Amps

[laurens]

Just to let you know:



-Pedals like the MT-2 sounded better through a valvestate than the DSL.

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Yes and do you know why? I don't want to be arrogant here, but that pedal is not right for a tube amp like the DSL. The valvestate is a solid state amp where you may use it on (not my preference, but I'll leave that for now). Using a MT-2 on all these amps will not give you a good Marshall tone but also not a good basis for comparision. Odd, because reading your post you do know your shit about changing tubes and speakers.

[EdgeOfDarkness]

Just to let you know:

After a while and many gigs I tried out the following.

-Changed the preamp tubes and the cleans improved a lot. Changed the power tubes too.

-Changed the stock speaker to V30. Cleans improved DRAMATICALLY and so did the dirty tones but the volume became ear bleeding. More than double. The cabinet of the combo could not handle it properly without rattling. Too loud for what I needed. And it was too trebly when cranked.

-Pedals like the MT-2 sounded better through a valvestate than the DSL.



After a while I bought a Silver Jubilee 1988 combo 2554 50W and now I hear the good old Marshall tone I was missing with the DSL. I kept both amps for a while and the DSL201 was definitely more versatile (two true channels) and more playable at reasonable levels.

Anyhow there is absolutely no comparison in any department. Besides the cleans and the low volume playability the DSL201 is a much-much inferior amp to the silver jubilee.

Still I am yearning for a plexi, perhaps to replace the silver jubilee combo or keep both.

The Jub needs a second amp for the cleans to be giggable.

Holy waking a dead thread batman.

[Shask]

Yeah, this is pretty old.

Those DSL combos dont get much love. Id rather have a head and 212 cab...

[pureanalog]

You misunderstood me. This was just a simple observation about the heavy distortion pedals. Simply that some of them sound better with a SS amp as basis.

Mostly I just use my guitar an amp and a cable.