That 80s metal tone

ibmorjamn said:
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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Some of Rory Gallagher's best records were recorded by Dieter Dierks. Top Priority, Jinx, and Photo Finish, as well as Uli Roth's Electric Sun, Nektar, Scorpions, Die Toten Hosen, and many other great bands. He is an amazing producer.


I still have a bunch of my eighties stuff, but while everyone else was going Super-Strat into S.S. amps with racks, I still stuck to my SG and Les Paul into a Marshall JTM45 or a Hiwatt. That was the sound of rock to me, and I still lean towards that now. I tried the other stuff, and it just wasn't for me. It wasn't the sound I was chasing.

I also have the Midi controller for the ART Multi-Verb. All my early nineties presets are still in there too.

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Hey all...new guy here and I'm still fumbling my way around the forum but saw this thread. I have been trying to get a passable 80's hard rock/metal tone at bedroom volumes for awhile now with my gear. Here is where I'm at, its about as close to the sound in my head that I can get given my talent and budget (ha), but if there is a magic piece of gear out there that would get me closer, I'm all ears...
 
sam_in_cali said:
Hey all...new guy here and I'm still fumbling my way around the forum but saw this thread. I have been trying to get a passable 80's hard rock/metal tone at bedroom volumes for awhile now with my gear. Here is where I'm at, its about as close to the sound in my head that I can get given my talent and budget (ha), but if there is a magic piece of gear out there that would get me closer, I'm all ears...
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ibmorjamn said:
H949, pricey .
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Not when you find one like this for $20 at an estate sale..

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