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Muso's Guitar Tart Waffle

We all know you're only posting here so we tell you to buy a new one. You should though.
 
I probably should. £630 gets a decent 40W Marshall valve.
 
Bought the Marshall DSL40CR in the end, it arrived today. What a difference to my old Marshall (ignoring the fact this one works and the old one doesn’t), it sounds fucking phenomenal. The clean tones are just amazing and even slamming some serious distortion through it it sounds sublime. I think I’m going to be playing a hell of a lot more from now on, I really didn’t think it would make that much difference. Immense piece of kit. And heavy as fuck as well.
 
Used to love playing through a Marshall DSL at various practice rooms over the years. Always seemed to be the default choice. Great sound.
 
I miss my JVM head and cab. Got a little 20W tranny to play through here which sounds great but I miss valves.
 
I still have my 30W Valvestate Marshall (VS30R). Which is a small practice amp that I guess was supposed to emulate a valve sound.
 
The Bear said:
I still have my 30W Valvestate Marshall (VS30R). Which is a small practice amp that I guess was supposed to emulate a valve sound.
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Yeah my AVT 50 is supposed to give valve style sound, it does have a valve in the pre amp.
Dies it sound like a full valve amp? No but for me it does give a better, warmer sound than fully transistor amps that I looked at at a similar price.
 
The DSL and TSL were great as were the JCM900 series.

The JVM is an amazing four channel amp but is quite complex to dial in with three voices in each channel than can be assigned to a banked foot switch. And that is before you stick a pedal operation both in front of it and through the effects loop (which is excellent). Reverb is surprisingly good for a Marshall and the cleans are crisp although not the bell-like perfection of a Boogie. I used the red voice on the highest gain channel, put the gain at 12 o clock and stuck a metal zone and a tube screamer in front of it and got instant Slayer levels. You could turn the gain up for the really extreme stuff but I find that tends to turn to mush, especially if you are picking very fast.
 
Not often I'll post random guitar covers, but she absolutely smashes this out the park. Probably the best cover of it I've heard.

She's also playing in DGCGCD tuning as per Jimmy Page on the record.

 
The Bear said:
Not often I'll post random guitar covers, but she absolutely smashes this out the park. Probably the best cover of it I've heard.

She's also playing in DGCGCD tuning as per Jimmy Page on the record.

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I used to know how to play it, it's fairly easy. The hard part was the tuning.
I don't know any other songs in that tuning so rarely kept the guitar in that tuning and then forgot how to play it
 
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