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    Reduce fizz on High Gain amps

    That fizz is what helps a lot of high gain amps cut through and give clarity in a mix. Many people’s favorite “smooth” tones are much more hairy than they realize. Don’t be surprised if you lose clarity and brilliance if you start trying to take out a bunch of it.
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    Solo 100 Lead Model

    Bloated and dark = turn down the master volume. Again, for more modern rhythm tones ( which, this amp blows for, fight me), you want the master volume low….there was a whole thread about this where I commented on this and many found it helpful, it’s worth a read. I couldn’t care less what the...
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    Tips for dialing in a JCM800 tone like this?

    DOD 250 will help for that yngwie style fluidness as well… There’s always a ton to unpack for tones like this. People ask a simple question and want a simple answer, but it’s almost always never that simple. I’ll ask the first question though…can you PLAY like him? Because a lot of that is...
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    Never Mic'd a cab - what are typical mic placements?

    It’s real simple: get a flashlight. Put it right up against the grill. place a 57 dead center on the speaker, right against the grill. Listen to all 4 speakers in this position ( if it’s a 4x12 obviously) record a couple clips of each speaker micd dead center. Pick your favorite speaker. Now...
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    FW 31 Midrange only

    You’ve got something weird going on that we couldn’t even begin to diagnose on where the issue is, but I’m pretty sure it’s not the modeling itself.
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    [Solved] Marshall amps sounds too thin

    Well, a real amp into a load box is not the same as playing a real amp into a cab that’s mic’d up, but I digress… But I agree with you, you definitely DONT need to deep dive into parameters to get a great sound out of the Marshall models. Albeit I would argue a simple tweak of the grid bias is...
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    [Solved] Marshall amps sounds too thin

    Fair enough. I think I was confusing OP along with a few other people who stated they were having similar issues and mentioned other amps etc.
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    [Solved] Marshall amps sounds too thin

    Better received? YOU are the only one not on the same page here man, literally everyone else enjoyed this thread and found something valuable in it, until you decide to come in with your “it’s bad advice” comment when the product in question wasn’t even the axe fx in the first place…talk about a...
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    [Solved] Marshall amps sounds too thin

    I think it’s pretty safe to say it’s just as obvious that we aren’t talking about amps like a plexi, just as it is as obvious we aren’t talking about rectos Diezel, etc. This is not a hard concept( well, I thought anyways) to understand why i brought ALL of those amps up. And yea, I most...
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    [Solved] Marshall amps sounds too thin

    Great post, totally agreed. The 800 to be fair is kind of its own thing in this world, and kind of an anomaly. It very obviously has a predominantly preamp driven overdrive ( hence the gain knob on them), but many people still DO find them pleasing with the volume way way up. And in some...
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    [Solved] Marshall amps sounds too thin

    Well if you want to be a smartass, it sure is on some amps. On a recto it’s already clipping at that volume. On a 5150 it’s getting close to full on clipping. When do you start getting override on a small deluxe combo? Obviously it depends on the pickups, but it ain’t much higher than 9-10...
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    [Solved] Marshall amps sounds too thin

    The user wanted a bigger and more low end: turning up your master volume until the amp is almost clipping or is clipping, is not the way….again, use your damn ears. If you think you have more low end and clarity with your MV super high, you are just plain wrong. I don’t know what to tell you. I...
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    [Solved] Marshall amps sounds too thin

    Seems to be Exactly what quite a few people were looking for…use your ears, not your eyes. I’m not sure what is “obvious” about an amps master volume but I can assure you the producers I know, who do some of the absolute biggest metal records in the world and have for decades, do exactly the...
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    Modern day country session guitarist rigs.

    As Someone who lived and played extensively in Nashville, this was something I of course was super interested in when I moved to town. But first… I can tell you, there is so many fun players to go watch and they are so good, that you don’t even give a damn about their gear. That’s coming from a...
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    [Solved] Marshall amps sounds too thin

    In theory yes you would want to turn up the output when dropping the master volume to make the “lower master volume” clips, and then turn down the output block when making the “higher master volume”’clips. Unfortunately , this is much harder than it sounds, which is why you get a plugin like...
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