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Glorious tone.

Everyone should have the chance to play a 60's Marshall to hear what all the fuss is about. You don't really get the full experience without being in the room. I have owned and gigged with a couple of 50 watt Marshalls, which could just about knock down the walls of my rehearsal space and most of the little clubs in which we gigged. I can imagine having the 200 watt pig.

I never turn my 2204 up very loud, ever, anymore. But I have played a JTM 50 a friend owns which made me seriously reconsider my low volume only policy.
 
mdubya said:
Glorious tone.

Everyone should have the chance to play a 60's Marshall to hear what all the fuss is about. You don't really get the full experience without being in the room. I have owned and gigged with a couple of 50 watt Marshalls, which could just about knock down the walls of my rehearsal space and most of the little clubs in which we gigged. I can imagine having the 200 watt pig.

I never turn my 2204 up very loud, ever, anymore. But I have played a JTM 50 a friend owns which made me seriously reconsider my low volume only policy.
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Especially when accompanied by at least a 4x12 half stack but even more intense an experience with a full Marshall stack plugged into an old JMP head cranked up up up! Guitar now become a therapy session as the sound waves resonate through your body & allowing you to feel & experience playing the guitar like never before. This very easily can border a spiritual high.

I believe there are some cultures that actually use tones & vibration for therapy & healing. Like the Tibetans & some newer researchers are gaining insight into these fequencies way beyond what the average person is aware.

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(Below) Tibetan singing bowls used to generate healing tones & vibration.
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Relic said:
Especially when accompanied by at least a 4x12 half stack but even more intense an experience with a full Marshall stack plugged into an old JMP head cranked up up up! Guitar now become a therapy session as the sound waves resonate through your body & allowing you to feel & experience playing the guitar like never before. This very easily can border a spiritual high.

I believe there are some cultures that actually use tones & vibration for therapy & healing. Like the Tibetans & some newer researchers are gaining insight into these fequencies way beyond what the average person is aware.

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(Below) Tibetan singing bowls used to generate healing tones & vibration.
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Doug Aldrich's tone in Dio is therapeutic for me...
 
smitty_p said:
I don't mean the chord, itself. I mean how it sounds when he hits it and lets it ring for a couple of seconds!
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You're talking about that gnarly tone that the amp spits out that surrounds his power chord!

Well then, at exactly 48 seconds he is hitting a Gb or F# power chord & letting it ring for a couple of seconds... (check pic below)

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He is also tuned to an Eb. So he is strumming / hitting an open G power chord while tuned to Eb.

Copy dat?..
 
Relic said:
You're talking about that gnarly tone that the amp spits out that surrounds his power chord!

Well then, at exactly 48 seconds he is hitting a Gb or F# power chord & letting it ring for a couple of seconds... (check pic below)

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He is also tuned to an Eb. So he is strumming / hitting an open G power chord while tuned to Eb.

Copy dat?..
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I first saw this on my Android, so the screen was small. But looking at his hand placement, I see an E5. The second and middle appear to be hovering???

But regardless, a super cool tone.
 
Robert Herndon said:
I first saw this on my Android, so the screen was small. But looking at his hand placement, I see an E5. The second and middle appear to be hovering???

But regardless, a super cool tone.
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I know, looking at hands / fingers can be deceiving, that is why the tone / power chord didn't line up with the actual note I was hearing. at 00:48 in the video. I was actually hearing the characteristics of the guitars open G power chord Like in the first power chord of 'Ziggy Stardust' but not at the A 440 scale G note. Nope, it was off & sounded low / flat.

This got me questioning just what was going on here. Was this an funny E something or other like Robert suggested?? Hmmm?

It didn't take to much to sit & figure out that the anomaly was being caused by a guitar tuned to Eb & the guitarist playing that open G power chord. Mystery solved.

Smitty, you might have secret desires towards alternate lowered tuning! And what would the fellows a church have to say about that!? Hmmmm?

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Relic said:
I know, looking at hands / fingers can be deceiving, that is why the tone / power chord didn't line up with the actual note I was hearing. at 00:48 in the video. I was actually hearing the characteristics of the guitars open G power chord Like in the first power chord of 'Ziggy Stardust' but not at the A 440 scale G note. Nope, it was off & sounded low / flat.

This got me questioning just what was going on here. Was this an funny E something or other like Robert suggested?? Hmmm?

It didn't take to much to sit & figure out that the anomaly was being caused by a guitar tuned to Eb & the guitarist playing that open G power chord. Mystery solved.

Smitty, you might have secret desires towards alternate lowered tuning! And what would the fellows a church have to say about that!? Hmmmm?

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Good detective work...

I rarely tune down, unless the vocalist requires it in the studio. I have one of my own songs where I tune Drop D for a certain rhythm part. Having said that, I use derivatives of certain chords all the time, such as A5, E5, the famous Angus Young 'G,' a derivative of a 'D' held with two fingers only and a two fingered 'C' (C5-ish) shape....
 
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