Wolfenstein98k
Power User
I think the comment "GreatGreen" made on that exact point was really good.
"At one point, Cliff said that he didn't want users to be able to turn off the preamp and link two amp blocks together in a preamp-to-poweramp arrangement because it would make it easier for the competition to reverse engineer his work. However, if you could, instead of just turning off part of the amp, instead cycle through a menu of power sections like you can currently choose the tonestack from different amps... I don't know, maybe this could do everything you'd want without "opening" up the system in any significant way. I know I'd love to be able to do that. There are lots of great historic tones involving the preamp of one amp being slaved into the poweramp of another amo with fantastic results. Just off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure mostly all of Metallica's And Justice For All was recorded using a Mesa Boogie Mark IIc+ preamp sent to the power section of a Marshall JCM 800. That would be an easily achievable tone if we could hot-swap power sections in the amp block."
"At one point, Cliff said that he didn't want users to be able to turn off the preamp and link two amp blocks together in a preamp-to-poweramp arrangement because it would make it easier for the competition to reverse engineer his work. However, if you could, instead of just turning off part of the amp, instead cycle through a menu of power sections like you can currently choose the tonestack from different amps... I don't know, maybe this could do everything you'd want without "opening" up the system in any significant way. I know I'd love to be able to do that. There are lots of great historic tones involving the preamp of one amp being slaved into the poweramp of another amo with fantastic results. Just off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure mostly all of Metallica's And Justice For All was recorded using a Mesa Boogie Mark IIc+ preamp sent to the power section of a Marshall JCM 800. That would be an easily achievable tone if we could hot-swap power sections in the amp block."