It is so hilarious that when something like this is released how so many people say it doesn't sound like the real thing. How many of you heard the real thing? You can't base it off recordings as recording equipment would have impacted the recorded tone. I think it sounds great, besides it's the player that has the biggest impact. Hendrix would sound like himself on this. I think the demo was awesome.
No lie, not to mention the venue has a HUGE impact on the amps response/tone and the mic placement along with whatever character the microphone imparts. Hendrix's original amp played in peach's by Jack wouldn't sound exactly like the Woodstock tone. Way to many variables for this amp to cover but it can definitely vibe like it!
The issue is goes beyond just one thing. Something as simple as using his fairly odd string gauge that Roger Mayer determined was more balanced can get you that much closer, for instance. Or super scooped strat PUs like cs 69s can get you that much closer. I guess the cool thing about this amp is they blueprinted and recreated the circuit/values of its components, so at least from that standpoint, this is pretty close to what Hendrix played on stage. In a similar vein there’s the mystery of Slash’s AFD amp, and the pursuit for that tone. Unlike that amp, it’s always been a black box attempt as no one is quite sure what that amp is.
To nail Hendrix's Woodstock tone, you have to play through two modified (?) Marshall "Super Lead" 100-watt Plexi heads powering four 4x12 closed-back speaker cabs, with one speaker miked through a multi thousand-watt P.A. with huge speakers on high towers, EQ unknown, all while playing on a high, wood-braced, wooden stage, outdoors, with no wall behind the amps. Then you can begin to try. In any event, no one will ever nail the way he played, and that's what it's really all about.
It's not for me, but I love that they have made this, and all the detail they have applied in trying to get it right. Can't help but suspect that there is a big bottle of snake oil that comes with this though.
@@scoobtay I actually have the MT-15 and it's pretty much my favourite amp I've ever owned! But otherwise, I'd say there is a degree of truth to your statement!
Hendrix's sound at Woodstock is one of my favourite guitar tones ever. This amp sounds great but I'm not sure how close it really is. The Woodstock recordings sound slightly thinner/more cutting (particularly with the wah kicked on) but also smoother. I suppose a lot of that is to do with Hendrix using a right-handed guitar flipped over, as well as his touch and technique. His sound cuts right to your soul without being shrill.
Yeah, the sound is little different between right handed strat and Hendrix model strat because Hendrix had pickups reversed which effects sound more than many thinks. This amp sounds very much like Hendrix but more early Hendrix like are you experience era than woodstock and for me early era is better sounding.
@@kuitaristi3003: Yes, I would definitely agree with your observation that this sounds more like Experience era Hendrix. A bit more full/distorted. There are so many variables at play that it is difficult to judge though. Personally I prefer his work later on; particularly Band of Gypsys.
I think we are forgetting that most never heard him live and only have recordings so the record would be colored by methods. Plus humidity, crowds, his feelings at the time can’t be replicated. Paul and team just copied and tried to replicate his original amp then update the electronics so it is probably the closest to his sound just without Jimi, the atmosphere and the record colorization to effect it.
@@robertlucas9867 How could they replicate the original amp, the electrolytic power supply capacitors would have been of a poorer quality then and how long had the amps been sitting there in standby mode with everything cooking as he played in the morning. Power supply caps are the biggest reason that old valve amps sound crap even if you put the best valves in as they dry out. Vox AC30's were terrible for this as they run so hot in class A. I used to buy cheap Marshall's because of this and not getting the output valves biased correctly.
