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MXR Distortion + ORIGINAL vs REISSUE!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ค. 2019
- In this video I play and compare a 1979 MXR Distortion + to a new 2019 MXR Distortion +. I play it through a 1983 Marshall JCM800 4010 and a 1971 Marshall 1982B 4x12 speaker cabinet using a 2013 Gibson SG Custom Shop
Huge difference! the 79 is golden whereas the 2019 is more yellow. Everything else was pretty much the same...
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;-)
I was thinking more in shades of orange, one is slightly more orange than the other , depend on the wind direction, of course, and humidity :-)
Lol
jrfi orn that’s just the lighting. Were you wearing headphones or just listening to you phone speaker? Are you sure you just don’t want the new one to be more yellow???🤣🤣
WOW. A reissue that sounds the SAME. Congrats MXR
Yeah the did a good job
Johan Segeborn a little bit more spicy maybe the new one....
Thanks johan great job
Very true. I have an original 1978, as well as a reissue from about 5 or so years ago (for a backup) they do sound really close. Id say 95% exact.
You mean Dunlop. MXR was bought by Dunlop in the 80's. But yeah, they sound identical.
Identically arsey yeah!
My original spent a week in the water after a party...still works!
My first one spent four weeks in my gigbag and was broken! 😂
@@hbert06 WTH were you doing with the gig bag?
That's insane. Some great party.
@@davesaenz3732 I was 15...I'm in my 50s now...it still works! Country boys hog roast kegger ...got a tad out of control.. tornado hit...bad storm. Sheriff brought us home. So yeah great party👍
@@samfosdick9874 hell yea
The only thing I hear is drifting resistors ;)
Seriously though, hearing them side by side is really eye opening, MXR did a fine job capturing the sound of the original
What does drifting resistors sound like?
@@underpressureman resistors and caps are almost never their advertised size, they vary by a few percent. The entire tonal difference of the two pedals could be down to that, another 2019 model could sound exactly the same as the old one
Did you ever open an original? Very easy to make
@@acw2237 the schematic of the original is avaidale online, they just had to build it again. not really a problem
@@danieldeutschen7714
Thanks but my point was just to let people know how simple it is...
When I see a MXR D+ I can’t help but think of HUSKER DU!
One of my favorite bands! Love The Mats as well 👍
Yeah Classic Bob Mould!
I used to have this game, I think it was some kind of card game like go fish. It was called husker DU. Which if I "remember" correctly means....do you remember...of course the 70s was such a blur for me...grade school, jr high, started high school. I also have my original Evel knevel motor cycle toy... WOW we had really cool toys back then!
@@samfosdick9874 It is a board game " where kids can beat the adults" if I remember correctly. That IS where the band got it's name. I had an Evel Knieval with launcher!
I still have my "controversial" G.I. "Jerry" 8100 👍
@@carlhart9604 I had the Stick Shifters car launcher...and of course SSPs regular and crashemup derby. I miss being a kid!
Love the ‘79. Sounds smoother in the treble. 2019 sounds a little more aggressive. But man are they close.
I prefer þe new one to be honeſt.
Nice that you mentioned Randy. He was my first guitar teacher when I was a kid. He told me I had to buy one, as if my life depended on it, so I got one. It was my first pedal. I still have it and it's also a 1979 or 78, and it looks just like yours, with about the same amount of wear. I had to clean out all the rotted foam. Going through junk, I recently found a tape of one of my lessons that I thought I had given away, but I guess I just made a copy. It also had a pick in the case, that I thought I gave away as well, but must have had two. You can easily tell it's Randy's because he had this freaky way of beveling the edge of the picks with his attack. I always thought he had an unusual sound, and realized a part of it was due to his pick attack. It was like he was bowing with the pick to some degree. The other pick I had, I gave to a Japanese girl who said she was the head of the Randy Rhoads fan club. I bought some pictures online, and put them in a frame and have now added the pick. Not only was he a great guitar player, but he was a really sweet, humble, nice person. After listening to my tape again, and hearing how slow and terrible I was, I was a beginner and could barely move my fingers, he had the patience of a saint. I wouldn't have been able to stand teaching me. You can hear how he is willing to go over and over the same thing with nothing in his voice that shows anything other than kindness. Randy was a great person. May he rest in peace.
Is there any chance you could send me this recording in some way?
That's an amazing story. You were very lucky to had the opportunity to take lessons from him.
