1968 MARSHALL PLEXI
This is a classic choice..the 100 watt 68
...when I had my Brit band Tallis in London...I had a 50 watt 68 that I bought used in 71. ..the 50w saturates more ..less headroom but more sustain and the upper mids around 1k are more pronounced. The sustain has the quality of a female opera singer singing a long vowel sound. It was an aggressive sound but it had these sweet haunting highs.
Metropoulos Amplifications make a few clones...I picked this one because there isn't a sh@t load of well intended mods.
I recommend coming here often and get the basic sound of the real thing stuck in your head.
There is nothing wrong with good mods to both amps & pedals...BUT you need to have the sound of the real deal permanently in your head as a reference point.
Then when you hear a Plexi pedal you will soon know how close it is.
Keep in mind players like Hendrix would use 2 Fuzz Face pedals one had the gain very low and the volume/level right up. This would increase the natural gain of the amp by overdriving it with virtually a boost. Things like this are know built in to the amp by modifying it. My point is pedals were used in the 60's ...so on record we did not always hear exactly what the amp itself sounded like.
It only makes sense to build these extras right into SOME pedals. Once again this is fine in fact sometimes wonderful. BUT it is always good to know the difference to help you pick what combination of mods are good for you ...and what mods spoil the the sonic guts of the real sound.
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