What I've heard is so mixed up it's hard to tell what's true at this point. I was in top top 1% of Hendrix listeners on Spotify for a long time, and I've only recently probably lost my title of 'dedicated superfan'. What I can tell you that I've been told was going on with his amps is that he'd rent most of them. His 'tech' (before guitar techs, really) Roger Mayer would swap out the tubes in the rented amps for 6550s, cold bias them until they produced a bit of plate distortion (Sound familiar?), tweak some components, and they'd be run ragged for only a few shows and returned to their proprietors modified. He'd move on, and rent another few stacks somewhere down the road, sometimes either yoinking amps and just paying the fee if he liked them, or buying them outright from music shops if he decided to acquire some. Largely, I would say that I do not believe that the amp Paul acquired is precisely as it was when Hendrix was using it. Even then, Hendrix often used multiple simultaneously, so it would stand to reason that his sound was achieved with the variety of amps he was using. It may have been returned to a "more" stock spec after being tweaked by Hendrix. Who knows. Paul has seemed awfully coy in all of the videos featuring this amp. My guess is that the simple truth to it is that Hendrix's amps sounded like total shit, and that he made do with what he had. Most of his gigs his tone was harsh and difficult to listen to. The shows that are more broadly famous are the ones in which he had good voltage getting to his amps, they were biased properly, didn't have values that were all over the place (Dave Friedman apparently got an old Park head once that had a midrange potentiometer that was insanely off spec from the factory, original to the 70s), his guitars were set up well, his pedals had fresh batteries/few issues, and the recording wasn't corrupted by age, poor equipment, or user error. This is all to say that no one amp will sound like Hendrix like Robben Ford's ODS sounds like Robben Ford. For his studio recordings, the closest thing would probably just be a big old clean Marshall in good health, or (as I believe many recordings from 1969 on to be) a mid 60s Fender Bassman. Some stuff is pretty esoteric and weird, too. In my opinion, the "Hear My Train A Comin" from People Hell and Angels was recorded with the supposed Big Muff that Mike Matthews swears he gave to Hendrix. The fuzz tone is scooped and dry, which fuzz faces can be, but is has an endless kind of wooly sustain that sounds very un-like any fuzz face tone we ever heard from Hendrix. Another weird one: I'm fairly certain that some of the guitar solos on All Along The Watchtower are Hendrix's flying V. There's a crabbiness you hear in the honk of the bridge pickup sections that is very indicative of old PAF-style pickups.
Sounds utterly fantastic. The playing was stellar too. Really brought out all the goodness in the amp. If this doesn't sell a few amps, I don't know what would. If you don't mind, which speaker was mic'd in the Z, and did you wind up using that or the IR's for the video? That Strat had all the goods too. Kudos!
My goodness that sounds epic, my eyes have watered, what a reg & that strat, wooow & wooow again that fluffy sound at the beginning then the high gain post ufff!!!!! peach has taken my love today for many reasons, the lads working there & diamond geeza’s 2nd to none! Leaders in there came costumer care focussed as a priority!! Legends!!!!
Amazing playing guys, love this demo format! I miss the days of rehearsing with 100w heads at full tilt but practically speaking it is a bit of a pain to lug these big amps around with even more gear to tame them. I just scored a HDRX 20 so it'll be interesting to see if the compromise is workable. I love that spiky plexi top end so I hope it's still present in the 20 as it seems to be on these. It's also great to see the outsourced build on the 20w version looking decent in terms of quality.
PRS and Doug Sewell were allowed access to Hendrix's Woodstock Stage Amp through the Hendrix estate. Sewell { an experienced amp designer } took measurements of all the components/transformers plus the mods from Jimi's techs of that amp which were mostly reliability and tech friendly mods. Sewell then added his touches such as internally jumpered volumes and the bright and mid switching. He also improved the speaker outs and added a back panel bias adjustment with multi meter probe sockets. Sweet. I only have the 20watter {made overseas} that Sewell added a master volume {really cool} and has a pair of 5881's for power. Yes, it's a loud 20watt... about 30watt imho. It sounds fantastic and is a deal at $800.00 US. The 50watt and 100watt go for $2900.00 and $3150.00 made in the US, respectively.
Truth is, I can not judge this, because I only know Jimi‘s sound from recordings, so I can only imagine what it could have sounded like in real life. The PRS amp, apart from that Hendrix tag, seems to sound pretty cool, but then again, I can get very close to that recorded Jimi sound with my Marshall Plexi.
I wish you and your peachguitars team all the best for 2022 .... thanks for all the great reviews ... and my DW59 Strat which is still my number one ....
I will probably get hate for this but I think Hendrix sound is pretty easy to achieve on pretty average amps. I think it comes down to right hand dynamics and left hand vibrato. The amp sounded nice and you played real well.
If you had a stationary view on the knobs during the whole process…would have been epic 😅js but it was such an amazing demo and epic performance by the both of you!💥💥🔥🔥
I think a more fitting question is does it represent a late 60s Marshall. Yes it does and it sounds killer. It has the Plexi ingredients and Roger had his hands inside the original as well.
Serious missed opportunity to not play the Hendrix signature Strat into the Hendrix signature amp. That bridge pickup being angled the complete opposite way makes the sound, uhh, sound completely differently. Any time someone plays Hendrix on a regularly-oriented Strat, it just sounds like Trower or Frusciante instead. The reverse bridge pup really is the secret ingredient. Also, what is actually up with all the gripey comments? Loved the tones with the SG, tho.
