EP-Pre > SVDS Pre > JCM800 VH2 tone

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What's a "svds pre"?

quick listen take: sounds a little constipated and unnatural.

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.. sounds a little constipated and unnatural.

That's what she said.



I got really bad ear fatigue working on the tone and gear setup on that clip. When I listened to it again the next day I thought the same thing.. I was like, "What the fuck ?"

I wanted to try the Jalen FW pickup into the EP-pre into the Shaffer Vega Diversity System preamp pedal, into the JCM800 variac'ed down.

It just came out sounding shitty. I won't be doing that again.

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.. sounds a little constipated and unnatural.

That's what she said.



I got really bad ear fatigue working on the tone and gear setup on that clip. When I listened to it again the next day I thought the same thing.. I was like, "What the fuck ?"

I wanted to try the Jalen FW pickup into the EP-pre into the Shaffer Vega Diversity System preamp pedal, into the JCM800 variac'ed down.

It just came out sounding shitty. I won't be doing that again.

Ahh so that's what it is: the Schaeffer unit.

Even though Ed used one live, I doubt he used it in the studio when recording. There would be no reason to.

Besides that, VH2 is perceived as having *less* gain than VH1...

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Ahh so that's what it is: the Schaeffer unit.

Even though Ed used one live, I doubt he used it in the studio when recording. There would be no reason to.

No one knows, or will probably ever know.

Angus Young used one in the studio for several AC/DC records. Ed is pictured with one in the studio for the VHII sessions.

Jim Gaustad has an actual SVDS unit, and he used it on his YouTube clips. Sounded pretty convincing.