Joe Satriani switches to Marshall?

[jhale667]

The EL-34 was Phillips Electronics brainstorm on giving 6L6 power in a smaller package. I have an old brochure from the Phillips Corporation where they are promoting their new space saving EL-34 power tubes. LOL! They are making it seem like they invented the transistor or something. Anyways, they never envisioned long hairs diming the fuckers into distortion. They don't last as long as 6L6 but a good pair do get a cool ass distortion vibe going. If you are hitting the power section hard, 34's are the way to go.

I like the ability to combine the two in the Simul-Class section...you get the best of both worlds. But I do prefer the distortion character of the EL34/6L6 combo to the standard; gives it a wee bit of "Marshall" flavor.

The JVMs are cool amps, too.

[VanHalenFan5150]

Satch isn't a bad player at all, I love him! His "Surfin' With The Alien" tracks are killer. You guys just don't like him because he's in Sammy's new band, eh?

[Diamondjimi]

I saw the "Surfin" tour waaay back. He was using Marshalls back then. Was surprised to learn he was relying heavily on the Boss Ds-1 pedal. (Not a big fav.of mine)

As for his music. I got a bit tired of weedly weedly guitar music at one point and needed a bit of a break from it. But in recent years I've come back to listening to Satch again.
Crystal Planet and some of his newer ones are great listening music. Great grooves and riffs. And he's changed a bit from simply jizzing all over every track to playing for the song alot better than his earlier stuff...

[jhale667]

I saw the "Surfin" tour waaay back. He was using Marshalls back then. Was surprised to learn he was relying heavily on the Boss Ds-1 pedal. (Not a big fav.of mine)

As for his music. I got a bit tired of weedly weedly guitar music at one point and needed a bit of a break from it. But in recent years I've come back to listening to Satch again.
Crystal Planet and some of his newer ones are great listening music. Great grooves and riffs. And he's changed a bit from simply jizzing all over every track to playing for the song alot better than his earlier stuff...

I saw him back in the day too, at the Whisky of all places. Did the backstage hang, he's a super nice guy. He's a great guitarist, a fact kind of wasted on Chickenfoot.

[Diamondjimi]

I saw him back in the day too, at the Whisky of all places. Did the backstage hang, he's a super nice guy. He's a great guitarist, a fact kind of wasted on Chickenfoot.

What a waste of talent...

On a brighter note, he'll be the first to bail!

[Nitro Express]

He's a good guitarist and he seems to have found his niche but he never made it as a traditional rock star because he has no stage presence. Neither did Steve Vai; even though, Roth tried to help him there. Eddie Van Halen in his hey day had that magical stage presence and I'm sure he wasn't even trying to have it. Some guys have that and some don't. It's more than playing well, it's playing well and looking fabulous up there. Satch never gave me goose bumps or floored me, I don't own any of his songs either. Not knocking him but he never motivated me to buy his stuff or see him live.

[GAR]

Obviously GARfail has no concept of the Simul-Class power section (or anything else)...

Nobody cares about that shit!

MessyBoogie: "Oh, lets see if we can run the output tubes in Class A, Class A-B pushpull or Class D at the twist of a switch.."

Nobody uses that shit. Do you go "wow, now for this track I'm going to need the Sound of Class A" are you shitting me?

Class A ain't METAL! Stfu!

Have you ever run EL34's in Class A configuration dumbass? That's the sound of flatulent, uncooked cakebatter that didn't rise, still wet in the pan.

Are you for serious? Class A is for playing Freebird with a fucking chinese Telecaster... or one of them.. parts guit.. oh shit, maybe that is what you do.

Sorry.

[jhale667]

Gee, GARfail - little bitter, aren't we Mr. Pillowbiter?

[Coyote]

Personally, I'd rather have KT77's instead...

[jhale667]

Personally, I'd rather have KT77's instead...

I tried some KT66's instead of 6L6's at Rick from Groove Tubes suggestion...very nice!!!


And to further elaborate on what an idiot GAyR is...


You wouldn't say "Class A will sound better here" - you fucking DUMBASS - the different power settings are for tailoring your output to the room. Class A on a Simul-Class amp is 15 watts, doofus. Kicking in the other set adds 60 watts, Class A/B, for a total of 75. To reiterate - you're an idiot, GARfail. Go do the world a favor and die in a fire.

[Diamondjimi]

[VHfan99]

I like the ability to combine the two in the Simul-Class section...you get the best of both worlds. But I do prefer the distortion character of the EL34/6L6 combo to the standard; gives it a wee bit of "Marshall" flavor.