Hi There! If we had a Hendrix Strat in stock at the time of filming then we certainly would have used one! They're awesome guitars and really nail his vibe. The Strat used in this video is an original '65 Strat from our private collection, we think it got pretty close! All the best
PRS knows his sh t when he designs something he can and does produce a top quality stuff I've got his Santana custom 22 in Tabaco it's a killer guitar still after 20 years ,I wish you compared this to a Soldano slo 100 Mike soldano and I grew up in the same hood I was in his basement when he was building his first amp after school so he produced very high quality stuff your playing is great I still love Jimi's music I'm in Seattle and Leon Hendrix is a friend he would approve of this he's learning how to play happy New Year peace keep playing jimi
I can speak to the 50 watt version and I think it is phenomenal., especially the clean sounds surprised me. … and the amp is the opposite of noisy, no hiss or hum … if Jimi would have had the choice he probably would have picked HDRX.
A scene that happens anyday anywhere: 2 average guys in a guitar shop playing all the riffs they remember. (Well, eventually look at the price tag and drive home thinking what to sell to afford it ✌🏻)
in all of the live footage of Hendrix i've seen he never jumped the two channels with a patch lead, so it would be interesting to try getting some nice sounds using one channel at a time instead of always combining them as everyone seems to do with these kind of amps now.
Didn`t blow me away...I would buy a Marshall Plexi, an early 70s Super Lead and would get the "same" sounds for less money, but with the right look. But I am sure the HDRX will sell fast.
@@SSStinger6 Not that much as there are so many in the UK..... I had a 1960 VOX AC30 in tan covering (50 made) for a reasonable price although well gigged. You don't need to buy an early one as the circuit was the same into the 80's. It's just wanking having the correct 'script' on the front. It's a one trick pony amp and I think the DSL2000 series blows it away.
They got to look inside the amp in the museum and were able to copy all the mods done to that amp. If you plugged into the amp in the museum you wouldn't sound like Hendrix either. It's all more than the some of the parts. A Mesa boogie isn't going to make you sound like Santana. But you are starting at the same place they did with the sound they have. That's worth something
Can you use this amp as a pedal platform only and as stage monitor without a stage monitor? Able to stay clean with a loud drummer in a loud R&B funk band?
@@paulmorgan8254 in general, I am not anti-pcb, either…but for this type of build (and price point) where they are talking about fidelity to the original, relying on ‘vintage mojo’, etc it really should not be pcb
@@SSStinger6 And you've made a valid point at this price point, if it was hand wired there would be some production differences leading to slight differences in sound as per original Marshall's although modern soldering leaves the 60's in the shade and it would be more consistent. I once saw three identical gas turbine skids wired differently as there were different electricians, circuit exactly the same but routing different but I don't think it happens anymore. It's already too expensive at £3k so what would it cost with hand wired point to point wiring? Hand wired point to point leads to noisy circuits and one of the reasons to use pcb's but those output valves really do vibrate when pushed.
Cool but no UniVibe :) Rock on and Happy New Year !! ps,,,what about BOG ??? Recorded NYE, '69. One of the greatest live albums ever (tho Jimi hated it....).
I was really looking into this amp - but there has been something mushy to the low end (this demo probably avoids that the best of all I have seen) and yet something fizzy to the high end and gain structure in all the demo clips I have seen. I think the JTM 45/100 just nails these sorts of tones better.
i think its also because people always blend the two channels now so no wonder you get too much of everything haha, I've never seen Hendrix jump the two channels together on a Marshall in any videos i've seen of him.
@@musicplaylists59 Marshall's are fizzy when it's pre amp tube distortion, I had a 70's master volume but if you can get those output valves cooking it's awesome but how many places can you play a 100W tube amp anymore? You can remove 2 output valves (2 outer or 2 inner and double the speaker impedance setting) but 50W isn't much quieter but guitarists like Micheal Schenker preferred the sound of the 50W. I love the EL84 valve (had a DSL401 combo) which is small bottle EL34 same as 6L6 v 6V6 where again I like the lower power 6V6. In this day of efficient pa's and HSE regs concerts are not loud anymore and with the monitoring the stage is much quieter now, I remember going to see Motorhead or Saxon and you couldn't hear for 3 days afterwards - good riddance to those days. I play a JOYO 20W Jackman head (JCM800 tone section clone) into an 8" Joyo Celestion sealed cab with a £12 Dolamo D5 distortion pedal and sounds fantastic, sometimes less is more.
I looked up the price of the amp, £3K, so you could have a handbuilt Marshall amp plus two 4*12 cabs and still have change for an attenuator. Apple, PRS - same thing people are sheep.
My buddy bought a 50 watt sonero, or something like that, combo? I have played it at a few gigs? I don’t think it’s a good sounding amp, told him to trade it in for a Fender Deluxe?
