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,
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Single coils: A Nobels ODR-1 would be worth a try for fattening.
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
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.
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You should be ashamed.......
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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.
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.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
That'd break all the rules.