Opinions about Andy Fuchs dumble clones and mods
vch...@my-deja.com
those anybody know something about this guy work? is save to send him a
amp for a mod and what about the overdrive suprime?.
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>those anybody know something about this guy work? is save to send him a
>amp for a mod and what about the overdrive suprime?.
>
>
I support Andy's efforts to build (from scratch) clones of any design (I hear
his dumbles are good) or any original design he can dream up. However, they
guy also appears, to me, to be a hack for hire. Don't let him hack-butcher an
old Fender into something else. If you have an old Fender and you're not happy
with it, SELL IT and get something you really like (like an amp Andy builds
from the ground up).
Shades of Torres.
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Ed Guidry
>i was thinking a bout and old marshall 900 that sound like crap
>anyway!. i dont mind if he hack it. just looking for a
>Ford,Johnson,vaughan sound.thanks for your help
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Richard
> i was thinking a bout and old marshall 900 that sound like crap
> anyway!. i dont mind if he hack it. just looking for a
> Ford,Johnson,vaughan sound.thanks for your help
I had Andy modify a vanilla JCM800 2x12 50w combo for me. I couldn't be
happier with it.
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vch...@my-deja.com
speakers you use ?
vch...@my-deja.com
Ed Guidry <epgu...@cajunnet.com> wrote:
> If you can do ANYTHING with a marshall jcm 900 it's not hacking
> >anyway!. i dont mind if he hack it. just looking for a
> >Ford,Johnson,vaughan sound.thanks for your help
> >
> >
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> >Before you buy.
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the sound wont get worse.by the way why the hell marshall company
didint notice that the 900 line sound like the amp is broken???????
yeah the sound is that bad!!!
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>anyway!. i dont mind if he hack it. just looking for a
>Ford,Johnson,vaughan sound.thanks for your help
Thanks for the clarification. Anything you do to a JCM900 would be an
improvement. Go for it.
Bcoolstuff
improvement. Go for it. >>
Hey Trem-
I'm not looking to raise your hackles or anything, but...
Let's say that you are 100% right about the JCM900 (and I happen to agree) -
can we safely assume that lobotomizing an amp is okay if it's widely regarded
as a crappy-sounding unit? That said, Fender HAS made some tube amps that sound
like dogmeat - which one(s) do you feel deserve to have a hand grenade dropped
into their shorts?
Jus' wonderin'
Billy
Richard
> I saw your review on fuchs page and HC,and i was wondering what kind of
> speakers you use ?
One Greenback and one V30.
Censored Boards Suck
>like dogmeat - which one(s) do you feel deserve to have a hand grenade
>dropped
>into their shorts?
>Jus' wonderin'
Well, mutilating metal panels and chassis with drills and hole punches is
butchery regardless of platform. You know, like adding knobs to the front or
back, or chopping in additional preamp tube sockets. One exception might be if
you were swapping in a different OT and the existing mounting holes didn't
line-up correctly, then making a new hole for the screw mount is not too
terrible. Just be careful of not trying to make the chassis into swiss cheeze.
Regarding Fenders in particular, the red-knob series and later would seem to be
fair game for massive renovation of their innards. The early 80s Rivera
designed stuff might also be a candidate for a big rewire of the innards, but
in need of some sort of respect since they were the last of the ptp wired
Fenders.
You get the idea.
vch...@my-deja.com
that came with the idea of such amp?
Scott Colborn
In my area there is a very good, very traditional blues guitar player
who I have the opportunity of playing with on a weekly basis. He plays an
old Strat, all original including the chips, scratches, dents and cigarette
burns, straight into the Fender M-80 combo, and gets great tone and sound
all night long.
There is a lot of truth to the saying that the good guitar players will
sound good through most anything. I've played through his amp and swore to
myself I'd never play through it again, but Sean sounds very good through
it. He's had ample opportunity of getting the amp, and himself, dialed in.
He's used this combo for years. I find that a lot of the traditional blues
guys don't care as much what they play through - anything to amplify their
guitar and call it good. The blues-rock and the rock guys have more of the
"pursuit of tone" thing going with consideration to amps and such.
In a recent edition of Vintage Guitar mag, a story referred to Mike
Bloomfield walking into a recording studio carrying his Tele "without a
case" and it was snowing to beat the band outside. He walked over to the
steam radiator in the corner of the room and tapped the headstock of the
guitar on the pipes to knock the snow off the guitar, and sat down to tune
and get ready for the session. Perhaps a case of sounding great in spite of
the limitations, self-imposed and otherwise, on your tone and equipment.
Anyhow, some rambling on my part. Some Fender M-80's, in the hands of
some guitarists, sound pretty damn good. In the end it all boils down to a
very personal, subjective evaluation of which amp sounds "best" with one's
guitar....
Walk in Beauty, Peace. Scott