THE TONE STACK 3-SOME ...TURN A COMBO AMP INTO A MARSHALL STACK with 3 pedals for a ...KILLER SOUND!!!

 YES THEY WILL !!! 
Now there is a 'catch' you will need a half decent OD ...minimum. If you are a regular SBS reader you know as little as $35.00 USD will get you one. The system will work on any amp.

BIG BUT.
It will improve immeasurably with ANY tube amp big or small.

Ideally as I have often mentioned the two cheapest bullet proof amps are the...
40 watt ...Fender Hot Rod. 
Used ones are abundant.  I just saw one on Kijiji in Tweed for $550.00 USD.

if you are like me and a Marshall addict get the ....
50 watt...Marshall Origin OR150C.

Both are compact single 12" combo's. 
The price is $800.00 USD for either one new.
 These companies have really nailed your real NEEDS and the price.
Both can keep pace with the loudest drummer so at a gig either mic up the whole back line or mic up nothing but a vocalist. Either amp is a keeper. They are pro enough to take and use anywhere no matter how high you climb the musical ladder.


TURN A COMBO AMP INTO A TONE STACK !!!


A/DA GCS-2 GUITAR AMP SIMULATOR

So you have a combo amp either a very small practice amp or maybe even a 30 or 40 watt jobbie that can pull it's weight in a band.
Why not turn it into a Marshall tone stack.
The A/DA gets passed off as a needless toy for home recordings but the damn thing can be put on the tail end of your pedals wired out to your amps input and turn your single speaker into a Marshall 4x12 cab.

$120.00 USD new
...and there are usually a few used ones out there too. 
Once you have one it is simple to set up ...JUST 
click on these switches... 

-VINTAGE 
-12-INCH
-SEALED
-IN 
next move the...                            
-MIC PLACEMENT  ...to between 9 o'clock and 12 o'clock and tweak in that just right fatness for your rig.

Why use this brand ...there are others????
The damn thing is all analog!
It eats the others for breakfast!!!

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AMPTWEAKER DEPTH FINDER

A pedal with a goofy name that performs two little classic miracles.
In the 60's Marshall brought out the stack. The amp had huge lower mids and cleaver cutting highs. It did however produce a massive and rich tone. Players eventually found if they bought a Rangemaster Treble Booster ...another silly name because it mainly pushed up the upper mids so your mid problem was gone!!!

Well you grab the Depth Finders Presence knob and 'bingo'
same deal!!

$90.00 USD

Now the Marshall 1960 4x12 cabinet sounded big indeed. The curious thing is the closer you get to it the more balz it has. It is like a low end musical fist is smashing your face in. LOL
Well it was all about bad design. LOL  
When you close in a speaker box you 'must' cover the wooden sides with something to absorb the sound or it will reflect off it's opposite sides and turn the box into something like the 'bell' on a Tuba and create a loud thumping honk!!!
The Marshall cab had NONE. Absolutely nothing to absorb the resonance of the cabinet.  So the closer you get to the cab the louder it can blast you with what is in effect an acoustic honking thumping sound.
Enter the Resonance knob. Turn up the honk ...exaggerate the thump!!!

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THE BUGERA PS-1 POWER SOAK ATTENUATOR

$100.00 USD

A pedal with an oddly perfectly appropriate name. You put it
between your amp and it's speaker. 

First find out where your amp sounds it's best. Which is probably damn F.ing loud!!!
Now turn off the amp and wire the PS-1 in
Grab the big knob on the PS-1 and turn it down to where
it is appropriate for the environment you are using it in.
BINGO!!! again.
You now can play as quiet or as loud as you need and not F. with that great sound your amp can make at tinnitus levels.

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CONCLUSION

What you get with this setup is a huge powerful sound.
The kind of sound that made thousands of us want to play an electric guitar in the first place.
Even most of the players that prefer something that they consider 'more refined' when they hear a tune on the radio with this sound ...they turn it up.
I find every time I flip the the switch on my amp and hit that first chord ...I still get that adrenaline rush!!!
This rig is the most fun you can possibly have ...and still keep your clothes on. LOL
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$70.00 USD

LUXURY EXTRA's

NUX NRV OCEANIC REVERB
A cheap reverb with studio specs that puts that post production icing on your
cake. You can download many sounds but it comes loaded with a 'plate' FLOYD's Dark Side of the Moon was swimming in reverb. It was large plate. Every note and every chord rang out as clear as a bell ...zero muddiness.
Perfect! So just crank it up to taste!

PARAMETRIC EQ

$200.00 USD

You can never have too much EQ to tweak with.
The best two I've heard are quasi parametric. The Empress Para EQ 
and the Wampler EQuator.
The Empress is made to solve problems and reshape any instruments. 
The focus of the Wampler is to beef up or tame the electric guitar.

$250.00 USD

OK... YES ...I have the whole 

rig including the Marshall.

Best money I ever spent. I 

kept trying to find an OD

to cover all this. Bad idea!

With this rig you just get

what OD's you like and this

THE TONE STACK 3-SOME

gives you all the muscle.

   
       I have the Wampler
       and my bass player has the Empress
       So obviously I recommend the Wampler.