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Hey this is Doug Aldrich from Whitesnake, we're here today at Navada Music with my buddy
Brian Tichy from Whitesnake and we're going to do a jam here at Navada Music, in Portsmouth
and I'm going to show you a little bit about the JMD:1 that the good people at Marhsall
have put together, it's kick *** hybrid tube amp and I'm just going to go through
a couple of things and you're watching this on MusicRadar.com.
This amp, it's got a few extra knobs and it's a really powerful amp so it can be a little
bit intimidating but really if you just start from everything off you can see basically
how it works, start bringing up the gain a little bit, the master volume, the regular
volume and you can hear the start of the sound. Then you bring up a little treble, a little
mids, a little bass. But the key to this is once you have that set, some bass, treble,
mids, a little bit of gain, volume and the master and this is on the very, when you turn
it on, this is the setting it starts in, it's manual. The key is, is to find a pre-amp,
this is like emulating all the best Marshall's, it's got the old vintage Marshall's and then
it's got everything up to super high gain Marshall's. So you can just pick one.
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That's a pretty cool sound right away, you basically just these knobs roughly inbetween
10 and 2 o'clock and this is on number 6 classic with a bit of gain and actually a bit of presence.
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So this setting here is the classic setting and you can see like I said, the gain's pretty
much inbetween 10 and 1 o'clock, same with the bass, middle, treble and you can just
adjust it how you want to, you could scoop the mids a little bit. You get more mid range,
more punchy...
But we'll just keep it roughly set like that, a little bit of presence, you can add some
revurb if you want to get a little...
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It's nice digital revurb. And this is classic, a traditional Whitesnake type of sound this...
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That kind of a basic thing
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That cool, Marshall
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And then, with these same settings you can just scroll through these different tones,
that's a bit fuller, a little more robust-y type of thing. Maybe for something...
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That's the latest Whitesnake single, it was Love Will Set You Free and it's a little bit
more robust.
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We did two versions of that song, one had more of a
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And one was just more
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That kind of thing. So for that little bit more of a gainy-er riff that's a great setting
right there. Then a few more to go. A little bit more hard core, you can go, this number
is 11 here, deep. Has that scoop mid thing that's really popular, one of the old Whitesnake
was the...
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It's got that sound for Stole the Night. Then there's all kinds of, you know like...
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It's kind of like a hybrid tuning drop this down a whole step and drop this down a whole
step then.
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There was a song we wrote a couple of years back called Lay Down Your Love and it was
that kind of a...
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So, it's really got everything, it's got a bunch of really cool effects in it and then
by the way I should say you can preset all this stuff so live you might hit this as a
main rhythm sound set.
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We then go to leads with this type of a...
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It's got some delays on it and stuff and it...
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And then it's got chorus and stuff with some really nice...
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And it's all programable so it is just a great amp. It's really, I have some effects and
stuff that I use live but I mean this amp in itself I could totally do a Whitesnake
gig with and I actually have done, about 80 of the gigs with this heading incorporated
into my rig. 80 gigs this year, no 90 something gigs we did this year in 40 plus countries
and this has been there with me the whole time. Incorporated with some pedals, that
I like to play around with but it's, I mean you could go straight into this amp and do
pretty much any gig in the world with the exception of maybe one of those bands that
are just stand up bass. Yeah, it's a great amp. I've been using Marshall's since I started
when I was a little kid and it's just the best rock guitar amp, the best. Actually any
kind of guitar amp really. But I grew up listening to the likes of Hendrix and Page and Clapton
and Beck, all these guys and all those guys had that in common, they were all playing
through Marshall's so that's what I wanted. So I got one finally and now they've evolved
into an amp like this, it covers all those tones in one amp, it's really cool and it's
not as intimidating as it seems. It's really easy to programme, once you get a setting
that you like, you just hold down the button and it's stored. And then you can recall it
on the pedal. But definitely if you get a chance check it out, it's cool and anybody
that saw Whitesnake this year heard it.