Marshall 30th anniversary 6100

[mickrich]

New clip of the 6100 sounds great. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I have recorded my buddies 6100 a good handful of times and have found it really easy to get a great sound down with BUT I have never pulled anything even remotely close to this good out of Channel 3.

I usually use the second channel and boost the shit out of it and that seems to sound the best. I guess in hindsight I havent spent a ton of time tweaking it to get the third channel sounding like this. I recall really struggling to get it to have very much chord definition because of the fuzzier nature of the distortion on that channel. What kind of setting are you using on this clip (back of head settings too) if you dont mind sharing ?

ts808: drive zero, level and tone 12 o'clock
6100 hi and low input switches in.
Channel 3: all eq 12 o'clock, contour off, gain boost on, gain 3 o'clock, volume 3 o'clock.
Master vol 9 o'clock, pres 12 o'clock, low vol compensate off.
Back switches: damping auto, high power, pentode.
Rectifier cab with 57 placed using pink noise.

I am using the new Apogee Ensemble thunderbolt for reamp out then 57 into isa220 to ensemble line in.
This is a superb signal chain that is enhancing the recorded sound.

Channel 3 sounds sort of scooped compared to channel 2 but remember our ears/brain are terrible at listening to sounds in isolation but very good at listening comparatively so switching from channel 2 to 3 makes it seem this way.
Try these settings and listen for a while then channel 2 will seem very mid dominated. I love channel 2 on this head too (sounds like a hot rodded JMP or 800) but the red nailed it for this album I am working on.

 

[Manicompression]

Awesome man, thanks for the details. I probably wont have the amp under the mic again for a little while but Im going to bookmark this so I can give it a whirl when I do. Should be alot of fun seeing if I can pull something usable, as you say it has a very Heartwork sound about it. While I don't have conversion on level with what you've got going on, the rest of the chain is fairly repeatable with my gear. Should be fun.