I wonder how many of his students managed to have a successful career in music? We hear about a few of Joe Satriani's students who went on to as successful or more so than he did; but other than Joe Holmes being with Ozzy briefly, I don't know of any of Randy's former students who got much attention. Perhaps it wasn't as publicized anymore by the time Randy was on my radar.
Imagine doing the introduction while swinging on a swing
Willtato hahahah yes MORE SWING
...shirtless
I have a "bud box script" MXR and I love it to death.Well over 10 years, I would only take my '64 Jaguar, a Vox AC30 with "silver bells" and an mxr distortion+ to stage. Until I blew the silver bells... that was the early nineties, when not-so-well-off students could afford vintage gear.
Very slight tonal/treble frequency difference but really damn close to the '79!! I 'm sure you could make it exact with adjusting the amp's treble, presence or bass .
Agreed. Could be incidental tolerances. Pretty close.
That doesn't work.
If you think those sounds were close, you're delusional.
YEAH! Dave Murray is one of my favourite rhithm sounds ever. You never disappoint, Johan
great video! 2019 sounds a bit 'harshier' to me. The original being a bit more... mellow I guess.
2019 = French's, 1978 = Grey Poupon. The color has meaning in this case
Thanks! Glad to hear it!
This is what I heard as well. The ‘79 version sound a touch more rounded
Ok thank u i thought i was the only one who heard that. Probably couldn’t tell in a mix but side by side the 70’s one sounds a bit warmer’ish
A little more treble. But u could just dial back your tone on the guitar.
For humbucker guitars they 2019 might be a better fit
Oh man that sound, it’s all there in both of them. Great playing Johan, that looked fun.
I use my 70's D+ as a boost for fender amps. Basically goes from Clapton to Page with the level around 2 and gain around 8 o'clock. I find the higher gain to be quite fizzy. Perfect for capturing the Rhoades sound. As always great playing!
I totally love that concept. Back when I sucked I used the the distortion to hide in the "fluff". Now I do like you...I use my 79 for a boost...I still suck...but my tone is better! LOL
@@samfosdick9874 Ha! exactly my experience.
@@JeffCloutier gotta new friends from Johan!
You wouldn't have a clue about the rhoads sound.
I stack mine to add dynamics to my ds-1w
I seriously appreciate your videos being recorded in different environments it really does make for an excellent video. It takes more time and effort im sure but as a regular viewer i can say its one of my favorite things about your channel Johan. Thanks for another interesting video!
Wrong.
As If there hasn't been enough lies said about the mxr distortion + pedal.
Johan says a few more lies.
Dude, we're sick of the lies.
We're sick of the gossip too.
Wow I can hear no discernible differences!!!!! Thanx for the great demo! Again!
I didnt realize it was availible as early as 1973, wow
I really enjoy watching this channel. This guy knows marshall
I'm not much of a pedal guy, but certainly enjoyed your presentation of both of these pedals! Thank you so much for sharing brother! Be Well Johan!
Ah yes, remember back in 77 a 14 year old I bought one these new for 20.00 and one day I was fooling around and ran my EH LPB-1 in front of the DS+ and what a sound. Even coming through a 100 Yamaha G100 it was the tone I had been looking for. Nice to know MXR stayed true to the tone. Great job Johan!
have a mxr classic 78 dist. pedal good for Thin Lizzy style shit , Ha !!!!
I bought an original block logo with script board in Czech republic back in 1999 for about $5USD.... Ahhhh, the golden era before everyone could Google stuff and values
Used my '69 SG through an MXR D+ & EQ into my Bassman into a 412...and got a great Sabbath sound in '79. Every guitar player that heard it was blown away...in spite of my playing...LOL! I wish I still had the D+...the bassman is lonely...but maybe there is hope now.
I love how you pop up in different locations for the intro...as always, I loved this vid (".)
So dang simple and pretty pedal..always loved Randys sound and style..here 35 years later,still don’t know why I never bought this beauty..maybe next time?...thanks Johan 🌞
Thanks :-)
So glad you took my advice and made that jcm800 into a non master volume by putting the master on 10 and using the low input Jack. Of course you probably didn’t directly take me advice but I have mentioned the hidden plexi many times in different channels. I would love to see a shoot out of the jcm800 in this mode vs an actual 4 holer
The 79 sounds more like French's Mustard on a hot dog, but the reissue sounds a little bit more like French's mustard on a hot dog. Personally, I prefer the French's Mustard on a hot dog ... but probably you guys don't have my ears.
JOEYS GEAR hmmm shame French’s mustard is as weak as water.
