73 Marshall Super Lead David Bray Modded

I had my 1973 PTP Marshall modded by Dave Bray with the famous Mod Rework I. Basically EVH in a nutshell. This is the MP3 David sent me of my amp when he finished it. Check out his site and listen to all the other Marshalls modded the same way. This one smokes them all. True to the brown sound 100%.

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[2mnygtrz]

If you read you will know that Eddies plexi was the house amp at a club. I'm sure it was just cranked on some smaller gigs that we will never hear and will never be able to A/B the sound against what we know. Anything bigger than a club, it was mic'd up into a mixer/PA. Most of the amps Ed used in the 78-up tours were later 100w amps from the late 70s early 80s. They had more gain and sounded better live. Reverb adds ALOT. Ever see an early100w with reverb? NOPE. Eds recording all do. Hmmmmm.

[PGROSYE02]

I'm new to all these plexis. Do you run a distortion pedal or anything through them or are they just packed with gain?

[2mnygtrz]

@PGROSYE02 NO PEDALS...JUST EXPERTLY RECORDED. Most Plexis sound great as is but you have to record them properly to get this EVH brown sound. EVHs amp sounded terrible but in the studio, Don Landee and Ted Templeton made it sound awesome.... the fingers didnt hurt either..

[jessemaes1990]

@2mnygtrz With all due respect but that's BS man, the sound has to be there before you start recording. Sure you can make a crappy amp sound okay, and definately when it's in a mix with other instruments, but a studio doesn't perform miracles.

[2mnygtrz]

@jessemaes1990 Do you own one? If you did you would know better. If you take this amp and just plug in , it sounds nothing like the recording. Every clip you hear with a EVH style marshall that NAILS the sound has been recorded and then had reverb added AFTER the track was recorded dry. I have 4 and none nail the sound unless recorded. I know not a single Marshall owner who has this sound without recording it.

[msgscout007]

How about a clip of what it really sounds like, not the clip Bray sent you?

[2mnygtrz]

@msgscout007 sold amp the ,sorry.

[2mnygtrz]

@DarthKazi The sound is in the fingers gentleman...the fingers.........

[rw5791]

when u can go from chimey clean to smokin' distortion with just a twist of the volume knob..........you know u got a special amp.

[lespl1]

That is the most beautiful sound I have ever heard. Brought me to tears. Sounds a little bit better than Eddie Van Halen's amp.

[voodoogreg]

Everyone needs to chill. The story is old and all over the net and in print. The amp was the House amp at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, EVH bought/or ripped it, it's running into a load box early on another tube amp, later pwr amps, with line level for the FX. A big ol' roland then MXR EQ into the input.Landee took it and ran into some EMT German plate verb, echo, and yes a bit of tape saturation, but having worked in studios for 30 yr's tape sat will never get that sound before it Od's... Done. VG

[Soldano88]

I had one done too and when I got it home it was ruined.No flexability and terrible compression all or nothing in a nutshell.I sold it.The Splawn was a disapointment too.I ended up with a dsl 401 that sounds better imho.A jcm 800 sounded better than all of them! But then tone is subjective.

[rbehm]

NO.........No.....NO.... when will you stupid Monkey's learn .BUY a Bugera or Peavey and leave the Marshalls STOCK, you are not EVH

[futarydary]

@2mnygtrz so tell me how VH played some gigs in clubs, or even big stage gigs, huh?

[chuckelator]

I have a 73 JMP 50 myself, which is bone stock...Completely cranked, I can't even get that kind of tone out of it. I can't decide if that's a good thing or not...HAHA

[ukwan]

@2mnygtrz that good eh?.. Seriously a stock Plexi loaded and slaved into power amp is definitely the sound EVH had on the first album.. The Cerrem mod isn't far off either but I don't think he did that mod to be fair..

[andrew13758]

@azombiestool Use the same as Eddie, a Marshall cab with 25 watt greenback, pre rola Celestions. It will cost you quite some money, but that is the closest thing. AND early Marshall cabs had slightly different build features, most notably a bigger chunk of wood keeping the baffle and back panel firm. I remember opening a new 1978 cab and noticing the smaller, poorly screwed square wood bar and the whole thing smelled pinewood, too! My earlier 1968 cabs had totally dried wood, in 1978. Good luck!