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The Amps & Cabs • Plexi Lead - based on a 1968 Marshall Super Lead
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Plexi Lead - based on a 1968 Marshall Super Lead
We literally scoured the world for this particular amp, finally
finding a great example of a Super Lead languishing (we like to
think fate preserved it for us) in Holland.
One of the fun things
you can do with a Plexi is take a short guitar cable and jumper
channel I and channel II (as they’re frequently numbered)
together for a little extra saturation. Some guys loved this sound so
much that they pulled the chassis and permanently wired a jumper
into the amp. We modeled the Super Lead this way.
Hendrix used a Super Lead with the ‘lay down’ transformer unique to the ’68 models,
and Van Halen’s first two records also owed their “brown sound” to a ‘68 Plexi. To get a
nice crunch sound out of a Plexi, you crank all the volume and tone controls to 10. In
keeping with our “make-it-sound-a-whole-lot-like-the-original” concept, diming all
your knobs with Duoverb’s Plexi Lead gets you pretty darned near the same thing.
The Cabinet Model is based on a perfectly-seasoned ’68 Marshall 4x12 basketweave
cabinet with its Celestion Greenback 25’s.
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