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Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 4:01 am

Mint, that is my vision when i think of the word/term 'Super Strat'. Have not seen a picture of that one before and it is story wise similar to my own number one/goto old Jackson regarding resale value/what i have done to it but ditto on it being the best guitar i have played. Everything it is does just what i need/no uneeded extras or flash Hink. Thanks for showing my friend

Dean

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 4:22 am

The reason(s) i still want to get my mits on an ADA MP1:

Oh and some simple but half-decent speaker cab sims from a little stompbox by the same dude:

Oh sod it a playlist is easier:

and NO before anyone attempts to say it - It is not a poor man's Triaxis/Soldano/JMP-1! With Mods it is dope and the MP2 is on my rack list also still along with some more high end units

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 5:10 pm

I have the pre-amp before the JMP, the Marshall 9000 (3 12ax7's). I have it for ages but until cab responses it wasn't good for direct use at all. It has three channels clean/crunch/lead, 5 band active eq, stereo fx loops etc. The clean and crunch settings basically share the same controls, the lead channel has two drives, a voice and a master.

The lead channel sounds about as good as buzz saw cutting granite, after all these years I have come to the conclusion that no good sound can come from the lead channel. The clean/crunch with an od pedal driving it can be very JCM 800ish, I say 'can' be because what you do with it after the Marshall is critical. As a DI it's flat, lifeless wall of bad distortion but into a power amp/speaker and mic'd. I took an old cheap 8 watt solidstate practice amp and with my fathers help we put a jack in to go direct to the power amp. I took the amp case apart and took the front plate with the speaker and built a deadbox around it. This was mid 90s and with an sm57 in front of it I was able to get an all right tone for my 4-track.

Around 97 when I worked for a small music store I sent it to our electronics guy we used for repairs and he overhauled it putting in some new jacks and replacing a few pots. Now with impulses I can do okay

As for my Warmoth, "super strat" might not be fitting to others but it is for me. This guitar has something no other guitar I own has, a soul. I have played this guitar so much between blood, sweat and tears it has my DNA. This isn't any guitar, it's MY guitar. I gave it life, Iv'e kept it alive and because it has no name the name on the headstock is my name. It's a hardtail so no messing with a whammy and jumping between tunings is a breeze of course. However without the PA-2 in it no longer does it scare and excite amps like it use to but now it has a broad range of tones

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 5:18 pm

Dean about your sig...I grew up sailing and one boat I spent a lot of time on was a Choy Lee Lion Sloop (beautiful boat)...not this one but exactly the same

The name of the boat was "April Fool" and the dingy was called "Fools Paradise". The name on the dingy was put on so the 'Fools' was above the 'Paradise'. With a couple of people and gear in the dingy heading out to the boat all you could see on the transom was 'Fools'

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 5:36 pm

Hink wrote:I have the pre-amp before the JMP, the Marshall 9000 (3 12ax7's). I have it for ages but until cab responses it wasn't good for direct use at all. It has three channels clean/crunch/lead, 5 band active eq, stereo fx loops etc. The clean and crunch settings basically share the same controls, the lead channel has two drives, a voice and a master.

The lead channel sounds about as good as buzz saw cutting granite, after all these years I have come to the conclusion that no good sound can come from the lead channel. The clean/crunch with an od pedal driving it can be very JCM 800ish, I say 'can' be because what you do with it after the Marshall is critical. As a DI it's flat, lifeless wall of bad distortion but into a power amp/speaker and mic'd.

Back in the day I had the same unit.
Generic clean, lead as pretty as you described

, but the crunch is pure Marshall.

I used it with a clone of the (passive) Mesa Quad speaker sim, sounded great DI.
Build yourself one, there's not much to it, maybe $10 worth of parts and the Quad schematics can be easily googled.
The JMP-1 sounds considerably better all around, but the 9000's crunch is on a similar level imho.
That's why they never come up used I guess ...
Even the crappy solid state version (9004 ?) puts most current modellers to shame regarding Marshall crunch.

Ymmv,
susiwong

Nice boat, btw !

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:37 pm

Hink wrote:I have the pre-amp before the JMP, the Marshall 9000 (3 12ax7's). I have it for ages but until cab responses it wasn't good for direct use at all. It has three channels clean/crunch/lead, 5 band active eq, stereo fx loops etc. The clean and crunch settings basically share the same controls, the lead channel has two drives, a voice and a master.

The lead channel sounds about as good as buzz saw cutting granite, after all these years I have come to the conclusion that no good sound can come from the lead channel. The clean/crunch with an od pedal driving it can be very JCM 800ish, I say 'can' be because what you do with it after the Marshall is critical. As a DI it's flat, lifeless wall of bad distortion but into a power amp/speaker and mic'd. I took an old cheap 8 watt solidstate practice amp and with my fathers help we put a jack in to go direct to the power amp. I took the amp case apart and took the front plate with the speaker and built a deadbox around it. This was mid 90s and with an sm57 in front of it I was able to get an all right tone for my 4-track.

