Marshall Amp Forum - View Single Post - Preamp Tubes?

solarburnDSL50 · 06-14-2009, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joshuaaewallen

Hey Marty,

I finally had an hour or so today to wail away on these two baby's with a fresh set of strings. Holy Crap what a sweet sound! Other than a few minutes on the clean channel (I always power-up and come off standby on the clean channel), I pretty much stayed on the lead channel for at least an hour. It's gonna be tough to try anther combination because this one just feels sooo good. There is a lot more definition of my notes with this setup. I actually was playing my guitar on this channel (rolling back the volume to varying levels... using different pick-ups). On just my lead channel I can conjure up clean jangle, clean warm, ac/dc crunch, skynyrd's "gimme three steps", nazereth's "hair of the dog", and then moved on into Def Leppard, The Donna's, and some "Enter Sandman". This is a very sweet set-up. The highs are there, but they aren't harsh and ear wrecking. The mids are more pronounced than I'm used to, but actually they aren't overwhelming and lend themselves nicely to classic and heavy rock. The bass is pretty tight. I actually liked it plenty w/ out using the deep switch at all. I've never spent so much time just pulling great tones out of my high-gain channel before. I've always just set up my two or three channels and switched between them for my different tones.

Oh how sweet it is!

V1:

V2:

I'll have to give it a good run through on the clean & crunch channel's too before I move on to a different combination. I have to be fair and try 'em in all their uses...

Looks like a great combo there in V1 & V2. I can't wait to try the 7025 in V1 along with the other ones I'll be demoing. Guitar rolling off into semi-cleans or clean on the lead channel and still get all those other gain textures is awesome! Better write down which ones you like the best in what positions. You gotta lotta tubes...