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Cheers, Tonerider alnico 2 classic pickups and Marshall 4x12 cab with G12M25 Greenback speakers

@@mattrobinson I currently have 16 ohm v30 with orange ppc112 cabinet and they sound awful. This amp needs greenback for sure. Are you stomping your feet while playing? I got scared while listening to this with my headphones :D

Ha ha yeah, sorry. The joys of home recording in my dining room 😂

@@aculie Thank you

@@neilfordan Either would work well and they are very similar. The ac2 is my favourite of the two as it’s smoother but I use 500k pots. If your strat is wired with the standard 250k pots I’d guess the Birmingham would be more suitable as it’s brighter and a touch more aggressive than the ac2. Hope this helps

@@mattrobinsonyou’re awesome, man. Cheers! 👊

@@mattrobinsonbtw just wanna know your thoughts about the Birminghams compared to sh-4 jb… thanks again 👊

@@neilfordan the jb is a high output pickup, nothing at all like the ac2 or Birmingham which are both low output vintage style pickups. The jb would be far more aggressive and less organic sounding. Great for 80s shred and metal but for a more natural sound I’d go with the Birmingham or ac2

@@mattrobinson thank you for the insight my friend 🤘

Thanks, yeah I’ve tried that with the mxr 6 band eq in the loop and it lets you really change the character of the amp.

@@mattrobinson any demos or playthroughs of the mxr 6-eq? 🤔

@@BigJohnDeere100 not yet but I definitely will be doing in the near future

Niiice man, I'll be waiting 😎🤙

Yeah definitely. It works best into a clean amp in my opinion. That’s the way that Gary Moore used it anyway. When I made this video I didn’t realise this and used it combined with the amp overdrive. I need to make a new video with it into the Marshall clean.

Thank you, thats actually exactly how I love to use the amp. Very simple and organic compared to tap dancing with pedals and channel switching.

Thank you, very nice of you to say.

Cheers mate, much appreciated

Cheers, yeah they are the actual settings, listening back though I think I should have had the pedal gain a bit lower to keep it a bit clearer

​@@mattrobinson no, you nailed that divine 80's sound! I can't believe you're going straight into the high treble channel, have the treble knob up as high as you do and you get that sound! Were the trebles ear piercing in the room? Mind you, I've never gone up to 8 on the high treble channel AND had the amp in 20W mode, must've been deafening 😂

@@cyberpunk409 Oh no i could never crank it like that without an attenuator ha ha. I’m using a fryette power station to keep the volume around general talking volume levels. The amp sounds terribly thin at anything below half way on the volume to me. The power station is the only way to be able to get the real cranked plexi sound at home in my opinion. It’s an expensive way of doing it but worth every penny to me.

Thanks for the reply. I use a Weber Mass-Mini with mine. I find that it does its job ok, but nothing quite like pure raw wattage pumping out of the speakers!

Cheers, kind of you

That sounds great!, great playing. I have the same amp, bought it back in October 2019, the Rolls Royce of Marshall’s.

@@masteryoda498 Cheers mate, yeah definitely the best amp I’ve ever had

Hi, it was the peavey 5150 amp simulation but with cab sim turned off and ran into the fx return or my amp. The lowering effect is one of the rp1000's built in effects called "whammy" if I remember correctly. Probably taken from the digitech whammy pedal. cheers, Matt

Hi Andrew, no problem. Im using Celestion G12M Greenbacks. The full signal chain is in the description.

Cheers, me too

I love them too, they are way underrated and sound as good if not better than most boutique pafs in my opinion

Thanks very much, very nice of you. Yeah the Marshall circuit seems to love a clean boost for some extra compression and sustain. I find that if you add any overdrive into the signal with a pedal it gets too much and flubs out. I’ve also had similar results with an eq pedal as a clean boost. It’s a nice option for a lift for solos. Cheers for watching mate

Really? I’m in the Uk and normally just get them directly from Toneriders website.

I've used both and the pro buckets are very very good Epiphone pickups but the ac2 sounds and feel better.

Yeah stock, Cheers

Thanks mate, it’s just a Harley Benton les Paul copy.

@@mattrobinson wow! I’ve same amp about a few days and i’m trying to figure out how to make it sound good as you. Thanks

@@andrewjeff I can give you my usual settings as a starting point. Presence: 2 Bass: 5 Middle: 5 Treble: 2 Loudness1: between 4 and 8 Loudness2: 0 I change it depending on the style I’m playing but that is my default way of setting it

@@mattrobinson thank you so much for these tips! I am waiting for more videos from you. Cheers.

I agree, congrats on the new amp

@@mattrobinsonkiller playing also forgot to say that! Why no new videos?

@@MrGuitarDad cheers man, sorry about the lack of videos. I’ve had a lot going on at home with family life but I’m going to be re starting my UA-cam this year with weekly videos

@@mattrobinsonwell I subbed and look forward to that. Life has a habit of getting in the way. Glad your coming back your a killer player. So good! All the best!

@@MrGuitarDad Thanks man, appreciated

Hi, I’ve actually watched some of your modded Marshall circuit videos before ha ha. Good work man. I cringe when I re watch this video because I had the pedal gain way to high and it just sounds over distorted 🤦‍♂️. I’ve learned to just use the pedal as a clean boost to keep things clearer now. I’ve recently tried the Hot Mod v2 in the amp to get that 80s rock sound and it sounds more natural with more dynamics but way more treble, suits heavy rhythm playing best to me. I still prefer a pedal for leads as the compression and the smoother tone helps with single note stuff.

