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Originally Posted by Superman
Ha! The guitarist of whom I spoke has the best guitar tone I have EVER heard, and recording engineers think this too. He uses a '68 Plexi, but there's more.... He turns all the knobs to "10," and runs the signal into a power soak, bringing the signal down to preamp-level. Then he runs that signal through a somple old tube amp (Peavey, I think), and out to two half-stack cabs, separated about ten feet. One of the cabs has a slight reverb/delay.
In other words, he uses a WOT '68 Plexi as a preamp. You should hear this.
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That's an interesting approach. Its certainly true that those old non-master vol Marshalls only make "that sound" when theyre flat out. They don't actually get louder after about 4, but they do saturate. I used to run my 100w SLP on 10, usually with the cab facing backwards because theyre shatteringly loud. I found the Tom Scholz PowerSoak attenuator, the earlier days of such devices, did throttle volume, but killed the tops.
Never heard of one being attenuated down and used as a pre-amp tho. That's carting a lot of gear around.