Ok, Sounds great. But if you really want to emulate the Woodstock sound you need to use rather cheap cables, effects without any true bypass and a Univibe which boosts the signal a bit. The way you did it sounded way too glassy and sparkling, which is great in a way, but not the thing to be achieved.
This does not sound at all like the Hendrix tone in Woodstock!!! it does not sound bad, just different; I know that you know. I saw the movie when it came out in movie theaters, in a one which advertised a "specific" sound system. Hendrix made that movie a cult one, especially with the Star Spangled Banner interpretation in the morning. Besides the obvious, remember that amps in the USA work in 120 V 60 Hertz. There is no telling what was the grid status at Woodstock; did they even get 120V? all the miking and sound production was analogical. You are working with equipment which reproduces all the subtleties, much less forgiving! I think Hendrix' rig in Woodstock exemplified how analogical will always be better sounding than digital. This does not take anything away from your incredible playing!!!
No Jimi out of the box ?? I EXPECTED TO SEE HIM MAGICALLY APPEAR FROM BEHIND THE PRS SMOKE SCREEN! I THINKS YOU A BOTH DISAPPOINTED...WE HAVE MOVED ON FROM WOODSTOCK!
It is so hilarious that when something like this is released how so many people say it doesn't sound like the real thing. How many of you heard the real thing? You can't base it off recordings as recording equipment would have impacted the recorded tone. I think it sounds great, besides it's the player that has the biggest impact. Hendrix would sound like himself on this. I think the demo was awesome.
No lie, not to mention the venue has a HUGE impact on the amps response/tone and the mic placement along with whatever character the microphone imparts. Hendrix's original amp played in peach's by Jack wouldn't sound exactly like the Woodstock tone. Way to many variables for this amp to cover but it can definitely vibe like it!
@@ddg8795 also at Woodstock he played through 3 Marshalls at the same time, all running through 2 4x12 cabs each lol
The issue is goes beyond just one thing. Something as simple as using his fairly odd string gauge that Roger Mayer determined was more balanced can get you that much closer, for instance. Or super scooped strat PUs like cs 69s can get you that much closer.
I guess the cool thing about this amp is they blueprinted and recreated the circuit/values of its components, so at least from that standpoint, this is pretty close to what Hendrix played on stage.
In a similar vein there’s the mystery of Slash’s AFD amp, and the pursuit for that tone. Unlike that amp, it’s always been a black box attempt as no one is quite sure what that amp is.
One has to ask: is it the Indian, or the bow?
Facts. Literally based off the circuitry, it sounds good 🤣
Shopping list:
1. A small cottage in the Scottish highlands miles from anywhere.
2. A quiet diesel generator.
3. That tone.
Excellent review.
To nail Hendrix's Woodstock tone, you have to play through two modified (?) Marshall "Super Lead" 100-watt Plexi heads powering four 4x12 closed-back speaker cabs, with one speaker miked through a multi thousand-watt P.A. with huge speakers on high towers, EQ unknown, all while playing on a high, wood-braced, wooden stage, outdoors, with no wall behind the amps. Then you can begin to try.
In any event, no one will ever nail the way he played, and that's what it's really all about.
Many brands are referring Hendrix this way or another, but no one can sell his mojo
RIP Jimi
This video was so much more informative and entertaining than the "staged demos". Thanks so much.
That amp redefines the meaning of monster! Great playing too, guys.
You guys sound great. Thank you for ringing in the new year in such a positive fashion! Love it!
Love the 1st impression style of this video! 🤘🤘🤘
Woodstock was the first gig Jimi used his Univibe. That certainly produced some inspired playing from Jimi. Larry Lee was also on guitar at Woodstock.
Actually it was at the tinker street gig a few days before.
That’s what I was saying in my comment plug in a fuzz and wah wah at least
Man, what a way to start 2022!!! I want this amp, thanks for the Great demo, hits the best of this amp.
It's not for me, but I love that they have made this, and all the detail they have applied in trying to get it right. Can't help but suspect that there is a big bottle of snake oil that comes with this though.
I totally agree. The cleans can be achieved with almost any fender amp/Plexi. the gain structure is fuzzy and really not my thing.
Anything PRS is snake oil, my friend.
@@scoobtay I actually have the MT-15 and it's pretty much my favourite amp I've ever owned! But otherwise, I'd say there is a degree of truth to your statement!
Look, every last one of us was put on this earth to make Paul Reed Smith a billionaire. So get in line and get with the program.
@@scoobtay agreed, and the same lies with suhr, anderson, knaggs, blackmachine and the fender + gibson custom shop, and any guitar above 3k.
