LesPaulCustom79

Remember there are only 5 companies making power tubes at the present......so no matter who you buy from, the tubes are coming from one of these: 1. Sovtek from New Sensor Factory in Russia (Mesa relabled, Electro Harmonix relabled, and some Groove Tubes relabled) 2. Svetlana from the New Sensor Xpo Pul Factory in Saratov, Russia (Svetlana brand, reissued Tung-Sol, reissued Mullard and the reissued Genelex Gold Lion) 3. S.E.D. Winged =C= from the Sevetlana Electronics Division Factory in St. Petersburg, Russia 4. JJ Electronics in Slovakia (All JJ Electronics brand tubes) 5. Shuguang in China (Ruby relabled, Sino relabled, and some Groove Tubes relabled)

I've bought several matched sets of power tubes from them and never gotten a bad tube. They have good prices.

This rig does what I need it too.

I have a Carvin GX412T slant with Celestions in it and I like it fine. Not quite as tight of bottom end as my Marshall 1960B with G12T-75's but I only paid $395 for the Carvin brand new. The cab matches real well with an X-100B amp. The cab is all marine birch wood, even the back, and very sturdy. I prefer Celestions over the 90's Carvin gray carpet cabs with the BR-12 speakers, the BR-12's can be rather strident and bottom-end is only fair. The older mid 80's black concert cabinets with the Carvin Magnalab 100w speakers are good and some of those cabs came with EV-120L speakers but are ball breakers, 120 lbs.

I saw a photo of Malcolm with old Mesa Boogie 4x12 stacks with the wire front grills sitting behind him. Did AC/DC in fact use Mesa amps at one time during the early 80's and for how long? It must not have been for very long.

I saw a video of AC/DC on You Tube from a mid 70's Australian T.V. show and Angus and Malcolm were both using Orange OR-120 "pics only" amps and 4 Orange 4x12 cabs each. It blew my mind because I thought they always used Marshalls. When I went to look for it later, the video had been removed.

Somewhere I read that Angus has one 70's Marshall 4x12 1960B cabinet sitting under the stage pushed by a dimed vol. Marshall 100w and that what is miked to the P.A.

Angus never changes the stock pickups in any of his guitars. Yes, Angus uses the stock pickups in his Gibson Custom Angus SG's, but the stock pickups are HOT as {censored}!!!

Angus uses late 70's Marshall JMP MkII 2203 100w amps with the gain turned all the way up for large concerts with following settings: Presence = 5 Bass = 10 Mids = 4 Treble = 8 Gain = 6 or 7 Volumn = 7 to 10 Note: The HB Pickups in his SG's are overwound with smaller gauge vintage wire and hot as {censored}!!! Malcolm sometimes uses the same late 70's Marshall JMP MkII 2203's and sometimes uses 70's Marshall JMP Super Lead 100's (4) inputs with no Master. The pickups on "The Beast", 1964 Gretsch Jet Double Cutaway, are also overwound and the magnets dipped in wax to help prevent feedback.

I can't believe this thread is almost two years old on July 30th!

Here is my post.