Interesting... I'm hearing modded plexi tones in that amp. With the 800 grind mixed with beautiful vintage breakup. This could be one of the best amps ever made! I'm truly impressed! Was not expecting this. I'm going to investigate the market for these. Great video!! 👍
this was my first tube amp i bought new. it was on clearance, when the series was discontinued 4 years ago. got it brand new for 500€. it covers a lot of styles, and is completely underrated in my opinion. if i had to guess, i'd say it was marketet badly, cause if people knew what these amps were capable of, a lot more people would've bought it. it was mostly shown as a classic rock and blues amp, but the gain reserves it has are more than enough for lot's of metal styles, and the way it takes pedals is good for even more modern styles.
if you turn the volume all the way up, and output down, you get such a tube sag, that the signal goes down when you hit the strings hard. turn on channel 2 the drive to 9 o'clock, the volume to 3 or 4 0'clock, and the output to however loud you need it. that's the poweramp saturation people have been going for with their plexis dimed.
Hey man nice playing! I've heard these things are pretty thin.. I have a mesa stiletto which is really thin, any chance you might know how this compares to that or does this feel thin to you at all?
(RE: channel 2 “power tube tone emphasis” mode: That is the sound of Wattage responding right there! I had a solid state peavey and a Marshall cab that would take up the power load and then after the volume pull would still roar like an airplane engine engine at cruise- My theory is it comes from all the heat energy in the electronics being bled out of the hot signal, and a very finely tuned amount of entropy comes into the signal as the wattage gets stepped back down. To my understanding, it’s like full stack JCM with only a half stack’s amount of actual load. (Ofc the pushed air effect of fullstack in a medium size room is a whole other part of tone-we used to play without drumboxes and let the actual sound get mixed up, destructive interference and all-) Good for gigging, shrinks the kit. All this comes from years and years ago secondhand from chats at the music store and so on
Mike from Opeth used a GH100L. I used to have one and it was a cool amp. Throaty, crunchy, and classic metal friendly. Boosted it could get disgustingly mean.
I had the 50w version and I returned it after a week of playing. Id describe it as a modern, chinese copy of jcm800 - the GHL version was much better, but probably production cost was too high for Laney.
