That Lifeson Sound...

Oh my God Harry you´re a goddam guitar and amp GOD. I´ll take some advice from you sometime in the future when I need a certain sound. Great description.

You mean his current rig or what?
He used Marshall back in the day, but meh, Marshall is boring as hell and good luck finding a Super Lead head fora reasonable price , because the vintage ones are expensive and the re-issues are always really expensive too. And yeah, Super Leads are designed to be cranked all the way up, so they are practically useless nowadays unless you play stadiums and don't try and use an attenuator to try to reduce the volume, because by the time you reduced the volume to neighbor friendly levels, you would have lost a lot of tone because of the attenuator.

Today Lifeson is using Floyd Rose equipped Les Paul's (urgh, I hate Gibson), Hughes And Kettner Switchblade heads, TC Electronics G Force multi effects rackmount processor, TC Electronics 1210 spatial expander and a Loft 440 Delay Line/Flanger.

The Switchblade is obviously a more practical and IMO, much better sounding alternative to the Super Lead head, although obviously it's not going to sound like a Marshall, but who gives a poop, because they sound good anyway.
If you're more serious about capturing the Marshall sound, get a JVM head and unlike Super Leads of old, these Marshalls sound good at low volumes too and have signifcantly more gain on tap to the point where you no longer need an overdrive pedal to push the front end.
The one thing I never liked about the modern Marshalls, is the high noise floor compared to  other modern stuff stuff like Bogner but then again Bogner is boutique  (and well, better sounding) and Marshall isn't.
But of course, if it so happens you already own an ISP Decimator G string, no problems with noise anywhere:P


Edited by HughesJB4 - January 28 2009 at 01:36