New amp for me.

[Pierre]

Jr! Ssup kiddo?  8)

[AH^DK]

Jr! Ssup kiddo?  8)

'sup brutha? Gonna go on MSN soon, you need to teach me some more setups :D

Dont hassle me for getting a 2203, rid will kill me for it, but I love it :D

[horsehead]

what about the WKZ amps? They actually seem like good amps & seem to cover a lot of tones

[samoth2]

I use this:
One crucial tone I forgot to mention is the mid 80s tone that Gary Moore had. All that aggressiveness, and warmth and thickness is insane.

Gary used JCM 2000 at a gig in Skive yesterday, and he had an excellent tone.

I also think he used BKPs  :twisted:

[Iron Horse]

Yeah, Gary used to use JCM 800's, and it's what Campbell used(prop), so you should like it very much. It's got the classic rock raunch for Lizzy, Moore, that we both love, and with a booster (od, eq, booster, etc) it will give various great harder rock tones (I have no idea Campbell's pedals) from Zakk to Slayer to everybody else in the eighties.
Just get it!! :shock:   :D   :shock:  :o  :shock:  :(  :shock:

[AH^DK]

Hmm I need boost for it, to hit the level of gain for Sykes and Campbell.

I have thought of a old Boss OD-1, as I have found one and heard alot of good stuff about it for a 80s metal sound or a MXR ZW. Which one of these would be best? Or a SD-1? Or OD-3 perhaps?Or the Zvex box of rock?

[Henk]

Hmm I need boost for it, to hit the level of gain for Sykes and Campbell.

I have thought of a old Boss OD-1, as I have found one and heard alot of good stuff about it for a 80s metal sound or a MXR ZW. Which one of these would be best? Or a SD-1? Or OD-3 perhaps?Or the Zvex box of rock?

Well, the SD-1 is the most neutral booster, will give you an additional tone control, nicely versatile.

OD-1, this is my baby, its the brightest of them all, great bite and excellent full range booster (a tone control also has a downside like some people seem to forget all the time GRRRRR!!! ). If you like that high tuby 'zing' in your harmonics i would advice you to try this one first. When used as a booster it will boost especialy high mids.

OD-3, somewhat warmer but still nice and open sounding, bit more bluesy. More of an overdrive pedal then a booster, sounds better then a bluesdriver and is more suitable for it IMHO. Maybe the best allrounder overdrive if you dont want a 'perfect' booster.

Well thats about my take on it. Ow and if you are able to buy a good OD-1 at reasonable price, go for it because it seems to be harder to get one every year.

[JamesHealey]

tbh, splawn's are the most overrated piece of cr@p in the world.. no bottom end, loads of agressive mids and so much treble that it hurts your ears to play.

but thats just my opinion, I've had people play on my splawn just before I sold it and absolutely cream all over it.

JCM800 way to go imo.

[Henk]

The only flaw is a scratchy volume pot. He says it makes the volume abit flakey though... Is this just the pot?

I just saw this and i find it hard to belief it got new tubes and didnt get new pots, scratchy pots on an amp are just the most irritating things there are.

[AH^DK]

Hmm I need boost for it, to hit the level of gain for Sykes and Campbell.

I have thought of a old Boss OD-1, as I have found one and heard alot of good stuff about it for a 80s metal sound or a MXR ZW. Which one of these would be best? Or a SD-1? Or OD-3 perhaps?Or the Zvex box of rock?

Well, the SD-1 is the most neutral booster, will give you an additional tone control, nicely versatile.

OD-1, this is my baby, its the brightest of them all, great bite and excellent full range booster (a tone control also has a downside like some people seem to forget all the time GRRRRR!!! ). If you like that high tuby 'zing' in your harmonics i would advice you to try this one first. When used as a booster it will boost especialy high mids.

OD-3, somewhat warmer but still nice and open sounding, bit more bluesy. More of an overdrive pedal then a booster, sounds better then a bluesdriver and is more suitable for it IMHO. Maybe the best allrounder overdrive if you dont want a 'perfect' booster.

Well thats about my take on it. Ow and if you are able to buy a good OD-1 at reasonable price, go for it because it seems to be harder to get one every year.

Cool.

I like a real high middy sound, kinda like John Sykes has. But I still want plenty of low mids and bottom end, just not too much to get it woofy.

[AH^DK]

Okay I just ordered a black label 1980 DS-1 with the old style thumbscrew, and a OD-1 from 1979 with black label and old style thumbscrew.

Gonna be great I think :D

[Woogie]

Okay I just ordered a black label 1980 DS-1 with the old style thumbscrew, and a OD-1 from 1979 with black label and old style thumbscrew.

Gonna be great I think :D

If you don't like the OD-1, I`ll buy it off you :)

[indysmith]

tbh, splawn's are the most overrated piece of cr@p in the world.. no bottom end, loads of agressive mids and so much treble that it hurts your ears to play.

Ohhh so it's not just the clips...
I thought that everyone with a splawn was simply cr@p at mic positioning or something, lol.

[Henk]

Cool.

I like a real high middy sound, kinda like John Sykes has. But I still want plenty of low mids and bottom end, just not too much to get it woofy.

You can offcourse add any amount of low end in your amp. The lack of a tone control on the OD-1 is only anoying when you want to switch to a clean channel which uses the same eq setting.

If you want to try my powercord setting, its both level and gain at 2:00-3:00 and my amp set to a moderate gain setting, kind of a rythm blues/rock tone. You can also use this setting for screaming bridge solo's or chucky neck lead. This would work with most vintage type overdrives/marshall combinations i think.