Guitar Magic
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In the following video I compare two amps that I think can sound surprisingly close to each other despite being in a very different league, but you decide.
- My 1969 JMP 50 is my treasure. I have it for 10 years now. It's a beautiful amp inside and outside, it motivates me to play non-stop. It has all original (or NOS) caps and resistors. It's point-to-point Mustard goodness. The amp is currently wired in a 2204 fashion so that I can have a master volume (it's a half an hour mod - 1987 and 2204 amps have almost exactly the same basic construction).
- I purchased the DSL 15 about 7 years ago and I've been using that one too extensively. I find it incredible that such a cheap small amp can sound so good even compared to its legendary big brother. I did some small mods to the red channel (snipped two caps if I remember correctly) but the green channel is untouched. The green is the "plexi" channel, so you have to set it up like a plexi when it is fully cranked: Bass at 0, Treble, Mid, Presence at 10. The strange thing is that I don't like DSL amps, but the 15W version is unique - it runs on 6V6 tubes and even fully cranked, the lows won't get flabby and loose.
- This is not a professional recording, I used a very cheap dynamic mic placed almost center to the speaker so the sounds you hear are overly trebly and have not much to do with the real thing that I hear in the room (much more bass, mids and overall punch in person). I adjusted the volume of the two amps in the mixing software to be equal. I wanted to mix in the camera's room audio to make the sound a little more like in person but for some reason I couldn't pair the tracks precisely and I was in a hurry. I play on a Gibson LP.
Tell me guys which one you prefer. I find them incredibly similar especially from 4:10 with the heavier drop-C riff.
- My 1969 JMP 50 is my treasure. I have it for 10 years now. It's a beautiful amp inside and outside, it motivates me to play non-stop. It has all original (or NOS) caps and resistors. It's point-to-point Mustard goodness. The amp is currently wired in a 2204 fashion so that I can have a master volume (it's a half an hour mod - 1987 and 2204 amps have almost exactly the same basic construction).
- I purchased the DSL 15 about 7 years ago and I've been using that one too extensively. I find it incredible that such a cheap small amp can sound so good even compared to its legendary big brother. I did some small mods to the red channel (snipped two caps if I remember correctly) but the green channel is untouched. The green is the "plexi" channel, so you have to set it up like a plexi when it is fully cranked: Bass at 0, Treble, Mid, Presence at 10. The strange thing is that I don't like DSL amps, but the 15W version is unique - it runs on 6V6 tubes and even fully cranked, the lows won't get flabby and loose.
- This is not a professional recording, I used a very cheap dynamic mic placed almost center to the speaker so the sounds you hear are overly trebly and have not much to do with the real thing that I hear in the room (much more bass, mids and overall punch in person). I adjusted the volume of the two amps in the mixing software to be equal. I wanted to mix in the camera's room audio to make the sound a little more like in person but for some reason I couldn't pair the tracks precisely and I was in a hurry. I play on a Gibson LP.
Tell me guys which one you prefer. I find them incredibly similar especially from 4:10 with the heavier drop-C riff.
