Help me compliment my 1987x

djc808

So i picked up a Marshall 1987x the other day for a steal off a friend, it's had the PPIMV mod done and i'm seriously considering it replacing the OR50 as main band amp, which while sounding great, hates pedals except my micro amp.
Dialed in to give a nice crunch tone (AC/DC), I'm looking for a nice OD to really compliment the marshall goodness. Being an OR user for a while, my overdrives slowly left me as the only boost I could use with it was my micro amp plus. This does an ok job at boosting the plexi but im wondering what else people can suggest.

I play punk rock, my clean isnt really clean and would just me the dirty plexi dialed back on the guitar, a mid rhythm from the plexi and a 'full' fat rhythm from an extra boost.

I don't want to just stick a distortion or marshall in a box type deal in front and waste the already nice tone i'm getting.

I'm thinking, Green Rhino (I like the thought of TS with a bit more control), or an OCD. Propably either would be run with the level pushed an the gain just added slightly to taste to give me a full beefy rhythm.

I'll just be using the same simple rig, with the OD replacing my micro amp, so tuner, pharoah fuzz, OD, Memory Boy Deluxe,

Winny_Pooh

Humbuckers: A BOSS waza SD-1 would do. A gunshot would be great. 

Single coils: A Nobels ODR-1 would be worth a try for fattening. 

djc808

thanks for the suggestions, i can borrow an SD-1 from a friend but it's not the waza.
And yeah I should have mentioned, with the exception of an LP Jr with a mojotone hot p90, i play my LP traditional with antiquity bridge humbucker

Magnetic_Effects

I have one of these and it loves pedals.

Any decent overdrive with level and up and gain set lower should produce good results. It is more about how you set the amp controls itself with these types of amp. Plus what inputs you use. 

Also, depending on how you set it up you could look into the treble bleed cap mod. Makes it more pedal friendly. Particularly at lower volumes.

ICBM

SD-1. There's a real magic to these with a proper Marshall.

57Deluxe

Seems from what you say this would compliment your tone...

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bloodandtears

this... http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/83254/fs-schaffer-replica-pedal-the-angus-young-pedal#latest

professorben

Punk rock with pedals. 
You should be ashamed.......

ICBM

I'm pretty sure Steve Jones used an MXR Distortion+ into a Fender Twin, both cranked .

djc808

professorben said:

Punk rock with pedals. 
You should be ashamed.......

haha that's why I want to avoid just wacking a plexidrive marshall in a box or similar infront. I want to get everything i can out of the amp, then just give it a helping hand. 

Taking it along to our lockup today and have a boss sd-1 i've managed to borrow. If that does the trick for me i'll deffinatly look into the waza version. Also lent me a plimsoul i'm going to run with the gain down and level up and prehaps add in a little gain if needed. Not so much after a huge gain boost, just a little more balls. 

Drew_TNBD

Tell it that it's beautiful???

ThePrettyDamned

If the sd1 does the trick, don't get the waza as it's clear the standard, er, does the trick! 

Try a ds-1 too. Sd-1-ds1 - Marshall at gig volume (not bedroom!) is really quite something. You could get satriani/vai style leads. 

meltedbuzzbox

ThePrettyDamned said:

If the sd1 does the trick, don't get the waza as it's clear the standard, er, does the trick! 

Try a ds-1 too. Sd-1-ds1 - Marshall at gig volume (not bedroom!) is really quite something. You could get satriani/vai style leads. 

Vai and Satriani style leads for punk rock?

ICBM

meltedbuzzbox said:

Vai and Satriani style leads for punk rock?

lustycourtier

Super hard on/box of rock. 

hugbot

Get it a super hard on and then compliment it on its super hard on. 

ThePrettyDamned

meltedbuzzbox said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

If the sd1 does the trick, don't get the waza as it's clear the standard, er, does the trick! 

Try a ds-1 too. Sd-1-ds1 - Marshall at gig volume (not bedroom!) is really quite something. You could get satriani/vai style leads. 

Vai and Satriani style leads for punk rock?

That'd break all the rules. 

meltedbuzzbox

ThePrettyDamned said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

If the sd1 does the trick, don't get the waza as it's clear the standard, er, does the trick! 

Try a ds-1 too. Sd-1-ds1 - Marshall at gig volume (not bedroom!) is really quite something. You could get satriani/vai style leads. 

Vai and Satriani style leads for punk rock?

That'd break all the rules. 

you mean like buying a Les Paul with a short neck tenon?