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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:27 pm
by Jesse
That, my friend, is one sweet looking amp. I expect the samples to sounds just as sweet.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:27 pm
by Mike
BacchusPaul wrote:Is the footswitch shod with that sort of spongey crap that full and hair sticks too? The AVT one has big fuckin printer style lead, which I don't ever want to have to replace. My AVT works fine, by the way. It dried up nicely, and even has that beer-soaked tone to it now.
Nope, the footswitch is awesome, sturdy and uses a GUITAR fucking lead. Awesome eh?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:07 pm
by ultratwin
I hear world dominion from all the way over here! The envy of us all, I believe you've now got great sounding OD pedals without the pedals (fancy that?). ROCK ON, Mikezorz.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:19 pm
by JordanD
Mike wrote:How much you got to spend? Get a TINY TERROR
£0
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:31 pm
by Mike
lol.. Dominion is mine.
Cheers guys, the overdrive pedals are definitely a bit tearful - all the flavas I used to get from Ratty and um.. OD-3-y are in here already in spades so they're gonna have to go and live in my pedal suitcase for a while methinks.
Samples will be a-coming on Friday or Saturday methinks.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:42 pm
by dots
cool. i'll have something to look forward to when i get back!
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:11 pm
by Sloan
EAT SUM PIZZA!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:05 pm
by kim
wooot ! looks ace
congrats !
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:38 pm
by robroe
i don't want to derail the whole tread of awesomeness going on but i have a simple question from not ever owning marshals.
what do all the letters stand for?
jcm
jvm
avt
mg
this shit is lyke wylde hyroglix to me
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:19 pm
by BobArsecake
Oh cripes D: That looks amazing. Need. New. Amp :(
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:04 am
by superfuzz
wow, that looks ace mike, congrats mate!
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:17 am
by DeadPenny
robroe wrote:i don't want to derail the whole tread of awesomeness going on but i have a simple question from not ever owning marshals.
what do all the letters stand for?
jcm
jvm
avt
mg
this shit is lyke wylde hyroglix to me
JCM and the like are basically JM for Jim Marshall, and the middle letters apply to an important people in his life. JTM was for Jim and Terry Marshall (his son), JCM for James Charles Marshall, JMP for Jim Marshall Products, and JVM for Jim and Victoria Marshall (his wife). AVT is for Advanced Valvestate Technology... basically using a 12AX7 in the preamp paired with a solidstate power section. and i have no idea what MG stands for... but MG is the budget chinese import solidstate marshall.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:17 am
by Mike
I think Victoria is his daughter.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:07 am
by Mike
Had a play last night and have programmed my footswitch now:
1. Clean, Green, Reverb - clean tone
2. Crunch, Red - for modded JCM800 mode B stuff
3. OD1, Green - for slightly heavier sound to 2, very similar in tonality
4. Clean, Red - bluesy lead tone
5. Crunch, Orange, Reverb - more mellow crunch tone for staccato stuff
6. Master Volume toggle for boost
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:36 am
by Doog
DeadPenny wrote: AVT is for Advanced Valvestate Technology... basically using a 12AX7 in the preamp paired with a solidstate power section. and i have no idea what MG stands for... but MG is the budget chinese import solidstate marshall.
I'm pretty sure it has a solidstate preamp too, you can't get
that much distortion from a single 12AX7.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:40 am
by Thom
Mike wrote:Had a play last night and have programmed my footswitch now:
1. Clean, Green, Reverb - clean tone
2. Crunch, Red - for modded JCM800 mode B stuff
3. OD1, Green - for slightly heavier sound to 2, very similar in tonality
4. Clean, Red - bluesy lead tone
5. Crunch, Orange, Reverb - more mellow crunch tone for staccato stuff
6. Master Volume toggle for boost
Sounds good - very versatile.
Just want to be sure I understand how it works...If you select 4. for example, and then press 4. again, does it cycle round so you're on Clean, Green?
Nice sig pic by the way.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:45 am
by Mike
Ta!
You can program each of the 6 footswitches in one of two ways - either to store the preset of the amp (as I have on 1-5) which stores the following:
Channel selected (Clean, Crunch, OD1 or OD2)
Mode selected (green, orange, red)
Reverb On or Off
Master Volume 1 or 2 Selected
FX loop On or Off
In which case if you stomp on this switch it will recall all that and if you stomp again nothing will change as you're there already.
Or you can tie a footswitch to any of the buttons on the amp - so you could tie it to
1) A channel mode button - first stomp takes you to the last selected mode on that channel, subsequent stomps cycles through the modes, Green, Orange, Red, Green...
2) Reverb On or Off for whatever channel you're on at that time
3) Master volume 1 or 2 toggle like I have
4) FX loop on or off
So if you wanted to have a clean (green) fs and then one next to it to cycle the clean modes you could. it's mindbending!
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:45 am
by Mike
Doog wrote:DeadPenny wrote: AVT is for Advanced Valvestate Technology... basically using a 12AX7 in the preamp paired with a solidstate power section. and i have no idea what MG stands for... but MG is the budget chinese import solidstate marshall.
I'm pretty sure it has a solidstate preamp too, you can't get
that much distortion from a single 12AX7.
It is a dual triode so that's two gain stages, but they'll probably be one more transistor gain stage for an Overdrive sound and two more for a heavy overdrive sound.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:47 am
by Thom
Mike wrote:So if you wanted to have a clean (green) fs and then one next to it to cycle the clean modes you could. it's mindbending!
Wow. Sounds truly amazing! Very clever indeed.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:49 am
by Mike
Totally, it's almost like they preempted all the "what if it could do this..?" questions.