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That's crazy in an awesome way.

Ancient Astronaught wrote:Okay, but does it doom?

ShaolinLambKiller wrote:I don't understand why anyone would need anything louder than 20watts, all clubs mic out your cab. Also why have so many pedals or amps when you can just have one?

My first amp was a Peavey Rage 158. I loved it. When my buddy was getting rid of his I bought it and ran them together with a DOD Supra Distortion. That cheap little Harmony Strat knock off never sounded so good. And by good, I mean shitty but at the time I didn't know any better.

D.o.S. wrote:Can someone explain to me why you'd pay $500 for a solid state head instead of a really nice preamp?

I bought mine for $300 NIB

Now that is much harder to argue with -- I was just going with the Muscians Friend/google price.

Maybe it's because I'm nominally a bass player, so I'm well acquainted with a metric ton of tiny SS heads (even though I don't use them), but I haven't found an SS amp that really sounds 'right' on guitar (because I'm a stodgy shithead, obvs.)

D.o.S. wrote:Now that is much harder to argue with -- I was just going with the Muscians Friend/google price.

Maybe it's because I'm nominally a bass player, so I'm well acquainted with a metric ton of tiny SS heads (even though I don't use them), but I haven't found an SS amp that really sounds 'right' on guitar (because I'm a stodgy shithead, obvs.)

Ya they're popping up all over my craigslist for $300 or less in really good condition, I grabbed mine off the bay shortly after they came out. Tons of deals out there

Ancient Astronaught wrote:SLK - I was doing some youtubing last night in a allergy / cold medicine induced haze at about 2am and came across your demo video of the Marshall Lead 100 mosfet. Just wanted to get your opinions on how that amp is for say crust / power violence (by your demo it sounds pretty spot on for that) and also how well it takes having pedals (mainly a booster or overdrive) out in front of it. I'm thinking after the wedding when I get my deposit back from the venue I might go out and buy a stereo pair of them to run into my emperors since they are so cheap and I want some kind of crazy weird stereo rig. These things have the gain and built in reverb while being light and reliable so it peaked my interest.

It's looking like either a pair of these or a pair of Orange CR120's (which is the slightly more expensive option).

Nice, glad my vids are popping up more... while I do enjoy the Mosfet and think it can handle crust and power violence excellently. if I was to pick one over the other I would go with the CR120's they have a bit more saturation on tap for head distortion and are quite a bit louder and I know can take pedals well. I honestly haven't tried the mosfet with something infront of it but I can actually try that out today since I have my camera. i can even do a comparison with the two.

I actually think what would be best is one of each for a stereo rig cause it'll bring more fullness than just two of the same.

conky, I kinda felt the same at first with that mosfet but it does cut through more than you would think. it gets a great mid bite that cuts through when I hook up 3 rigs at once and I can tell when I turn it on and off.


odontophobia, absolutely!


DOS I can list you off a ton of great SS amps. hell even my bass rig is solid state and dominates most of the tube bass amps that I've messed with.

Awesome!!! Thats the kinda response I was looking for, I really appreciate it.

A comparison video would be (_._)(_._) [tits!]

The one of each crossed my mine, just gotta get over my OCD of symmetry hahaha

ShaolinLambKiller wrote:

Ancient Astronaught wrote:SLK - I was doing some youtubing last night in a allergy / cold medicine induced haze at about 2am and came across your demo video of the Marshall Lead 100 mosfet. Just wanted to get your opinions on how that amp is for say crust / power violence (by your demo it sounds pretty spot on for that) and also how well it takes having pedals (mainly a booster or overdrive) out in front of it. I'm thinking after the wedding when I get my deposit back from the venue I might go out and buy a stereo pair of them to run into my emperors since they are so cheap and I want some kind of crazy weird stereo rig. These things have the gain and built in reverb while being light and reliable so it peaked my interest.

It's looking like either a pair of these or a pair of Orange CR120's (which is the slightly more expensive option).

Nice, glad my vids are popping up more... while I do enjoy the Mosfet and think it can handle crust and power violence excellently. if I was to pick one over the other I would go with the CR120's they have a bit more saturation on tap for head distortion and are quite a bit louder and I know can take pedals well. I honestly haven't tried the mosfet with something infront of it but I can actually try that out today since I have my camera. i can even do a comparison with the two.

I actually think what would be best is one of each for a stereo rig cause it'll bring more fullness than just two of the same.

conky, I kinda felt the same at first with that mosfet but it does cut through more than you would think. it gets a great mid bite that cuts through when I hook up 3 rigs at once and I can tell when I turn it on and off.


odontophobia, absolutely!


DOS I can list you off a ton of great SS amps. hell even my bass rig is solid state and dominates most of the tube bass amps that I've messed with.

I got accustomed to Solid State while living in NYC and renting rehearsal space by the hour. They'd have a ton of hypothetically amazing amps there, but they'd all sound like shit, so I'd go straight to the JC120. More recently, a friend had a Sunn Beta (I think) 410 and it was amazing. You have to get used to the SS dynamic response, but you can hear every little fiber of fuzz. You'd never know that even a Muff could have such kick until you've played it into a flat, clean SS amp.

So there may be a better place to post this but there's so many people knowledgeable about amps here so...

I've got a Sunn Sorado that sounds fucking killer and I'm letting the guitarist in one of my bands use it during shows and practice. In practice he has to turn it all the way up to 10 to be heard over our other guitarists Fender Hot Rod and my Ashdown MAG300. It's plugged in to a 1x15 speaker cab with an Eminence Kappalite 3015. Bad amp/speaker pairing? Or will plugging in another cab to run it at 4ohms make a big difference? It still sounds good, it's just I've heard about Sunns being so loud and mine really isn't at the moment. Just trying to see if I should re-tube it or take it in.

If you buy a Marshall Lead MOSFET do it in some circumstance where you can either return it or you get it super cheap.

As I remember they are on the quiet side and the tone wasn't very inspirational. Your results could vary. It's been years.

D.o.S. wrote:Now that is much harder to argue with -- I was just going with the Muscians Friend/google price.

Maybe it's because I'm nominally a bass player, so I'm well acquainted with a metric ton of tiny SS heads (even though I don't use them), but I haven't found an SS amp that really sounds 'right' on guitar (because I'm a stodgy shithead, obvs.)

I also mostly play bass and most of the time I've played guitar in bands it's been with tube heads, but I've used a few cool sounding solid state amps for guitar. Usually older stuff like Sunn, Randall, Acoustic and the like. I really hate most solid state guitar amp tone for that gainy, mid scooped ultra metal sound that people somehow love to use them for, but the older kind of fuzzy and gross sounding ones sounds pretty killer for powerviolence and sludge bands I've done. Nick made me a Dunwich bass preamp that's solid state, based off a modified Acoustic 150 and I've tried that out for guitar and liked it too. Though in that case I used a dirt pedal into it, most of the other times I've used solid state amps with guitar it has just been cranked and maybe a boost or light overdrive pushing it.

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