Plexi vs JCM tone

RaymondLin

thomasross20

Sounds great!!

RaymondLin

Bogner Atma clean channel, Palir Titan, Stargazer.

thomasross20

Get some longer demos - would love to hear some more!

thomasross20

As everybody says, YouTube videos really are crap for amps - you have to listen to 100 to get an average idea. 
Player's skill, mic placement, mic type, settings, all that jazz!

thomasross20

This is a killer plexi:


The slightly higher gain plexi's sound amazing.

Moltisanti

thomasross20

I've seen that yeah, basically a JCM with 6550 valves (don't know how different those are to EL34s). But I don't know if it's been modded (extra pre-amp gain) or not.
Also... if you listen to my album tracks, my leads are a tad creamy - just hope the JCM would cover that.

thomasross20

All I right or wrong saying plexi (loud, punchy, crunchy) is more characteristic of power tube drive/distortion and jcm is more pre-amp (easier break-up, more liquid)?

Interested to compare the two (pre vs post)

Also I've read about diode clipping and how it can be called harsh way to cause distortion. What are the other ways? I'm going to read up on this.

Moe_Zambeek

Thomas, you can study the mechanics / electronics behind it by all means, but it won't mean anything until you feel / hear the amps in question. After that, the 'science' just explains the physical / aural manifestations. 

Your preference will be (or should be) for the feel and sound of a particular amp, while you are playing it. 

IYSWIM.

ThePrettyDamned

Moe_Zambeek said:

Thomas, you can study the mechanics / electronics behind it by all means, but it won't mean anything until you feel / hear the amps in question. After that, the 'science' just explains the physical / aural manifestations. 

Your preference will be (or should be) for the feel and sound of a particular amp, while you are playing it. 

IYSWIM.

This x1000

thomasross20

I agree but it's just the engineer in me wanting to know more.  

I'm defo more a player!