The Infamous Purple Plexi

[Ayrton]

So are we any closer to finding out who actually owns the amp now?

 

[FortinAmps]

Oh the stories I now know about tone from the major 80's bands after spending a week with Wagner. But I am sworn to not talk about it! So much is flat out lies!

Well thanks for the tease

 

[rupe]

Oh the stories I now know about tone from the major 80's bands after spending a week with Wagner. But I am sworn to not talk about it! So much is flat out lies!

Well thanks for the tease

No shit...why post anything at all if you're going to pull that shit?

 

[mixohoytian]

GO TO http://WWW.GEARSLUTZ.COM
go to the high end section

and you can hear michael wagener himself talk to forum members about how he recorded lynch and nuno

when people try to cop recorded tone, I don't think they understand that what they are hearing is a blend of multiple mics on multiple speakers in different rooms...
not one mic on one speaker from one head in one room

 

[Hamer95USA]

I really hate to say this but the stock Marshall tone never did it for me unless it was doctored up somehow. Ive always gravitated towards hot rodded tones even as a Kid and if a Marshall was stock it usually had to have a few stomp boxes in front of it or some sort of EQ in order for me to like it

Ralph,
I think we are all really saying the same thing here. I never plugged straight in to my Marshalls either. I always MODDED them with a TS-9 or an SD-1 or a OD 250 or a GE-7 or an Ibanez GE-9 or an MXR 6-Band or the Furman PQ-3.

It's just when you "mod" Marshalls the way I do you can instantly change the entire vibe and flavor and do it using the same tools that my heroes used just by switching from what was a $29 TS-9 to a $39 SD-1 to a $199 Furman PQ-3 etc. The amp underwent RADICAL changes that way and I was always in control of what kind of flavor I wanted to add to my amp that day.

I guess what I am saying in 2 million words is that, I prefer the blank canvas that is a good, stock Marshall.

 

[EXPcustom]

That was a very insightful reason to bump a ten year old thread, awesome!

 

[panhead]

Aspen told me in1991 that there was nothing special about that amp. It was the usual Lynch hype. Actually said he would sale it for$1200. Told me to get in touch with Brent Magnano if I wanted a really good sounding plexi.

 

[psychodave]

Forum memeber Squarehead has said that the amp blew up and was beyond repairing, he stated I THINK that he had a shot at that amp at one point. PM him for his take.

Yeah that's what i remember reading too!

I seem to remember that it had a blown power or output tranny, and that when they replaced it it never ever sounded close to the tone it had before.

Same with Hetfields 2C++. It blew a transformer and now has a Mark IV transformer...

 

[Racerxrated]

Forum memeber Squarehead has said that the amp blew up and was beyond repairing, he stated I THINK that he had a shot at that amp at one point. PM him for his take.

Yeah that's what i remember reading too!

I seem to remember that it had a blown power or output tranny, and that when they replaced it it never ever sounded close to the tone it had before.

Same with Hetfields 2C++. It blew a transformer and now has a Mark IV transformer...

And some people out there believe the transformers don't make that much of a difference....

 

[panhead]

Wow maybe that`s why he was willing to sell it.

 

[Rdodson]

Always fun to see pre-ster*id Lynch.

 

[vultures]

I thought I was losing my mind seeing who was posting in this thread until I saw the dates.

 

[mentoneman]

hi guys!

all this 80's lynch talk seems like a fitting place to plop in with this been having fun with Zachman's Atomica! Gives me an excuse to play more than once or twice a month

no speakers were used in this clip-only gets WAY better when you use actual speakers!!
-all DI from rack into the Canon camera's mic input.
The rocktron rack interface's old school "cab emulation" circuit is the only thing softening the DI blow. Makes me kinda wanna try all that fancy IR stuff.

reminds me of this lovely story Chubtone Curt shared leading to this Brad-era Cameron Atomica -boy a new Chubtone/Henning/Atomica amp line would sure be killer!!(cue harp rolls and ripple dissolve

....Mark Cameron more than anyone holds the keys to the Jose tone,

NOTE :interesting story relayed by Rig-Talks user "Chubtone" regarding the original Jose ATOMICA:

CHUBTONE Wrote:
Here's a very interesting Jose story that I experienced first hand. My buddy owned a guitar shop in Huntington Beach. Mark Cameron worked for him and I was already having Mark work on my amps. This was probably 1997 when his store opened. In about 2000, my buddy bought the entire Jose collection of amps from Jose's family after Jose passed away. They took the truck down to pick them up and I left my store I own and drove to their store to wait with Mark for the delivery. The truck gets there and we start unloading Super Lead after Super Lead after Super Lead (almost exclusively metal panel amps). Someone noticed that taped to the bottom of almost every single amp was an invoice. We started turning all the amps upside down and reading off the names on the invoices: Neal Schon, Mick Mars, Bruce Bouillet, etc etc I don't even remember all the names but it was a who's who of LA rock guitarists.

All these guys had sent Jose amps for mods and then Jose passed and they never got their amps back. Well Mark and I start weeding through the amps and going for the ones that we could tell from the exterior were already modded. Very soon we found an amp that had the name ATOMICA stenciled across the front where the Marshall logo should have been. It was a '68 Super Lead and was beat to hell. This was THE amp guys seriously. It was that sound, in a box, right in front of us. Mark was playing through it and it was just that tone I had always wanted. We switched off playing it and I decided I HAD to have that amp. I went to talk to the owner who was one of closest friends at the time. I offered him $1500, he said no. I offered him $2k he said no. Now $2k was about what a very nice plexi was selling for at the time and this was a beat to hell metal panel. $2500? No. $3000!!!!!!!!! No.

He said, just let me sort through this stuff and I'll sell you the amp once I figure out what's what. Mark loved the amp so much, and there were so many Super Leads there that Mark took it and hid it in his pile of amps to be repaired in his repair room. For months, Mark would pull it out when I came in and we would play it then he would hide it again. The owner and I had an agreement that it was mine when he decided to sell it, but by this point he didn't even remember he had it. Then my buddies shop started having severe financial trouble.... severe. Mark kept telling me the amp is still there. You better get it soon. I said don't worry it's mine, your boss promised.

About 3 weeks later Mark called me..... "did you get the Atomica amp?" No, I said...... Mark said, "WELL IT'S GONE. I've torn the whole shop apart!" I called the owner and when he finally got back to me he confirmed he had sold a "bunch of broken stuff that Mark was never going to fix" to a competitor. HOLY CRAP!!!!! I called that shop and he said, "Oh yeah, the Atomica amp? I had ******* fix it and return it to stock and I sold it". Now ******* was the biggest electronics doofus you could imagine. He was a keyboard player and didn't have the slightest clue about tone. The ATOMICA amp was gone, but thankfully Mark Cameron poked around inside that amp for months and knows every little secret as to why that amp sounded so good. How much of the Atomica amp inspired Marks's "Jose" mod? More than a little I'd guess.

This amp will be built in a collaboration with world class amp builder George Metropoulous and his Metro Amplifiers Company (http://plexireplicas.com) and feature the best in class components and the famed Metro FX Loop.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Sounds awesome even with the old school cab sim! Great sounding amp.

 

[mentoneman]

Sounds awesome even with the old school cab sim! Great sounding amp.

mahalo kind sir!
it’s really the ultimate rock amp imo. wish you all had a chance to hear it wdw with 4x12s.
Psycho.