bluesymetal said:
Getting that plexi won't get you the brown sound, Eddie's was modified to add more gain and he ran into a variac. Not saying the plex won't sound great because it will, but you would be better off with something like a Splawn Quickrod or a modified marshall. That said the Sitletto's crunch mode with the gain high and maybe a clean boost can get in the area and it can do a whole lot more.
Thanks for the reply. I am aware I would need a variac, speaker dummy load box, solid state power amp, echoplex, phase 90, etc. to exactly replicate the brown sound and I still wouldn't have the key component: Eddie's hands. I'm not really interested in copying that sound totally I just like those tones alot and would like to have an amp in that ballpark. I have one bone of contention and it's one that there is mass confusion about. Half the guitar geeks in the world believe that Eddie's Super Lead is modded for more gain and the other half believe that it is stock. I honestly have no idea who is right on this. The man himself as well as several techs that have worked for him over the years say the amp is 100% stock and the reason it sounds so much gainier than other plexis is that he uses a variac to lower the voltage to 90-95 and then dimes everything on it and runs it into a dummy load, then to effects then to a solid state power amp then to the cabinet so that he can crank the power section without the deafening volumes and basically create an effects loop so his modulation and time based effects aren't in front of the amp. Then there are occasions when Eddie has said it was modified and has later recanted that statement saying that he said this only to drum up business for a an amp repairman friend of his. I think either way he was just deliberately feeding misinformation to the millions trying to cop his tone.
There is alot of conjecture, opinion, and rumours on this subject by alot of people who have never seen the guts of this amp. Anyone know for sure?