Post by photomike666 on Feb 11, 2013 23:08:19 GMT -5
I just got my first Marshall - a second hand AVT100 Valvestate 2000 1x12. It certainly beats the hell out of my 7watt Peavey Audition!!!
The amp isn't perfect, no sound from the headphone socket and buzzy on OD2, but I just love the tones. I might look at the headphone wiring, swap out the speaker (greenback) and replace the valve (not sure to what). Love to know what options are good and what to avoid.
I'm fairly new to playing; 2 years and was a bit slacking on practice in the first year. But I'm motivated and making in roads now.
Bit about me - I just turned 40 (Guess what I got for my 40th lol). I'm a planner for a fuel company and a former rock photographer - although I am getting back into that. My life loves are my motorbikes, heavy metal and photography. I played drums as a teen, photographed some of the worlds best bands in my 20s, went sensible with kids in my 30s and now I’m unleashed again
My only guitar is a Harlem Strat copy with a Seymour Duncan Distortion humbucker at the bridge. It’s not a great guitar, but OK to learn on. I have a few more mods planned, which will see Hot Rails in the middle and cool rails at the neck. I’ll also upgrade all the electrics (pots, switch, output jack and wiring), and throw on a pair of hotshots that allow split coil and parallel/series switching. But what I’m really saving for is a Schecter HellRaiser. That will take me a year or so, but I’ll get there.
Musically I’m still learning and play things like Breaking the Law & Paranoid, but I have aspirations of playing Iron Maiden and Metallica. I see lots of OD1 usage in the near furure.
The amp isn't perfect, no sound from the headphone socket and buzzy on OD2, but I just love the tones. I might look at the headphone wiring, swap out the speaker (greenback) and replace the valve (not sure to what). Love to know what options are good and what to avoid.
I'm fairly new to playing; 2 years and was a bit slacking on practice in the first year. But I'm motivated and making in roads now.
Bit about me - I just turned 40 (Guess what I got for my 40th lol). I'm a planner for a fuel company and a former rock photographer - although I am getting back into that. My life loves are my motorbikes, heavy metal and photography. I played drums as a teen, photographed some of the worlds best bands in my 20s, went sensible with kids in my 30s and now I’m unleashed again
My only guitar is a Harlem Strat copy with a Seymour Duncan Distortion humbucker at the bridge. It’s not a great guitar, but OK to learn on. I have a few more mods planned, which will see Hot Rails in the middle and cool rails at the neck. I’ll also upgrade all the electrics (pots, switch, output jack and wiring), and throw on a pair of hotshots that allow split coil and parallel/series switching. But what I’m really saving for is a Schecter HellRaiser. That will take me a year or so, but I’ll get there.
Musically I’m still learning and play things like Breaking the Law & Paranoid, but I have aspirations of playing Iron Maiden and Metallica. I see lots of OD1 usage in the near furure.