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[KevWind]

Originally Posted by Bob Womack

Bing! Bing! Bing! We have a winnah!



Bob

So if you are not charging windmills , what does the "Tilt" do ??

[Bob Womack]

Originally Posted by Dave Hicks

Congratulations, those get great reviews.

D.H.

Thank you!!!

Well, the eagle has landed... at home, but I am at work.

Bob

[Bluside]

Originally Posted by KevWind

So if you are not charging windmills , what does the "Tilt" do ??

Same question.

[Rudy4]

The TILT thing always seems odd to me, but my only previous experience was the flashing TILT indicator on the pinball machine when I got overlay excited with it.

I thought maybe it was attached to a threaded rod going down to the amp cabinet base so you could adjust the tilt back angle of the amp.

[Bob Womack]

Tehnically, in recording, a Tilt EQ contains two shelving EQ bands that rotate around a common turn point. Turning the control counter-clockwise from the center detent raises bass and lowers treble. Turning the control clockwise from the center raises treble and lowers bass. In that application the turn point is typically sweepable. It is a handy tool to handle tracks that exhibit a profound bias towards one end of the spectrum or the other.

In this Marshall case we need to think back to the "four-hole" original JTM and JMP amplifiers that had... wait for it... four inputs, serving two channels.

There was a hack that guitarists found to get more flexibility out of the old heads: You would plug your guitar into the hotter input of the Normal channel and plug a jumper cable from the lower input of that channel to the hotter input of the Bright channel. By doing so you could blend the channels to taste, blending the deeper sound of the Normal channel and the brighter sound of the Bright channel. When they were equal there also was a slight boost.

The Tilt control on the Origin Series does just that, allowing you to blend between a fuller sound and a brighter sound. The pull boost (also foot switchable) adds the little bit of boost on demand.

Bob

[Bob Womack]

Oh, and Pics! Pics! or it never happened:

Marshall Origin 20 Combo Amp with admirer, Oscar.

Bob

[TJN]

You should have paid extra and got the one that went up to "11".

[Bob Womack]

Originally Posted by TJN

You should have paid extra and got the one that went up to "11".

I've already got that on another Marshall that goes to "20." But no joke, it is a low to mid gain amp.

Bob

[Piker99]

Congrats Bob,
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this one.

[rockabilly69]

Congrats on your new Marshall Bob. The sound of rock and roll!

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by Bob Womack

Tehnically, in recording, a Tilt EQ contains two shelving EQ bands that rotate around a common turn point. Turning the control counter-clockwise from the center detent raises bass and lowers treble. Turning the control clockwise from the center raises treble and lowers bass. In that application the turn point is typically sweepable. It is a handy tool to handle tracks that exhibit a profound bias towards one end of the spectrum or the other.

In this Marshall case we need to think back to the "four-hole" original JTM and JMP amplifiers that had... wait for it... four inputs, serving two channels.



There was a hack that guitarists found to get more flexibility out of the old heads: You would plug your guitar into the hotter input of the Normal channel and plug a jumper cable from the lower input of that channel to the hotter input of the Bright channel. By doing so you could blend the channels to taste, blending the deeper sound of the Normal channel and the brighter sound of the Bright channel. When they were equal there also was a slight boost.

The Tilt control on the Origin Series does just that, allowing you to blend between a fuller sound and a brighter sound. The pull boost (also foot switchable) adds the little bit of boost on demand.

Bob

Interesting, thanks for that info

[jricc]

Nice Bob! Congrats.

[Bob Womack]

Originally Posted by jricc

Nice Bob! Congrats.

Thank you!


Well, I got to take it for a spin today. A couple of hours moneying with it and learning to drive it. The first thing that struck me was the chime! The early JTMs and JMPs are known for their chime and this is supposed to be a recreation of or homage to that sound. And BOY, does it chime. I mean, with a Tele you can instantly get the Southern California country twang and chime rhythm sound and the John Mellencamp thing going. With an LP, "Alright Now" by Free jumped out, but chimier. If you push up the master and then control it with the gain, it drives the power amp for power amp distortion and then you can use the guitar's volume to pull back to a clean sound, like a non-master volume amp. The Powerstem technology does indeed pull back the volume significantly. You will lose some bass and middle and you won't be moving as much air, but the amount and character of distortion and the chime survive rather well. And overall volume? This thing is really loud. of course, you'll be pushing into the chimey near-breakup, but for a thirty pound package it is amazing. Of course, Marshall based this around EL34 power tubes, rather than the usual small amp EL84s.

Well, there are first impressions.

Bob

[abn556]

So what exactly is “Tilt”? I noticed that its in the tone stack. Is it some kind of tone roll off - brighter to the right side, darker to the left side?

[Bob Womack]

Originally Posted by abn556

So what exactly is “Tilt”? I noticed that its in the tone stack. Is it some kind of tone roll off - brighter to the right side, darker to the left side?

See my post #20 above for a detailed explanation.

Bob