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Post by adam on Oct 4, 2020 9:15:12 GMT -7
I did a demo of the maz jr18 turned up pretty loud for fun. Hope someone finds it helpful.
Thanks
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Post by DRZ on Oct 4, 2020 9:58:49 GMT -7
WOW very nice Adam. Thanks for showing the versatility of the MAZ 18 NR MKII. Great playing. We need to talk about a demo of my new CAZ-45 .
DR.Z
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Post by Paul (TRANE) on Oct 4, 2020 11:08:46 GMT -7
Man. That was seriously impressive! Great tone and great playing!
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Post by adam on Oct 4, 2020 11:14:26 GMT -7
Gee, I'd love to do that and would be truly honored. I have to look that CAZ, not sure what that's about yet, but just "45" has me drooling. EZG and EMS really have me intrigued too. Also saw Peach did a recent vid entitled Alex Lifeson something with the Z-LUX that really surprised me. I'm a believer! Thanks, and I think you know how to get a hold of me. If not, let me know. And thanks.
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Post by purpletele on Oct 4, 2020 13:49:58 GMT -7
Great video.
I love the SRV tone you derived!
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Post by Jaguarguy (Mike) on Oct 4, 2020 16:45:26 GMT -7
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Post by dcarver on Oct 4, 2020 23:26:33 GMT -7
I just did about a 2 hour dive into your YT channel. All I can say is HOLY CRAPAZOLI ... just outstanding. Barracuda, Four Sticks, Comfortably Numb, all beautifully done. Tanks for posting Adam. Hope to see more.
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Post by adam on Oct 5, 2020 4:46:34 GMT -7
I just did about a 2 hour dive into your YT channel. All I can say is HOLY CRAPAZOLI ... just outstanding. Barracuda, Four Sticks, Comfortably Numb, all beautifully done. Tanks for posting Adam. Hope to see more. Thanks for watching, and very much appreciated. I just love music, the sound of an electric guitar in particular, and YT provides at least some form of outlet for it. Always have been interested in the engineering behind it too, so those have been great practice. What prompted the maz video was I was fooling around with a di box with a speaker input and running that speaker to a 4x12 in the next room lying on it's face (that's my cheap load box and attenuator solution), played that Mississippi riff and was amazed at how the single note lines popped out over the chords. I've never experienced that before. It's like with the amp pushed, it compresses more with the chords, but the single notes not so much and they just sing out. Also neat, it's not like the chords fall apart and get mushy either. I didn't do the video like that, but if you were covering all the parts in a 3-piece cover band, it's just perfect. The other real eye-opener was the clean tone when backing the guitar volume down, like you can get it really clean without losing really any volume, never experienced that before either. Then of course you can lower the volume more and get quieter if needed. I just think there's some magic in that robust and musical power section combined with the hand wiring. Also note the noise floor of the amp is next to nothing so it's not like the thing is hissing when it's turned up like that. Anyway, plugged in the Strat to see what it sounded like and I thought it sounded great so had to add that into the video somehow. My takeaway there was the high strings, or playing high had this really thick sound, or thicker than I'm used to anyway. Also might add that I took the maz to an outdoor gig a few weeks ago and that lightweight, easy to carry little combo sounded fantastic and had no problem keeping up with a loud drummer and a bassist with a real SVT. For reference, I had the gain around 10-11 o'clock and the master about 11-11:30pm. It's a great amp that gives you back what you put into it, and really fills a practical need too.
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Oct 5, 2020 5:51:33 GMT -7
Great playing and tone, Adam...Welcome to Z-Talk. I really enjoy your technique and tone. My Maz 18NR II is one of my favorite amps and you do a GREAT job of showcasing it.
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Post by dcarver on Oct 5, 2020 13:38:06 GMT -7
Thanks for the detailed response. I share your love electric guitars and how to get good tones from them. Do you happen to know if that Maz 18 is running the stock tubes ? It sounds great ! You've inspired me to crank my little ol` Maz 8 see if I can get in the same ballpark. Cheers
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Post by adam on Oct 5, 2020 15:17:47 GMT -7
Great playing and tone, Adam...Welcome to Z-Talk. I really enjoy your technique and tone. My Maz 18NR II is one of my favorite amps and you do a GREAT job of showcasing it. Thanks, and thanks for the welcome! I could and probably should have played it better, but really it was a snapshot of the tone for me.
