Fractal NAILS This 1977 Marshall Tone | 5 Minute Tones

[@LeonTodd]

What's your favourite recorded Marshall tone?

[@francescocagnacci]

The combo of Marshall and soldano on wicked sensation! Or any Joe Perry

[@Turboy65]

Pick any tone on Billy Idol's Rebel Yell album. The middle break in Eyes Without a Face is as pure a cranked Marshall tone as there ever was.

[@kimmoparonen1737]

Pretty Maids "Future World" album sounds great! 🤘

[@abrackas1]

Back in Black! So smooth yet still aggressive but not as aggressive and raw as HTH.

[@Taylor___]

I really love the tone Papa Roach got with the JMP-1 in the song "She loves me not"... 12 - 14 seconds in. So sick. Or, Zakk Wylde with the JCM800 on Ozzy's Perry Mason track. Orrr Slash with the JCM900 on You Could Be Mine.

[@SpedSpedding]

The fact I can now watch these and get the exact same tone myself is amazing. Thanks man!

[@LeonTodd]

Enjoy mate! Love your channel btw

[@DropDee44]

Such a great tone man thank you so much for this!

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

Really seems to me Jason made a good amp sound great. I'm impressed how close you got in the Fractal. Still waiting to find that perfect FM3 deal here

[@LeonTodd]

Big time. It's got THE sound.

[@d.a.t.4699]

Nice guitar leon, great chops as usua!

[@LeonTodd]

Thanks a lot! Love those old greco's

[@LucasLeCompteMusic]

I didnt even notice that you toggled between the amp and the axe at the start lol. ITs basically spot on.

[@LeonTodd]

😍

[@royokinawa]

The 1st chord had me hooked. Great tone. Almost to 100K subs...Awesome!

[@LeonTodd]

That's the sound hey! Crazy to see numbers like that too. Nice to know there's enough people who like Marshalls and pitch detune 🤣

[@peterharvin2775]

Uh, nailed that one. Kudos.

[@lookmanostrings]

Sounds fantastic! 🤘 You must have had a great time with this video after being forced to do the ones on the Fender toy modeler. ☺.

[@fredimachadonet]

I could barely notice any difference. But I will take the Axe FX 3 tone, but just because I have one 😁

[@loydthabartender5794]

Literally the pinnacle of guitar tone imo

[@jamese.stanton978]

As I watched the video on that JMP yesterday, I immediately started to try and dial in the sounds on my Axe3. I got close. This video makes my day!

[@ryosuketkakahashi]

Great video Leon! Btw, is that a new Greco? What year model is it? I know you demo-ed a Greco in a past video but I think this one is different.

[@LeonTodd]

It's the same one I had refretted and plek'd a few years ago. Killer guitar!

[@ryosuketkakahashi]

@@LeonTodd I'm actually watching those Plek videos right now, glad that it turned out so much better after the setup! I think I have the same Greco (late 80s/early 90s) and I'm having a bit of trouble coming into terms with how it plays but after seeing yours turn out great after it got plek'd gives me hope that mine can be better after a really good setup.

[@LeonTodd]

This has an ebonite board which can feel a bit plasticky but bigger frets helped a lot@@ryosuketkakahashi

[@ryosuketkakahashi]

@@LeonTodd Mine has the same fretboard material as well. It also has small frets so I'll consider switching to larger ones. Thank you for the helpful tips Leon have a great day!

[@rockstarjazzcat]

Super close. Nice! 🤙🏻

[@LeonTodd]

Passed the smell test :p

[@TheDeedeeFiles]

Awesome amp

[@LeonTodd]

It really is!

[@JWyaMovieTime]

Any chance you could offer up some tips (or add to this preset) to get the JEL mod on this preset as well? I love that tone!

[@LeonTodd]

Try this patch and turn input trim up to 3, depth to 10 and input eq low cut up to 220hz

[@JWyaMovieTime]

That sounds great!@@LeonTodd Thank you for all you do for the Fractal Community - I use so many of your tips and tricks and blocks. Sounds killer! And I've learned a bunch about a bunch of stuff I never took the time to learn. Keep rocking!

[@simonhartley8939]

The moment you played Armed and Ready .. likelikelikelikelikelikelike 🤣

[@tofrancis]

Haha, I answered the question correctly!😁😁😁 This amp has a really nice growl sound (both). Your 5 Minute Tone tips are really, really helpful. Thank you for sharing your tip & tones , leon🤘🤘

[@Robstafarian]

I always think I will get these things wrong, and thus far (a bit more than a decade) I keep getting the right answers. I don't know, maybe I have unusually-good ears.

[@bluesful]

Sounds mint for Schenker licks.

[@Ratso_DeLynch]

Hey Leon thanks for another awesome video / review thisnis a bit unrelated but I have some burning Q's about pickups - a slightly cheaper rabbit hole than amps, speakers or cabs right LOL. I'm looking for something different for my swamp ash body - roasted maple neck super strat. Any recommendations based on where im at bellow would he amazing : * Ive tried these and a ew more so for but pretty much, anything like a Seymour 59, distortion, trem bucker , Saturday special and definitely the JB did NOT work for me; all of them had some drawbacks- mainly the JB which I can't wrap my head around, yes it was the most recorded pickup of the late 70s, 80s but it's too damn hot and too much of everything really lol. The 1 way it sounded OK and got t very steve stevens esque was : *swapping in an alnico 2 mag *300k gibson pots *adding on a nickel cover ^ But the results still weren't great , everything sounded too hot most of the time probably due to the high output of jb 16k ^ Any kind of paf was the opposite , for non master amps back in the day like the SLP or plexi I understand that in studio a low output paf worked great for those late 70s, early 80s tones because pedals or additional eq was the only way back then to drive an amp into a more hard rock tone. * On the opposite side of things imstead of "hot pickups" , for lower output pickups say around 7-10k is pretty low output and beautiful for cleans, but pretty underwhelming on my 2 morris amps. the pickups I listed before that were dimarzios or seymours in the higher out put range lacked clarity or had too much clarity / cut, were bright as hell and too tubby fizzy sounding In the bass. ^ Are their any bridge pickups you can recommend? SD, dimarzio, bareknuckle, friedman, suhr or other brands that worked well for you when playing anything hard rock lynch, vh, ozzy, gnr , Billy idol type stuff ? I know it's all very individual, but maybe you had a swamp ash body guitar or any guitar really that you went down the same path with and swapped a few pickups through to find a similar result ? Any feedback tips on your experience and examples of pickups that fit this description would be extremely helpful so I have a better reference of ones to try / ones to avoid. Thanks in advance and keep rocking! 🙏🙏🤟🤟

