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I never noticed the Blankenship Leeds amp in my Axe-FX III before - and it is really worth to be discoverd. Thanks for your suggestion, Leon. It's amazing - especially with the FAS Vibe.
Man. I dig it. That would be a goto blues tome if you ask me. For some reason it reminded me of Rory Gallagher and his tone when I saw him open for Rush back in the day. He had stacks and stacks of some Fender combo and I think he played that one Strat that was all beat up the whole show except maybe a tele using the slide. Sounded great brother. Stay well my friend..
That's cool. My main amp is an 18W clone combo based on the tremolo channel of the 1974X Marshall. A buddy built it for me at my request single channel with only volume and tone. It's got a '78 blackback in it. It really lives up to the Baby Bluesbreaker name IMO. It's raunchy and bright and you can certainly rock your volume knobs for drive (really helps to have audio-taper pots in your guitar). Probably sounds closest in my ears to your demo with the Mesa cab. Mine at least has a tube rectifier and the low end is pretty flabby for metal or hard rock.
@@LeonTodd Look up the 'LiteIIB' circuit. I believe, like I mentioned, that's based on the 1974X tremolo channel. It's the most popular build of the basic circuit.
@@LeonTodd Oh. Mine also has a built in variable-voltage resistor (VVR) that gives me power amp drive at low volumes. It's a pretty damn good form of built in attenuation on a low powered amp like this. My buddy set it up so that the control for the VVR is also the on/off switch at the beginning of the pot's travel. All in all it's a really nice little package with essentially the same controls as a tubescreamer - level (the VVR), gain, and tone.
@Leon Todd since we are into tone chancing/character and music have you ever thought about playing around with a Theramin??? I've met Frank Hannon from Tesla many a time and during sound check he let play his Theramin through the huge P.A. system at the big venue. I have one myself!!! You would love it.
The whole "amp in the room" is a tricky beast - the reason I do all of these direct is that what you hear coming out of your speakers via RU-vid is what would come out of the unit if you connected your speakers. Having said that, I do have an Atomic CLR I am going to demo using some flat room mics, hopefully soon!
@@LeonTodd For some reason, most of the direct recorded ones sound "flat to my ears", with good room mic I can somehow 'feel' the thump and the low end of those patches. Please do the Atomic CLR video for it as well since I am really interested to hear that speaker :) Not many videos on RU-vid about till...few old ones.
