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Thanks Wingman! I don't have as much experience with the older stuff as you do but I will say the pieces that I have that are older have a certain mojo that newer gear doesn't. I take that BF deluxe reverb to cool gigs and people notice it. But you're right - is it a 2X improvement? No but for cool gigs and recordings I always bring the vintage stuff if I can

@@JonMonter For what it's worth, I've done a couple of things to my RI Deluxe that I think improved it quite a bit.. Vintage 30 Celestion - big difference, brings outs the mids a bit, overall I think it's just a much nicer sounding speaker (thanks to Zac Childs recommendation), old USA made GE power tubes, also swapped out the rectifier tube for an old USA Truetone. I quit the Russian, Chinese tubes as I think they are junk. WIth the old amps I had I honestly can't remember ever having to replace tubes.. not so with the Russian & Chinese junk. My amp is one of the early Reissues with a fake (non functional) polarity switch which I had wired to the bright cap on the Vibrato channel so the bright cap is now switchable... subtle but noticeable at low volumes.

Thanks For Watching!

Thanks Beach Boy! If I get the gig I'll let you know and you can hang out back stage with me!

@@JonMonter awesome . I would definitely hangout. More than anything the best part of getting that band member job is getting to be friends with Billy. He is a ultra cool songwriter music making singer genius and young living legend

@@boonesboroughbeachboy9341 yes you are right about that, Billy is the man

Thanks for that, yes I did notice something happening when I turn it up but to be honest I don't 'crank' this amp - its got its original speaker and I usually don't bring this to super loud gigs anyways.

@@JonMonter Yeah, it's not often we get a chance to crank them up irl. Lol.

Thanks man!

Thanks man

Thanks for watching! Yes it's definitely a great pedal, I myself have not messed around too much with the Dynaverb. If you come up with a good preset let me know!!

Hi Fernando! Im sorry I don't speak Spanish, but I know enough to read the first sentence, thanks for watching!

Hey Johnny! Thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching the video. Yeah I love the fenders as well! You are totally right that most people just want to feel the music and probably don't know what a 'bad' clean tone is besides sounding totally wacky or out of tune. But I like bringing that '65 deluxe reverb out - sounds so great and gives me a little 'street' cred that bleeds into my playing ya know?

@@JonMonter definitely know what you mean brother. Keep up the great work with the vids.

Hey RateDepth! Man, im not sure. I believe they are the stock ones from the factory , why do you ask?

@@JonMonter It has a pretty significant effect on tone. 500k pots will be much brighter (wide open) compared to 300k or 250k pots.

Thanks Nester, I appreciate you

Hey Eric, Thanks for watching!

Thanks Giulio! Yes for almost all my guitars I use #2. rock on!

Thanks for watching Gustavo! I think the song is called "see you in hell....dont be late" or something like that.

Haha Well did you?

@@JonMonter Of course!

Thanks Ted! Glad you found it useful, which one did you like?

@@JonMonter I really like the Marshall. Funny, because I own an Orange Rocker 32 and a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III, (Also a Bogner/Line 6 DT50 212, Blackstar HT5R, Yamaha THR10 but no ACTUAL Marshall...yet lol). I don't have any actual pedals yet. I have a Line 6 HD500X and an Eleven Rack I use for effects. I suspect a few well chosen pedals would sound better than the effects I have. Like maybe a TS9 going into an OCD into the Orange. Maybe a Strymon Timeline in the effects loop of the Hot Rod. But I have analysis paralysis and haven't bought any. MIM Strat, Epi 335 Ultra, Jay Thurston Les Paul, James Tyler Variax 69S, Epi SG, Furch Vintage 2 RS-SR and some Yamaha flat tops, and a classical from Japan in the 70s. Lotta gear collected since 1976 or so. Lotta playing. Not a lot of knowledge on how to turn the knobs to get specific sounds. Not a lot of knowledge on what gear sounds like what. That's why I watched and continue to watch videos and the subject.