@@fearnpol4938 i like it. The Frenchs in Canada is robust. I like most mustards though.
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Reminds me more of your mothers bush fern
@@adksherm okay now this is starting to creep me out. How the hell did you know my mother collects ferns?
They sound identical. Thank you for the demo. I’m getting the reissue now.
Thank you for creating this comparison and the comments of people not being able to hear the difference were a good chuckle too. A quite pronounced difference between the two and your consistent playing made it rather easy to identify the differences. Enjoyed this.
Brilliant demo as usual :-) I have to get a vintage MXR distortion +, sounds right up my street.
The lower rhythm parts it was harder to hear a difference. But with the mid to higher range notes I could hear a small difference. The newer one had a little bit of that blanket over the speaker tone(compared to old) where as the older pedal was just a tad more... crisp(?). You know what I mean? Mxr did do a damn good job matching the tone working with new materials. Thats pretty hard to do so Kudos to mxr.👏👏👏
Great vid man. Great playing. 👍
Randy, that's why I bought the reissue.
You know they are releasing a Randy Rhoads signature Distortion Plus this spring? It has a custom paint job black with White Polka dots even. I just hope it's not just a stock pedal that's been repainted. I assume Randy's original was modded.
I use mine with the gain set low for my low/mid gain tone so FFFFFFFat sounding I love it.
I bought another one of these on the strength of Johan's demos. It's the most overdrive-like distortion I've owned. Fantastic on a Supro and also works well with another OD pedal before it. I currently use a Boss OD-3 before it and it's brilliant.
I have both of those pedals and I gotta try that
If not exactly the same, they sound about as different as any 2 pedals from an older run might. Very useful video!
My favorite setup for this pedal is the output at 5:00 and the distortion at 8:00. Perfect blues tone. I have an original 79’ and a newer version and to me the newer version is more bright where the vintage one is a bit darker and a bit more compressed.
Mxr makes a set of pedals.
That's what it sounds like.
I used the the D+ a lot in 70's and 80's . Great tone with any amp
I have 79 and an 81. 81 was the first year for the led on them and the power input. The 79 is a slightest bit more mellow and quieter then the 81 and you can crank it up as much as you want and won't really feed back much or if any at all. The 81 is the slightest bit more hairy when cranked up and will feed back a bit if you let go and are close to the amp. The 81 doesn't have to be turned up as high to match what ever volume is set on the 79 as the 81 seems to have again the slightest bit more boost to it.
The original has a slightly warmer, less harsh tone but pretty close. I have the original from 1977
agreed. little more sizzle on the top end and warmer and the reissue is less sizzle and more "raw". Good ears!
But lets be real. Do you really hear that in a mix? I doubt
So you've missed out on 40 years of different era sounds.
Do you understand how the FORD mustang from 1968 is different to the 1980's mustang to the 1990's mustang to the 2000 's mustang to the 2010's mustang.
Its Obvious that guitarists have no clue what mxr is building.
They keep thinking FORD mustang from 2020 must be the exact same thing as the 1968 FORD mustang.
Guitarists are the dumbest creatures on earth.
If I hear another fucing guitarist compare a 2020 era pedal with a 1970's pedal trying to find the same sound, I'll SCREAM!
Fucking idiot bloody guitarists!
I'm SO fed up with their dumbass bullshit !
I Fucking hate their guts.
Sounds identical, i can only hear a super small amount of extra top end in the 1979, but maybe it's just the recording of my ears playing tricks on me.
Getting tired of my TS clone and thinking about getting the MXR. Dave Murray is one of my biggest influences and I love the early Maiden tone.
Dave and Randy for sure. Guess why I have a D+ on my board :)
Both of them put a smile on my face.. bravo.
A true classic, I too have the same original 70's mxr distortion on my pedal board :-) Great demo as usual :-)
Amazing content as always. Love your videos!
Damn! Johan of course you’ve got plenty of metal skills on top of all those classic rock riffs 🤘 - and both those MXRs sound brutal!
Thank you Johan for another amazing video! Your creative jamming and guitar tones are so great to listen to.
As an electronics tech who has worked on various types of electronics and I would think even two 1979 of any type of pedal would likely have some differences similar to the 2001 or even different due to the tolerance of many of the parts, including resistors, capacitors, and even op-amps which can me +/-10% or even 20%?
Wrong.
Components make sound.
Different components, different sound.