The JVMs are cool amps, too.

I got a JVM by pure luck... was waiting to order an LP and the guy mentions they are doing an in store special on the JVM 205H I was playing. $500 off and I got another 10% off for donating to the GC food drive. Picked it up for $1080. What a fucking steal. This amp is awesome and they finally made a great footswitch. Two channels with 3 modes per channel, (4 ch with 3 modes per on the 100w) and two master volumes. I only a weekend warrior but its a great amp to gig with. So versatile. I see why Joe likes them so much.

[jhale667]

I got a JVM by pure luck... was waiting to order an LP and the guy mentions they are doing an in store special on the JVM 205H I was playing. $500 off and I got another 10% off for donating to the GC food drive. Picked it up for $1080. What a fucking steal. This amp is awesome and they finally made a great footswitch. Two channels with 3 modes per channel, (4 ch with 3 modes per on the 100w) and two master volumes. I only a weekend warrior but its a great amp to gig with. So versatile. I see why Joe likes them so much.

Doug Aldrich digs them, too...

[Nitro Express]

I tried some KT66's instead of 6L6's at Rick from Groove Tubes suggestion...very nice!!!


And to further elaborate on what an idiot GAyR is...


You wouldn't say "Class A will sound better here" - you fucking DUMBASS - the different power settings are for tailoring your output to the room. Class A on a Simul-Class amp is 15 watts, doofus. Kicking in the other set adds 60 watts, Class A/B, for a total of 75. To reiterate - you're an idiot, GARfail. Go do the world a favor and die in a fire.

When you don't think it can get any worse it does. We could go into why class A/B is more efficient and achieves more RMS power but we don't want to confuse somebody.

[Igosplut]

Gar. A higher sweep bias pot means it covers a higher range of resistance. On a stock 6505+ you can turn down the resistance of the variable potentionmeter all the way and still not run the power tubes too hot. With a wider sweep potentionmeter you can reduce the resistance even more and run the power tubes hotter. This is a simple mod and a simple electronics fact of the less resistance on the control grid the more current that flows from the cathode to the plate on idle. If you knew anything about basic tube circuit electronics you wouldn't have slagged me and shown your ignorance.

Frankly I've worked for Hewlett-Packard, Lockeheed Martin, and The Department of Energy. What high tech have you worked in? It was an HP engineer that showed me the mod.

Yes Gargle, from this post Nitro sounds like he has NO IDEA what he's describing in technical detail.....

Anybody that truly knew what he claims, would have asked you to explain what you meant (really wanting to know about it) rather than hoping you didn't so he could slag you to make himself look like he knew more. This is an old story, and why everybody knows he's totally lying about everything.

The coward is tagged and bagged again...

[GAR]

You wouldn't say "Class A will sound better here" - the different power settings are for tailoring your output to the room.

Why would anyone want a Boogie to sound like a Fender Champ, I DO NOT know except as you say, maybe they just play in their bedroom.

You know, I used to do that with the tennis racket in the mirror age 11 but then I grew out of that just a few years agoo..

[GAR]

Yes Gargle, from this post Nitro sounds like he has NO IDEA what he's describing in technical detail.

He said "greater sweep" not "greater resistance."

Incorrect term used. /owned x2

Thanks for playing, eStalker. Go post that in my/your Myspace page about me..

[Panamark]

Meh, Marshall are the best, Chickenfoot suck.
He's just trying to inject some street cred back
into his rep..... (After standing in Sammy's personal space
for extended periods !!) And lets face it, with all that Red
around Sammy, he must be having extended periods !!!

I'd be up there with an old school Les Paul standing
on a Plexi stack if I was Joe... Alas, that may not be enough.

[Panamark]

Hey how do the chickenfoot lads get laid ??
They crawl up a chickens twat and wait !!!

[Northern Girl]

Speaking of Joe...

I have some CD's I'd like to give away if anyone wants...

G3 - Live in Concert [Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai] [1997]
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom [1990]
Eric Johnson - Venus Isle [1996]
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare [1997]
Steve Vai - The 7th Song, Enchanting Guitar Melodies Archives Vol. 1 [2000]
Jimi Hendrix :Blues [1994]

BTW...I have the accompanying booklets but not the back covers for these...

I know it cost me a small fortune to send Sarge a care package overseas a few years ago, but these will be small packages so I can do that if that's the case - unless I don't like you or you don't like me [Cato]

Reply if interested...

[Northern Girl]

Reply if interested...

Cool....they're gone...thanks for playing...