Modeled Amps & Cabs • Plexi Lead 100
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Plexi Lead 100
Modeled after the infamous ‘68 Marshall ‘Plexi’ Super Lead—coveted by tone
connoisseurs the world over. We literally scoured the world for this particular amp,
finally finding a great example of a Super Lead languishing (we like to think fate
preserved it for us) in Holland. By the time this amp was built (ca. 1968), Marshall had
completely changed the circuitry away from the Fender 6L6 power tube heritage and
moved to an EL34 tube. Another major tone difference was due to the necessary output
& power supply transformer changes. All this mucking about added up to create a tone
forever linked with Rock Guitar. Amps of this era didn’t have any sort of master
volume control, so to get
the sound you’d have to crank your Super Lead to max—just
the thing to help you really make friends with the neighbors. Hendrix used Marshalls of
this era; a decade later Van Halen’s first two records owed their “brown sound” to a
100-watt Plexi (Our Super Lead, in fact, has the ‘lay down’ transformer that was unique
to ’68 models, the same as Hendrix and Van Halen’s Marshalls.). To get a crunch sound
out of a Plexi, you would likely crank the input volume and tone controls (to 10!).
You’ll find that, in keeping with our “make-it-sound-a-whole-lot-like-the-original”
concept, POD
XT’s model is set up to do pretty darned near the same thing.
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PODxt Manual Book RevC.book Page 13 Friday, August 29, 2003 5:43 PM
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