guitar /amp marriage

CountryDave

Still waiting to find a Strat bridge pickup that can compete with a good Tele one.

@rze99 ; May I point you in the direction of a Dimarzio SDS1.
Plenty of punch and solved my years long search for the same thing.

stickyfiddle

I generally agree with @ICBM, except I think Strats sound rubbish through Marshalls. Give me a chimey Vox or slightly-pushed blackface Fender any day

tabano

for me,
les pauls, sg, or most  set neck short scale guitars for the matter work best with old school Marshall, my last option specially for les paul styled ones would be any high gainer, they seem to compress too much for me..
I am referring to cooking tones mainly btw,

sweepy

Anything Marshall Post Plexi is poo, there I said it . Runs away with his Rift and Suhr GG

PolarityMan

Banjo soubds great through a 5150

BintyTwanger77

I always thought that Teles sounded at their best through Fender amps, but I was very impressed with how they sound in Vox amps (namely the AC10 and AC15). Haven’t yet found a Marshall amp I’ve liked.

Fishboy7

Tele into Tweed is a perfect marriage. 

I like LPs into blackface fender type amps and 335s into anything. 

Don't get on with Marshalls at all for some reason and never owned or even tried a Vox. 

Grocer_Jack

stickyfiddle said:

I generally agree with @ICBM, except I think Strats sound rubbish through Marshalls. Give me a chimey Vox or slightly-pushed blackface Fender any day

On the money. 

Interesting how many don’t get on with Marshalls - thought it was just me. 

ESBlonde

If you want it to, pretty much any guitar sounds good through any amp. Some are more of a fight, but they all make a musical/tuneful sound. Context is everything.

We've discussed lots of times how guitarist 'X' always sounds like themselves irrispective of the guitar or amp they are using.

For my personal taste the classic sounds appeal and make me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Mark1960

A Strat through a Peavey was the perceived wisdom back in the day, although I tend to agree with others above, that a good guitar and good amp will never sound bad, it's just personal preference

Bellycaster

Any decent Guitar through a Bogner Goldfinger 45. Heavenly clean channel and a very good Plexi Like "Loud 69" mode on the lead channel.

57Deluxe

For me with my pairings:

P90 + Tweed Deluxe

Strat + Fender Blackface

Tele + Marshall / Cornford

Les Paul + everything (Super Reverb best for me)

335 + everything (Session Rockette 30 best for me)

LP Jr + everything (add a little boost)

But all can be made to excel with a little pedal boost or two.

McSwaggerty

Strat - Fender Bassman
Les Paul - Marshall

builttospill

Expecting a few lols here but the one of the nicest guitar tones I've ever experienced was my Gibson SG Standard through a Vox DA5, I can't remember the amp mode was but it was superb, more recently my Strat through a Line 6 Amplifi using a preset called 'Godlike Clean' my word it sounds bloody incredible. Trying to replicate it through my PRRI failed miserably.   

stickyfiddle

Grocer_Jack said:

stickyfiddle said:

I generally agree with @ICBM, except I think Strats sound rubbish through Marshalls. Give me a chimey Vox or slightly-pushed blackface Fender any day

On the money. 

Interesting how many don’t get on with Marshalls - thought it was just me. 

Yeah, not only you. I reckon ACDC's Shoot To Thrill and You Shook Me All Night Long are pretty much the best dirty sounds ever recorded, but every other Marshall sound leaves me cold when it's actually under my own fingers.

shaunm

stickyfiddle said:

Grocer_Jack said:

stickyfiddle said:

I generally agree with @ICBM, except I think Strats sound rubbish through Marshalls. Give me a chimey Vox or slightly-pushed blackface Fender any day

On the money. 

Interesting how many don’t get on with Marshalls - thought it was just me. 

Yeah, not only you. I reckon ACDC's Shoot To Thrill and You Shook Me All Night Long are pretty much the best dirty sounds ever recorded, but every other Marshall sound leaves me cold when it's actually under my own fingers.

I get the Marshall comments but I guess it is dependant in which amp. JTM45’s for example are warm, loads of bottom end and the total opposite of what I find with a 1987x. Turned up 3/4’s of the way up and it’s a glorious sound with any guitar and with use of your guitars volume and tone it can be quite versatile. 

That being said so can a Tweed and so can a Vox or any other brand I guess. 

I find the Tweed Bassman a little more spiky and brittle sounding than the Marshall. It’s certainly got a more aggressive break up.