1968 Marshall 50 Watt Plexi, Duane Allman Les Paul "Cherryburst", OX4 Pickups

Описание: 1968 Marshall 50 watt "1986" model (Bass amp), original stock circuit and Drake transformers. The 1986 model was favored by Duane Allman.


The output tubes are a NOS set of early '70's Tesla's. V1 is a NOS Mullard from the late '60's, V2 and V3 are NOS early '70's RFT's.
It must've been a good day at the Drake factory when they wound the output transformer in this thing, it sounds like some sort of possessed howling Banshee. Sounds like it was made in a haunted house ;)
The amp is setup to run on 115 volts AC, you can see a VariAC in the background.
Bias is set to 37mA @ 445 volts.

The cab is an original white basketweave 100 watt model with the original G12H's. The speakers have lead (75hz) Pulsonic cones.

The guitar's a '13 Les Paul "Duane Allman Cherryburst" with Mark Stow's OX4 pickups that are rather low output. The guitar's plugged straight in, no pedals.
You can hear a couple of clicks in middle of the vid, that's the switch on the guitar, when I switch pickups to the middle position for the clean stuff.
There's a drum set in the room, pardon the snares rattle. The snares were off but it's rather loud and everything in the room started shaking when this amp started talking ;)

Pardon the hack job playing. I'm about 25 years removed from using Marshalls, a tweed Fender and an ES-5 is more my speed.
For a better demo of this amp, by a professional guitarist, my friend Jd Simo did a clip with it about 2 years ago... you can find it in my video folder. Actually, here's a link:
   • JD Simo, 1958 Les Paul, 1968 50 watt Marsh...