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I suppose it's conceivable that if Marshall used an old one to develop the reissue that the sample they had was voiced brighter than the one Doug and Pat used for the comparison. Or perhaps they felt a brighter sound was more in tune with modern players' tastes and was therefore likely to be a better seller?
I have little personal experience of vintage amps - but I was genuinely surprised how different they sounded.
As in, the amp itself, not the speaker.
Maybe it's component drift? So if you measures each part, you'd get a slightly different circuit to what it once was?
Would love to hear some amp tech thoughts.
For all we know the Doug and Pat amp is an extremely dark example, and the reissue actually IS pretty typical, at least of how most of them would've sounded when new.
I'm also never a fan of having the knobs set the same when comparing amps, as a minor difference in measured value of a single £4 pot can send you off barking up all sorts of trees regarding NOS valves, speaker break-in, grill cloth thickness and all that stuff, when for all we know the two amps might have sounded totally identical if they'd simply dialled the tone knob on the reissue back to eight.
If you had the two amps side by side in your house wouldn't that have been the first thing you tried?
"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
My first non-MV Marshalls were only a couple of years old when I bought them, and when I started using reissues a few decades later the memories came flooding back.
Obviously it's too long a time to make an accurate comparison but tonally they felt absolutely "right" to someone who was using the originals when they were nearly new.
"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
"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
you get the amps...i'll get the guitars!