Awesome playing and awesome tones guys. Enjoyed that. Thank you 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Hendrix's sound at Woodstock is one of my favourite guitar tones ever. This amp sounds great but I'm not sure how close it really is. The Woodstock recordings sound slightly thinner/more cutting (particularly with the wah kicked on) but also smoother. I suppose a lot of that is to do with Hendrix using a right-handed guitar flipped over, as well as his touch and technique. His sound cuts right to your soul without being shrill.
Yeah, the sound is little different between right handed strat and Hendrix model strat because Hendrix had pickups reversed which effects sound more than many thinks. This amp sounds very much like Hendrix but more early Hendrix like are you experience era than woodstock and for me early era is better sounding.
@@kuitaristi3003: Yes, I would definitely agree with your observation that this sounds more like Experience era Hendrix. A bit more full/distorted. There are so many variables at play that it is difficult to judge though. Personally I prefer his work later on; particularly Band of Gypsys.
I think we are forgetting that most never heard him live and only have recordings so the record would be colored by methods. Plus humidity, crowds, his feelings at the time can’t be replicated.
Paul and team just copied and tried to replicate his original amp then update the electronics so it is probably the closest to his sound just without Jimi, the atmosphere and the record colorization to effect it.
@@robertlucas9867 How could they replicate the original amp, the electrolytic power supply capacitors would have been of a poorer quality then and how long had the amps been sitting there in standby mode with everything cooking as he played in the morning. Power supply caps are the biggest reason that old valve amps sound crap even if you put the best valves in as they dry out. Vox AC30's were terrible for this as they run so hot in class A. I used to buy cheap Marshall's because of this and not getting the output valves biased correctly.
What I've heard is so mixed up it's hard to tell what's true at this point. I was in top top 1% of Hendrix listeners on Spotify for a long time, and I've only recently probably lost my title of 'dedicated superfan'. What I can tell you that I've been told was going on with his amps is that he'd rent most of them. His 'tech' (before guitar techs, really) Roger Mayer would swap out the tubes in the rented amps for 6550s, cold bias them until they produced a bit of plate distortion (Sound familiar?), tweak some components, and they'd be run ragged for only a few shows and returned to their proprietors modified. He'd move on, and rent another few stacks somewhere down the road, sometimes either yoinking amps and just paying the fee if he liked them, or buying them outright from music shops if he decided to acquire some.
Largely, I would say that I do not believe that the amp Paul acquired is precisely as it was when Hendrix was using it. Even then, Hendrix often used multiple simultaneously, so it would stand to reason that his sound was achieved with the variety of amps he was using. It may have been returned to a "more" stock spec after being tweaked by Hendrix. Who knows. Paul has seemed awfully coy in all of the videos featuring this amp. My guess is that the simple truth to it is that Hendrix's amps sounded like total shit, and that he made do with what he had. Most of his gigs his tone was harsh and difficult to listen to. The shows that are more broadly famous are the ones in which he had good voltage getting to his amps, they were biased properly, didn't have values that were all over the place (Dave Friedman apparently got an old Park head once that had a midrange potentiometer that was insanely off spec from the factory, original to the 70s), his guitars were set up well, his pedals had fresh batteries/few issues, and the recording wasn't corrupted by age, poor equipment, or user error.
This is all to say that no one amp will sound like Hendrix like Robben Ford's ODS sounds like Robben Ford. For his studio recordings, the closest thing would probably just be a big old clean Marshall in good health, or (as I believe many recordings from 1969 on to be) a mid 60s Fender Bassman.
Some stuff is pretty esoteric and weird, too. In my opinion, the "Hear My Train A Comin" from People Hell and Angels was recorded with the supposed Big Muff that Mike Matthews swears he gave to Hendrix. The fuzz tone is scooped and dry, which fuzz faces can be, but is has an endless kind of wooly sustain that sounds very un-like any fuzz face tone we ever heard from Hendrix. Another weird one: I'm fairly certain that some of the guitar solos on All Along The Watchtower are Hendrix's flying V. There's a crabbiness you hear in the honk of the bridge pickup sections that is very indicative of old PAF-style pickups.
Thanks for the demo guys. Seems like an amazing amplifier. Good luck in 2022.
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That sounds frickin sweet.
Sounds utterly fantastic. The playing was stellar too. Really brought out all the goodness in the amp. If this doesn't sell a few amps, I don't know what would. If you don't mind, which speaker was mic'd in the Z, and did you wind up using that or the IR's for the video? That Strat had all the goods too. Kudos!
@L Smith Says the guy with 121 subs and no videos.
That sounds incredible. Period.
