It's the Dunlop Crybaby Mini with a few JHS mods - LED, Q and boost control knobs, maybe some component swaps inside (don't know for sure).
I'm not a fan of it being so little (got big feet, it just feels weird), but it's the best sounding wah I've got, and I have some nice ones - vintage Crybaby, vintage Vox, CAE, etc. It's well used, there's hardly any "tread" left on top.
Had a few Marshalls and inspired-by-Marshall clones, but this is the last one for me.
Badge says its a M1987, but I've been told that's "not right". Its either a late '79 or an early '80 JMP 50W, had the original blackbacks and an unmolested circuit.
I bought this amp from a friend who lives in Hawaii. Got a bro deal and figured worse case scenario, I could probably flip it and make some money if I didn't like it. We had some issues during shipping...
Worse case scenario hadn't even considered this damage. Took some coin to get it fixed, switched it to EL34s and when I got it back, it sounded like poop thru the reconed blackbacks. Awesome. In a last ditch effort to like it, I pulled the head from the beautiful fawn combo cab, had a headshell made for it, and I'm glad I did. It sounds glorious, like a tweed for bigger rooms. Pair it up with a 2x10 with greenbacks or a 2x12 with neo creambacks if I need some thump.
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You’re right. I forgot about those punishing high gain tones from…checks notes…Noel Gallagher.The 900’s are great punk rock amps.
The preferred Marshall of Noel Gallagher,
-so there must be enough gain,
Frank Hannon of Tesla used 900's quite a bit which i found interesting.You’re right. I forgot about those punishing high gain tones from…checks notes…Noel Gallagher.
In all seriousness the 900 Series had some winners. IMO the 900 SLX is one of the best Marshalls ever and that amp can do everything from mid gain crunch through the brutal stuff…like REALLY high gain.
The 900 I most commonly saw in my circles back in the 90s wasn’t the 900 mk II or the SLX though, it was the Dual Reverb model, and given the tones all us dumb teenagers were chasing in the 90s, we were always left wanting.
Consequently we did discover that the clean channel took pedals like a champ, and boosting the lead channel did actually sound pretty good.
They’re on tons of albums too, despite the shade that I and others throw. Tom Delonge used a dual reverb in his multi amp rig for all his best tones. I remember Live using them on tour.
Yeah, the couple of first Manic Street Preachers albums have a distinctly JCM900 sound to them. It was quite uncanny how close to that the Axe-Fx 2's JCM900 model got.
Good question.
You’re right. I forgot about those punishing high gain tones from…checks notes…Noel Gallagher.
In all seriousness the 900 Series had some winners. IMO the 900 SLX is one of the best Marshalls ever and that amp can do everything from mid gain crunch through the brutal stuff…like REALLY high gain.
The 900 I most commonly saw in my circles back in the 90s wasn’t the 900 mk II or the SLX though, it was the Dual Reverb model, and given the tones all us dumb teenagers were chasing in the 90s, we were always left wanting.
Consequently we did discover that the clean channel took pedals like a champ, and boosting the lead channel did actually sound pretty good.
Probably leftovers from the 90s.
Dual reverb comes with a price apparently.
