Amp capture done right! Thanks Dave! I’ve always wanted an original Plexi, and the PLEX delivers this and more! Can’t wait to get mine! Keep on rockin’! 🤘🎩
need an extraordinary blues rock player that can play off the cuff melodies like Philip Sayce, srv, Hendrix and Brent Mason styles and switch to leads in clean, soft od and harder.
Regarding the bright caps please someone explain to me. Friedman says that to the center is off, to the right is 100 picofaraday and left is 4700 picofaraday, and the stock value for Marshalls in channel 1 would be 4700. But in the manual of this amp says that the regular position for channel 1 on a Marshal would be right. Shoudn´t be left? There is a contradiction in there
I would have thought Dave would have preferred the 100watt. I've also heard Dr. Dan say this model is his personal favorite. I feel like the 100 just has a little more of a percussive response. Killer sounding amp either way.
The video is really disingenuous. The clips has WAY more gain than the amp is actually able to produce and you can hear that in countless clips on the web! So, Sammy has to be hitting the front end with something. Likewise, there is Delay, but no FX loop in the amp! So, somewhere being introduced and doesn't depict what the amp sounds like raw direct-in, which is only how all amps should be demonstrated!
Gets rid of that smudged out Friedman tone that I never got on with. But, man, you couldn't find a guitar player in Pittsburgh that wasn't stuck on the delay teat????!!!
It's got no effects loop. So no delay or reverb...that doesn't sound like crap anyways into the front of an amp ;( I'm guessing that's why he's using the Ox You could also buy a fryette powerstation for another $800-900 which will give you an effects loop for playing live into a cab. The power station direct line out doesn't send the effects with it to a recording audio interface so that kind of sucks. You'd have to add delay and reverb in the mix on a DAW unless there is another way that i'm not aware of. And the Ox effects don't work with a speaker cab in a live situation... So that one is out for me. The master control volume works pretty good but it's not the same as cranking a tube amp and finding the sweet spot. So the attenuation on the Ox and the Power Station help in that regard. This thing is loud i have one. Anything above 2 is very loud for playing at home. I've been trying to figure out what to do about adding an effects loop so i can have some delay and reverb, and a good recording solution. And i'm not really sure yet. I could always add a power station and mic the cab i guess. Ideally i'd like an fx loop and a way to record direct. Maybe the Boss Waza TAE might do everything i want. I don't know enough about that one yet though.
This sounds incredible, it's a wish for sure, but i would really like you to dig a little bit more on the clean sounds! And if you allow me to comment on what would be a fantasy for me, I would love to see a version of a plexi with a single input and channel switching and sensitivity or channel bridge by footswitch. This would open the door to being able to have incredible British clean and crunch with just a change of channel.
You definitely wanna try the ToneKing Royalist mkiii that came out late last year (if you haven’t already) based on your channel switching comments. I’m looking forward to taking my Royalist mkiii and custom BE-50 dlx (Dave put in a Plexi channel 1 for me instead of buxom Betty) to Andertons to compare with this Plex Vintage. Very curious to feel and hear the ABC comparisons in a straight up shootout. 🤗
@@djt6546 dude, your amp is insane, enjoy it! I’m gonna check the royalist, but I’m almost almost full happy with my JJ Jr.. I’m not a metal guy, but loving the fact of having such a nice deep overdrive channel… a JTM45 + a lead like this would be my fantasy come true
Ampli meraviglioso ma non avendo un send e return mi domando come saranno gli effetti di modulazione e delay messi in fronte ?….dalla dimostrazione di Boller suona da Dio……
@@damonstewart70 thanks! I’ve been focusing on more on Instagram since I don’t have time to make 3 hour demos like everyone else lol. Also life’s been busy so it’s been tough to balance it all out.
I’d love to see Friedman make a fire breathing high gain monster, something akin to an Engl Fireball or a REVV. I know that the Butterslax is about as high gain as Friedman has gotten, but I’d love to see Dave create something ball shattering 🤘
Only that's the point. You had to mod these stock Marshall amps do get many of these sounds. As a Marshall lifer (still am) I appreciate having all these options in one amp. Don't own this the amp but would love to have it.
The voice in my head is whispering another sentence through my ears: "You cannot afford it and plus for 15k or 17k less you can buy a proper Plexi amp."
