Summary of what I learnt in the video: I learnt that the sound of the Marshall Plexi is very famous and lots of players used them like EVH, Jimmy Page, Jimmy Hendrix. The amp is known to be an extreme high gain monster but in this video the guy shows that I has a similar to something like a Clean Fender reverb tone, but the amp also has the ability to have a highly driven tone but still keeping the notes sharp and the chords clean
Summary of what I learnt in the video: This video describes the reason of why this amp and how it was made, explaining that in the UK rock music was blowing up and musicians were In need of a easy to get hold of but reliable amp. Fender only really selling in America and Vox just starting to lift off as a company and not having much parts availability so there wasn’t many options. So Jim Marshall had a shop (it was just a music shop at the time and Jim is also the creator of Marshall) decided to get a team and create the Marshall Plexi, Which is based off the Fender Bass man amp. Having an available amp across the Uk in most shops, and the amp being described as bullet proof and having great tones. It was a quick success.
Summary of what I learnt in the video: That you cant just replace valves in an amp by simply replacing it but having to bias the valve/amp, which is essentially setting the idle current for the valve to operate at every time the amp is turned back on, if you didn’t do this you would just blow the valve up. Ill be opening my amp to see if its even possible to replace the valve in it.
Here is the instruction manual to my amp, I needed it to see if my amp was able to connect to a cabinet which appears i could. It also shows some details of the effects and how it effect the amp.
Summary of what I learnt in the video: I watched this to see if old amps are different to new ones. This guy describes that this amp sounds great but his original 1960’s Still sounds better and has a more of a sound he cant describe but more of a 3D sound. Vintage amps were hand built and had different resistors and capacitors, but newer ones have circuit boards and have different capacitors and resistors in them now and just generally a different circuit layout.