good eighties distortion

[jimmy]

righto ive got a soundclip of the metal simplex through a solid state fender frontman. i thought id do this to give you a better idea of the sound without driving my tubes too much so you know exactly what itll sound like.

chain went

Ibanez SA-something > metal simplex > fender frontman 15

the first bit is just mucking around on the neck pickup, short pause,then mucking around on the bridge pickup, short pause, then symphony of destruction by megadeth (i added a bit of flange to that), short pause, then the wicker man by iron maiden.

please excuse the playing however, its not my guitar, and its strung with zakk wylde signature boomers - the bass e and a strings are thicker than bass strings  :shock:  - so some of the playing is a bit dicky. and i think i overdrive my little computer mic a bit so in the low bits its a bit fuzzy.

so... who wants to host it?

cheers
Jim

P.S. i will gt around to recording my firefly once ive done a few bits and pieces to get it in tip top condition. like get a decent speaker and finally decide on a tonestack.

[brett]

Some of the Music Man amps used this design. Before he went to Soldanos, Clapton was known to use these models.

Yeah, the Musicmans were made for clean pre and overdriven power tubes.  Later Musicmans used a solid state pre, which probably doesn't make much difference, but mine has the trusty old 12AX7 in there.  As well as Eric Clapton, BB King used the Musicmans.  I was lucky that about 10 years ago my music teacher suggested one of these amps that he'd seen in the local music store.  I didn't know one end of an amp from the other, but I took his advice.  Glad I did.  An interesting feature of some Musicmans is a "low power" switch, which halves the voltage and 1/4s the wattage.  For home use, my 65W amp would be too much, but switched to 16W I can overdrive it nicely (as long as the family stay at the other end of the house).  Great amp.

[petemoore]

From what I remember all these Music Mans were NOT the same.

[Doug H]

Wow!  :shock:

SIX 6L6 tubes and 160 watts. That must cost a lot to re-tube that amp...

Actually, according to an article that I read not long ago, the only place where you can actually distinctly hear tubes is on the output section of an amplifier. Until I read that, I thought it was odd that Peavey had SS preamps with tube output sections. Maybe it's not so strange after all.

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Actually it makes a lot of sense- a lot more sense than the amps that have tube pres and SS power stages. I think with some of the finesse we've been able to achieve with some of our diy pedals, it would be fun to have an amp with a simple clean SS pre with flat EQ and a tube output stage. That could be a lot of fun.

Doug

marshall anyone..  the hybrid amps.. they get pretty clean..

My understanding of the marshall hybrid stuff was they were tube pre's and SS power amps. At least the valvestate was (I thought...). But I haven't kept up with that stuff.

Doug

[Ansil]

Wow!  :shock:

SIX 6L6 tubes and 160 watts. That must cost a lot to re-tube that amp...

Actually, according to an article that I read not long ago, the only place where you can actually distinctly hear tubes is on the output section of an amplifier. Until I read that, I thought it was odd that Peavey had SS preamps with tube output sections. Maybe it's not so strange after all.

[/u]

Actually it makes a lot of sense- a lot more sense than the amps that have tube pres and SS power stages. I think with some of the finesse we've been able to achieve with some of our diy pedals, it would be fun to have an amp with a simple clean SS pre with flat EQ and a tube output stage. That could be a lot of fun.

Doug

marshall anyone..  the hybrid amps.. they get pretty clean..

My understanding of the marshall hybrid stuff was they were tube pre's and SS power amps. At least the valvestate was (I thought...). But I haven't kept up with that stuff.

Doug

oh no not the crapstate series.  i was talking about hte these.. the artist series  the 3203 and the older one with the transistor based preamp and the el84 poweramp