There Is Actually A Jose Modded Marshall In The Fractal

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It's called the "Atomica." :chef

Not sure how much is myth and legend versus facts. Apparently one
of the best sounding Marshalls found upon Jose's passing was one
labelled "Atomica." The amp eventually disappeared, and Mark Cameron
tried to reconstruct it and sold it as one of his Cameron Amp offerings.

I have checked it out before, but didn't know the Jose Arredondo connection
until digging a bit deeper this weekend.

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Fractal Audio AMP models: Atomica (Cameron Atomica)

* EDIT: Up-to-date information is available in Yek's Guide to the Fractal Audio Amplifier Models * Full list of Yek's amp model write-ups Presets Atomica: based on Cameron Atomica The Cameron Atomica was built to reproduce the legendary “brown sound” of an mysterious Super Lead Plexi...
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Interesting. I liked the clips I heard from NAMM with the Friedman Jose amp, but I've tried that amp model a time or two and not really cared for it. On the other hand, the CCV is one of my favorites.
 
Atomica is great, rediscovered it this weekend. If you dial it like an old Marshall, turn up the mids/treble, roll down the bass, it sounds killer. Wish it cleaned up a bit better with the volume knob but hey that's all higher gain amps.
 
In my VERY little experience with my friend's III, I definitely gravitated towards the Atomica. GREAT model.
 
way more fun to build your own Jose to taste from a Plexi. Add a gain stage, master volume, clipping diodes, tinker with tone stack, presence circuit and NFB as you see fit. The cool thing is you can configure whichever mods you like.

POSSIBLY my favourite thing about Fractal devices
 
Jarick said:
Atomica is great, rediscovered it this weekend. If you dial it like an old Marshall, turn up the mids/treble, roll down the bass, it sounds killer. Wish it cleaned up a bit better with the volume knob but hey that's all higher gain amps.
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Interesting. I've been doing the Al Di Meola, Leslie West, and Michael Schenker method
of doing the exact opposite. Funny how they are each sp different and yet they dial in
a Marshall the same way.

Bass and Mids all the way up. Treble and Presence all the way down. :idk

It's oddly unintuitive and not the way I have ever thought to dial in a Marshall,
but man is it fun and sounds great---especially for single note playing.

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la szum said:
Interesting. I've been doing the Al Di Meola, Leslie West, and Michael Schenker method
of doing the exact opposite. Funny how they are each sp different and yet they dial in
a Marshall the same way.

Bass and Mids all the way up. Treble and Presence all the way down. :idk

It's oddly unintuitive and not the way I have ever thought to dial in a Marshall,
but man is it fun and sounds great---especially for single note playing.

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I wonder if that's a JTM45 vs Super Lead bright channel thing? JTM is really dark and bassy where the Plexi (bright channel) can tear your head off.
 
Really With a Fractal you can get anything to sound like anything
Most of songs i do dont really have what the original Record used, Sometimes yes if it fits other times no
Basically with a Fractal you build your own modded anything to taste

:guiness
 
MirrorProfiles said:
way more fun to build your own Jose to taste from a Plexi. Add a gain stage, master volume, clipping diodes, tinker with tone stack, presence circuit and NFB as you see fit. The cool thing is you can configure whichever mods you like.

POSSIBLY my favourite thing about Fractal devices
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This is the path that leads to Metallica covers using a silver face Fender, @metropolis_4 :hmm :rofl :beer
 
JiveTurkey said:
I need to give it a go. I just stick to my good ol' JVM when I want gained up Marshall stuff.
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I do too, but recently...I've been leaning on the Bogner Ecstasy/Euro Red with the treble cranked. Sooo good. But then again, I also like the Cornfed/Cornford MK50 with a boost in front and the Cameron CCV for the same. There are a zillion awesome hot-rodded Marshall tones in the FM9, which is part of the reason I haven't been able to part ways with it.
 
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It's called the "Atomica." :chef

Not sure how much is myth and legend versus facts. Apparently one
of the best sounding Marshalls found upon Jose's passing was one
labelled "Atomica." The amp eventually disappeared, and Mark Cameron
tried to reconstruct it and sold it as one of his Cameron Amp offerings.
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I hear if you load up the Atomica on your Fractal, the screen just says "I'll get your amp to you soon" but it never actually shows up.
 
la szum said:
It's called the "Atomica." :chef

Not sure how much is myth and legend versus facts. Apparently one
of the best sounding Marshalls found upon Jose's passing was one
labelled "Atomica." The amp eventually disappeared, and Mark Cameron
tried to reconstruct it and sold it as one of his Cameron Amp offerings.

I have checked it out before, but didn't know the Jose Arredondo connection
until digging a bit deeper this weekend.

forum.fractalaudio.com

Fractal Audio AMP models: Atomica (Cameron Atomica)

* EDIT: Up-to-date information is available in Yek's Guide to the Fractal Audio Amplifier Models * Full list of Yek's amp model write-ups Presets Atomica: based on Cameron Atomica The Cameron Atomica was built to reproduce the legendary “brown sound” of an mysterious Super Lead Plexi...
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This is why I come here. Fantastic!
 
MirrorProfiles said:
way more fun to build your own Jose to taste from a Plexi. Add a gain stage, master volume, clipping diodes, tinker with tone stack, presence circuit and NFB as you see fit. The cool thing is you can configure whichever mods you like.

POSSIBLY my LEAST favorite thing about Fractal devices
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Fixed, for me, lol
 
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