You guys have the best job on the world
My goodness that sounds epic, my eyes have watered, what a reg & that strat, wooow & wooow again that fluffy sound at the beginning then the high gain post ufff!!!!! peach has taken my love today for many reasons, the lads working there & diamond geeza’s 2nd to none! Leaders in there came costumer care focussed as a priority!! Legends!!!!
You both did a darned good job gentlemen.
A worthwhile chase
Love the tones from the SG by the way.
Seriously mature. sounds
Amazing playing guys, love this demo format! I miss the days of rehearsing with 100w heads at full tilt but practically speaking it is a bit of a pain to lug these big amps around with even more gear to tame them. I just scored a HDRX 20 so it'll be interesting to see if the compromise is workable. I love that spiky plexi top end so I hope it's still present in the 20 as it seems to be on these. It's also great to see the outsourced build on the 20w version looking decent in terms of quality.
PRS and Doug Sewell were allowed access to Hendrix's Woodstock Stage Amp through the Hendrix estate. Sewell { an experienced amp designer } took measurements of all the components/transformers plus the mods from Jimi's techs of that amp which were mostly reliability and tech friendly mods. Sewell then added his touches such as internally jumpered volumes and the bright and mid switching. He also improved the speaker outs and added a back panel bias adjustment with multi meter probe sockets. Sweet. I only have the 20watter {made overseas} that Sewell added a master volume {really cool} and has a pair of 5881's for power. Yes, it's a loud 20watt... about 30watt imho. It sounds fantastic and is a deal at $800.00 US. The 50watt and 100watt go for $2900.00 and $3150.00 made in the US, respectively.
With "Jam Back At The House" you'll need to have a 'Kool' menthol dangling from your lips.
I would like to see a video with the PRS HX vs the two Rock classic reverb or traditional clean amps
how about a fkn metal zone into it? GAIN ALL GAIN
That sounded MASSIVE guys thanks for sharing👍
will you gents be demoing the HDRX 50 as well? Would be great to hear them side by side. Thanks and happy new year Peach!
Truth is, I can not judge this, because I only know Jimi‘s sound from recordings, so I can only imagine what it could have sounded like in real life. The PRS amp, apart from that Hendrix tag, seems to sound pretty cool, but then again, I can get very close to that recorded Jimi sound with my Marshall Plexi.
Did Jimi record using a Marshall or a Fender Twin ?
@@TheHumbuckerboy both probably and maybe more as he recorded in high end studios
@@TheHumbuckerboy Marshall Plexi's, and Fender Showman amps. (Pretty much a twin without reverb.)
Sounded great, great playing... SG had balls!😎🎸
I wish you and your peachguitars team all the best for 2022 .... thanks for all the great reviews ... and my DW59 Strat which is still my number one ....
The guitar recording setup sounds pretty awesome to me. Great tones!
I will probably get hate for this but I think Hendrix sound is pretty easy to achieve on pretty average amps. I think it comes down to right hand dynamics and left hand vibrato. The amp sounded nice and you played real well.
You're absolutely right
I can get almost identical sound of hendrix from boss gt 100 pedal.
In fairness it's down to the way you play.
This sounds great, and your knowledge of Jimi is awesome!
If you had a stationary view on the knobs during the whole process…would have been epic 😅js but it was such an amazing demo and epic performance by the both of you!💥💥🔥🔥
I think a more fitting question is does it represent a late 60s Marshall. Yes it does and it sounds killer. It has the Plexi ingredients and Roger had his hands inside the original as well.
Serious missed opportunity to not play the Hendrix signature Strat into the Hendrix signature amp. That bridge pickup being angled the complete opposite way makes the sound, uhh, sound completely differently. Any time someone plays Hendrix on a regularly-oriented Strat, it just sounds like Trower or Frusciante instead. The reverse bridge pup really is the secret ingredient. Also, what is actually up with all the gripey comments? Loved the tones with the SG, tho.
Hi There! If we had a Hendrix Strat in stock at the time of filming then we certainly would have used one! They're awesome guitars and really nail his vibe. The Strat used in this video is an original '65 Strat from our private collection, we think it got pretty close!
All the best
PRS knows his sh t when he designs something he can and does produce a top quality stuff I've got his Santana custom 22 in Tabaco it's a killer guitar still after 20 years ,I wish you compared this to a Soldano slo 100 Mike soldano and I grew up in the same hood I was in his basement when he was building his first amp after school so he produced very high quality stuff your playing is great I still love Jimi's music I'm in Seattle and Leon Hendrix is a friend he would approve of this he's learning how to play happy New Year peace keep playing jimi
Absolutely great!
I can speak to the 50 watt version and I think it is phenomenal., especially the clean sounds surprised me. … and the amp is the opposite of noisy, no hiss or hum … if Jimi would have had the choice he probably would have picked HDRX.
