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Well, I've been searching for one for years and now it's happened. An all-original Jose Arredondo 1971 Super lead is coming home. Can't tell you guys how excited I am to have been lucky enough to grab one.
My good buddy found two Arredondo 71' Super leads locally in Los Angeles. Makes sense to find them here as Jose's shop was located in the same county. The seller's dad had both of these Marshalls modded by Jose, presumably in the 80's, I don't know the exact year, and ran them live in stereo. Both are 3-in-1 mods. The unique feature of these ones, that I haven't seen before, is that Jose put the push pull control for the extra gain stage on the rear of the amp, keeping the front stock in appearance. The stock presence control location is now the master volume and presence is on back. It has the 6 way "preamp selector" which adjusts the extra stage plate resistor values. They are all original as Jose modded them and still have all the old-school labels for the extra controls and effects loop on back.
My buddy got one amp and I was able to convince the seller to let me purchase the second one. The seller's dad had put these amps in storage years ago and he just recently pulled them out. So they both needed full maintenance and servicing. Rather than do it myself, Dave Friedman serviced both amps. I feel he should be the one to do the work, as he knows these amps better than anyone and it just increases the provenance. He actually just finished mine up today. Hoping to pick it up tonight. He said mine has a Plexi OT in it, as sometimes happened, due to Marshall using leftover parts.
I'll post up some more photos and try to make a clip when I get the amp back. It's super exciting to get such a piece of amp history into the collection...
Mine is the amp on top. Luckily, I have a super clean early 70’s vintage super lead head shell laying around to put it in for now. But of course I’ll keep the original.
My good buddy found two Arredondo 71' Super leads locally in Los Angeles. Makes sense to find them here as Jose's shop was located in the same county. The seller's dad had both of these Marshalls modded by Jose, presumably in the 80's, I don't know the exact year, and ran them live in stereo. Both are 3-in-1 mods. The unique feature of these ones, that I haven't seen before, is that Jose put the push pull control for the extra gain stage on the rear of the amp, keeping the front stock in appearance. The stock presence control location is now the master volume and presence is on back. It has the 6 way "preamp selector" which adjusts the extra stage plate resistor values. They are all original as Jose modded them and still have all the old-school labels for the extra controls and effects loop on back.
My buddy got one amp and I was able to convince the seller to let me purchase the second one. The seller's dad had put these amps in storage years ago and he just recently pulled them out. So they both needed full maintenance and servicing. Rather than do it myself, Dave Friedman serviced both amps. I feel he should be the one to do the work, as he knows these amps better than anyone and it just increases the provenance. He actually just finished mine up today. Hoping to pick it up tonight. He said mine has a Plexi OT in it, as sometimes happened, due to Marshall using leftover parts.
I'll post up some more photos and try to make a clip when I get the amp back. It's super exciting to get such a piece of amp history into the collection...
Mine is the amp on top. Luckily, I have a super clean early 70’s vintage super lead head shell laying around to put it in for now. But of course I’ll keep the original.
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