Around 97 when I worked for a small music store I sent it to our electronics guy we used for repairs and he overhauled it putting in some new jacks and replacing a few pots. Now with impulses I can do okay

As for my Warmoth, "super strat" might not be fitting to others but it is for me. This guitar has something no other guitar I own has, a soul. I have played this guitar so much between blood, sweat and tears it has my DNA. This isn't any guitar, it's MY guitar. I gave it life, Iv'e kept it alive and because it has no name the name on the headstock is my name. It's a hardtail so no messing with a whammy and jumping between tunings is a breeze of course. However without the PA-2 in it no longer does it scare and excite amps like it use to but now it has a broad range of tones

I have the both Valve and Solid-State 9000-Series Hink

Although they do not see much use they are not going anywhere, the Solid-State one is really buzzsaw (can be great for brittle distortions) but is nice enough clean with a touch of delay in the loop

The Valve one (same as the model you have) is at a good freinds (we share gear - well i seem to do the sharing/lending!) since it is stereo he has been running synths through it. To be fair he is good with electronics and we do work together often so he has given it a good overhaul. The speaker emulation on them both is junk/think it was Marshall's first foray into speaker emulated output? Rack love my friend.

I will post a few piccys of my jackson so you can see my own blood and sweat device, not as many years of service than your Warmoth but it will be/have done one day if i have anything to with it J man

Cheers and all the best

Dean

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 8:48 pm

Perhaps we should split this with the new topic, Your next amp

My next amp will be a traynor YCs

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 9:27 pm

Hink wrote:Dean about your sig...I grew up sailing and one boat I spent a lot of time on was a Choy Lee Lion Sloop (beautiful boat)...not this one but exactly the same

The name of the boat was "April Fool" and the dingy was called "Fools Paradise". The name on the dingy was put on so the 'Fools' was above the 'Paradise'. With a couple of people and gear in the dingy heading out to the boat all you could see on the transom was 'Fools'

That is a good one man

Here are some pics of the jackson plus that 9000 Series valve preamp (can not find my camera to snap the Guitar Preamp MGP Solid-State 9000 Series but i am going to fire it up later as it has been ages!) Jackson that is staying forever/my number one goto by far:

The Marshall 9000 Valve Preamp:

And the latest one to the collection, the JMP-1:

My camera skills are nasty and the Marshall 9000 is in the middle of a lot of other stuff and its only a side on view

but yeah they are the pics i have/best i can do

Oh and the other thing which does a really good Marshall crunch sound - them battery powered Marshall micro stacks (you know the £20 little novelty things) - If you plug one into a 4x12" it is instant AC/DC sort of teritory (it can work as a headphone amp and standalone also but the speakers inside it are awful and it sounds best through a cab to my ears and fully drives one also!) Not bad for pocket money

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 9:53 pm

NEKRO.MACHINE wrote:My camera skills are nasty and the Marshall 9000 is in the middle of a lot of other stuff and its only a side on view but yeah they are the pics i have/best i can do

I hear you, these things are shy, it's pretty tough to get a good frontal shot without them hiding in their racks again.

Your best bet might be around midnight when they come visit the power strip for some fresh electrons.

One day ...

susiwong

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:17 pm

Take my camera to Paul's man, he has all stuff properly racked up so i can get a decent pic of my preamp there. I also gifted him my Rocktron Gainiac II rack preamp (total POS/microphonic) and he has made it useable now at lower volumes (would not use it at practice or live volume levels though). I could really use another decent rack housing/case (on the january list). My room of gear is organized chaos

(or just damned scruffy according to other people)
I might get a nice looking wooden job studio style or go for the typical rough and ready to go anywhere i am now used to...

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 11:52 pm

tapper mike wrote:Perhaps we should split this with the new topic, Your next amp

My next amp will be a traynor YCs

my next amp will either be this

http://www.mojotone.com/amp-parts/18-Wa ... Head-Kit_2

or

http://www.t5tubeamps.com/BUD-25.php

if I get lazy, though I would love to build an amp. Also I have considered one of those new Ibanez's with a tube screamer built in but I'm waiting for more reviews.

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:15 am

mmmm--now that got me thinking about delving into those power amps again--

@Dean:

I'm mad---my fingers ain't long enough!! GRRR!!! My fingers are just stumpy things! LOL!!:x

I hear you on the camera skills. After seeing some of the others works on that photo thread I'm like

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:20 am

tapper mike wrote:Perhaps we should split this with the new topic, Your next amp

My next amp will be a traynor YCs

Oh, I think we could multitask fine here

Man, I wish I could do a real amp. That one looks pretty sweet.

susiwong · Post by **susiwong** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 1:09 am

tapper mike wrote:My next amp will be a traynor YCs

Be careful and only buy after trying it out yourself in a band context.
I might be mistaken, but judging by the video it has exactly the type of mids that sound nice on your own but get easily buried in a mix.

The cleans sound a bit weird, too, overcompressed, again that could be due to the settings or the video.
Nice set of features, though.
Don't get me wrong, this might be a wonderful amp, but try it in person.
The clip sounds underwhelming to me.
Ymmv,
susiwong

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 1:34 am

tapper mike wrote:Perhaps we should split this with the new topic, Your next amp

My next amp will be a traynor YCs

Not heard or ever tried anything by Traynor myself. So i have no experience with them

That is a good idea Mike

or we could erm bully Sir hibidy into changing the title to 'Your Next Guitar/Bass, Amp, Pedal...etc.(*Sans Software*)

@ hibidy can you do that if possible pretty please with cat pics on top

as it would be a good move IMO/since we have steered this one on to just about everything guitar chain related my friend

Dean

Your next guitar?