half stack

[dolivas]

it completely flew over my head it was a electric setup.

check that. replace that podxt with a Zoom G9.tt

use the slave in on this behringer Gmx210:

strip that Behringer fridge of its speakers and replace them with some booming speakers.

voila you're the cheap-ass Pete Townshend!

[GearJunkie]

Originally Posted by dolivas

voila you're the cheap-ass Pete Townshend!

[dolivas]

Originally Posted by GearJunkie

that looks exactly like 13th rate Who band would look like.

Robby Krieger of the Doors on bass and the lead singer of Lover Boy on lead guitar. The lead singer looks like that dancing guy from Happy Mondays all grown up FEZ!!

[smopo24]

you mean bez, not fez! i can't believe he and shaun went on to form black grape; why let them in a studio again? on their liner notes they listed him like this:


shaun ryder....vox
paul ryder......bass
mark day......guitars
bez...............bez


why are they are back together? we need the stone roses! give me ian brown any day over shaun ryder! they had a hand in helping paul okenfold too, how much more crappy can you get? and you can shove them in the same waste bin with a certain ratio too!!!!!

[clineaudio]

My personal opinion, for rock, and the stuff I know you're into, smopo. Rock that guitar into a hiwatt, orange, (neither are terribly cheap), or a JCM800 head (you can find VERY cheap7-800), and they're ballsy as hell, very responsive TONS of tone... Any of those amps would be great options into a solid cab (marshall, orange, boogie, etc) You'd still get in under 2k$ (650ish for cab, 700 for head=1400 for pair) easily, and it would sound phenomenal, and would actually have resale value. This is what discussions like "check out this behringer, etc" miss...sure you save money right now, but 1) you'll be missing something when you have it, and 2) if you ever want to swap up for something else, you've got no value to "trade in"

[GearJunkie]

Originally Posted by clineaudio

My personal opinion, for rock, and the stuff I know you're into, smopo. Rock that guitar into a hiwatt, orange, (neither are terribly cheap), or a JCM800 head (you can find VERY cheap7-800), and they're ballsy as hell, very responsive TONS of tone... Any of those amps would be great options into a solid cab (marshall, orange, boogie, etc) You'd still get in under 2k$ (650ish for cab, 700 for head=1400 for pair) easily, and it would sound phenomenal, and would actually have resale value. This is what discussions like "check out this behringer, etc" miss...sure you save money right now, but 1) you'll be missing something when you have it, and 2) if you ever want to swap up for something else, you've got no value to "trade in"

JCM800's are rare to find at $700-$800. JCM900's sure. Great amps to check out that are totally under rated are Sovtek Mig heads (sound like a Fender Bassman mixed with a Marshall Plexi and they're like $400). I'll agree with getting a good closed back cab. There's an eBay company called SS Cabs that sells empty 1x8, 1x12, 2x10, 2x12 and 4x12 cabinets. They're all baltic birch, are heavy as hell and sound amazing (I've got one). They're also like $130. You get that, put some 8 ohm vintage 30's in it (to make a 16 ohm cab) and you're gold. You can use that cabinet with just about any head from that point on. Versatile. Professional. Cheap.

[Whoopysnorp]

JCM800s are all well and good, but do you need your amp to be able to do dirty and clean sounds, smopo? The JCM800s pretty much just do one sound, albeit really well. Personally, I prefer an amp with a dirty and a clean channel, as long as they both sound good.

[GearJunkie]

Originally Posted by Whoopysnorp

JCM800s are all well and good, but do you need your amp to be able to do dirty and clean sounds, smopo? The JCM800s pretty much just do one sound, albeit really well. Personally, I prefer an amp with a dirty and a clean channel, as long as they both sound good.

all hail the JCM900.

JCM2000 is trying too hard to be a Mesa Dual Rectifier.

[Whoopysnorp]

Originally Posted by GearJunkie

all hail the JCM900.

JCM2000 is trying too hard to be a Mesa Dual Rectifier.

Hmm, I don't get that sense from the JCM2000s at all--the mid spike is in a completely different place on the Marshalls versus the Mesas. The JCM2000 is definitely more 'modern' sounding as far as gain goes, but they kind of seem more like the natural next step beyond the JCM900 Dual Reverbs to me.

[GearJunkie]

there's two sounds on the JCM2000 just like there are on the Dual Rec:

Pristine glass-shattering clean tones

"I'm going to eat your children" distorted tones.

Hence, my review of the JCM2000.

The JCM900 has always been my favorite series of marshall master volume amps. Get a nice ballsy clean tone, a nice middy overdrive channel you can push into full out wall of sound. VERY little latency on footswitching, built like freakin tanks (i once watched one go down the cement stairs of metro's load in staircase and then work perfectly 2 minutes later) and tone for days. As said before.... All hail the JCM900.