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I did go down a rabbit hole on the modifications made to the Plexi by Martin Golub. Info's a bit thin on the ground and he died a few years ago so there probably won't be too much more.
I did unearth a couple of internal shots of one of his Dookie-modded amps. It does look to be some sort of cascaded gain stage conversion, similar to the Appetite SIR #39/36 amps and the Jose Arredondo stuff. It looks like it was converted to a 2203 JMP Master/800 circuit, and then a gain stage was added somewhere down the line which would account for the fourth preamp valve poking out the top. It has a master volume too.
Very cool!
I have a mini 800 which sounds reat and is loud enough to gig with, bearing in mind that there is a 99.999999% chance my drummer is louder than yours.
Yes Martin used to work at LA Sound Design, and I heard about his passing sadly. I wonder if he did hand down any tips to any amp techs.
I have a Dookie Mod Kemper profile and they're ok, and its close, but nothing beats that sizzle of a real cranked tube amp (or two) through a 4x12. I had to tweak the speaker cabinet on the profile as it was far too bassey and dark.
https://i.imgur.com/hW7ELNF.jpeg
https://youtu.be/YZveZOnuHNo?si=feOiIXbyfNgWreRr
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It ain’t flashy, but it does the job.
This is also why it’s best to raise the guitar amps off the floor, but keep the bass amp down on it - that naturally rolls off some of the bottom-end from the guitars but reinforces it on the bass. If the band mixes itself correctly ‘acoustically’ it’s much easier to get a good mix through the PA as well.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein