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- dr_love6977
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Re: Musicians!!!!
The Slash model is a good amp, but I have two qualms with it:
1. It's way too expensive... still. If you want that tone, get a Marshall Jubilee, which is what the Slash model is an exact replica of. The Jubilees were a special edition 25th anniversary model Marshall released in 1987, and only for that year. Slash had quite a few of them, but after some got damaged in riots, he met with Jim Marshall to make him some more. Thus, the Slash Marshall was born. (The Jubilees are still expensive, but if you're going to pay that price, you should at least have the original, not a remake.)
2. The Marshall Jubilee/Slash has a clipping diode in the preamp, which is where some of the distortion is derived from. I feel kind of dirty knowing that, like it's cheating at genuine tube distortion. Oh well tho, I can live with that because it still sounds phenomenal.
- dr_love6977
- Rep: 38
Re: Musicians!!!!
Oh, if you're unsure what the Jubilee looks like, here it is:
That is what my living room used to look like.
Re: Musicians!!!!
I play guitar. Me and a few friends are trying to start a band but we're having a hard time scheduling practices. I've got an Epi Les Paul Special II, a Squier Strat, and a Vox AD15VT. I can play bass a little. I mess around with drums although anything with a complicated bass I can't play well. If I took vocal lessons or got a few pointers from a friend I could do some vocals although not much since my voice can't do much rasp.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: Musicians!!!!
The Slash model is a good amp, but I have two qualms with it:
1. It's way too expensive... still. If you want that tone, get a Marshall Jubilee, which is what the Slash model is an exact replica of.
This is true..but here in australia finding an 1980s jubilee that hasn't been moddded to hell is pretty hard to do and more expensive if you do. Hell - i think Slash was having trouble gettign them anymore right...isn't that why he got them to copy it?
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
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Cool! Have you played with many other AMPs (because I haven't) so I always wondered how this compared?
Sorry Aussie...just saw this post must have missed it the other week. Yeah - i find comparing amps hard unless you have them side by side - as you only have the 'memories' of the last time you tried the other set up to compare with. And on a "yay guitar" day for me I can plug into like a 1980 nitendo gameboy's internal speaker and think it sounds cool. 
But that said...up loud this has beautfiful tone...and i know for sure it totally owns compared to something like a JCM2000....
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
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This is unlikey I guess...but i'm looking for a new bassist for my band...here in Melbourne Australia...so if we have any australian lurkers - don't be shy!
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If any of you guitarists could critique my article on playing by ear that would be great! Hopefully you will find this helpful;
Re: Musicians!!!!
TheMole wrote:I play a 1979 Gibson "The Paul", original neck pick-up, dimarzio bridge pick-up. I just bought a Line 6 Flextone III Xl two or three weeks ago. It's an amazing amp, and anyone who says the modeling doesn't sound right is a big tube sissy
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Oh no... a walnut LP and a ss modeling amp....
Figured someone would diss my rig .
Actually, the flextone is awesome with a humbucker equipped guitar, honest to god. Our studio has a JCM-800 stack, and when I play my Flex through the Marshall cab without cab modelling, set to the JCM-800 model, I dare anyone to hear the difference.
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/msg/891340875.html
As for the guitar, I hate the color/finish 
, but love how it plays! It has the slimmer neck, flatter frets and satin finish, which makes it one hell of a fast LP (pretty much unlike any of the affordable Gibson's these days). It sounds amazing distorted, and with the right strings (I use cleartones, well worth the extra cost), the clean sound can go from super sweet to extra clear. Only thing it misses when played clean might be some warmth.
I've been looking for a nice additional axe, but hate strat-type sounds, so I'm looking for an affordable humbucker sporting machine with a warm clean sound. I need a tune-o-matic/stop-bar type bridge (can't handle anything else ), so I've been looking at getting a Mockingbird , but the only high quality yet affordable guitars BC.Rich make these days are all walnut or maple "natural" colored... *ugh*
http://bcrich.com/Mockingbird_exotic_classic.asp
So if anyone has any ideas, feel free to point me in the right direction. 
