• From: East Midlands, UK
  • Registered: 2008-06-30
  • Posts: 164

Topic: New Toys Today!!

it's been a day of new gear today.
i've borrowed my mate's DSL 401 combo, what a great amp. does a nice clean sounds. almost like a fender kinda clean, but the drive section is proper marshall crunchy goodness. planning to blend it with my fender blues deluxe, not sure how yet. he's selling this 401 soon, so i might snap it up if it works out. it's blue with basket weave for extra mojo points smile

also traded a cheap 335 copy for a EHX holy stain and an SD-1. the holy stain is a sort of multi effects unit. it's does reverb, trem, limited pitch shifting and distortion/fuzz. the pitchshifter and drive/fuzz are a little rubbish, but the reverb is really really good. i think it's based on the holy grail reverb ehx does. trem sounds more like a leslie, which i like. the sd-1 used to be mine, but wanted it back. seem's to have more gain than it used to, great for kicking the marshall a little more.

any one got any thoughts on good settings/things to try whilst i have the marshall?

Fender 60's Strat>Fulltone OCD V4>>TC Electronics Polytune>Orange Dual Terror>Torres 2x10 Cab(with a vintage 30 and a greenback)
  • From: London, UK
  • Registered: 2008-07-27
  • Posts: 615

Re: New Toys Today!!

LOL... DUDE are you a mind reader? Haha, I have a 401, and I agree, its amazing, but I had the EXACT idea but with a hotrod deluxe, theyre real similar amps, but the idea I had was to buy an Art 'CoolSwitch', £34 from GAK.co.uk, and simply putting the start of my chain into it, then two leads go into the coolswitch, from there, they go to the two amps, and you can choose between A and B, which can be two different tones, OR a third 'Y' button passes your signal into both of them, which can make a soloboost, and a gorgeous tone I can't even begin to imagine tongue

I recomend you try that, I'm sure you wont be disappointed... Was thinking of doing this myself, but not sure whether to fork out on the Deluxe or not :S...
Rus

Jamming with Joe and Bernie Marsden:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18zqg3brNH8
  • From: Florida, USA
  • Registered: 2008-06-04
  • Posts: 1,420

Re: New Toys Today!!

Halesie wrote:

Any one got any thoughts on good settings/things to try whilst i have the marshall?

How about Joe's DSL settings? wink

Presense 4
Treble 3
Mids 6
Bass 5
Volume 6-7
Gain 6-7

This is on the classic "green" channel with the gain boost engaged.  He also told me to use a tubescreamer to add a little more gain and mids.  It really helps bring that amp into Jubilee-land and sound fantastic.

If you have a tubescreamer try the volume around unity, the tone control about 10 o'clock, and the gain about noon.

Cheers, enjoy the Marshall man! cool

'67 and '74 Fender Twin Reverbs, '74 Marshall 1987 lead mkII, Metro Superlead 100. Pedals from TC Electronic, Ibanez, Dunlop, BK Butler, Electro-Harmonix, Fulltone, Maestro/Gibson, Loopmaster switching, VoodooLab, Boss. Gibson and Fender guitars, Dimarzio pickups.
  • From: East Midlands, UK
  • Registered: 2008-06-30
  • Posts: 164

Re: New Toys Today!!

stratpaulguy86 wrote:
Halesie wrote:

Any one got any thoughts on good settings/things to try whilst i have the marshall?

How about Joe's DSL settings? wink

Presense 4
Treble 3
Mids 6
Bass 5
Volume 6-7
Gain 6-7

This is on the classic "green" channel with the gain boost engaged.  He also told me to use a tubescreamer to add a little more gain and mids.  It really helps bring that amp into Jubilee-land and sound fantastic.

If you have a tubescreamer try the volume around unity, the tone control about 10 o'clock, and the gain about noon.

Cheers, enjoy the Marshall man! cool

does it matter about the presence? a 401 doesn't have a presence control.

just be phoned from work to say they're closed due to the snow here in england, so it'll be a day of riffing:)

going to set the blues deluxe slightly dirty and the marshall slightly more dirty, then attack both with a tonebender and sd-1 cocktail. wish i still had my TS-9, sold it for some silly reason.

Fender 60's Strat>Fulltone OCD V4>>TC Electronics Polytune>Orange Dual Terror>Torres 2x10 Cab(with a vintage 30 and a greenback)