(Vid 1) - Ceriatone 18w / 36w plexi clone

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Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Ceriatone
• Marshall
• Plexi
• Super
• Lead
• superlead
• 18watt
• 18
• watt

[ByrdWhiteMovie]

How are you getting that much gain out of an 18 watter to do that VanHalen stuff from :37 to :48 with the volume that low? ...or, are you just that good?

[882952]

@ByrdWhiteMovie > That's just how that amp was. It had pretty good front-end gain. Especially... Channel 2, I believe it was, would break up pretty early.

[ByrdWhiteMovie]

@882952 ...oh, and is that master PPIMV or a regular Master?

[ByrdWhiteMovie]

@882952 I had Nik build me a JTM45/100 clone and the thing rocks. We're talkin' Hendrix all afternoon. I'm going to have to look into one of these, next. Would be perfect for small gigs, and having that much gain on tap would be a big bonus.

[882952]

@KevinSaale - Yep, and give the ol' boy another few yeras, and he'll be on with somone else yet. =)

[KevinSaale]

@882952

He doesn't even use peaveys anymore, he uses fenders.

[RyverMystDragon]

That is some pretty impressive guitar work. My husband was extremely impressed. Was that Cliffs of Dover I heard somewhere in there?

[882952]

@jhop5150 RE: 'He should really go back to the sound that got his band famous' - Yes, I agree. I tell ya, no one I know is sitting around trying to cop his tone from the later albums. No, everyone's spending thousands trying to build plexis that recreate his _original_ tone. THAT's where the money is, Eddie! I love 5150s too, but to me they're not a "brown sound" amp at all, they're all cold and stiff and compressed. Perfect for metal, but they sound nothing like a cranked, worn-out plexi

[jhop5150]

@882952 It would be so sweet. He should really go back to the sound that got his band famous, if you ask me. There's just this Marshall quality that creates the brown sound I think, like the amp sounds old and has so much character. I love the 5150s, but they sound all studio polished and modern. Most of VH's sound was in the fact that Eddie tried to make an old amp sound new, not a new amp sound perfect.

[882952]

@jhop5150 - Well you'd think that would be a natural pairing for an amp with an early EVH voicing. But by the time Ed got with Peavey, he was all into high-gain amps as they were more conducive to the techniques he was developing, (tapped harmonics, etc.). But still, I'd love if he did!