VIDEO: Ceria Tone Plexi Super Lead 100

[James Lugo]

Some people were asking for this:

 

[glassjaw7]

Oh hell yeah!

 

[Ancient Alien]

Excellent recording bro.
Nothing like some good mics into Neves and a cranked Plexi....

 

[Shiny_Surface]

Very cool, amp sounds great.

 

[James Lugo]

Thanks guys. I just listened to the video, yeah the sound is awesome. I'm gonna try and get hold of an AEA R84 and see how that sounds. My engineer Dan came in this afternoon and played it and s**t a brick. Lot of fun.

 

[gbsmusic]

That thing is dead quite isn't it? It just sounds so clean, there is no harsh fizz to it just sounds beautiful, and it sounded great with all the guitars, they each added their own tone to the amp but the true tone of the amp really shines through! Great job!!

 

[stratotone]

VERY cool! One question - sometime could you do a recording like this of an amp and also use some sort of recorder like a Zoom or such just so we can hear the difference between the two? I know the Zoom and the recorders like that are pretty cheap, but they seem to capture the room pretty well and would give some of us a really nice reference since most of us don't have the kickass gear you do... but we have a zoom. I'd love to hear what the nice microphones, expert placement and recording to tape sounds like vs the zoom in the room.

Pete

 

[viking22]

Nice!Love the studio (Studer ) !

 

[James Lugo]

We just fired up all the cabs, the amp is insane through my Orange 4X12 straight, 2 - V30s, 2 - H75s. Whole other trip. Jeff Beck all the way. What an amp. I wish I had used the Orange cab in the video along with the Scumback.

 

[Digital Jams]

Sounds really good, damn good really.

Killer recording equipment.

 

[glassjaw7]

sounds better than most amps and probabaly costs less than a typical L.A. mod

There's something cool about an amp that has compression and saturation and "plays itself" so to speak, but like you said, this sounds better than most amps I hear clips of or play in person. Just good, pure tone. The classic circuits will never go out of style!

 

[James Lugo]

sounds better than most amps and probabaly costs less than a typical L.A. mod

There's something cool about an amp that has compression and saturation and "plays itself" so to speak, but like you said, this sounds better than most amps I hear clips of or play in person. Just good, pure tone. The classic circuits will never go out of style!

But you know I have so many of those amps with master volumes and are easy to play, this is a whole other trip. Dan played it last night with his Tele through the Orange cab, it was the best I had ever heard him sound or play, it really brought out his thing on guitar, kind of Jeff Beck meets Joe Perry. It makes you play honest, no Line6 wanking allowed....lol

 

[Jay Strange]

I had a similiar experience with my JTM 45/100 that I got after
having the slew of modded Marshalls.
Just pure RAW tone. You have to work a bit harder but the tone
is well worth it.

 

[mentoneman]

sounds better than most amps and probabaly costs less than a typical L.A. mod

There's something cool about an amp that has compression and saturation and "plays itself" so to speak, but like you said, this sounds better than most amps I hear clips of or play in person. Just good, pure tone. The classic circuits will never go out of style!

But you know I have so many of those amps with master volumes and are easy to play, this is a whole other trip. Dan played it last night with his Tele through the Orange cab, it was the best I had ever heard him sound or play, it really brought out his thing on guitar, kind of Jeff Beck meets Joe Perry. It makes you play honest, no Line6 wanking allowed....lol

it isn't a very popular concept round these parts but i'd generally agree that more preamp distortion equals less tone. i mean by the very nature of it's definition recording anything with tons of "distortion" is like taking a picture of somebody cartwheeling through your frame at a gazillion miles an hour and hoping to capture what they were thinking about over breakfast this morning. it's a distorted perspective.

i enjoy supersoaker gain madness for fun and pretending to conjure images of fabio wielding excaliber on a flying white horse chopping heads off of dragons, but if you wanna hear the person breathing and see them street fighting, hand them a classic gtr plugged into a vintage amp.

paging steve vai.

