g75t.
i eventually pulled that and replaced with scumback m75 for the win!

 

[thenine]

no more Dirty Boy's?

 

[mentoneman]

It was a good amp. I always thought the tone controls were dialed to a VH II type tone. Plexi, but smooth. Sounded great with pedals, which is how I use any NMV Marshall type amp

yup
the vertex plexitone pedal is a killer match and as i was playing it yesterday it reminded me of steve's cherry bomb amp in some ways, although his is kinda hotter/tighter but still forgiving to the touch, and obviously doesn't need a pedal to achieve massive levels of gain.

man i forgot how great the peacemaker's clean tone was.

 

[mentoneman]

no more Dirty Boy's?

correct
he's building the last one now.
it was cool to be a part of the evolution of that amp-what an undertaking...the original had 7 transformers!!

 

[mixohoytian]

me too, still have my peacemaker, love it. It gives that classic organic vibe, any way you set it/ mic it

 

[Shark Diver]

He is just up the hill from me and I have never played a Mojave. I hear great things and really need to. My gf was teaching vocals out of a shop he was in. Not sure how I've managed to never play one.

i spoke with vic friday-such a nice guy. he just built his final dirty boy so that anp is no longer available, along with the peacemaker, of which i have serial #2 and the only mojave HG modded one in existance.
but after talking with him i was messing around with mine and boy what a great amp. i know you are soldano to the bone so the lack of preamp gain may be an issue for you but for my pedal based rig it is awesome!

Funny thing is I use the Hiwatt/Soldano all the time now as a pedal based amp with a few Himmelstrutz boost. Haven't turned a real SLO on in about a year...

 

[mentoneman]

me too, still have my peacemaker, love it. It gives that classic organic vibe, any way you set it/ mic it

sorry man didn't mean to leave you out! you know the "tone" !
i think a guy named jj gray is around here and still has his too.

interesting thread sidenote..i started it last night at home in Mentone, added in ontario airport this morning at 5am, added to it again in salt lake city at 9am, and now sit waiting for a flight in Kalispell airport in Montana!

 

[Anonymous]

It was a good amp. I always thought the tone controls were dialed to a VH II type tone. Plexi, but smooth. Sounded great with pedals, which is how I use any NMV Marshall type amp

yup
the vertex plexitone pedal is a killer match and as i was playing it yesterday it reminded me of steve's cherry bomb amp in some ways, although his is kinda hotter/tighter but still forgiving to the touch, and obviously doesn't need a pedal to achieve massive levels of gain.

man i forgot how great the peacemaker's clean tone was.

It is high praise indeed for my amp to be mentioned positively in a discussion about Vic's amps... much appreciated, Pat!

Steve

 

[mentoneman]

He is just up the hill from me and I have never played a Mojave. I hear great things and really need to. My gf was teaching vocals out of a shop he was in. Not sure how I've managed to never play one.

i spoke with vic friday-such a nice guy. he just built his final dirty boy so that anp is no longer available, along with the peacemaker, of which i have serial #2 and the only mojave HG modded one in existance.
but after talking with him i was messing around with mine and boy what a great amp. i know you are soldano to the bone so the lack of preamp gain may be an issue for you but for my pedal based rig it is awesome!

Funny thing is I use the Hiwatt/Soldano all the time now as a pedal based amp with a few Himmelstrutz boost. Haven't turned a real SLO on in about a year...

then you'd probably love to visit vic and hear his rigs in action-it's really worth spending time with him to hear his amps the way HE likes to set them up instead of playing a used one somewhere with a bad tube, abused, etc...

he has been contemplating a hiwatt style circuit for a while, in a potential 2 channel head, and that's what i love about him; he has such an intimate knowledge of the classics (vox/fender/marshall/hiwatt/ampeg, etc) and maintains all the best qualities of them while eliminating many of the pitfalls like heat, noise, clutter, cheap parts, etc.

 

[mentoneman]

It was a good amp. I always thought the tone controls were dialed to a VH II type tone. Plexi, but smooth. Sounded great with pedals, which is how I use any NMV Marshall type amp

yup
the vertex plexitone pedal is a killer match and as i was playing it yesterday it reminded me of steve's cherry bomb amp in some ways, although his is kinda hotter/tighter but still forgiving to the touch, and obviously doesn't need a pedal to achieve massive levels of gain.

man i forgot how great the peacemaker's clean tone was.

It is high praise indeed for my amp to be mentioned positively in a discussion about Vic's amps... much appreciated, Pat!

Steve

you deserve it man-great tone machine and cor those that can't hang with the peacemaker vintage gain levels/pedals, yours is the next logical step in the evolution.

 

[mentoneman]

A friend of mine has over than 60 amplifiers and he is always telling this Mojave is the keeper! (SLO is a keeper too).
I loved when I played it!

mojaves sort of sneak up on you and are kinda tone time machines.
with the ethos pedal i get a really sweet lead sound that reminds me of the carol ann lead channel-part marshall part dumble in the joe b. / e.j. lead realm

with the plexitone it's way more vh, with the arc furnace it's way more srv...just a great pedal platform

 

[JJGray]

me too, still have my peacemaker, love it. It gives that classic organic vibe, any way you set it/ mic it

sorry man didn't mean to leave you out! you know the "tone" !
i think a guy named jj gray is around here and still has his too.

interesting thread sidenote..i started it last night at home in Mentone, added in ontario airport this morning at 5am, added to it again in salt lake city at 9am, and now sit waiting for a flight in Kalispell airport in Montana!

Hey Pat,

Yes indeed, I still have my Peacemaker and Scorpion (both serial #0025) as well as my two Mojave 4x12's, one wired stereo and one mono. Love 'em and will always keep them. I knew I had the right amp when I could walk up and smile every time I plugged in! Probably the single biggest thing I love about these amps is their clean distortion which makes chords sound huge and string articulation which is so pleasing on the ears. And adding a slight boost into the front can always put it over the top. Rock on my fellow Mojave owners!

-John