Just me, and my phone speaker is crap, but the RI sounds harsher...I still just went and picked one up! Great demo🤘
Great comparison Johan! I have the same amp but a more recent 412 I run it into. Now you are making think I need to break out the old distortion plus and run it through the low gain channel. Wish I tried that a long time ago. It is still hart to beat an sd-1 into the high gain input for solos though.
Let's do a Johan reissue video - your first plexi videos vs your current plexi videos. Would be quite interesting...
oh man i was thinking about getting Script Logo Version of this. i can't wait to 'scheck out' ur video man!
I have a '79 just like that, in it's original box. Now I'm going to have dig it out again....👍
I bought it from a friend for $10 bucks so I could play Husker Du's "Celebrated Summer" and "New Day Rising" with my Punk band 👍
Still the coolest person on TH-cam! Thank you so much for all your videos.
one of them for sure.
Cool! Jeff Beck agrees with me......kinda! 😂😂😂
I usually favor the " fat/bassy/loose" side of Marshall sound, whether is low or high gain but this pedal that tightens up and brighten things sounds great, instant 1980 heavy metal! About original vs reissue, well they sound a little different, the original sounds "rounder" but for its purpose, the commodity of a status led and external power supply the actual one is fine!
The 2019 IS making 2020 era high gain sounds from the set of mxr pedals.
When Are you people going to wake-up?
You took 1 pedal out of the set.
It does NOT make any 80's era sounds.
The 80's versions make the 80's era sounds.
The 90's era pedals make the 90's era pedal sounds.
What rubbish you type.
My old one has been moth-balled for the last 25 years...Time to dig it out!
Well thats it, Im getting a reissue. Was looking for a vintage one but damn the reissue is spot on. Great work btw Johan.
Got the CS104 reissue of the pedal, my favourite distortion pedal!
Awesome video! Thank you for posting!
I have two '79 Distortion+ pedals and they sound really different. One has less headroom, more gain, sounds fatter and is less noisy. It's great in front of a clean 100W amp to mimic a saturated distortion sound. The other one gets fuzzier but I like that one as a low gain kinda Tube Screamery treble bosster, hard to describe :D
Probably just from tolerances of the electronic components.
Sometimes manufacturers used whatever components they could source, or suitable substitutes to meet demand. If assembly was done by hand, people make mistakes. I find this a lot when servicing gear. Of course, components do wear. I would look inside and compare the two if your curious. There may even have been a design change. It's not uncommon.
ok man! im gonna get a 70's mxr dist+ sounds amazing so crispy! newer one sounds great too but it bit more fuzzy!
Great review love the channel and now I know your a Murray / maiden fan even better lol
Another great demo thank you
Both sounded awesome and very similar. Monster riffage as usual my friend! It's ALWAYS best to make sure your pants are pulled up before unleashing the fury on the masses! LOL! ;-) God bless and rock on brother!
Damn Johan, these heavy riffs are really cool!
Johan, you either forgot to switch them inbetween.. or they indeed sound identical. good stuff!
If you don't look at the video and listen to the audio ONLY, you don't really get much difference, in fact I'd say no body could tell. To me I couldn't tell. But as soon as I watched the video and listened at same time I did think there was little difference, like the newer ones presence is slightly more in front of the sound. I mean it's a small amount, something no one is really going to notice, and something that really could be made negligible by different gear and setup etc. The important thing here is the meat and potatoes are there. I fraction difference really doesn't mean anything when it's something that could be corrected by the turn of a knob on your amp or what ever. You'd have to be some snob to really split hairs over this and making sure you had to have the original. Good video btw thanks for making it.
I've got a '78 Distortion+ and a Marshall JCM800 4010 just like Johan's. It's a great pedal, but only into a crunchy amp. I put the volume all the way up and the gain at about 11 o'clock. This fattens the tone and adds sustain and harmonics and works really well with a Marshall. It does NOT sound trebley or harsh (the reissue sounds harsh to me), though turning up the gain increases the treble. My only complaint is that it sounds a compressed through a clean amp, and the output volume can be lower than the guitar volume.
I've been through many pedals, but this is the only pedal that always stays on my board.
I have the late 70's one. It tends to sound more useable with the high-end rolled off on the amp.
great video, well done - very helpful as well .. as I'm looking for a 2nd hand in the bay this week :-D - nice playing btw ^^
Good news! They sound the same to me. Hopefully that means that the reissue is cheap to buy and easily available.
dat toneee at the beginning... sooo goood and crispy crunchy...
Thanks this helped me in my decision,great playing!
No way! They sound exactly the same. Wow that's awesome news.
