DSL40C Tips:

Robert Herndon said:
Ok...here's a video shot with the same iPad last year. Squire Stratocaster with a DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Solo DP404 (10k) in the bridge, plugged straight into my Marshall DSL40C with no pedals.


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Super! Sounds like a Slash tone to me......very good. Your timing is also very good. If I played Rock ala this style, I'd easily settle upon that DSL. What's not to like about it? My only question for me is, can I get a Smokey Jazz sound out of it? I will say without giving this amp a try, that I think I could come quite close to that sound I hear in my mind......which is not so much in the amp, but how you voice your chords. I've not had a problem with any other amp, but some amps do it so much better than others.


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Robert Herndon said:
Ok...here's a video shot with the same iPad last year. Squire Stratocaster with a DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Solo DP404 (10k) in the bridge, plugged straight into my Marshall DSL40C with no pedals.


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Here’s a quick screen capture of the frequency profile of that video playing in Reaper with no other processing present.

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Note the roll off at 150hz. Plenty of low mids though.

Edit: I’m betting your DSL was pumping out plenty of noise in the lower frequency range, but the mic was ignoring it to the best of its ability.
 
Robert, I can't help but think the tone we both like in our Humbucker Marshall sound quest is something along the lines of Hagar and his band here, Correct me if I am wrong. Hear how it has drive, yet is clean enough to hear each guitar and the string definition, not just distortion fuzz that basically colors the whole output we hear in the recording. I'd love being right there and or with you all mic'd up with full compliment of mics and board etc.




I mean I really hear that FULL range of Marshall tone in Both of these songs.
 
In listening to There's Only One Way to Rock,

I can clearly hear thru my headphones how the strings of the guitars are on the verge of ringing thru the amps even before they are strummed or plucked,,,,,,,, if you know what I mean. The perfect blend of Amp volume, Guitar Volume and Pickup heights to maximize the musicality of the guitars.

In other words, the guitars are like ready to feedback and yet in the skill of the player, it is like taming a wild animal to make the best sound ( of course the Sound Engineer has a lot to do with it too.) In my mind, these songs were mixed amazingly.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
Here’s a quick screen capture of the frequency profile of that video playing in Reaper with no other processing present.

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Note the roll off at 150hz. Plenty of low mids though.

Edit: I’m betting your DSL was pumping out plenty of noise in the lower frequency range, but the mic was ignoring it to the best of its ability.
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Wow! I wonder how that waveform compares to other "classic" Marshall tones we love???

I'm grateful for your time in doing this.

Thanks, Man!
 
Dang, when Robert gets a little frustrated at aiming at but missing the target, I will lend words of encouragement that only the misses will teach him what NOT to do and how he got to WHAT it is he is ultimately aiming for. On the road there, he and we can discover and learn stuff we never knew.

Sorry for the Hagar overload, but when I hear Robert play and how he loves Rory and Leslie and Ratt and Phil Collen I know the tone he is after.

Friggin Sammy kicks R n R Azz back in the day. This is pure prime 1978 R n R tone in my book.

 
Alright, it’s not a Hagar frequency profile.
This is my band, rehearsing a really heavy version of Psycho Killer.

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And again, Robert's iPad.

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chilipeppermaniac said:
Robert, I can't help but think the tone we both like in our Humbucker Marshall sound quest is something along the lines of Hagar and his band here, Correct me if I am wrong. Hear how it has drive, yet is clean enough to hear each guitar and the string definition, not just distortion fuzz that basically colors the whole output we hear in the recording. I'd love being right there and or with you all mic'd up with full compliment of mics and board etc.




I mean I really hear that FULL range of Marshall tone in Both of these songs.
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I agree!
 

This vid is what I know to be that TONE I get out of my Marshall, yet in some places Pete must have a Distortion pedal or something as with my amp it is so clean and would have to be cranked to concert hall volumes to get the amount of fuzzy breakup he gets in this demo.
 
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