NAD: 1987X - JiveTurkey & La Szum are to blame! 😭

[Chocol8]

We need to start a Go Fund Me to get that boy some decent trousers. Hrmph.

Or shorts! That halfway in-between capri pants shit is something my wife or daughter might wear.

 

[EOengineer]

Sounds killer. The superlead circuits are zombies man. Every once in a while they rise from the dead and start fucking shit up right when you least expect it.

Glad you’ve got the Orville there when a classic pairing is needed.

 

[DrewJD82]

Got any empty units w/o carpet?

Wait until I upload the clip of the camera at the other end of the suite. You're only seeing a teeny corner of it-

That carpet didn't do shiiiiiit. You just can't hear the reverb because the amp is so fucking loud and the camera was about 20ft away. Like Archie noted, the reverb is borderline a slapback delay.

Onec the demo guys finish stripping 40-year old carpet glue off the cement floor, I'll bring it up to a suite that's about the same size, only every wall is knocked down and the ceiling grid is removed so it's the cement floor, cement deck for a ceiling and 4 drywall walls that are quite far away from each other. We do a full demo on the suites where the previous tenant had a lot of offices built or they had specialty rooms that take up a lot of space, so when a prospective tenant walks in they can start visioning their future office a lot easier than walking into a maze of an office. The one pictured above is too perfect for management offices (to the left in the picture) and the big open space for employees, it actually looks like a couple guys who sell collectibible baseball cards are taking this space.

 

[DrewJD82]

We need to start a Go Fund Me to get that boy some decent trousers. Hrmph.

Or shorts! That halfway in-between capri pants shit is something my wife or daughter might wear.

It's still 1998 in my head and I rocked the shit out of Jncos then.

Each year I buy a couple new pairs of cargo pants and turn the previous year's pairs into shorts. They're perfect for working on the roofs at work because my legs don't burn to shit and I still have all the pockets on them (partially why they're so long) for handfuls of wirenuts and 10 extra 3/8's sockets because those just dissappear on roofs. And my balls get plenty of ventilation.

And they're great at the dog park, especially now that the bugs are out in force after 6PM.

 

[maguchi]

My cleanish Deluxe Reverb / Princeton thing has been over for at least a couple of years now.

These days, the amp models I usually use in the Axe-Fx are '59 Bassman / JTM 45 / 50w Plexi.

Still EOB and low-to-mid crunch, but significantly more gain than I used to use.

I get it now.

I blame @JiveTurkey & @la szum.

I also blame Soldano for not having a "proper" crunch channel in the X88-IR

But.

Perhaps I should thank them!


Look what you Mofos did!



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A Marshall 1987X amp head. Jellodog residence 2025; 10 minutes ago.


Yeah, that's right – A fuckin' Marshall 1987X !

But I can't play it here at home. Not until Andertons receive the latest batch of Reload II reactive loads.

Ach well; it's not like I don't have other toys to be playing with in the meantime.

Wow! Noice! The 1987X is my favorite amp, that and the JTM 45. Congrats and enjoy.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I was so ignorant about old Marshalls, having bought a JTM 45 + a beat up 4x12 with 25 watt Greenbacks in the 90's for all of $200. But I got hooked on that Mesa high gain, which I couldn't coax out of that amp, so I traded it and my JCM 900 for a new Stereo 50/50.

It hurts my head to see what that amp is worth today.

 

[DrewJD82]

@jellodog you owe it to yourself, even if it’s just for 5 seconds, to put that fucker on 10 and experience it through a good cab and no attenuator. Just hit an A chord and smile. You really won’t be able to do anything else BUT smile.

 

[TSJMajesty]

You really won’t be able to do anything else BUT smile.

Because your dick will be hard.

 

[DrewJD82]

Because your dick will be hard.

If not from the ability to actually play the thing at that volume, then definitely from the vibrations.

 

[TSJMajesty]

If not from the ability to actually play the thing at that volume, then definitely from the vibrations.

And in your case, for another reason. Haha

 

[jellodog]

@jellodog you owe it to yourself, even if it’s just for 5 seconds, to put that fucker on 10 and experience it through a good cab and no attenuator. Just hit an A chord and smile. You really won’t be able to do anything else BUT smile.

I believe!

Trouble is, I sold all my cabs when I left Canada, and now I live in an apartment. Still... it won't always be this way. I'll find a way.

 

[hemmelight]

I'll find a way.

 

[jellodog]

I love how this has become a Drew + Jellodog thread now. It's kinda like holding a joint birthday party

Any more members hiding recently acquired but undisclosed 4-holers out there?

JOIN US

 

[jellodog]

Holy shit! The 1987X + Reload II had exceeded my expectations!



