Another dream amp

[Helmholtz]

https://marshallforum.com/threads/co...00-vid.142178/

[g1]

We can put that right here.

[The Dude]

I've never tried to play any Hendrix, but it's interesting how this guy uses his thumb to finger the bottom string. I guess I never noticed that before.

[Helmholtz]

I've never tried to play any Hendrix, but it's interesting how this guy uses his thumb to finger the bottom string. I guess I never noticed that before.

I knew that Hendrix used that all the time with chords.
Unfortunately my hands are too small, so I need to do barre fingering.

I just love those "Axis" sounds!
Never heard any amp sound that close.

[The Dude]

My hands are quite large, so it wouldn't be tough to do. I just can't believe I never noticed this before. I feel kind of stupid, actually. But, at least I learned something today.

[g1]

I was surprised at the amount of pinky use.

[Helmholtz]

Being a Hendrix fan I figured out most of those riffs and chords myself in the 70s but unfortunately never found fellow musicians who wanted or were able to play the songs.
Anyway this Julijan Eric guy is just amazing.

[tedmich]

There are some fantastic Hendrix interpreters in Deutschland, one of my favorites being Uli Roth!
Uli loves Jimi so much he bought his hat for $47k, lived in the same house in France and had Monika Dannemann as a girlfriend and paint the covers for his first 3 solo albums.

Jimi also used old Orange amps for a cleaner than Marshall sound but few prefer these to the old Marshalls.Reportedly Axis was a very much a studio creation with only 2 songs done "live".

These amps werent magical, just what a genius had to use at the time IMO. They did have an interesting PI though...

[Helmholtz]

Since the late 60s I have been chasing the sound heard in the video above.
None of my 60s Marshalls or Fenders can give me that special quasi-clean "Axis"sound.
I've never heard any Hendrix interpreter get even close. Not even Julijan Eric (the player in the vid) when using his Marshall.
SRV had a great sound when covering "Little Wing" - but way different from the original.
I can dial in SRV's sound with a Vibroverb or a Super Reverb.

I've seen Hendrix live twice, but his live sound typically was too fuzzy for me.

Would be interested in seeing a schematic of that early ('67) Sound City "One Hundred" having a master volume instead of a presence control.

[35L6]

" Sound City Hiwatt Lead 105 " might be it or close .

[Helmholtz]

" Sound City Hiwatt Lead 105 " might be it or close .

Good tip, thanks a lot.
That preamp schematic (https://hiwatt.org/Schematics/SC105.pdf) looks much closer than that of the Sound City 100 Mk2.

[tedmich]

there is a nice SC Mk3 100 preamp layout in Bancika's DIYLC cloud if you want to go a bit cheaper than the original, easily massaged into other SC versions