[@eds4754]

sounnds great! I think the real amp had a smidge less gain here, and a bit less of the 4-6k fizz. Makes no real difference ultimately, they both DO THE THING

[@davidmorales1136]

Love the MSG and Accept! Wonder what amps/cabs Accept were using for the Balls To The Wall album. I always thought the guitars had a mean, deep, growl to them. Love your sound!

[@LeonTodd]

Yeah I love the sound of that album too. From memory the amps were non master Marshalls boosted with an old MXR Dist+

[@MichaelSorensen-bl3ec]

Wolf Hoffman has said that he has tried every possible speaker combination, but found the the Celestion G12H is perfect for his sound.

[@peterschaefer1665]

F**k that sounds good!!

[@LeonTodd]

Crunchy!

[@heavybrett-al4082]

I'm assuming it was a jcm 800 with extra magic, that Randy used on the live tribute album....but I remember hearing that for the first time and thought "I want to do that" 😂

[@LeonTodd]

Pretty sure he used an old 100W Plexi with some minor mods to it. Loud!

[@heavybrett-al4082]

@@LeonTodd oh really! Either way as a kid...blew my socks off 😂

[@LeonTodd]

The Tribute Live album is so good @@heavybrett-al4082

[@MichaelSorensen-bl3ec]

Classic MSG sound right there. Nice one!

[@LeonTodd]

Indeed it is!

[@hoosierdaddy2308]

Man, what great tone.. I could totally gig with that tone.. Just those two patches would totally make me able to jam with about anyone! Very, very cool sir.. I forgot about that song "balls to the wall".. I used to play that a long long time ago! What a great song and UDO is the man! 😛 Very cool.. Both sounded great to me and I couldn't tell the difference. I was reading reviews on reverb of the FM3 and many people said it sounded and even felt like a real tube amp and that they were getting the best tone's of their life.. I'm still looking for a used one.. The prices are starting to get affordable for me.. I hope the axe edit is available for windows 10.. ? Thanks brother.. Be safe and well my friend! Tim

[@LeonTodd]

Do yourself a favour and go listen to that whole album - Accept were basically German AC/DC. So good!

[@hoosierdaddy2308]

@@LeonTodd I've heard it, but it's been awhile.. I'll listen again! They were great..

[@lyricbread]

You got them damn close. For that extra 5%, you could do a Tone Match.

[@chiba131]

how about recreating that Marshall tone with the new Fender Tone Master Pro?

[@johnevered9640]

out of curiosity, why did you use an 800 model in the axe and not a jmp?

[@LeonTodd]

Marshall used various 3 letter badges for different era's of production while also having specific model numbers. 2203/2204 denote the master volume models(2203 for 100w, 2204 for 50w), which were produced largely with the JCM800 badge. However there are JMP badged 2203/2204 amps as well. The classic Plexi/Super Lead amps are denoted as 1959 circuits, and Marshall actually made some JCM800 badged 1959 circuits. it gets confusing! Long story short, this is a 2203 circuit. The closest thing in the Axe-Fx is the Brit 800 model (which is actually a 2204 circuit). The "JMPre" models in the Axe-Fx are based on the JMP-1 preamp from the 90's.

[@johnevered9640]

@@LeonTodd ah yeah I knew that the jmp models were to do with the rack units and not the actual amps (was meaning like a plexi model when I said that!) but I had no idea about the extremely confusing history of Marshall badging, thanks!!

[@LeonTodd]

No worries, I get you now! @@johnevered9640

[@rtbmusic1135]

Perfect timing, I have an axe3 and fc12 on the way. B b b balls to the wall - duh duh duh duh

[@LeonTodd]

YESSS

[@rsvette123]

Wow sounds exactly the same Leon cool stuff - thanks for preset

[@LeonTodd]

No problem!

[@aivoryuk]

I recently wondered if you should use the speaker drive etc if matching with a load box 👍

[@aguitarhero007]

Why do the modeled amps always sound better 😂

[@paulbradshawguitar]

so give him the presets and keep the amp? 😄 sounds awesome, good tips on the matching too

[@LeonTodd]

You got it! hahaha

[@martincockburn6821]

That sounds soooooo close ! Really awesome. I need an fm9 😅. The JMP sounds really close to the JVM and J'S crunch channels hey.... Troy has a killer amp 🤘

[@LeonTodd]

Yeah the JS channel 2 definitely cops some of this

[@martincockburn6821]

@@LeonTodd yeah it does... I've been playing on the crunch channel a bit more lately . So good 😁. If you want to grab it again for a comparo or anything just say the word 👍

[@oscarvestee]

I do hear the difference!!

[@lookmanostrings]

Tried to steal your cab, but, it's not in the Dropbox.

[@stompfolks]

Fractal fails