Signal chain:

My modified HSS Cutlass / Hemmelight's Tyler Studio Elite
1987X High Treble input -> 16 Ohm speaker output
Two Notes Reload II reactive load, set to 16 Ohm
RME Fireface UCX II @ 96 kHz
Macbook Air M4 + Mainstage
IR: York Audio KW 412 M25 Mix 16 @ 96k
Valhalla Delay in "digital" mode.

GLORIOUS!!!

@hemmelight and I played the Plexi for 2 hours striaght without any breakfast and we only stopped for lunch because we were hungry.

The sounds and feel that we've been getting here today is pretty much what we've both been searching for... for YEARS.

I was super worried that I'd wasted a shit load of money on yet more gear, but that fear has instantly evaporated. The dynamics and sensitivity to guitar volume knob is everything that the Plexi circuit promises. Very satisfied.

We didn't even get around to jumping the inputs or using my pedals in the Reload's FX loop, because what we alrady had going on was so satisfying. I'm looking forward to doing that though.

 

[jellodog]

Tube amps are back baby, fuxk modelers.

^^^ This gentleman makes an excellent point

 

[hemmelight]

Can confirm, this thing is ridiculous. Plexi is the truth and the light.

After we got the routing and IRs figured out we moved everything on the amp to my normal go-to settings in the Axe-Fx (as pictured.) It was basically instant love. As much as I adore the Axe-Fx, this setup very quickly became my favourite thing I've ever played through. It's got the perfect amount of compression and squish while still staying articulate and musical. If it sounds like I'm gushing (both verbally and in the crotch-region) it's because I absolutely am.

Playing a classic Plexi circuit working properly is like the guitar amp equivalent of driving an air-cooled 911 Turbo.
It's old school and analog and dynamic and sexy AF.

 

[la szum]

It's still 1998 in my head and I rocked the shit out of Jncos then.

Each year I buy a couple new pairs of cargo pants and turn the previous year's pairs into shorts. They're perfect for working on the roofs at work because my legs don't burn to shit and I still have all the pockets on them (partially why they're so long) for handfuls of wirenuts and 10 extra 3/8's sockets because those just dissappear on roofs. And my balls get plenty of ventilation.

And they're great at the dog park, especially now that the bugs are out in force after 6PM.

Man, I had a period in my life where I was smitten with zip off legs on cargo pants. I thought they
were the greatest thing ever. I probably still do.

 

[la szum]

Can confirm, this thing is ridiculous. Plexi is the truth and the light.

After we got the routing and IRs figured out we moved everything on the amp to my normal go-to settings in the Axe-Fx (as pictured.) It was basically instant love. As much as I adore the Axe-Fx, this setup very quickly became my favourite thing I've ever played through. It's got the perfect amount of compression and squish while still staying articulate and musical. If it sounds like I'm gushing (both verbally and in the crotch-region) it's because I absolutely am.

Playing a classic Plexi circuit working properly is like the guitar amp equivalent of driving an air-cooled 911 Turbo.
It's old school and analog and dynamic and sexy AF.

Holy shit! The 1987X + Reload II had exceeded my expectations!



Signal chain:

My modified HSS Cutlass / Hemmelight's Tyler Studio Elite
1987X High Treble input
Two Notes Reload II reactive load
RME Fireface UCX II @ 96 kHz
Macbook Air M4 + Mainstage
IR: York Audio KW 412 M25 Mix 16 @ 96k
Valhalla Delay in "digital" mode.

GLORIOUS!!!

@hemmelight and I played the Plexi for 2 hours striaght without any breakfast and we only stopped for lunch because we were hungry.

The sounds and feel that we've been getting here today is pretty much what we've both been searching for... for YEARS.

I was super worried that I'd wasted a shit load of money on yet more gear, but that fear has instantly evaporated. The dynamics and sensitivity to guitar volume knob is everything that the Plexi circuit promises. Very satisfied.

We didn't even get around to jumping the inputs or using my pedals in the Reload's FX loop, because what we alrady had going on was so satisfying. I'm looking forward to doing that though.



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Happy Thread is Happy!

I feel like one of the most rewarding things about a Plexi is how they reveal ourselves to ourselves
as players. The gradations revealed by our interaction with the amp show us just how much territory
there is to explore sonically---in that nexus where our own person, a guitar, and an amplifier become
this living, breathing, vibrant entity.

It's SO inspiring. Like this thread!


Don't forget to eat, guys!!

 

[jellodog]

Man, I had a period in my life where I was smitten with zip off legs on cargo pants. I thought they
were the greatest thing ever. I probably still do.

OMG. I used to wear the same. Super handy and flexible. Can't seem to find them now.

 

[James Freeman]

The sounds and feel that we've been getting here today is pretty much what we've both been searching for... for YEARS.

There are nuances to a cranked Plexi that no modeler can emulate, a certain squish, bounce, swirl, harmonics, compression.
Call me a fool, gas light my ass, I don't care, modelers are great but there is something very special about a real Plexi under the fingers.