Epiphone Valve Junior vs Marshall 4140 (2)
I said I would post a recording of the real thing, and it’s taken only a week longer than I’d planned, but I’m guessing you’re used to that by now.
Anyway, without further ado, and with only a discreet fanfare of trumpets, here’s another podcast – for guitar and guitar amp enthusiasts only – comparing my new (and heavily modded by Alnicomagnet) Epiphone Valve Junior with my old Marshall 4140 Club and Country.
In the podcast I noted that my old Kent Armstrong pickups sounded muddy when the guitar volume was turned down, unlike the stock Telecaster with which I first tested the modded amp. I put this down to the common Telecaster wiring trick of installing a treble bleed capacitor, but Alnicomagnet informs me that his Telecaster has no bleed capacitor.
Tags: Epiphone Valve Junior, Marshall 4140
Thank you, that was fascinating. I still think I prefer the sound of the Marshall (I must admit I have one myself). For my own ‘don’t annoy the neighbors’ amp, I have a Pignose (the original). To me it sounds a little cleaner than the Epiphone – there’s a low frequency twang on the Epiphone that wouldn’t suit me, and if you overdrive the Pignose (on rechargeable batteries – slightly lower voltage) the distortion is similar to the epiphone but without the buzzing… you might want to try a Pignose sometime.