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Here a few clips I made quickly with my Les Paul through the 45/100.

The mics are a 57 and Royer R122 through Neve clone preamps into Neundo.
The 57 is panned 60% right and the Royer is to the left.

EDIT: forgot to mention, the 57 is pointed at a Heritage Celestion G12M in a metro straight cab. The Royer is in front of my '70 slant with original G12H's.


The playing is stiff and the clean parts are quite a bit lower in volume than the parts with the volume control on the guitar all the way up. But I wanted to show how well the goes from clean to dirty,

The Shook Me All Night Long clip had different mic placement, and you can hear some phase cancellation.

No attenuation, FX ect are used.



George

I love Jimi. But I can't play like him whatsoever.

So let me just apologize in advance for this clip.


VG

This amp really makes me want to play AC/DC riffs. So here are a few.

VG

Amp settings? (I'll assume your guitar was on "ten"........) I doubt you need to lower the guitar volume, pick light and let her chime away for cleans.

Mine sounds right at presence 6, bass 2-3, mids 8, treble 6-7, loudness I 8.5, loudness II on 0.........

Finally gave up on 530VDC on the plates eh? Tubes for breakfast, lunch and dinner...... Terry about shit when I was inquiring about the Shuguang KT66's, called me "tubekiller."

I really liked the "Shook Me All Night Long" sound clip. BIG & BOLD tone and chimey harmonic bloom, & Punchy esque tone on the lead notes. (if that makes sense) Cool!!

"Noise Pollution/Have a Drink" was great too.

Aha!! Just got around to the Little Wing clip -- can't claim I'm the only one ghosting around here anymore can you!!! I've finally worn off on George in some small way........

Those of you who have never experienced these really low-filtered early style amps shouldn't get scared off though, with your guitar tuned correctly the ghosting will almost reinforce what you're playing, and really get you that gnarly fuzzy swirling feedback sound!!

Ah! Amp setting, duh. Sorry, I really wasn't feeling well yesterday.


The guitar volumes were adjusted for clean to dirty. But the amp settings stayed pretty much the same for all these clips:


Loudness II 0
Loudness I 8-9

Treble 6
Middle 9
Bass 3-4
Presence 5


george

Sounds good George. I really liked the Shook Me clip best.

It seems like these clips are a bit too subtle. I redid these ones with more of the 57 in the mix, for a brighter, closer sound. And I added a little room reverb to give them some space.

VG

Sounds better to my ears, especially "You Shook Me"........I was hearing a lot of the fuzz but not the meat, I suspect mic placement because I fight it every time I try to record a clip myself. I know how much time you have to sit and work the mic placement but I think it will give you even better results on this amp yet; I still think we aren't hearing all it has to offer..........

That's the tone, dead on with the chords. Highs sounded just a bit thin to me. Very nice though.

Hey George.. For the Little Wing clip, try the upper right input with the bass most of the way down, and a Strat on the neck position pickup. Then for the solo, go back to the bridge single coil, and add a little fuzz. Badda Bing! If you want Machine gun, stay on the bridge p/u, keep the fuzz on, and add some vibe. This is GODLIKE on my 12000 series.

The jus got paid.mp3 clip, at 30 secs into it, is heaven.

My .02

although the little wing doesn't quite sound like 'little wing' (you really need a strat for that) it does sound very much like the rest of axis: bold as love, and hendrix in general.

and obviously, the les paul (or better yet an sg) with controls jacked might as well have been used by ac/dc for their 70's albums.