Nice!
What mods were done to the amp? Is the LP all mahogany?
thanks, brother
the gibson is a regular early 70's heavy-as-$%&# norlin-era les paul
3 piece maple top (a bit flat, compared to modern and original 50's les pauls), 3 piece mahogany neck (very thin profile with neck volute and big headstock), mahogany pancake body, ebony board
I bought the marshall from some guy in california (I'm in brazil)
not sure what mods were done and he didn't know who modded it, but it was definitely a shop job, as it had a lot of painted and taped components to hide the circuit and some stickers for the loop
stock headshell, stock chassis, stock transformers, stock potentiometers and the stock ptp board, but apparently, everything else was swapped
it has a smaller ptp board under the big one thar I couldn't access
2 extra preamp tubes, tube buffered parallel loop in a switchable push pull control
apparently 4 serial gain stages + cathode follower, 3 master volumes (not sure why, but they are useful), single channel, no low input or jumping possibility
power amp and tonestack values are close to stock
it was VERY dark and bassy when I bought it, almost unusable, except for early Sleep doomy tones
I had my friend Zambelli (great amp maker) to wire some bright caps and later I swapped some coupling caps myself with some vintage mustards and that helped a lot
still a dark and bassy amp, but I love it now
it cleans up very easily, despite of its huge amount of gain
reminds of a suhr/custom audio or egnater, but I think it's less saturated than both
still trying to find out who modded it
I'll probably tweak it again to reduce bass
