That 80s metal tone

Clockworkmike said:
Nice combo!

What exactly were the differences in Blue Stripe/Red Stripe/Green Stripe etc?
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Blue stripe black stripe red stripe green stripe not sure I'm told the blue and green are the most aggressive

I did go on tour in 1986 used a pair of Kitty Hawk M120 amps a clone of Dumble Overdrive reverb when they failed had my Marshall black flag
amps flown in still have some of my rack units Lexicon PCM 90 Yamaha delay sold off the Tom Scholz rack gear I did not use stomp boxes back
then what I did learn was I'm a home boy the food and logging was not for me but the fringe benefits were memorable. :celebrate2:
 
I was never in to those bands in the 80's
They did have good tone.
George Lynch supposedly ended up with one of the good Marshall's for about a year.
From Woody Tone , I never heard this version. For what it's worth on the internet.

"The Breaking the Chains record was such an adventure. We flew to Iceland and I had my Tiger wrapped in a blanket and duct tape. All the finish checked on it on the trip over because the paint was so fresh. It acquired a lifetime of character overnight! I also brought my favorite Marshall and my old gray tube Echoplex, and my AD/A flanger with me.”

Recording in the basement of Dieter Dierks B studio in Germany, George put [his] old gray Echoplex back together. “It was out of a box and a bunch of parts that I had strewn together on the floor,” he said. He used this Echoplex as part of his preamping…going into a ’71 Marshall Super Lead.

He swears that Marshalls sound better in Europe due to being manufactured to run at 220 volts. With the sound generated through a Marshall Super 100 4×12 cabinet with the cane basket weave grille, he recalls how [pure] the sound was. “Marshalls want to run at 220V. That what they were designed for. When I think about that, every time I toured Europe, I liked the way my amps “breathed.'”

Also used to goose the input of the amp was a Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster similar to what Ritchie Blackmore and Jimmy Page [and many other artists, including Tony Iommi] used back in the day."
 
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67plexi said:
Think I got this in 1977 never bonded with it

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For me it was the Electric Mistress in the late '70s/early '80s. I got rid of it because it could only work on direct AC power, no battery or wall-wart. When I see what those original ones go for now I wish I had kept it.

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Do you mean 80s metal as in Ratt, Dokken?

Most of them used what they had around at the time...

Any regular Marshall tube amp, a ds1, sd1, hm2, Rat, or a ts9 up front. Some bands (ie: w.a.s.p.) used a light chorus.

It's pretty easy to get a good 80s metal tone.
Seymour Duncan TB6 or JB pickup, any regular Marshall tube head, run a TS9 clone in front, scoop your mids a bit....
You can use a mesa as well dial the gain back and lower the bass and mids.


Or do you mean 80s metal like Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Kreator, Venom?

Any clean amp and a metal zone tweaked to taste will get you there, also the DigiTech metal master pedal will do all of those bands pretty easily.
Scoop it. EMG 81 will help, so will a Duncan TB6
 
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Headache said:
Do you mean 80s metal as in Ratt, Dokken?

Most of them used what they had around at the time...

Any regular Marshall tube amp, a ds1, hm2, rat, or a ts9 up front. Some bands (or: w.a.s.p.) used a light chorus.

It's pretty easy to get a good 80s metal tone.
Get any regular Marshall tube head, run a TS9 clone in front, scoop your mids a bit....
You can use a mesa as well dial the gain back and lower the bass and mids.


Or do you mean 80s metal like Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Kreator, Venom?

Any clean amp and a metal zone tweaked to taste will get you there, also the DigiTech metal master pedal will do all of those bands pretty easily.
Scoop it.
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My tone from the era would be jcm800 with a tube screamer variant or SD1.
I also have a MXR.
 
Headache said:
Do you mean 80s metal as in Ratt, Dokken?

Most of them used what they had around at the time...

Any regular Marshall tube amp, a ds1, sd1, hm2, Rat, or a ts9 up front. Some bands (or: w.a.s.p.) used a light chorus.

It's pretty easy to get a good 80s metal tone.
Seymour Duncan TB6 or JB pickup, any regular Marshall tube head, run a TS9 clone in front, scoop your mids a bit....
You can use a mesa as well dial the gain back and lower the bass and mids.


Or do you mean 80s metal like Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Kreator, Venom?

Any clean amp and a metal zone tweaked to taste will get you there, also the DigiTech metal master pedal will do all of those bands pretty easily.
Scoop it. EMG 81 will help, so will a Duncan TB6
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I'm thinking more Ratt and Dokken
 
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