also worth noting those clips were done before he had officially released the line which is why i wasn't supposed to show the amps in the shot because cosmetically they weren't finished.
on the original 2001 amp shotout video this footage debuted in, there was extra footage/audio of vic playing woman in love where he rolls off the volume and gets a killer clean on, but alas the original tape got crunched in that section so i couldn't add it to the youtube version.
the day i spent at plexi palace/mojave filming and hanging out with vic, a customer came in to pick up his marshall which vic had restored, and when the guy plugged in his mcnaught, it was kinda generic marshall with not enough gain. the guy started to hem and haw, and vic plugged in with his brown strat, and BAM brown sound. TOTALLY shut the guy up with the first few chords. he then gently suggested that perhaps it was the guitar that needed some modification at that point.
which is what got me on the tom holmes pickup fixation. vic has the holmes 455 in his strat bridge. and a floyd
we also ran a coyote with current off the shelf tubes and then NOS pre/power, and i cannot stress how much difference that made.
same with the plexi 45. blind test, i wouldn't want the plexi 45 with generic 6L6s.
but NOS KT66 and preamp tubes makes it the best JTM45 tone i've ever heard in my life, except for his limited edition plexi 45 which was even more dialed in due to all NOS parts/radio spares transformer. that week i went to GC hollywood and layed a komet 60, and although it was a great amp, didn't hold a candle to the plexi 45 tone i heard at vic's which was generally in the same ballpark of glassy clean to mean with volume knob tone.
i just wish everyone could hear vic's rig in person, set up the way he does it. as far as simple, pure, clear to the core rock tone, for me, it doesn't get better.
