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They make a damn fine guitar amp.

Marshall? Matamp? Orange? Hiwatt? Hell yes to all of them, gimme them hot sizzling EL34 toanz

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

ok you have to hand it to the Brits

Only if by "it" you mean a century of humiliation.

They do make good speakers and sound equipment too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Geezers building quality niche electronics in backyard sheds is the only thing that I recognize as culturally British.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They make damn fine guitarists too!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Look i think it was actually the heroin, and it made him bad at covering how shit of a person he is. Having someone spraypaint clapton is god on a wall in the 1960s really went to his head

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Oh, he's absolutely a golden test of just how much one can separate art from the artist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fascism is more emblematic of the UK than being a good guitarist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a really weird picture of David Gilmour

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

the only thing i'll hand to terf island is this idf-destroyer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The Brits also invented the lava lamp, so props for that one too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I'll buy a 10000 of the shittiesht chifi amps before I buy a single british "thing"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Real fancy job copying the Fender Bassman

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Consider, if you will, the Fender ProSonic. The ProSonic is heavily based off of the Mesa Boogie Rectifier series, which is itself a modified '59 Bassman circuit. Fender copied a copy of a Fender.


Off-topic but, incidentally, the Fender Princeton Reverb is the best Marshall Plexi as long as you don't want things like "subtlety" or "a tone stack that makes a damned lick of sense." If you ever get to try one out -- from any era (mine's a mid-70's CBS silverface) -- run a Rat into the front end, dialed in as a low-to-mid gain, maxed-out volume midrangey boost. Set the volume on the amp to 9 or 10. Set the bass to zero. Set the treble to about 8. Run the output of the amp to a cab loaded with Celestion greenbacks (or similar). Play any Metallica - Kill 'em All riff that you can come up with off the top of your head. Bask. Repeat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I do want a bassman 100 tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

issuing correction on the above post, regarding the terrorist country Great Britain. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

we're re nationalising the trains too