Great Comparison. MXR makes Great Stuff. Their little M300 Reverb is Off the Charts (among may of their pedals).
I liked the new one for rhythm (sounded fuller) and the 79 for leads (sounded more mid focused and less flubby).
Maybe the new one has a little more clarity when playing chords but hard to hear any difference! Good job, MXR! Good job, Johan! Other notable Distortion+ users were K.K. Downing of Judas Priest, Carlos Cavazo of Quiet Riot and Slash in the early Guns 'n' Roses. Cheers!
Sounds awesome, and killer riffs! Love these comparisons if you get opportunities to do more. Thank you!
Thanks Andy! :-)
Johan Segeborn what is that riff at 2:46?
@@dagkjetilbaakind9670 Most of his riffs are usually his own. Some remind us of other songs, but usually are unique (and cool :) )
No.
Taking 1 pedal out of the set is really dumb.
Its so annoying watching Johan pretending its still 1971.
We're not 1 pedal guitarists anymore.
I just picked up one of the older ones in a deal for a guitar on Facebook Marketplace. Looking forward to making some sweet noise!
New is brighter but by not very much. Comparable sound both are good. Thank you for nice presentation.
The vintage has a memorable sound that i used to listen back then. The new version very well made and more pronounced mid range. But i'll pick the vintage Mxr for my taste ;)
My pedal has 2 different date codes. 1378048 and 1378049, 48th and 49th week of 1980. One of the things not tested was the heavy duty battery sag. These were made before Duracell and energizer alkaline batteries and Eveready or Radio Shack heavy duty batteries were usually used.
These op amp distortion pedals work best in front of a distorted amp I hear. I would like to see more demonstrations of these. I was researching them just the other day. I heard Edge used one of the Zoom variants on the Unforgettable Fire stuff. I might want to try one at some point. I play a lot of Voxy tones.
Awesome, as always Johan! I have an original '78 D+ and a script logo reissue, as well as several I made myself. To my dismay, the reissue is slightly sweeter than my original. It may just be the particular units I have. I think the aesthetics and the LED are the only differences between the script reissue and the new one in this vid. Either way, it's a very simple circuit; hard to get it wrong.
Johan doesn't have a clue what you're talking about.
You're completely wrong.
The script version has less gain than the 1979 version.
The 2019 version has lots more gain than all versions accept the 2000 era model.
The 2019 IS high gain like the 2000 era model but instead of the bass bottomend of that er, its got a traditional 70's style warm bottomend and fuzzy style distortion.
These days the distortion + pedal sound IS extremely high gain sound.
They produce more gain than the 70's and 80's versions.
We're talking about the mxr pedal set.
We're NOT cave people anymore.
We play RR's full set of mxr pedals.
We're not 1 pedal guitarist anymore.
@@dreyn7780 I'm looking at the circuits. What part of the circuit changed to produce more gain?
@@dreyn7780source?
Holy riff Johan! Love it!
did you cranked the marshall while you doing the comparison of two different mxr distortion plus
They sound pretty similar, but I think I hear something in the upper harmonics of the 79. Could be just perceived vintage mojo. Could be drifted component values
I certainly hear a sweeter growl in the 79..like an old lion telling the young one who's the boss! Glad mine survived the flooded party of 1980...I was 15, rocking ...I'm 53...still rocking with my 79!!!!
ya think? hehehe I hear nothing XD
@@xxxxneoxxxx I listen to Johan with about 490 tube watts of stereo. If YOU don't here the difference, please don't diminish those of us who do. This is a FRIENDLY TH-cam channel. We all have a right to hear what we want.
79 sounds rounder in the highs. 2019 is sharper. Some may like the sharpness more? The feel seems like it's better on the 79. Can you feel the notes better in your fingers?
More sag in the 79..
That's because the 2019 one uses silicon diodes. The original one used to use germanium diodes.
As for me - they are similar. Great sound!
I used to use one of those through a Marshall back in the 80's, and anytime I stopped playing it would feed back so badly that I sold it. Yours doesn't seem to be feeding back. I wonder if it was because I was using a combo, whereas you are using a 412? Anyway, always enjoy your videos. Rock on.
Hi Johan are you planning to make a comparison between an jcm 800 2203 and the new SC20h ?
Nice channel! Regards from 🇨🇱Chile
The Old one has a specific Bloom to the notes/chord after it’s picked, also has a sweeter mid range. New one sounds Tighter ... Stiff ? Old one has some fizz but I welcome it and call it charm... 😎 you’re welcome MXR / other clone builders ... RIP JIM DUNLOP .
