
I think all Celestions have some similarities. Does this pack have seperate G12H IRs or only V30/G12H mixes? And how would you describe the overall sound of the Zilla cab compared to the other two libraries? Darker? Brighter? Still interested in the Zilla library, though. And just because one of your customers gets bored by V30 IRs you can‘t change your company‘s philosophy and plans or your own taste. And I am not trying to stir up any negativity here. Your work is certainly among the best quality wise. I couldn‘t find that sound in any V30 speaker or IR so far. For example: All G12M/H models I have tried (and even more IRs of them) have a very specific high end in common that feels - in lack of a better description - slightly disconnected from the „body“ of the sound. But so do the G12H/G12M and G12T speakers, that also had different sounding revisions while retaining a certain fundamental character. But it seems that despite some obvious differences the V30 „product line“ does have a specific midrange behaviour in common, at least to a certain degree. but what you got at the mixing desk after the EQ'ing was that sound we all heard".I understood what you said about the different V30 revisions. Standing next to the amp what you got was a loud, mid-rangey, flat tone. " Ed's trick for recording with this amp was to turn the amp all the way up and play it thru one cabinet, then EQ the tone at the mixing board and cut the mids, and boost the bass a little bit (after it was miked up). James also talks about seeing and playing thru Ed's precious 12301 amp, and that it was a stock amp. While James says he never saw (or heard) this amp, Dave did. The amp Ed was demo'ing around was a "Jose modded Marshall" built by the late Jose Arredondo. According to James and Dave, Ed was taking a prototype amp around to all the big-name amp builders to have it cloned and sold under his name.

James was the lead engineer for Peavey, who was working closely with Ed to develop his signature amp.

Go to time marker 16:35 where James is talking about Ed's Marshall super lead 100. Sounds like a style of cascading.Ĭlick to expand.If you haven't listened to this talk with Dave Friedman and James Brown from about a year ago, concerning EVH's amp and tone, I highly recommend it. The term seems to be suggesting a feedback arrangement - scavenging from an output to feed another input. Can't say I have had any luck finding clear-cut directions on implementing that in a 'plexi' preamp. I have found some comments from George M where he expresses his preference for generating gain earlier in the preamp and utilising a std MV rather than relying on hammering the PI as-per PPIMV. I don't want to go batshit with the gain, but would like to just plug my Strat and LP straight in and palm mute/'chunk', riding the vol on the fiddle-clean to mean. I was wondering how much gain you can reasonably expect to get out of the std preamp design before going to a JCM800 - style cascaded setup. However.there's room on the table for more. It's my first amp build and I really like the overall sound-one of the better sounding amps I've had = can hear the guitar strings and lots of clarity.

Well I built this View media item 134805It's essentially a 50W mostly from Valvestorm.