@@tedc6694 I think all of these amps have very useful clean tones, at a gig no one would complain, unless you had 4 amps side by side for people to hear. Yeah learning how to use all the amps and effects is almost like learning another instrument itself! I can tell you the strymon timeline is an amazing delay, I have other strymon pedals and they are really good. The timeline might be too much for you if you've never had too many pedals, there's a million types of delays and they all have their own tweaks and perimeters. Start with some good quality more 'simple' effects, and start to learn how to use them. Fortunately there's a ton of tutorials and reviews here on CZcams. If you need any help I'd be happy to talk more via email

Hey Greg! Thanks for watching! Yeah it makes a huge difference, especially when recording. Input 2 really cleans things up with humbuckers, try it! Thanks again

Coud not agree more 'it's always something'. That moron at Guitar Center where I bought my custom is a prime example - he said he 'didn't even look for flaws' on his 8k+ R8 or whatever he had. Granted he probably wanted to make the sale but still its mind boggling people's ultra loyalty to the brand. I still LOVE my Gibsons, and another LP or maybe an SG is 100% in my future, but I will not buy new and I will do my homework like I did on my R9 and that thing is a beast. We should be glad there are so many great examples of Gibson guitars out there for us to play and buy, unfortunately there's a bunch of lemons out there too. Thanks again for watching

Hey SD thanks for watching. I’m actually not sure how that jack works. I’ve never needed to use it. I have an impression that the ohm is something weird like 4 or something. I’m sure you could find pages of info online if you search it out. If you find anything of note please recommend with what you find!

@@JonMonter thanks for responding. If I find out anything, I'll reply here

@@JonMonter I ask "uncle doug" on his page. His answer " Uncle Doug It's parallel to the cabinet speaker jack, so the two jacks are an either/or arrangement: You can only use one jack at a time, i.e. unplug the cabinet speaker and then plug in an external speaker.....never both at the same time. " I asked about ohm / load and he hasnt answered yet

@@SD-nj1cy thanks SD! Yes would like to hear about the load - if he gets back to you. Thanks again

Thanks for checking it out Aaron!

Thanks for watching Christopher! What Gibsons do you have?

Hey Akbar! I have never tried it myself. I will look it up and see what I can do. I was going to try it awhile ago b/c someone else mentioned it but I forgot about it. Thanks for watching man

Hey John! Thanks for watching, its a dotted 8th delay with a Low Pass filter sweep I have going on an expression pedal

To tell you the truth I'm never happy with the way my guitars sound on these videos. I can never get it to sound even in the ballpark from what I hear in the room (mic placement? no outboard gear? I don't know). I tried to get the best tone I could with each amp. But about the treble - I find too much treble harsh sounding - maybe thats where the sparkle is - but in the room the fenders sound great, and to my ears pretty 'sparkly'. Thanks for watching

@@JonMonter No problem, thanks for the reply and not taking offence. It didn't occur to me how much different you might be hearing them in person.

@@darwinsaye yeah man I really feel to do these kinds of videos you need to be a competent recording engineer too. Im just recording these with an Apollo X4 into Garage Band, so not exactly a super duper set up as far as recording stuff goes. Also im sort of throwing up the mic by aiming 'at the cone' but I know in college they teach whole classes on mic placement, so there's some improvement to be had there as well. Thanks again mk win

OK man, sure. Sounds great to me but you know best buddy

@@JonMonter best buddy, going to look that up, hoping it's not a quip

Oh, was a quip oh well, did you see hendrix trying to get a decent tone from his gibson v playing on a marshall amp? You are mixing things that don't mix, hendrix started out with sunn amps and then to fender amps then to marshall amps but mostly used a fender guitar, this man made his best music on a fender strat played through a modified marshall amp.

Thanks Anriv! Glad it was helpful and thanks for watching

Hey minigmac! Thanks for watching. Yes im with you - how the hell can anyone let these guitars leave the factory with such obvious issues? It makes no sense. Im sure you've googled Gibson QC problems and some pics that come up are crazy. Maybe it was take your kid to work day and some 5 year old signed the QC paperwork. I love Gibsons too so I will buy another LP at some point but will have to see it in person before making the purchase. I hope you get the LP of your dreams and Merry Christmas

Thanks Carl, I never heard it before either - my tech told me about it. Check out my channel b/c I re did the input comparison - you cannot have cables into both inputs b/c it negates the resistor in input 2. But its a game changer on the deluxe - you can get cleaner cleans at a higher volume with hum buckers

yeah that's a real nice amp, I don't totally dig the dirty channel but the clean is real nice

thanks for watching Houdini! Yes all have very usable cleans, even if not apparent in the video. I use all these amps live and they all sound good IMO. but yes the orange and the fenders are the best

Thanks for watching Emmanuel! That Orange is good, that's true! Marshall is good in its own way and on a gig is perfectly fine.