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so does anyone play plexis?
50 and 100watt lead/superleads?

i had a jtm many years ago and thats prob my only experience with marshalls in general besides playing the odd jcm800 and 900 from friends

goods and bads?

are the plexi's grindey or more old school overdrivey

i possibly maybe looking into a 50 lead with a half power

Glad you asked! A few years back I aquired a 70's superlead (super indicates 100 watts for teh noobz) for way too much money.
It sounds amazing, completely not like a jcm800, way more natural overdrive-to-distortion sound. I love it.

It is so loud that I can barely turn it on anywhere. Sound guys want to kill me on sight.
So I no longer gig with it.

I think the volume difference between the 100 and 50 watt models isn't very big.
I think a 50 watter will probably still be way loud if you plan on just winding it out.
BTW the slighlty overdriven sound on these amps is underrated. And they take pedals great too.

Happy hunting!

cool beans i can vouch for the 100watt being insanely loud like when i had the jtm

i think the 50 would be good even though its still beyond loud hopefully the half power switch down to 25 wont hurt it
im hoping to use it to get my gaze on and obliterate people with it

yea.....fucking loud.
sounds awesome with a good treble booster or tone bender. you can turn it up and feel the notes blasting through your body.
way fucking loud though.

totes on it even though im not a huge marshall fan

Always wanted to get a Super Bass or a Super Lead and mod it to Super Bass (only a couple little mods if I remember correctly). The one time I got to play a Super Bass, it was liquid sex.

Tinnitus anyone?

bigchiefbc wrote:Always wanted to get a Super Bass or a Super Lead and mod it to Super Bass (only a couple little mods if I remember correctly). The one time I got to play a Super Bass, it was liquid sex.

My guitarist has a logoless (and I think Taiwanese) Super Bass clone. Sounds really great.

maz91379 wrote:Not that this helps you but i think this type of amp is the next one i want to try out as it seems to sit somewhere between a bassman and ac30 distorsionwise based on amp modelers, i assume it takes pedals well?

i would say it's anything like a AC30 or bassman at all. the JTM is more like the bassman and neither are like a vox.
yea, it takes pedals very well.

yeah my jtm had a kind of bassman ish vibe to it
but yeah the ac30 is somewhere else in the amp world in comparison

Get a 50W Plexi like a 1987x and a THD Hotplate. You can get some of those distorted sounds without totally destroying your ear drums.

(edited for various stupid typos.)

Fender Bassman, Sunn Model T, Marshall JTM45/SL/SB/Plexi, Traynor Bassmaster, Sovtek Migs, Laney Superground..... All the same amp more or less, pretty much direct rip offs of the original Bassmans with slight tweaks and changes, some for economic reasons (EL34s for Marshall vs 6L6s for Fender) but they all have the same circuit base.

Great design tho, its why it was copied dozens of times

The Bassman heads are a different animals from the tweed combos. It's the combo that's been copied and over again.

They're fucking awesome.

GardenoftheDead wrote:Got a 50W Plexi like 1987x and a THD Hotplate. You can get some of those distorted sounds without totally destroying your ear drums.

+1
Hotplate are really good for this application. Just do not try the bedroom level stuff with them (=too much attenuation) - that castrates your sound.