18watt TMB Plexi- Cascade Channel (High Gain)

This is a sound clip of my 18watt TMB amp with the cascade switch (a mod I did) on. The cascade switch takes the Normal channel and sends it through the TMB channel for more tube gain stages. The guitar used is a PRS Custom 24 Ten-Top on the bridge humbucker. There is an overdrive pedal in use. The amp settings for the TMB channel are: Bass-10, Middle-0, Treble-10, Volume- 10, Master- 1. The amp settings for the Normal channel are: Tone-8, Volume-4.

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Music

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• 18watt
• TMB
• 18
• watt
• marshall
• affectronix
• amplifier
• guitar
• high
• gain
• tube
• rock

[pinkypimpalicous]

I am freakin serious, dude. You got a hell of a talent. I just sent my 78 Marshall JMP to an amp tech, I been waiting for 4 weeks and its gonna cost me $350 to do what you did to your amp. I really hope you get back into mods, run a business from your home! Take advantage of this gift you have :)

[call1800ksmyazz]

@pinkypimpalicous

Damn, that's a ridiculous price to charge for something like this. But I know that's what most techs/modders charge. I dont know if you have checked out my other videos but you should. I used to design and build effects pedals too and I was actually selling those out of my house for a while. I was also selling modded Valve Junior heads. I also have a video of the VF-10 amp that I designed from scratch and built and that came out great.

[pinkypimpalicous]

If you were 15 and modding amps, you seriously should be working somewhere like LA Sound Design. You could be making a fortune! You could even charge people $500 an amp to do this to their amps. You are sitting on a gold mine, man.

[call1800ksmyazz]

@pinkypimpalicous

Wow thank you so much, I'm now 18 and in college for electrical engineering and hopefully my future leads me back into amp modding/building. I really appreciate the complement!

[yoyodunno]

That sound warms my heart lol. Sounds great, I want to build my own marshall clone too, i'm just not sure which one is the best for that high gain british tone.

[koflan]

I like to think that the sound that comes out of the amp is what's important, not what the line on the knob looks like.

[guitarz418]

how do you cascade the amp?

[paulj0557]

Oh', forgot to say what I did w/ that gutted Sound City. I took a 1969 Marshall schematic and duplicated it wire for wire and then I just started taking old caps, wax, spragues, you name it ( of course the SS is loaded with mustard caps which are my personal favorite. Capacitor brands DO matter. It was my personal amp so i could give a squat about part reliability, I was going for tone. The Partridge transformers in the SS sounded great! That amp was incredible. It's somewhere in Hollywood now..

[paulj0557]

When I was 15 ( 30 years ago) I gutted my Sound City 120 ( except for that first gain stage on the plate .0022 uf mustard Phillips cap was a so perfect! - yes capacitor brands DO matter!) My initial cascade didn't work well with the SS120 but in a Later 50 watt Sound City head it sounded perfect w/ a phase inverter master volume.

Amp building is not difficult and if you get a good supply of old parts you can really get creative. One of the easiest mods is to experiment w/ cathode caps & res.

[chiliBartas]

is this amp off?

[pinkypimpalicous]

@Ureallydontknow you couldn't be more wrong. First of all, the 1978 Marshall JMP 2204 is ALREADY CASCADED. He did NOT cascade the preamp, the Marshall factory already did that before they sold the freakin thing! I told the motherfucker I wanted the amp to sound like Randy Rhoads' amp, word for word and when I got it back, it did NOT. I know exactly what I am doing, as far as pedals, guitar volume, guitar brand, pickup, etc. The amp should have sounded, without pedals, like a 1959RR.

[Ureallydontknow]

@pinkypimpalicous you asked him to cascade the channels and he did. your mad cause it didn't sound like how you want it to sound. but when you dropped it off you didn't say make it sound awesome, you just told him to cascade the channels. thats another example of people who dont know what they are asking for and get mad at the tech who is following orders from the customer who "knows exactly what he wants". have you even tried putting a clean boost in front. your guitar volume is more to blame.

[Ureallydontknow]

@tapper45 the argument is good on both sides. I agree that there is a huge mark up in custom work or any handmade pedal. I sell pedals. always lookin for suckers to buy something overpriced and so is the next guy. but if you come to me for work and you dont pay for my time then you are a grade A scumbag. worse than me, who is just looking for stupid rich people, your ripping someone off after you promised to pay. if you think were scumbags, just stay away or do your own mods.

[Ureallydontknow]

@tapper45 the argument is good on both sides. I agree that there is a huge mark up in custom work or any handmade pedal. I sell pedals. always lookin for suckers to buy something overpriced and so is the next guy. but if you come to me for work and you dont pay for my time then you are a grade A scumbag. worse than me, who is just looking for stupid rich people, your ripping someone off after you promised to pay. if you think were scumbags, just stay away.

[MYTUBEISAPUSSY]

@call1800ksmyazz

7 hours x 50 bucks = 350 $ .....iz the labor not the parts that makes modding seem to be expensive.

it is rather ridiculous to charge 850 $ for a stinky normal original amp kit of a 18W amp like many on the web do ! better off buy a used one out of the paper ads & mod it !!!

[pinkypimpalicous]

@tapper45 wow....I really appreciate your advice. The guy indeed got hostile when I busted him for his lack of work, to be honest. He showed me a bill and it didn't even say anything about mods and the amp sounds completely stock, which sucks. I still have to throw an MXR Distortion + and 10 Band EQ to give me the gain I want. Its not bad, but its certainly not what I paid for. I still owed him a couple hundred for the "mod" but after I confronted him about it, he stopped asking me for it.