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What amps did Leslie West use w/Mountain?


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Leslie West's Sunn Amps. Thread starter Barquentine Start date Nov 8, Barquentine Member. Messages 2, This is from his Wikipedia page.

Interesting I thought: The Sunn amplifiers that West used were of the late s era and were not factory stock. The 4-channel amplifier heads' preamps were wired as cascading preamps to 1 channel, out to the amp's power section. That's what produced the long compressed sustain and distorted overdrive of the great Mountain sound that he is well known for. This is years before Mesa Boogie Amplifiers with a similar idea got their amps on the world stage, but Boogies do have their own sound comparatively.

They were stock Sunn PA amps. Not what Leslie was expecting when he opened the shipping box,he was expectinga guitar amp. But he realized that they were cool amps for his tone. Happy accident. Messages 5, Messages 1, One of my favorite players Rc Member. Messages Barquentine said:. Last edited: Nov 9, Are there any amps known to have cascading pre-amps prior to Randall Smith's work? Messages 3, Since mid 's there were several solid-state amps that cascaded a built-in "fuzz" effect circuit to the signal path.

Same thing. Rc said:. The main thing he liked was that the P. So, it was a master volume amp before guitar amps had that feature, allowing him to overdrive it at lower volumes. However, it must have still been loud, as I recall it was a watt amp. I think the master volume thing is what the writer of that Wikipedia page is mistakenly calling "cascaded preamps". Nothing to add but I do love Leslies guitar tone from the old Mountain days.

They had there own thing going on. Phil the Kill Bill V2 guy Member. Side story: That was also the first time I had seen a V, and I was hooked. I sent a letter to the editor of Guitar Player, the only source I knew at the time, asking to buy if anyone had one for sale.

They printed my letter and I got responses. Oh well Good article. My buddy owns a local shop. Laurence Gold Supporting Member. Messages 9, Doug's Tubes Platinum Supporting Member. Messages 10, Leslie was in a 60's Long Island garage band called the The Vagrants. I used to see them in the clubs. Messages 29, But the cascaded gain stages, with individual volumes, appears to have happened in building a preamp to drive Crown power amps.

At least according to his own story. Loudguitar Member. I saw Mountain in , right before "Nantucket Sleighride" was released. He played the Jr. Three stacks. Cab, head, and cab on top of the head. His guitar solo was spectacular, but Felix Pappalardi's bass solo was awesome.

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Does anybody know what amps Leslie West used?

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By Woodstock , December 7, in Electric Guitars. I know he used a les paul junior or special. I love his tone, I have a tele and a old ampeg reverbojet. Just to get on the street near the ballpark you need a Les Paul Jr or a Flying V, and a really loud vintage tube amp. Leslie West used Stramp and Sunns.

Instead of a guitar amp, he found himself staring at a Sunn Coliseum P. Used to Marshall amps, Leslie doubted that he'd be able to get any good sounds out of what he now had to use -- but he plugged in, cranked it up, and promptly had an epiphany.

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Welcome, Guest. Please login or register. This topic This board Entire forum Google. Pages: [ 1 ] Go Down. The cartons contained a Sunn Coliseum P. The head had huge transformers and gigantic KT88 tubes, and the cabinets were loaded with Eminence speakers, which never hurt your ears even with the treble all the way up.

Leslie West Decodes His “Mississippi Queen” Tone

Hi, I'd really love to find a setting or a profile on the Kemper free or even commercial based on the sound of the great Leslie West. I'm not talking about the fuzzy sound of "missisipi queen" I am aware that good part of this sound is on Leslie's fingers, but maybe some of You could give me some suggestions to get nearer to this sound? That would be my dream came true!! Thank You!

I was still playing thru my variety store bought amp but remember those big Sunn heads and cabs looking so cool. I don't think I bought a whole.

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The cartons Overdrive Effects Pedals. Solid Body Electric Guitars. I gave another one to a friend of mine.

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He was using 2 what looked like 50 watt Marshall half stacks, slanted cabnets. Looked basically like Marshalls but with staright cabs up and down West playing a Steingerger?? Isn't that like an elephant screwing a a lightbulg socket. I had heard he used Orange at one point, dunno if that has any truth to it. He had a nice, fat honkin' 'Paul sound, thats for sure.

They had four microphone inputs and a master volume, which sort of turned into what amps are now. You could get a particular distortion by plugging into the microphones and turning up the master volume.

He was West had battled various health problems over the years. In the early s he had bladder cancer. In he had his lower right leg amputated because of complications of diabetes. West, who struggled with his weight for most of his life, used his ample size to his advantage onstage.

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