Any plexi style amp sounds best without any delay or reverb. I cant figure out why Dave would add that on a demo. Most every tube amp demo on youtube uses the just the amp itself without and boost pedals so you know exactly what the amp can do by itself. And then they may add overdrive pedals later in the video so you know how it takes pedals. The Kyle Bull channel is very popular for that reason. So this was really a wasted video.
@Gearslayer92 And I respect that, different guitarists make an amp sound totally different which is why I have to watch at least 5 reviews of an amp to know what it really sounds like. It still doesnt make sense to use reverb, it doesnt make the amp sound better, its a space effect so it sounds like youre playing in a large room. If he really wanted that effect Dave could have had the amp played in a large room.
@@jakebenigni Yeah, I see your point. I would love that too, and I wouldn't be surprised if Dave actually did just that, since JCM 800 is an equally Iconic classic model amp. Even better if he did his version of a seriously hotrodded JCM, a fire breathing monster 🔥
Hope I'm not mis-quoating, but I think I watched a Tone-Talk episode recently where Dave explained the smallbox on 10 is like a plexi at 5. The smallbox has the FX loop though, while a plexi won't. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
@@anmolatwalNot old fashioned hand wired. Items got some modern PCB layout/construction. Given the price some people are complaining already, but as long as the design is quality and optimised accordingly to get the best out of the tech employed it won’t matter. People like to question longevity though even if the sound and feel is good. I say life is too short for such thoughts. If it feels great, sounds great and fits your budget, just rock on people 🤘
I have the small box 50, it's hand wired and channel 1 is a direct copy of Dave's 68 Plexi. Channel 2 is higher gain, really good for GnR and harder rock. It's very loud.
But they don’t all sound or feel the same when you play through them. Besides, most our gear is same, same but different. You’re either a tone junky or not I guess 😊
Plex sounds incredible as expected! Will send you my postal address to forward on the blue and natch Friedman axes on the wall behind you. Playing is amazing as always Sammy.
Just received one yesterday & it’s phenomenal. It reminds me of classic / no reissue Marshall. So far I haven’t plugged any reverb/delay in cause I’m enjoying it that much… this is what it sounds like!! I haven’t ran my power station yet, planning to do that over the weekend. Absolutely 💯 got it right Dave 🤘
Sounds amazing... but choosing between this at €3400 and a 1987x at €1400... that price difference is just crazy. The MVC is not really needed since I would argue that most people already have attenuators or load boxes. The bright switches are a nice touch but not sure those are worth 2000€ price difference. Just get a SD-1 or some TS pedal for €200 and you're basically there.. saving you €1800 - enough to also get a 100W JCM 800 2203x..
Any tech worth his salt can install switchable brightcaps in 45-60 minutes. My gripe with the 1987x is that Marshall’s production quality has gone down. Suhr is probably the best contender out there. Cost is similar to Friedman, but it’s impecably built. Fortunately I live in a country where 70’s Marshalls regularly are sold for under $1000 so that’s just what I did.
Yeah I wouldnt bother either. I look at it this way…why are you gonna pay such a high premium for an amp that really doesn’t even have much functionality and does a tone that’s now become a bit boring. I mentioned my H&K Grandmeister 40 in another comment-that amp can easily dial in the Eddie stuff if you want it, but it does a shitload more and has a shitload more features and costs far less. Yeah made in China, who cares, it sounds amazing, it’s reliable and I don’t need a cabinet if I don’t want one because the Redbox thing on it sounds killer. In 2024, these one channel semi-boutique amps are just a dumb buy if you ask me. It’s blues lawyer gear.
@@UseTheSupeRsonic Agreed. People attach way too much of a premium to "Made in USA". In my experience, that only makes them 3x as expensive and not at all that much better quality.
@@lordgraga Eh, Suhr SL67 MK2 is €4300 so a heck of a lot more expensive than even Friedman, which is already overpriced. The production quality of Marshall might be inferior on paper, but it's also WAY cheaper to buy - plus the end quality is not that different. I don't see a lot of people having issues with their Studio series amps, nor the DSLs - both of which are PCB amps. I think people have this notion in their head that hand wired amps will be better quality, but in the end product they really don't. People often cite that they can "fix" their amps if they break, but honestly who in Europe has their own soldering iron? Not many. I'd rather send the amp back and have an authorized technician fix it instead. And yes, I also live in a country where second hand Marshall amps are very cheap.
Wow ANOTHER ‘68 plexi. Funny enough my Grandmeister 40 on the lead channel with the boost on and the gain set lower sounds more like EVH than this does.
