NAD, Marshall Origin 20.

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I ordered a used Origin 20 last night and it's due tomorrow afternoon. I've been wanting to try a JTM and was originally looking to try a ST20, but I've been seeing so many positives about the origin I decided it made more sense to try this one for a lot less coin. I understand there are some fans here?

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DirtySteve said:
I ordered a used Origin 20 last night and it's due tomorrow afternoon. I've been wanting to try a JTM and was originally looking to try a ST20, but I've been seeing so many positives about the origin I decided it made more sense to try this one for a lot less coin. I understand there are some fans here?
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You know I'm a fan - I got a pair of 'em.
You can definitely get JTM tones from the O20, and they sound great with your favorite M-65 creambacks.
Awesome cleans, vintage growl, and a pedal or 2 will make them breath fire. :yesway:
 
fitz said:
You know I'm a fan - I got a pair of 'em.
You can definitely get JTM tones from the O20, and they sound great with your favorite M-65 creambacks.
Awesome cleans, vintage growl, and a pedal or 2 will make them breath fire. :yesway:
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I have my EVH loaded with M65s and I have my 112 cab that I plan on trying some different speakers in. I have a Creamback H75, the Alnico Creams that came in my EVH cab and a few others. For pedals I have my beloved MXR Classic od, an MXR Super Badass Variac Fuzz, A Friedman Buxom Boost, a Bad Monkey, my BYOC NYC Big Muff Fuzz, and I just ordered a JHS Haunting mids eq I should get Monday. I also have a GE-7, a couple of revers pedals and a delay. I think I'll be busy for a while trying different things. lol.

In case anyone doesn't know, I bought this amp so I can sell my Ceriatone King Kong and have something to play while I'm waiting for my Son of Chupacabra to be built. I was going to sell my LP traditional to fund it, but I can't bring myself to sell that guitar so my only other option (to get it done anytime soon) is to sell my KK to fund it.
 
Chorus is something I'm thinking about. I had an old Boss chorus years ago that someone gave me (probably worth something now) that I have no idea what happened to. That's my only experience with chorus pedals.
 
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Chorus is something I'm thinking about. I had an old Boss chorus years ago that someone gave me (probably worth something now) that I have no idea what happened to. That's my only experience with chorus pedals.
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I'm a chorus junkie.
That T-Rex Tonebug Chorus - Flanger on the O20 board is awesome. :yesway:

Just got a TC SCF (stereo chorus flanger) today for the 4210, and the JHS Haunting Mids came the other day.
Putting together a new board for the 800.
Still a little sloppy, but functional.
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I like it.
I typically set EQ pedal sliders to basically do a mids boost, so the parametric JHS fits right into what I'm used to.
Tried it out front with the Notaklon, but I like it better in the loop on that amp.
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That's the same way I've used an eq in the past when I used one and that's why I think it'll work for me. I plan to use it out front stacked with an OD or fuzz maybe. I like the demo I watched that did that. Either before or after the OD it made it sound awesome.
 
DirtySteve said:
I have my EVH loaded with M65s and I have my 112 cab that I plan on trying some different speakers in. I have a Creamback H75, the Alnico Creams that came in my EVH cab and a few others. For pedals I have my beloved MXR Classic od, an MXR Super Badass Variac Fuzz, A Friedman Buxom Boost, a Bad Monkey, my BYOC NYC Big Muff Fuzz, and I just ordered a JHS Haunting mids eq I should get Monday. I also have a GE-7, a couple of revers pedals and a delay. I think I'll be busy for a while trying different things. lol.

In case anyone doesn't know, I bought this amp so I can sell my Ceriatone King Kong and have something to play while I'm waiting for my Son of Chupacabra to be built. I was going to sell my LP traditional to fund it, but I can't bring myself to sell that guitar so my only other option (to get it done anytime soon) is to sell my KK to fund it.
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Glad you kept that guitar
 
DirtySteve said:
I ordered a used Origin 20 last night and it's due tomorrow afternoon. I've been wanting to try a JTM and was originally looking to try a ST20, but I've been seeing so many positives about the origin I decided it made more sense to try this one for a lot less coin. I understand there are some fans here?
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Origin is a clean preamp which overdrives the power amp.
The amp is cranked way up if you want overdrive / distortion; it's all power amp distortion.
In that respect clean preamp, it is similar to JTM.
But it also means that when you crank it up, it's as loud as it can get. (how loud depends upon speakers)

A friend of mine is using a Variac to dump the Origin down to 90 volts.
An early model Origin 50 measured 32 watts; with the variac it's got about 15 watts.
That's what it comes to: keep the amp cranked up and reduce the power loudness w/ a variac.
 
I dig mine, I mostly use it for lower volume practice in the house. But also hit the front end with a rat pedal and some delay in the loop. I also put a volume box in the loop so I can crank the amp itself. It just sounds best when the gain and volume knob are cranked. I like it best with a lower sensitivity speaker a VT jr actually works pretty good for low ish volume practice for me. But the cream back 65 is pretty good also. But here nor there, hope it bridges the gap for ya.
 
So far I don't hate it, but it's definitely different. It's quite a change going from a hot rod Plexi to this. Still trying to figure out what the tilt knob is doing, at first I didn't think it was doing anything, I don't know what it's doing. My only real disappointment so far is it doesn't like either one of my fuzz pedals, just turns into a muddy mess. It loves my OD pedals though. :yesway:
 
DirtySteve said:
So far I don't hate it, but it's definitely different.
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Give it some time.
I almost returned my 1st one after having a DSL20HR for a while.
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Still trying to figure out what the tilt knob is doing, at first I didn't think it was doing anything, I don't know what it's doing.
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It emulates jumpered high-low inputs of a 4-hole.
Kinda an overall more treble turned up and more base turned down.
 
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