 

[smdb]

sounds better than most amps and probabaly costs less than a typical L.A. mod

There's something cool about an amp that has compression and saturation and "plays itself" so to speak, but like you said, this sounds better than most amps I hear clips of or play in person. Just good, pure tone. The classic circuits will never go out of style!

But you know I have so many of those amps with master volumes and are easy to play, this is a whole other trip. Dan played it last night with his Tele through the Orange cab, it was the best I had ever heard him sound or play, it really brought out his thing on guitar, kind of Jeff Beck meets Joe Perry. It makes you play honest, no Line6 wanking allowed....lol

it isn't a very popular concept round these parts but i'd generally agree that more preamp distortion equals less tone. i mean by the very nature of it's definition recording anything with tons of "distortion" is like taking a picture of somebody cartwheeling through your frame at a gazillion miles an hour and hoping to capture what they were thinking about over breakfast this morning. it's a distorted perspective.

i enjoy supersoaker gain madness for fun and pretending to conjure images of fabio wielding excaliber on a flying white horse chopping heads off of dragons, but if you wanna hear the person breathing and see them street fighting, hand them a classic gtr plugged into a vintage amp.

paging steve vai.

Well said!

 

[Heritage Softail]

Great job getting an excellent demo out there, quality and quantity of guitars.... nicely done.

This has added to my gas for a Tele. The blonde Tele had a great bit of meat on the bone and brightness as well, in balance too.

 

[Marshall Law]

sounds great

 

[stratotone]

it isn't a very popular concept round these parts but i'd generally agree that more preamp distortion equals less tone. i mean by the very nature of it's definition recording anything with tons of "distortion" is like taking a picture of somebody cartwheeling through your frame at a gazillion miles an hour and hoping to capture what they were thinking about over breakfast this morning. it's a distorted perspective.

i enjoy supersoaker gain madness for fun and pretending to conjure images of fabio wielding excaliber on a flying white horse chopping heads off of dragons, but if you wanna hear the person breathing and see them street fighting, hand them a classic gtr plugged into a vintage amp.

paging steve vai.

Damn Pat, you need to write a book full of comparisons like the above. If I could play guitar half as well as you describe things on here, I'd make Guthrie look like Jack White.

I snagged a '72 Super Lead stack this weekend *check out my multiple threads, lol* and I was struggling to play it - in a good way. Kinda like your analogy above, except I felt like I was driving an old 4 speed muscle car with really touchy clutch and no power steering or AC vs my japanese turbo with 6 speed, all power (windows, steering, clutch assist) etc.

Pete

 

[glassjaw7]

sounds better than most amps and probabaly costs less than a typical L.A. mod

There's something cool about an amp that has compression and saturation and "plays itself" so to speak, but like you said, this sounds better than most amps I hear clips of or play in person. Just good, pure tone. The classic circuits will never go out of style!

But you know I have so many of those amps with master volumes and are easy to play, this is a whole other trip. Dan played it last night with his Tele through the Orange cab, it was the best I had ever heard him sound or play, it really brought out his thing on guitar, kind of Jeff Beck meets Joe Perry. It makes you play honest, no Line6 wanking allowed....lol

it isn't a very popular concept round these parts but i'd generally agree that more preamp distortion equals less tone. i mean by the very nature of it's definition recording anything with tons of "distortion" is like taking a picture of somebody cartwheeling through your frame at a gazillion miles an hour and hoping to capture what they were thinking about over breakfast this morning. it's a distorted perspective.

i enjoy supersoaker gain madness for fun and pretending to conjure images of fabio wielding excaliber on a flying white horse chopping heads off of dragons, but if you wanna hear the person breathing and see them street fighting, hand them a classic gtr plugged into a vintage amp.

paging steve vai.

Well said sir!

 

[70strathead]

sounds like what a real Marshall should sound like. excellent classic tone James. nice to hear stock Marshall clips vs. hot gain mods