Can i has JCM800? (pics & video)
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What made you want it so much Mike, I know the stuff you have already mentioned like it was a sweet deal and from the year of your birth and such as well as how it sounds, which is more than enough, but where there any famous albums/players that this amp can be heard on that you liked particularly? taMike wrote:Cheers bud. I just got lucky. Without James it wouldn't have happened.More Cowbell wrote:I am happy for you, but OH SO JEALOUS of you at the same time. I've always wanted this amp.
The 2204 has always been the one I've wanted.
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I don't really know of any bands or particular that influenced my decision, I don't want to copy anyone's sound. The JCM800 crunch has always been my favourite dirty guitar sound, articulate and ballsy, and that Marshall upper-midrange emphasis has always done it for me. It's just a personal thing - some people like Fenders, Mesas and Orange amps, or Gibsons, Gretcshes, Jacksons and Ibanez's but for me it's a Fender guitar with single coils into a medium gain Marshall head.
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BTW this is what mine will look like inside. It's an early (first year) JCM800 so it has the Vertical inputs, which mean nothing is PCB mounted, all pots and jacks are bolted to the chassis and connected by wires.
The small transformer is actually the "Choke" which is supposed to give the amp a nice saggy feel at high volume
Inputs and some controls, that's the bright cap on the Preamp Volume
The small transformer is actually the "Choke" which is supposed to give the amp a nice saggy feel at high volume
Inputs and some controls, that's the bright cap on the Preamp Volume
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I don't want to derail the thread but I've always thought of Fugazi when I think JCM800. I think one guy uses just a ricenbacker into a dist+ then into the 800, and the other uses an SG straight in. Something like that. I'm fairly sure they have single channel versions and manage to go between clean and dirty easily enough with that 800 growl obvious in both.
I've always loved their guitar sounds and the recordings in general (the argument is a fantastic album in terms of prodiction) but I've realised although I love it it's not how I want to sound.
I've always loved their guitar sounds and the recordings in general (the argument is a fantastic album in terms of prodiction) but I've realised although I love it it's not how I want to sound.
Shabba.
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I can already tell you it's nothing like a Windsor.
The Windsor has no clean headroom at all. On the High input it's clean up till 11 o clock on the preamp and on the low input it's clean all the way up. Basically the Windsor is nothing like an 800, regardless of what has been written about them. It might have a similar crunch sound but it's nothing like it in terms of the way it works.
The Windsor has no clean headroom at all. On the High input it's clean up till 11 o clock on the preamp and on the low input it's clean all the way up. Basically the Windsor is nothing like an 800, regardless of what has been written about them. It might have a similar crunch sound but it's nothing like it in terms of the way it works.
