Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

I'd never sell and I don't polish anything. lol Just listen to my 1 track >LOL

1 take and out. That's all I get and my stuff is zero maintenance unless you count the wipe down. (always wipe down everything after a show, as shows are dirty)

You sell a guitar that you don't like.
You sell an amp that isn't quite right.
You sell pedals in the end.
You trade off your nagging girl friend.
But you NEVER ditch your 100W marshal head if you like it.

I still think it's a 1979 and dipshit was smoking parking lot rocks behind the store at lunch.

Scott..

You really need to learn how to research sh*t.. It took me 5 minutes to research this.

There are Marshall amps that are called "model 1959" amps . It doesn't necessarily mean that they were made in 1959.

http://books.google.com/books?id=LxVTvx ... #PPA318,M1

True 1959 Heads (black) go for anywhere from $4,800 to somewhere around $5,500. (pg. 318)

Your head even in excellent cond. wouldn't go for any more than $1,100. (pg. 316)

So if that dude woulda given you $5,000 cash, he would've burned himself thinking it was a true 1959 model.

And you coulda bought damn near any Marshall head you wanted.

LOL Already been through this. I know what a model 1959 is. (must be an echo in here)

It isn't it and I am sure. (took this beating previously)

I wish it was that simple.

I played a plexi last weekend and it was nice, but it didn't sound like mine does.

There isn't much that is awfully complex about my head other than it's warm and brown every time I turn her on. And maybe the fact that she handles any type of signal I push through her without so much as a peep. The only thing I don't like is that she is so loud. Literally every time we play, my ears ring and I do use 80db plugs, as if I didn't I am afraid I might not hear correctly again.

Funny, I never get the "you guys were too loud" speech. We play 3 sets and then pack it up.

Ok.. Well you got me.

You have a one of a kind Marshall head that nobody's ever seen before.

In that case it's probably worth $1,000,000.

Sweet!!!

lol Yeaaah riiiiiight.

You tell me, genius. It says JCM 800 Mk II Super Lead. It has 4 inputs, no master volume and looks like a 2203. ( I suppose that you know what they look like or can find out)

I don't really care because I wouldn't sell it, not for any price.

Do you feel slighted because you can't find it on utube lil brother?

Just forget it and go back to whatever you were doing before you decided to lose your sh*t. It's isn't causing me any duress. I fail to see why you would even bother to flake..like you did.

I was just asking in case someone knew off the top of their head. I mean I had it at 4 different shops and no one knows wtf it is or won't say. I got it off of ebay and just hung it out there to see if maybe someone who knew something would reply. I didn't expect the halfwit patrol to do a prefunctory search on google and come up swinging. That's just kiddie game time and lord knows I have better things to do. SO just forget it and we'll call it a day. I'll overnight you a draft beer and you can relax, as I don't really need to know in any case.

Ok.. No..no.. I believe you.

No need to PMS.

I have RCA 6550's in my Marshall 100W JCM 800. It's what it came with when I bought it.

Uh.. Scott.

Why did you edit this post??

Didn't it used to plainly say 4 preamp tubes and 4 6550's?? I'm sure JW remembers that.

Why would you do that?

Because I looked and it had 4 smaller aluminum sheilded, 3 6550's and 1 huge rectifier tube in it when I looked.

Sad to say I was under the impression that it was 4 smaller and 4 bigger, as in 4 6550's.

The rectifier tube was unknown to me until someone else told me what it was.
I just assumed it had 4 6550's and for the last time, I wasn't selling it, I won't sell it and I will never sell it.

I just wanted to know a) what it is is and b) is that huge rectifier tube a mod.

Other than that, I have no agenda and as shitty as it is I don't even really want to know anymore.

Ever have something that you don't know exactly what it is and you would like to figure it out? Same here, jr. But not bad enough to fight about it. I got other more important fish to fry of late. So good luck to you!

The rectifier tube would be a mod.
What you have sounds like a modified 800, maybe a Canadian. I have seen a picture of a Canadian 4 input JCM800 on ebay before.
I believe odd stuff like that occurs durring production changes and using what chasis and boards are left over. (just my guess, I have no facts to back that up) You could contact Marshall with the serial number, they could tell you.

Even with it being modded, I'd keep it! You have a killer one of a kind amp.

The most important thing to me was the fact that the sound was the warmest, brown sound I ever got from a head, period.

I kind of wish it had 2 channels, so i could basically use the just the head with no tweaking. Unfortunately, it only has 1 channel so it's limited by whatever effects I have to use to color the sound.

Fun but mono-dimensional.

Oh yea.. This is the stuff.

I wish GA and Sans could hear this..

(I don't know what the hell is going on with this image shack, I guess you have to click on the picture.)






Sounds killer!!

I want to hear it! Now I am depressed.

Looks real cool but I dont know enough about this stuff to be impressed.
Shredd6 when you talked about banding the tubes that is exactly the way I pictured it in my head. weard. Been tweeking the distortion, highs, mids, and lows on my pos boss metal zone and played last night with a better (cleaner) but heavy tone. When Ray gets the mix right on the song we reworked and recorded last night I will post It for reviews. The changes we made threw me off I just could not get the end / stop right to save my life. Been looking into Fender and Marshall amps lately. One of the Guys in a local shop who works on amps said that both are crap these days and he would not own one. To some one who's been around musicians for thirty years it sounded like sacralige to me.

Capt, I dont know what to hell you have. I always thought a Marshall was a push pull type amp and the power tubes had to be in pairs to work. 3 power tubes is weird to me but heck all I do is play them. It sounds like the rec tube is in the power section which looks like it would quiet the amp down some maybe giving it that brown sound you are talking about. Thats definitely a keeper, cause those amps take effect pedals a lot better than some of the newer amps. I never heard of 6550s in a Marshall.

On my Sunn amp I use an old Tom Sholtz power soak. The only problem is it still goes from too loud to too quiet. Im thinking of getting a THD Hot Plate. I decided to start running all my amps again after seeing Trower.

Shredd I need to put up pictures of the back of my Triple Rec, its a tube jungle in there.

George if you are going to continue running into the board another option is a tube preamp distortion peday. I have an old Mesa V-Twin pedal which has a couple of 12 AX 7 tubes in it. You still need a distortion pedal with them to get a metal sound. I always kept it in my gig bag and if someone needed someone to fill in and had a decent pa system I would just plug that thing up as a preamp. It sounds really good in the right situation.