Rickenbacker and Marshall

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Rickenbacker and Marshall

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OK. Yes, this combination does come up occasionally. Back in the 90's, gigging, I played my 1981 360-12WB FG ckbd through a first year Marshall 2203 (the first Marshall with a pre gain and master volume, pre-JCM800) converted to 6CA7 power tubes for more clean headroom and modded with a variable bright knob in place of the 2nd input jack for better jangle trim, running into a Fender Bassman angled baffles 4X12 cabinet with Jensen Vibranto speakers and the ports blocked with fiberglass insulation. Oh, did it rock! Years later, the amp died, and I didn't want to haul around the weight of the 4X12 cab anymore, so now it is a Marshall Origin 50 head, again, converted to Electro Harmonix "big bottle" 6CA7 power tubes and the same variable bright knob, this time factory stock and now called the "Tilt" knob, and a Mojo custom 1X12 cabinet based on their "British" model, but a little wider to match the head, loaded with a Celestion Neo Creamback: same tone, smaller package. It also rocks. Hard. Oh - BTW - the weight of the 1X12 cab, loaded: 20 pounds.
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Scott thanks for this journey. It is familiar. I like the Mojo 1x12 cab and Celestion neo creamback at 20 pounds! :shock: As always thanks for sharing. :)
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Hey Scott, unrelated to the Marshall, I once had the exact same guitar as you, and my biggest recollection of it was how cramped the string spacing was at the nut (it was almost unplayable for me).

Your guitar has the same tight spacing (which is consistent with 12-strings from that era in general) and I was kind of surprised that you never changed it! Do you prefer that tight spacing?
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Not all Marshall amps sound like what you now expect a Marshall to sound like.

Remember, the JTM45 that started it was was, for all intents and purposes, a lead-for-lead copy of the Fender Bassman. It sounded wonderful like any tube amp using that circuit design.

A Marshall 2100 Lead & Bass 50 combo has been my mainstay for many years, and Ricks certainly sound wonderful through this amp, even at low volume.

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sloop_john_b wrote:Hey Scott, unrelated to the Marshall, I once had the exact same guitar as you, and my biggest recollection of it was how cramped the string spacing was at the nut (it was almost unplayable for me).

Your guitar has the same tight spacing (which is consistent with 12-strings from that era in general) and I was kind of surprised that you never changed it! Do you prefer that tight spacing?
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I got the guitar in the fall of 1987. I got used to it immediately. I just trim my fingernails close, relax my fingers into a "C" shape, and play on the upper part of the fingerprint pads between the center of the last finger joint and the tip. I learned out to fingerpick it from an article in Guitar Player over 40 years ago that talks about putting the finger in the middle of the pair and slightly twisting to get both strings of a pair to intonate simultaneously.
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