Thanks, man! Yeah I totally get what you mean about the compression and feel when using pedals. I'm actually going to work on a Plexi style circuit where the first 2 stages are set to clip asymmetrically (like the boss sd-1), I'll let you know how it turns out haha. I've heard great things about the Hot Mod and the most recent George Lynch model as well. I think it uses a 12AT7 which has about 75% (I believe) of the gain of a 12AX7. George says it helps with the clarity of the distortion as well.@@mattrobinson

@@ironageamplification1791 That’s a great idea man, keep me posted 👌 It must be great having the know how to be able to play around with the circuits and make your own designs

I would do it the other way around personally, ac4 is brighter and would keep the neck from getting too muddy. Ac2 is great in the Bridge position

@@mattrobinson Ohhh.. Thanks for the answer : D

Hi, all pickups were wired to a single 500k volume pot with no tone pots or caps in the circuit. I did it because the blackstar amp I was using at the time was a very very dark amp so it balanced it out quite well. I sold the blackstar, got a Marshall plexi and it sounded horribly bright with this wiring so I converted the strat back to 3 singles and stock wiring. I much prefer my guitars with stock wiring through the plexi. It’s surprising how much the tone pots attenuate the treble frequencies though. Even on 10 they are still taking treble away. So it really all depends on the amp you are running through, Cutting the tone pots is another option if you need more treble and attack though.

I think all pickup types can be good in the right situation. If you like the sound of P90’s go with it. My advice would be to avoid getting wrapped up in the hype of expensive ones. It’s just magnets and wire at the end of the day. I like p90’s for clean tones and crunchy rhythm playing but find them a bit thin for lead tones, prefer a humbucker for lead tones. It’s all subjective though

I’d go for the jtm45 if you want clean headroom but with a good Marshall crunch when cranked. The super lead type circuits like in the sv20 and 1987x etc are renowned for having early breakup so I think you would be chasing your tail to get real clean headroom out of one, if you’re playing mainly overdriven tones but backing guitar pot down to clean up like me though it’s perfect as it cleans up beautifully. It’ll never be as clean as a jtm45 or a fender though. With paf style humbuckers it starts getting overdriven at anything above 9:00. With single coils about 10:00-11:00 Hope this helps

@@mattrobinson thanks for the feedback, very useful! I think 20 wat are enough for me!! Now I have to decide between mini plexi or mini jcm800 🤣

@@rarito1976 Marshall do 20w JTM too, it’s called the ST20. You could do with finding a guitar shop that sells all three and trying them all side by side. Good look anyway mate, hope you get get you’re looking for

Cool, didn’t know that.

Yeah, but other 2 inputs are redundant to me as they are far too dark and muddy

Hi, it’s a real cab and mic, Greenbacks and an SM57 Cheers

I’ve played quite a few, the alnico ii classics are by far my favourite pickup I’ve ever tried by any brand. I found the rocksongs a little to pushed and modern by comparison. Probably better for heavier stuff but I just love the clean and natural sound of the ac2 classics for my tastes.

@@mattrobinson thanks so much for the quick reply and for your thoughts about them. Yeah, bro your tone is amazing with those Alnico ii classics especially. I don’t think I have ever really played alnico ii pickups, mostly all Alnico 5 but I really want that vintage tone that has just a small touch of woolly-ness in it when you add a good amount of crunch OD to it. Zeppelin, AC/DC, ZZ Top all that goodness is what I’m shooting for but I’ll be happy if I can just get close. I’m going to put whichever set I choose in a Tele Deluxe that I have matched with a 24 3/4 scale conversion neck and hopefully I will get close to Gibson tone with the raw wood feel of lightly finished custom Fender style neck and playability. Anyway, thanks again and take take.

Hi, I’m not sure how much better it would be running it though a dedicated power amp, depends on how good or bad your current power sections are. I liked the engl, never had any problems with it and it had a great thick yet tight response to it. I keep it simple now, just guitar into Marshall plexi and never been happier but the engl is good at what it does. Oh and the pickups were dimarzio evolution’s Cheers, Matt

@@mattrobinson Oh I won't give up my JCM800 and my Dual Rec any day soon :-) But you know none of my amps have a post power section volume or true master volume, plus the Engl has presence and some sound tweaking stuff as well. Anyway, I've just ordered one today from Thomann as they had a B stock at a reasonable price. I'm in the UK so it'll take like a week. I'll report back. I noticed the past tense, what made you sell it? Cheers for the reply! George

@@geomusicmove Yeah let me know how you get on. I was gigging with the axe fx and engl for a couple of years but never fully satisfied with my tone, there always seemed to be something missing no matter how I set everything. I plugged into an amp head one day at a guitar shop and realised what I’d been missing ha ha. I suppose I just prefer the sound of real amps. Works out cheaper for me too. Things have got better with modelling and amp profiling though so it’d probably be much closer to the real thing now

@@mattrobinson You're right modelers are a lot of fun but they're not the real thing, nothing like the guitar signal running through actual valves! In my case the Fractal + power amp rig is for recording, a little variety and some fun, but for live play nothing like a real amp and cab for me. i'll leave my opinion once I've tried this power amp, on the other hand I like the idea of trying some nice preamps with it as well as in old school rack rig.

Wow, I’m flattered. You made my day, very kind of you. Thank you 🙏 Yes, I still use the alnico II’s as my #1 pickups. The honeymoon period never wore off, I can’t imagine liking any other pickup more than these.