A scene that happens anyday anywhere: 2 average guys in a guitar shop playing all the riffs they remember. (Well, eventually look at the price tag and drive home thinking what to sell to afford it ✌🏻)
Wow… was waiting for it to be at 10… and man it delivered. Wish there was more time on it fully cranked
It’s great to watch an owner of a guitar store who can actually play guitar!
100% he is a monster guitarist to say the least that’s why it’s the best store in the Uk!!!
Awesome video and amp. I’d love to think this is how you spend all your days behind the scenes.
I would have loved to have been there for the making of this video! Happy New Year!
Holy mackerel did that sound good guys!
in all of the live footage of Hendrix i've seen he never jumped the two channels with a patch lead, so it would be interesting to try getting some nice sounds using one channel at a time instead of always combining them as everyone seems to do with these kind of amps now.
That is true but many times he slaved the out put of 1 head into the 2nd head.
Didn`t blow me away...I would buy a Marshall Plexi, an early 70s Super Lead and would get the "same" sounds for less money, but with the right look. But I am sure the HDRX will sell fast.
early 70s super leads are pushing 4k usd and up
Hahaha - how much exactly do you think Plexis are going for these days?!?!
@@SSStinger6 Not that much as there are so many in the UK..... I had a 1960 VOX AC30 in tan covering (50 made) for a reasonable price although well gigged. You don't need to buy an early one as the circuit was the same into the 80's. It's just wanking having the correct 'script' on the front. It's a one trick pony amp and I think the DSL2000 series blows it away.
They got to look inside the amp in the museum and were able to copy all the mods done to that amp. If you plugged into the amp in the museum you wouldn't sound like Hendrix either. It's all more than the some of the parts. A Mesa boogie isn't going to make you sound like Santana. But you are starting at the same place they did with the sound they have. That's worth something
Amp sounds great. Would love to hear it in a band context with a drummer and bassist. Sounds like it would really cut.
Sounds really frickin great
Sounds sweet to me!
Sounds fantastic. Buying.
I'm under the impression Hendrix's Woodstock tone didn't have as much bass and it was more upper mids focused. Maybe more compressed too.
They're not playing at Woodstock, they're playing in a wooden box effectively. Plus, recorded on completely different equipment.
@@AbcDino843 I know, regardless, they could have shown us what the EQ knobs do and at least try to get closer.
Sounds Great !
Sounds great...funny so comments saying it doesnt sound like Jimis woodstock show...were u there 😂
Can you use this amp as a pedal platform only and as stage monitor without a stage monitor? Able to stay clean with a loud drummer in a loud R&B funk band?
Jimi would call this the Killin floor you guys sound great love Bolth guitars
Fuck's sake that's an amazing amp
My 2nd post, 17mins mark is something out of this world what on earth is going on with this amp wooooooooow
Sounds fucking amazing when they start getting it dialed in a bit around the 10min mark.
I’d really like to see the guts of the amp and find out what parts they used. Also did they hand wire this amp at the PRS factory ?
Pcb - which is a major turnoff for this style of amp, honestly
@@SSStinger6 I'm not anti pcb but the valves shouldn't be pcb mounted especially the hot output valves.
@@paulmorgan8254 in general, I am not anti-pcb, either…but for this type of build (and price point) where they are talking about fidelity to the original, relying on ‘vintage mojo’, etc it really should not be pcb
@@SSStinger6 And you've made a valid point at this price point, if it was hand wired there would be some production differences leading to slight differences in sound as per original Marshall's although modern soldering leaves the 60's in the shade and it would be more consistent.
I once saw three identical gas turbine skids wired differently as there were different electricians, circuit exactly the same but routing different but I don't think it happens anymore.
It's already too expensive at £3k so what would it cost with hand wired point to point wiring? Hand wired point to point leads to noisy circuits and one of the reasons to use pcb's but those output valves really do vibrate when pushed.
@@Mike-xb7lh you cared enough to troll, right? Go bang out some chord inversions
Cool but no UniVibe :)
Rock on and Happy New Year !!
ps,,,what about BOG ???
Recorded NYE, '69.
One of the greatest live albums ever (tho Jimi hated it....).
I think you could of used a Marshall origin 50 and pretty much got the same tones
Not sure I would want to try to copy anything Hendrix, better to just enjoy. I also don't get a 100 watt amp with no standby switch.
It sounds more SRV than Hendrix to me
Those are some tasty tones.
I was really looking into this amp - but there has been something mushy to the low end (this demo probably avoids that the best of all I have seen) and yet something fizzy to the high end and gain structure in all the demo clips I have seen.
