anyone with experience in guitar amps?

[johneetrash]

this guy in this one band i like described his setup but i dont quite understand it.. ill copy/paste his post

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<< yeah..i use only USA made Fender Strats with custom EMG 81 pickups running through a Mesa Dual Rectifier amp through a mid 90's Mesa Boogie Cab a/b boxed split into a Marshall JCM 900 through a Marshall JCM 900 Cabinet with 75 watt Celestion Greenbacks. I plan on using a MIDI system to link an Orange 60 watt head running through a Mid 60's vintage Marshall Cabinet once I get more money. >>


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i thought he just had a fullstack, i didnt know he had a jcm900 in his setup... but what do you think it's used for? is he mixing the sounds of the amps maybe? like a combination of the mesa's dirty channel and the jcm900's clean channel? or something like that?

what about the mesa cab a/b box split thing? i have like 2 mesa cabs and theres only the one input...

also, whats the orange 60w head? why a midi system?

thanks

 

[erikistired]

sounds like he's got two half stacks with a way to switch between them (footpeddle?). i never graduated past one half stack tho, so i could be wrong. my guess on the orange head is he wants to add a third halfstack, but can't find an a/b/c switch. not sure why he has to use midi.

~erik

i think he's a/b'ing into the heads, not the cabs.

what head are you running your cabs with? a mesa dual rec? my half stack consisted of an old crate solid state head (can't remember the model number) and a peavey 4x12 cab that weighed like a ton. now i just have a little crate td50c amp i tool around with in the house (getting married meant losing my lovely powerful half stack of doom).

 

[johneetrash]

tom delonge has almost the same setup. he has a triple rectifier + jcm900. i thought that he used his mesa for dirty and his jcm900 for clean but im not sure.. here's what he says in the guitar center interview



<< .C.: So your amps must be pretty important to your sound then. What kind of rig do you play through?

Tom: I love my guitar rig! I love the way it sounds and I use it for one main reason: I think it adds the two elements of guitar sound you need to make a big fat sound. I use a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier and a Marshall JCM900. Mesa Boogies can have all that bottom end and saturation of distortion but it doesn't have that string note tone that a Marshall has. And Marshall has a lot of string note tone but none of that overdriven bottom end. So when you mix the two tones I think it sounds incredible. What I do is put the JCM900 on its clean channel and turn the gain up to 10 and I also do the same with the dirty channel on the Mesa. So you kind of have two totally different unique sounds blended in together. I run that out of 3, Mesa Boogie 4x12's. >>



so if tom and johnee (the guy i was describing) mix the amps together, how would he do that? do they split their guitar cord into 2 and input to the mesa and marshall?

what is the orange head anyway? im not sure why he wants a MIDI system, i thought it was only for keyboard stuff but my friend said it's just another type of connection... but for what, to add effects 'n' stuff? does anyone know about orange heads?

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btw my rig is almost the same as the first one i was talking about... 50th anniversary us made strat, emg model 81 humbuckers, mesa boogie dual rectifier 100w head and a mid 90s mesa boogie cabinet (400w i believe... 2 electrovoice speakers and 2 black shadow celestions). just for fun sometimes i put it into another mesa cab i have with 4 black shadow celestions
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[Talon]

He may be feeding the sound out of one into the other for a fuller tone. Orange was an old UK amp company popular back in the 60's and 70's. Check out some here. The midi is so he can use a guitar synth with his guitar.

 

[erikistired]

very nice setup. i'm sure you can buy a box that'd split the signal to go into two amps. or chain them. i remember seeing i think vanhalen playing on mtv once and eddie had like, 10 stacks or something. so there's definately a way to do it.

orange seems to be a brand name like marshall or mesa boogie. i did a quickie search on yahoo, apparently the guys from oasis use them. i dunno.

i thought midi was for keyboards too, guess not tho.

~erik