Ok, in this single soundclip, you will hear the following phrase (Blue Oyster Cult's Burning For You) played on my three separate amplifiers - Blackstar ID-Core 100 watt 2X10 Combo, Marshall VS265 2X12 Combo - Marshall DSL40C 1X12 Combo.
ALL amps are set identical - Gain is full, bass at 3/4, mids full, treble at 3/4. DSL40C is on the 40 watt setting.
My 2016 Gibson SG is used on this recording exclusively and All amps are recorded through the D.I. (Emulated) Line Out.
Each phrase will be FIRST played once on the bridge pickup and then on BOTH pickups.
(Bridge is a Alnico II Gibson 57 Classic + 9.00kΩ / neck is a Gibson Burstbucker Pro Alnico V 8.4kΩ)
To recap, the SG has a 1950's style cloth harness, 500kΩ Bourn pots and a .033uf K40Y on the bridge and a .015uf K40Y on the neck.
BOTh volume pots are full up. The bridge tone pot is set to '8' and the neck tone pot to '10' respectively.
The recording was run as a single left and right channel track with a pause to switch amplifiers. No compressor or other internal/external effects were used. All audible reverb is from the amps.
Here's a couple of interesting things...the 2X12 VS265 sounds much bigger, both to the ear AND when going direct out into the USB console.
Secondly, my customary pick attack produces a harmonic quality in the BOTH pickup mode that is barely audible in the BRIDGE pickup mode.
Which do you like best or least and why???
AMP COMPARISON - 2017 Blackstar vs. 1997 Marshall VS265 2x12 vs. 2015 marshall DSL40C
ALL amps are set identical - Gain is full, bass at 3/4, mids full, treble at 3/4. DSL40C is on the 40 watt setting.
My 2016 Gibson SG is used on this recording exclusively and All amps are recorded through the D.I. (Emulated) Line Out.
Each phrase will be FIRST played once on the bridge pickup and then on BOTH pickups.
(Bridge is a Alnico II Gibson 57 Classic + 9.00kΩ / neck is a Gibson Burstbucker Pro Alnico V 8.4kΩ)
To recap, the SG has a 1950's style cloth harness, 500kΩ Bourn pots and a .033uf K40Y on the bridge and a .015uf K40Y on the neck.
BOTh volume pots are full up. The bridge tone pot is set to '8' and the neck tone pot to '10' respectively.
The recording was run as a single left and right channel track with a pause to switch amplifiers. No compressor or other internal/external effects were used. All audible reverb is from the amps.
Here's a couple of interesting things...the 2X12 VS265 sounds much bigger, both to the ear AND when going direct out into the USB console.
Secondly, my customary pick attack produces a harmonic quality in the BOTH pickup mode that is barely audible in the BRIDGE pickup mode.
Which do you like best or least and why???
AMP COMPARISON - 2017 Blackstar vs. 1997 Marshall VS265 2x12 vs. 2015 marshall DSL40C
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Mind you, I have read a lot of them, but most of them before I had kids and before I started working at the brewery... These days I read music biographies on my Kindle...