I guess that's down to varying resistor and cap values
And important aspect here is that the older units will tend to all have a difference in tone. Capacitors for example after 40 years are not going to sound the same as they did back then. It's as simple as that. So every one of those older pedals is going to have a variability. Much more so than the new ones due to that fact.
I think I preferred them through the combo.....sounds like the newer one is a micro hint brighter ? Virtually the same, though .....to my ears....
almost the same... i think the old one has only less volume set...both has a lot of noise.... good demo.. thanks
Thanx! Absolutely great comparison. I didn't know your channel; now I'm subscribed. Please, those who says that both pedals sound the same, I guess your use of digital factory presets on your multieffects gear is seriously injuring your ear: try to set, search and find your tones by your self, with your own circumstances in each moment (gear, ambient, mind...), forgetting most of you've read/listen from tone gurus 🎸🎵🎶
Johan have you looked into The Whirlwind Rochester Series? The original MXR guy is making American-made faithful recreations of the DynaComp, Phase 90, and the Distortion+. I would love to compare these Whirlwind pedals with both original MXRs and present-day MXRs. Thank you for another great and useful video!
Hey man, I don't really even care about the tiny differences in the pedal sound, I'm just ripping off your awesome licks to give me some cool different things to play. Hope you don't mind... Awesome stuff like usual.
The 70's version is slightly more quite and also more even across the frequency spectrum. Especially at lower volume it sounds more compressed like a tube would.
The new one has more gain and it shows at lower volumes. However when they both over drive the amplifier tubes, it's hard to tell what pedal is what.
A johan style comparison.
Lots of other ways to compare these 2 pedals.
The original intention was its an amp in a pedal.
You can make any of the amp sounds at lower volumes.
An amp before the amp.
It changes the size of the amp.
As an after thought, it became a amp pushing an amp.
After 12 versions its fine tuned to be a pedal pushing a set of pedals and a scorching amplifier called marshall and specificly 1959 RR.
So when you demo it in 2022, you must realize its fine tuned for RR's signature equipment rig.
Its also intended to be used in the full set of mxr pedals.
In that situation the newer models show their inventors skill.
The 2019 model becomes essential equipment and the 1979 becomes historical novelty.
The 2019's low impedance bottom end in RR's signature equipment setup becomes extremely powerful.
So does the vastly improved soloing gain boost.
They're night and day different pedals.
Once you hear the 2019's high gain sound, you'll be desperate to get all the inbetween distortion + pedals.
The anniversary script model blows away that 1979 version.
Your 79 has more gain than the anniversary script model.
The first Distortion+ had germanium diodes (1974). They sounded smoother than the later ones with silicon diodes showed here.
1:25 - hitches up trousers. You know this is going to be epic.
The new one isnt even close. So much thinner and less “real” harmonic distortion! An thanks for playing Queesnryche!
What I'm hearing here is a bit more sustain and slightly different coloration of the high end in the 2019 pedal, with the same settings . How much of that is due to the deterioration of the components is arguable, but it's fairly damn close.
What I find interesting is how much less low end is being created by a 1979 guitar rig, than we hear today. But I must admit that the whole quest for powerful low end in guitar tones was completely created by young bedroom guitarists, like myself, in the early 80's, trying to emulate what we thought we were hearing on albums of the day. We never realized how thin a spectrum that the guitar actually sits in, on a professionally produced recording. We didn't realize that the bass was underpinning the tone of our guitars so much. Quite honestly, it was very common for a guitarist to practice with a drummer at the time, and it was just as likely that the next member of the band would be another guitarist, instead of a bass player. Bass players were hard to find, mainly because it's not considered a flash instrument, like drums and guitars. Also, in most recordings, the bass was something that you actually had to listen for (except for maybe Pink Floyds"Money"), drums and guitar were in your face. It just became natural for guitarists with no recording experience to search for a way to produce a roaring guitar tone with lots of low end, because we "didn't know any better", and that's what we thought we heard. After attending enough concerts, we finally realized that certain instruments filled certain frequency ranges, and not often the two shall meet. But I guess there's no going back now. Or, at least not until you meet the engineer and producer at a good studio, and they tell you how it is. Anyway, the conclusion is that the bass player gets a big pat on the back, and a bigger part in the mix, which makes him feel better after all these years, lol...
shovington67 yeah, we already took the girlfriends away from em, we shouldn't take the low end from em too ;)
I like your style dude.