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Post by adam on Oct 5, 2020 16:01:16 GMT -7
Thanks for the detailed response. I share your love electric guitars and how to get good tones from them. Do you happen to know if that Maz 18 is running the stock tubes ? It sounds great ! You've inspired me to crank my little ol` Maz 8 see if I can get in the same ballpark. Cheers Cheers and thanks! My Maz is about a year old, stock tubes. I would guess the core tone of that amp is really similar. The power section has to be different, and maybe a lot of the tone from how I was pushing it came from the power section, but really one of the engineers would need to chime in and explain those differences. I might also add that when you have an amp that really gives back what you put into it, that input (guitar) really makes a huge difference. I have 3 great Strats, they all sound 180 degrees different from each other, and the one in the vid is a '65. The other Strats don't sound anything like that one, and not saying the others sound bad, they just don't sound like that one. Those tonal differences are really exasperated in an amp like this. I might also add that the Les Paul custom here sounds completely different from my standard. The custom has a really focused sound for lack of a better word, and the standard is more open sounding. And then you combine that with the speaker and it's really how all those things are working together, or not, to create a tone. It's like all those parts, plus player, plus the capture side of it make a "sound". You can have the best guitar and amp, but maybe the speaker isn't right for that, and it could be an awful sound. To sum it up, I bet your amp can get that tone if that's what you are looking for, but there are equal puzzle pieces all over the place. I look at it like the guitar is an instrument, the amp equally an instrument, and the speaker and mic and preamp try to make the most of that input. And the player... there's a semi famous quote of Nuno Bettencout saying he played through Van Halen's rig and was bummed because it didn't sound like Van Halen, it just sounded like him. So there's that part too.
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Post by jsdirt on Oct 6, 2020 10:44:13 GMT -7
Awesome tone and playing Adam! It really makes me want to crank my Maz 18 through a 4x12. What type of speakers did you have in your cab? Was it miced up or were you using a load box with a line out to a speaker sim? Welcome to the forum.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 12:44:32 GMT -7
Nice demo!! I wish I could do that stuff!! Great tone and playing!!
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Post by adam on Oct 6, 2020 16:38:40 GMT -7
Awesome tone and playing Adam! It really makes me want to crank my Maz 18 through a 4x12. What type of speakers did you have in your cab? Was it miced up or were you using a load box with a line out to a speaker sim? Welcome to the forum. Thanks, and thanks for the welcome! I plugged the speaker out into a Warm Audio di box, and the speaker out of that into a 4x12 in the next room for the load. That cab was lying face down to cut down on the noise. The di part of the signal fed a UA Apollo and I used a Friedman be-100 plugin (brainworks) for the ir part (you can turn off the preamp and amp sim just leaving the ir part of the plugin). That ir was the first British 4x12 in the list, the greenback one, preset 48 I think. Then I added the guitar room preset from the OA Ocean Way studio plug. Hardly anything there, but it gives some sense of space rather than just mic on the grill cloth type of sound. You can hear that best in the in the opening Mountain riff. It's there, but it's not like a normal reverb sound. So it sounds basically dry, but just has some "air". I monitored through the regular studio speakers. That was the first time I tried that, and it was a pretty efficient workflow and didn't kill my hearing. The pro of the situation is you can easily hear what you are recording, it's quiet, and it's easy. The downside is you can really get better results with real mics, and of course you are missing the symbiotic relationship with the amp in the room, and that really can contribute a ton to the overall sound and vibe. You can really hear that on some of the longer notes I played, like they don't sustain and blossom or mutate like an amp in the room does. That's part of the magic of a guitar sound I think. Hope that helps. What I can say is that if you set the amp like I had it and used that ir, you would have that exact sound.
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Post by adam on Oct 6, 2020 16:53:59 GMT -7
Nice demo!! I wish I could do that stuff!! Great tone and playing!! Thanks a bunch, but I'd like to encourage you in that the beauty of this stuff is that you can do it if you really want to. You just have to work at it every day. There's some limit, but I think it's a speed thing. Like I can't run as fast as Mr. Bolt and never will. I will never play as fast and as clean as say Al Dimeola, which is kind of like saying I'll never have the reaction time as say a formula one driver. But, I think everyone has the ability to output great musical stuff "if they really want to". I think music is a gift we all have, just a matter if you really want to pursue it. Yngwie played every waking hour of every day basically. Just throwing it out for perspective.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 17:46:55 GMT -7
Nice demo!! I wish I could do that stuff!! Great tone and playing!! Thanks a bunch, but I'd like to encourage you in that the beauty of this stuff is that you can do it if you really want to. You just have to work at it every day. There's some limit, but I think it's a speed thing. Like I can't run as fast as Mr. Bolt and never will. I will never play as fast and as clean as say Al Dimeola, which is kind of like saying I'll never have the reaction time as say a formula one driver. But, I think everyone has the ability to output great musical stuff "if they really want to". I think music is a gift we all have, just a matter if you really want to pursue it. Yngwie played every waking hour of every day basically. Just throwing it out for perspective. I agree 100%!!
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Post by runninwiththerevil (Matthew) on Oct 8, 2020 8:26:23 GMT -7
I love when you get up because you were done, but the amp said “where you going? We’re having fun.” Some of the best time’s playing are when the clock says stop but your fingers won’t let you.
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Post by GuitarZ on Oct 8, 2020 10:25:18 GMT -7
I just got my Marshall off my workbench, plugged it in, and cranked it up yesterday. My first thought was "That's the sound of Rock & Roll!". I think you got the 'Sound of Rock & Roll" with your Maz demo. Nice! Sounds Great! And, Great Playing!
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