I think the JTM 45/100 just nails these sorts of tones better.
i think its also because people always blend the two channels now so no wonder you get too much of everything haha, I've never seen Hendrix jump the two channels together on a Marshall in any videos i've seen of him.
@@musicplaylists59 Marshall's are fizzy when it's pre amp tube distortion, I had a 70's master volume but if you can get those output valves cooking it's awesome but how many places can you play a 100W tube amp anymore? You can remove 2 output valves (2 outer or 2 inner and double the speaker impedance setting) but 50W isn't much quieter but guitarists like Micheal Schenker preferred the sound of the 50W. I love the EL84 valve (had a DSL401 combo) which is small bottle EL34 same as 6L6 v 6V6 where again I like the lower power 6V6. In this day of efficient pa's and HSE regs concerts are not loud anymore and with the monitoring the stage is much quieter now, I remember going to see Motorhead or Saxon and you couldn't hear for 3 days afterwards - good riddance to those days. I play a JOYO 20W Jackman head (JCM800 tone section clone) into an 8" Joyo Celestion sealed cab with a £12 Dolamo D5 distortion pedal and sounds fantastic, sometimes less is more.
this amp should be called sloe gin FIZZ. Wheres the haunting mids?
Love the video format. Amp sounded very good, but not so good as to say other amps won't do this.
Great sound ! Lay off the bridge pickup .
All in the hype fellows huh ?? Good honest demo Great piece of equipment but not what one would think Not magical but top notch components for sure
my mrs stepdad bought one prs hx50 watt ,im going to try next week with my strat ,cant wait :) whats that other thing you connect to amp ?
Man I wanna hear a wah wah and some other Jimi effects I’m still early in vid hopefully they will plug something In hopefully a fuzz
Amazing
I looked up the price of the amp, £3K, so you could have a handbuilt Marshall amp plus two 4*12 cabs and still have change for an attenuator. Apple, PRS - same thing people are sheep.
My buddy bought a 50 watt sonero, or something like that, combo? I have played it at a few gigs? I don’t think it’s a good sounding amp, told him to trade it in for a Fender Deluxe?
They sound alright. Better than bad cat?
Its sounds really great. You should check out the marshall origin 50/20 heads. Great stuff guys
Lol. They blow
Hendrix in a bottle but it would have been nice to see what else it can do....perhaps a few cleans?
Didn't do much for me except I appreciate My Boogie ALOT more.
Amp sounds killer to me
Ok, Sounds great. But if you really want to emulate the Woodstock sound you need to use rather cheap cables, effects without any true bypass and a Univibe which boosts the signal a bit. The way you did it sounded way too glassy and sparkling, which is great in a way, but not the thing to be achieved.
👏bravo 👏
Sounds good :)
Sounds 👍 great
What pedals were you guys using?
Whats the song played around the 21 minute mark?
The word I was looking for is brittle. it sounds brittle on bose computer speakers.
Hendrix Tone is Easy....show us Eddie van Halen Brown Sound
Very Cool!!!🤘How much of a discount can we get off on that demo your using??!🤣🤣 Rock On!!
What's the cab that you are using.
This does not sound at all like the Hendrix tone in Woodstock!!! it does not sound bad, just different; I know that you know. I saw the movie when it came out in movie theaters, in a one which advertised a "specific" sound system.
Hendrix made that movie a cult one, especially with the Star Spangled Banner interpretation in the morning.
Besides the obvious, remember that amps in the USA work in 120 V 60 Hertz. There is no telling what was the grid status at Woodstock; did they even get 120V? all the miking and sound production was analogical. You are working with equipment which reproduces all the subtleties, much less forgiving!
I think Hendrix' rig in Woodstock exemplified how analogical will always be better sounding than digital.
This does not take anything away from your incredible playing!!!
Great tones & playing. Doesn't sound anything like Hendrix though, though in your defense, no one's ever come close anyway 🤣!
Enough of the boss Give Jack the guitar and let’s rock
It's a pitty that you havnt shown any eq setting for us to see and emulate on single or humbuckers for us new purchasers.
sounds great, but does the sound reflect the price? Nope
Dunno whats more impressive, the playing or the fact you didnt get copyright flagged haha
Monstrous amp
Sounds good but prefers Fender Super Reverb
What’s the cab?
No Jimi out of the box ?? I EXPECTED TO SEE HIM MAGICALLY APPEAR FROM BEHIND THE PRS SMOKE SCREEN! I THINKS YOU A BOTH DISAPPOINTED...WE HAVE MOVED ON FROM WOODSTOCK!
Hendrix would have picked a different amp at the studio, just saying, what are you guys saying.