Hi Chris,
Really pleased you like that tone.. I love that European nasal Marshall sound they got in the 80's..
Ok, well the amp is my Marshall JVM410H, 100w head. I just run an XLR straight out the head into my soundcard and comp. It has 4 channels, with each channel having 3 modes, either green, yellow or red. The different modes give different gain structures designed to emulate different Marshall amps through the years. A gain setting that is low on the green mode would sound heavy on the red mode..
I used OD1 channel on the RED setting. EQ: BASS - 1, MID - 6.5, TREBLE - 6, GAIN -3.
I always keep the bass low on the solo channel. With Marshalls, as you turn the gain up the structure changes and becomes almost boomier so I keep the bass down to counteract that.
Annoyingly, I can't remember what pickup is in my fixed bridge guitar. It's either something called a 'Vintage Vibe' made by a company called Golden Age who specialise in recreating classic pickups of years gone by.. in this case a Vintage Vibe would be based on the hot rodded humbuckers found in Gibsons. Either that or it's a Kent Armstrong.. possible called 'Rocker'.. it's a higher distortion one.
I know those pickups are in my guitars but I just don't know which ones as my Dad made them up out of exisiting bits that were at hand :S
Either way, it's a combo of very vintage sounding pickups as opposed to modern EMG type things, coupled to a classic Marshall tone.. it gives me the necessary juice and bite to nail those harmonic squeals and get those high bends sounding crisp and sustain-y
I think if someone put any Gibson type guitar through the amp it would get a similar tone
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