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Re: Best 50 watt Marshall circuit?

7/13/2000 5:19 AM
Richie	Re: Best 50 watt Marshall circuit? There are so many little things that you could try. So instead of just say ,going with the one thing ,since you have the amp and its yours its not hard to experiment a little till you get it what you like in tone. I'm not much of a fan of channel jumping. The channel jumping came about mostly to link amps to another head,or to bring more bass tone to the treble channel.. or vice versa. I like the 02 caps and if you use both the Strat and Humbuckers.. you may want to keep the bypass cap across the brite channel.You can try the shared or split cathode to see which you like.If you use different guitars.. it would be good to set the one channel for the strat and the other for the humbucker type guitars. You can change the feedback resistor to keep it cleaner.. maybe around 33k.. or even a switch to disconnect the feedback[for a little boost}.The main thing is get good preamp tubes.. so much tone, or how the amp breathes will be because of what tubes is in these amps. I would use the EL34 OT tubes.The early Marshalls were copied mostly from the bassman 5F6A..so i think thats why the early ones used the more 6L6 type KT66 or bigger bottle type tubes.. But i think of a Marshalls being an English amp sound. and that is EL34 tubes. You could change the resistors to give more voltage to the power tubes and less to the preamp tubes. I agree with the plexi as being a great amp..the .68 is a good choice and even the mid pot change works pretty good too. gives a lot more addition to the amp. I like the bass amps..And i like the solid state rectifier.{just me} Set the amp loud and clean as you can and use the TS for the extra kick. This is hard to say for each amp may have its own signature tone.. then you have to work with what you have. Richie{~}==:::

7/13/2000 5:19 AM

Richie

Re: Best 50 watt Marshall circuit?

There are so many little things that you could try.
So instead of just say ,going with the one thing ,since you have the amp and its yours its not hard to experiment a little till you get it what you like in tone. I'm not much of a fan of channel jumping. The channel jumping came about mostly to link amps to another head,or to bring more bass tone to the treble channel.. or vice versa. I like the 02 caps and if you use both the Strat and Humbuckers.. you may want to keep the bypass cap across the brite channel.You can try the shared or split cathode to see which you like.If you use different guitars.. it would be good to set the one channel for the strat and the other for the humbucker type guitars. You can change the feedback resistor to keep it cleaner.. maybe around 33k..
or even a switch to disconnect the feedback[for a little boost}.The main thing is get good preamp tubes.. so much tone, or how the amp breathes will be because of what tubes is in these amps. I would use the EL34 OT tubes.The early Marshalls were copied mostly from the bassman 5F6A..so i think thats why the early ones used the more 6L6 type KT66 or bigger bottle type tubes.. But i think of a Marshalls being an English amp sound. and that is EL34 tubes. You could change the resistors to give more voltage to the power tubes and less to the preamp tubes. I agree with the plexi as being a great amp..the .68 is a good choice and even the mid pot change works pretty good too. gives a lot more addition to the amp. I like the bass amps..And i like the solid state rectifier.{just me} Set the amp loud and clean as you can and use the TS for the extra kick. This is hard to say for each amp may have its own signature tone.. then you have to work with what you have.
Richie{~}==:::

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Liam Another question -- 7/14/2000 1:34 PM