Marshall SLX and Vox AC15 Anniversary

These are my first tries with the new 3.01. I also used a new mic this time, one I got off a sale table at a pawn shop for $20. Its a sterling st59. It was to large for my current mic older so I had to hang it by looping through the handles of the amps. It did a great job that way and it has a filter switch and a shape switch that really change the sound. I found allot of sounds just playing with these switches and rotating the mic position trying to keep the same location. The Marshall SLX is one of the old 900 series models and its basically an 800 with an added gain stage. Its one of the models that used the 5881 tubes. The Vox is one of the Anniversary hand wired models. Its a great amp with plenty of sound for such a little thing. Three profiles of each one.

With the new 3.01 and my new expensive mic, I did not have to load up another cab to get the sound I liked. So all of these profiles are with the original cabs. The Vox has a Celestion Blue and the Marshall was profiles using an Avatar with two vintage 30's in it.

I almost forgot, its springtime here in Texas.
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I did one profile of channel one and 2 of channel 2 which is the top boost. I'm going to do some others of channel one. I need to play around with it some more.

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I'm sure your not supposed to mic it this way. But as luck would have it, I am unencumbered with any knowledge of how to do it the right way. This mic can get Dramatically different sounds just by rolling it around. I would never make it as a sound engineer, I'm afraid.

I put up a few more profiles and focused a bit more on channel one. This amp, for those that might be interested has two channels. The first is based on the original EF86 circuit. This first channel has a bright switch and a bass switch. On the profiles I did the first number is the bright switch position and the second is the bass position. I left it in Pentode mode. The second channel is based on Top Boost circuit and it has two tone controls. Both channels run through the Top Cut control. At first glance the amp does not look like it can produce many versatile sounds, but actually it is very flexible the more you play with it.

I focused on profiles more in the vain of the Edges sound, the brighter side of the Vox amps. I did try and put up one thats darker more like a Queen sound. Its got the term Fullcut in the name. The nature of this brightness or darkness is mostly in where you set the Top Cut control. Confused yet, I know I am.

I ordered a holder for my mic so I don't have to dangle it anymore.