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Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:18 pm
by sopachrga
The matchless sounded awesome, once it was a long way above bedroom volumes....
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:24 pm
by Molly
Reg18 wrote:I would list my highlights for the day but there were just so many nice amps and guitars It is hard to narrow it down. Loved that Nocaster though! Molly can you tell me which pickups it had? I notice online they come with 51 Nocaster pickups in some and Twisted Tele in other versions, although I think the older versions had different ones again.
Great day, great gear and great like minded company!
I'll email the original owner. Mine's a 2014 I think if it helps.
Highlight for me? Put the Tele through Mark's Mk.V whilst he ran it through the channels / settings. By the time he'd finished I'd mentally sold all my amps....
Oh, and the 1987x cranked to ****. Classic Marshall.
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:28 pm
by Molly
Apologies, Dave. Just realised I didn't stick around to help put the pews back.
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:36 pm
by finn61
Molly wrote:Cheers chaps. Came away wanting a Mk.V.
Matchless anybody?
I wish so very much that I could take up that offer...
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 6:15 pm
by Molly
sopachrga wrote:The matchless sounded awesome, once it was a long way above bedroom volumes....
And there's the rub.
On the Mk.V hunt. Keep me in mind if I've not got one if/when you decide to part with your one.
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 6:17 pm
by sopachrga
Molly wrote:sopachrga wrote:The matchless sounded awesome, once it was a long way above bedroom volumes....
And there's the rub.
On the Mk.V hunt. Keep me in mind if I've not got one if/when you decide to part with your one.
No worries. Will probably have decided if I'm keeping it over the next few weeks.
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:28 pm
by Darth Sabbathi
Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Molly wrote:New Mershall sitting next to me. On apro for the afternoon.
Silver Jubilee IMHO was a little underwhelming, the clean channel sounded great as did the first OD channel. But as soon as the gain pot was pulled (which should have been the money shot) I was left feeling a little shortchanged? Seemed like there was a lack of bottom end and it all sounded a bit, well weak almost. Push it back in and oddly it sounded damn good, nice and full and a lot more bottom end to it.
Looked beautiful though, as did the Matchless that was next to it
D'oh... I should have thought to say this earlier. The secret to the jube's full od channel is to dime the output master and use the lead master to control the volume level. At least that's what works best on mine. Downside is that it makes it tricky to switch channels as the output master is the one that controls the clean channel's level (so deafening clean if you forget to turn it down)... I just don't change channel...
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:34 pm
by Molly
Darth Sabbathi wrote:
D'oh... I should have thought to say this earlier. The secret to the jube's full od channel is to dime the output master and use the lead master to control the volume level. At least that's what works best on mine. Downside is that it makes it tricky to switch channels as the output master is the one that controls the clean channel's level (so deafening clean if you forget to turn it down)... I just don't change channel...
What didn't make sense was that the foot switch only changed the level of gain rather than swapped between clean and dirty. That job was left to the push-pull knob on the amp. It's such an obvious oversight. I loved the clean and the initial gain that the push-pull knob took it to but would expect to be able to access that from the floor. I suppose you're limited when you're recreating an old amp.
Thanks to RS for letting me take it on approval for the afternoon.
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:21 pm
by Mini Forklift
Molly wrote:Darth Sabbathi wrote:Thanks to RS for letting me take it on approval for the afternoon.
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Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:30 pm
by Darth Sabbathi
Molly wrote:Darth Sabbathi wrote:
D'oh... I should have thought to say this earlier. The secret to the jube's full od channel is to dime the output master and use the lead master to control the volume level. At least that's what works best on mine. Downside is that it makes it tricky to switch channels as the output master is the one that controls the clean channel's level (so deafening clean if you forget to turn it down)... I just don't change channel...
What didn't make sense was that the foot switch only changed the level of gain rather than swapped between clean and dirty. That job was left to the push-pull knob on the amp. It's such an obvious oversight. I loved the clean and the initial gain that the push-pull knob took it to but would expect to be able to access that from the floor. I suppose you're limited when you're recreating an old amp.
Thanks to RS for letting me take it on approval for the afternoon.
Huh, weird. Mine doesn't work like that... the fs switches channels. But I can only get the 'rhythm clip' (slight dirt on the clean channel) via the push pull knob. Or maybe that is what you meant...
The big flaw is that it really isn't a two channel amp, as both channels share the tone and master volume controls... It's more a single channel amp with a couple of extra gain stages.
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:55 pm
by Molly
Darth Sabbathi wrote:
Huh, weird. Mine doesn't work like that... the fs switches channels. But I can only get the 'rhythm clip' (slight dirt on the clean channel) via the push pull knob. Or maybe that is what you meant...
The big flaw is that it really isn't a two channel amp, as both channels share the tone and master volume controls... It's more a single channel amp with a couple of extra gain stages.
Yes. I think that's what I meant. I wanted to be able to change from clean to clip but couldn't. Wouldn't kill them to put two buttons on the footswitch.
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:08 am
by Molly
Anybody going to post any more pics?
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 9:05 am
by kdawg2a
I don't know how to get them from my phone to here.....
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:05 am
by hamo
kdawg2a wrote:I don't know how to get them from my phone to here.....
Got a Flickr account? Post there and link?
Re: Chch Gearfest Oct the 17th
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 11:21 am
by Kris
my 2558 switched the same way DS said -channels changed.Seems a wierd way to go about it on the current model.
I think it says a lot for the versatilty of the mark V if it's an amp both Molly and I would be keen to own
pretty different ends of the tonal spectrum