Amp recommendations

Yea I hope to try the cub UK with something like an sd-1 or a tube screamer for a boost because I feel like if I just use a Hardwire/Digitech TL-2 into the amp it would sound bad but with a boost into the distortion of the amp I would be able to get a pretty good 70's/80's metal tone but it's mainly just experimenting with what sounds best to me.

I posted some recordings of my old band a minute ago that are good examples of cranked marshall and fender sounds in my last post. I never used to boost my Marshall's, they had plenty of tight crunch for me. In the studio I boosted my fenders for extra dirt but live they were just my clean tones.

Thanks for putting the links on the post I liked the songs and also the guitar tone on the songs. They were helpful for getting a good layout of the tone of the amps.

On the first link, that distorted tone is really good. The superlead tone is awesome.

I'm a big proponent of getting good amps and letting them rip. In my professional music career I've owned just about everything.

yea doing that sounds really good.

Thanks for the praise. If you like those tunes check out the whole record. I'm inordinately proud of that band almost 20 years later. The whole album has a dozen or more amps on it, different stuff every song. We got really into it.

When you try a Cub UK you now have a benchmark marshall tone, see if it gets you close, hopefully at a volume that won't liquefy all the pigeons in a 1 mile radius.

Yea, I will try to check out the album soon. I think I'll like it a lot.

This is a 50 watt amp I designed and built in a traynor PA head box a few years ago. It's an early hiwatt with extra gain, tweaked vox tonecontrols, a different master volume design and a big choke in the power supply instead of the hiwatt resistive filter because I like giant inductors:

https://on.soundcloud.com/tMeiE

Everything is like halfway up on the normal channel into 2 EV alnico speakers.

It sounds like it's really good for getting good classic rock tones. I've always thought the concept building your own pedals and amps is really cool.

The channels could be cascaded to create a full bore metal amp if I tweaked one stage to be cold biased and decreased some coupling and bypass capacitor values, maybe decreased the resistor to ground in the voltage divider before tone control recovery stage but that wasn't the goal when I made it. It can get to 80s hair band levels of grunt no problem if you need it to but its more percussive than any marshall, pants flapping punchy in a way that the sennheiser on it flattened out.

the good ones of those old randalls seem to be getting expensive from the dimebag / literally every new orleans metal band connection (eyehategod, acid bath, crowbar, goatwhore etc), the rg100es's seem to go for like a grand now

i know someone who used to have an ashdown fallen angel and that sounded fucking AMAZING they look fairly cheap for a big head

although he had the crazy (way rarer and more expensive) 180 watt version and i have no idea if he was running pedals into it

I'm pretty sure there's also the Randall RG1003H which is good for getting RG100ES style tones, but it just sucks that they went from $300 to $650

thing with them is that theres different versions of the rg100es that all sound a little different let alone the new ones. apparently the oldest first run rg100s that are just normal black tolex are good, the ones that followed them that have the carpetey stuff covering it are good the ones past that... apparently shit. although when i saw eyehategod a few months back jimmy bower was using the new rg1003h, but that wouldve been a rental amp because shipping his old rg100es over to the uk wouldve been expensive i dont remember the guitar tone being anything spectacular church of misery were opening and their guitarist had a marshall jmp that thing sounded phenomenal

if you end up trying a new rg let me know how it is tho!

church of misery were opening and their guitarist had a marshall jmp that thing sounded phenomenal

4 input or master volume?

looks like a 2 input so master volume? hopefully the imgur thing works i dont know how else to attach the picture. i think he probably had the master volume on 10 though they were stupid loud.

https://imgur.com/a/SYyYwPI

2 inputs is always a master volume, the so called mk2 master that is the same as the jcm800. 4 inputs is USUALLY non-master. Mk1 only came in a 50 or 100 watt combo... its 4 inputs with a post phase inverter master. I've only encountered 1 in the wild. It was interesting. They only made them like a year or two. Neil Giraldo,Pat Benatar's husband/guitarist, loves them and probably owns most of them. At a glance they look like the mid 70s combos with tremelo. They also made 4 input non-master models in the 80s with jcm800 cosmetics, andy summers used them for awhile... there's also an 800 series bass amp that's not a super bass but a master volume bass amp with its own distinct circuit and really unique eq... kinda cool for guitar.