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Post subject: Fender Quad Reverb with a Marshall JCM 9000 as a preamp?
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:00 am
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As an attempt to use existing equipment - and the never ending search for "tone". Can I try using my Marshall 9000 Preamp into the clean chanel on my Fender Quad Reverb? Sometimes it's nice to hear that Marshall Crunch.


Is this safe? What are your recommendations??



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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:53 am
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I don't see why not.

Just make sure you keep the preamp gain low on your Fender otherwise you will colour the sound of the Marshall preamp output, basically defeating the purpose of what you are trying to achieve.

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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:35 am
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I should be safe if done carefully. The output of the preamp could overdrive the preamp of the fender, then there is all the tone shaping. I do this with my practice amp using a digitech 2101 preamp. It's a lot of preamp, since you have one going into the other. Some tweaking will be in order, but you should find some good tones. I just don't like the way fender speakers handle distortions. They are not celestions. They seem to be disigned to stay clean at high volumes and maintain very sparkling highs vs breaking up and rolling off the highs for a smoother distorton like the celestions. So to my ear, the distortion sounds a bit harsh. Some eq'ing may fix that, my experience was using the digitech through a deluxe reverb RI.

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