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David Bowie and guitarist Mick Ronson on stage at the Empire Theatre, #Liverpool, 1973. Photo by Mick Rock.
I'm still jelly about MIck's tone.
Just even once getting the tone he and Paul Kossoff got is my life goal, TBH 🤣
@DyDave Kossoff's is deffo a Holy Grail tone for me 🎸 ❤️
This is the tone that I always hear in my head when I plug a humbucker guitar into my Marshall, but never quite manage to get 🤷♂️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13EUUsIsFE
The sustain!!!!
@DyDave YES!!
I love that album, though for me, *this* is the Kossoff tone I've always dreamt of...
Also, now I think about it, this little monster gets as close to a Kossoff tone as I've ever managed. It's LOUD too (pick for scale):
@DyDave Oh I came REALLY close to one of those, I've only heard great things about them. What cab are you running it through?
I swap it between my Egnater 1x12 cab and the 2x12 cab I built from hardware store pine 😂
The Egnater has an 80-watt Celestion of some kind or other, and my cab has an 80-watt Creamback on the right and a Vintage 30 on the left.
I tend to mic the Creamback more for recording because the V30 is very fizzy, but in a room the combination does the job.
@DyDave Jesus! So that 2x12 - I'm guessing it stays put and you built your home around *it*? 😝
😂 Pretty much! It's VERY effing heavy! 😂
It was inspired by a guy I used to know who was WAY more successful at getting session work than I was back in the 90s. He had a 4x12 Marshall cab with four different speakers in it because he figured that you're close-micing anyway, so you could get four separate tones just by choosing a different speaker.
He had a point 🤷♂️ .
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Everyone should try an 8x12 stack at least once. Preferably with a JTM or model 1959 Marshall Plexi with no master volume.
Ya gotta turn those buggers up to 8 or 9 before they even start to work, and the ear-bleeding loudness is glorious*!
* unless you have a single-coil pickup and you live with proper 220V, 50-cycle power, in which case it's terrifying 😂
@DyDave God, absolutely! We had two guitarists in the band, both with Les Pauls (his was real, mine was a Tokai) and matching Marshall stacks. Our last gig was to about 100 people in the back room of a biker pub (that doubled as the pool table room) in Liverpool that was maybe, MAYBE 20' x 20' 🙀 🤣
@DyDave I like that way of thinking!
I had a JCM800 stack (two 4x12's, one of them angled) in the late 80's, but back then it was all just about cranking it and trying to sound like Lizzy meets Motorhead while trying not to bleed from the ears. It worked, but there was no finesse 🤣