TONE

Here are two clips from Glen Kuykendall who played the Mad Professor with 6L6's in amp with a nice -59 Gibson Les Paul into Marshall 4x12 cabinett.

1. Clip
2. Clip, same set up different settings on amp

MP3 SAMPLES MADE BY JOSH SMITH:

These were recorded to pro tools with a Royer microphone. No EQ or FX added. Chapin Strata-Houla w/ 013-056 strings or Gibson ES-335, Fender Reverb Unit, Bob Burt 2x12 pine cab with Eminence Wizards.

1. Normal input Focus 1
2. Normal input Focus 2
3. Normal input Focus 3
4. Normal input Focus 4 w/Boost
5. Normal input Focus 2 ES-335
6. Abnormal input Focus 1
7. Abnormal input Focus 2
8. Abnormal input Focus 3
9. Abnormal input Focus 4
10. Tube/FET switch Focus 3
11. Abnormal input FET ES-335 little gain
12. Abnormal input FET more gain
13. FET Gain central
14. Secret Sound w/ES-335

VIDEO SAMPLES:

FENDER TWIN 1959 vs MAD PROFESSOR

BEN HARPER ROCKS WITH A MAD PROFESSOR AMP

All the following samples are recorded with guitar straight into the Mad Professor amp with the Mad Professor cabinet (2xCelestion G12H and 2xJensen CH10/35 speakers).

CLEAN SOUND: (Risto Toppola)
JAZZ WITH A STRAT: Low/High
TELE-VISION: Low/High

CRUNCH: (Olli Siikanen)
TEXAS SHUFFLE: Low/High

DISTORTION: (Olli Siikanen, with local Tampere guys)
TEXAS TORNADO: Low/High
BACK TO THE 80's: Low/High

More video samples coming in near future.

MP3 SAMPLES

These MP3 samples are recorded with a "run off a mill" Marshall 4x12 (75w speakers, to demo how it sounds with a standard, not that great cabinet) and 2x12" EVM cabinets using Shure SM57 microphone.

No EQ, or other effects but some reverb/delay on few tracks are used from the mixing board. The sound is as pure as it can be. The amp had stock Svetlana EL34 and JJ ECC83 tubes, only the phase inverter tube was selected for balanced sides, other were off the shelf.

All samples we made by:
Olli Siikanen: Guitar
Risto Toppola: Guitar (tracks 1,6,7)
Mikko Kaakkuriniemi: Drums
Mikko Määttä: Bass

Guitars used:
Tokai Strat w/Lindy Fralin pickups
Gibson Les Paul
Fender Stratocaster + w/Lace Sensor (to demo how the amp sounds with not so good pickups ;-)
Valley Arts Custom Pro w/EMG pickups
Ibanez Artist John Scofield model

All samples written by Olli Siikanen, any resemblance to classic tones/playing styles or songs of any living or deceased great artists are totally intentionally.

On the samples all the numbers are like hand of a clock BUT the Focus that is a four position switch, the positions are:
1: Open with treble boost
2: Open
3: Solid
4: Solid with treble boost

First Greetings from Olli
Hello everyone and welcome to the world of The Mad Professor Amp!! Following sound samples are just our way to use this particular amp, so I definitely encourage you to search for your own kind of tone (which you most likely WILL find from this amp). I hope these samples give you some kind of start point! The way these samples sound is because of we didn't actually do anything for the sound that we recorded in. In other words: All the EQ's were totally flat till the very end of the recording session! Enjoy!

Greetings, Olli

THE SAMPLES

1. "Jazzin' the mood" (1.0Mb)
Guitar: Ibanez Artist ES-200
Speaker Cabinet: Mesa-Boogie Road Ready 2x12 w. EVM12L's

Amp settings:

2."The Moore" (1.37Mb)
Guitar: Gibson Les Paul (80's)
Speaker Cabinet: Marshall 4x12 with celestion 75w

Amp settings:

3. "Jimi meets Jimi" Solo (0.7Mb)
Guitar: Tokai ST-50 Stratocaster
Pickup's: Lindy Fralin Vintage hot
Wah wah: Vox Italian V-846
Speaker Cabinet: Marshall 4x12 with Celestion 75w

Amp settings for solo:

Amp settings for rhythm:

4. "Some Tears From The Sky" (0.86Mb)
Guitar: Tokai ST-50 Stratocaster
Pickup's: Lindy Fralin Vintage hot
Speaker cabinet: Mesa-Boogie Road Ready 2x12 w. EVM 12L's

Amp settings:

5. "Eddie The Tapper" (0.46Mb)
Guitar: Valley Arts Custom Pro
Pickup's: EMG 85 active double coil
Speaker cabinet: Marshall 4x12 with Celestion 75w's

Amp settings:

On Solo: Vol raised to 12 and treble raised to 3 o'clock

6. "Go Sco" (0.52Mb)
Guitar: Ibanez Artist ES-200
Speaker cabinet: Mesa-Boogie Road ready 2x12 w. EVM 12L

Amp settings:

7. "Funky Ford In Smooth Atmosphere" (0.73Mb)
Guitar: Fender Stratocaster+
Pick up's: Fender Lace Sensor
Speaker Cabinet: Mesa-Boogie Road ready 2x12 EVM 12L

Amp settings:

8. "Aor Dream Come True" (0.64Mb)
Guitar: Valley Arts Custom Pro
Pickup's: EMG 85 active double coil
Speaker Cabinet: Marshall 4x12 with Celestion 75's

Distorted rhythm amp settings:

Clean rhythm amp settings:

Solo amp settings:

9. "Hello Sweden!" (0.48Mb)
Guitar: Tokai ST-50 Stratocaster
Pickup's: Lindy Fralin Vintage Hot
Speaker Cabinet: Marshall 4x12 with Celestion 75w's

Amp settings:

Same settings for the rhythm track.

10. "Gimme all your money" (0.53Mb)
Guitar: Gibson Les Paul
Speaker Cabinet: Marshall 4x12 with Celestion 75w's

Amp settings:

11. "Sloppy British Popstar" (0.6Mb)
Guitar: Tokai ST-50 Stratocaster
Pickup's: Lindy Fralin Vintage Hot's
Speaker Cabinet: Mesa Boogie Road Ready 2x12 w. EVM12L's

Amp settings:

12. "Hard Time In Texas!" (0.7Mb)
Guitar: Tokai ST-50 Stratocaster
Pickup's: Lindy Fralin Vintage Hot's
Speaker Cabinet: Mesa Boogie 2x12 with EVM12L+EV SRO

Amp settings:

This one is recorded from the EV SRO speaker!

13. "Dooooom!" (0.63Mb)
Guitar: Gibson Les Paul
Speaker Cabinet: Marshall 4x12 with Celestion 75 w's

Amp settings:

The following guitar parts are played with the Tokai Strat in meaning to bring up the GREAT tonal qualities and playability of… "THE" Amp!!

14. Demo with guitar volumepot, the amp is not touched, you get clean just turning the guitar volume down.
15. From clean to distortion to clean... with guitar volume (0.95Mb)
16. Heavy distortion fast lines = no blur (0.2Mb)

THESE SAMPLES ARE BY ANDREAS RYDMAN:
A note from Andreas:
The sound samples were recorded in my flat at Stockholm and since I live in a flat I can´t play to loud. But the amp sound VERY GOOD even at bedroom levels. But there is nothing like a tube amp really cranked up... I used two mics on one on each speaker of the MP Cab. One Shure SM57 and a no name SM58 copy.
The SM57 was angled towards the side off the speakercone approx.. 3 cm from the speaker. The SM58 pointed towards the middle off the speaker.
From the mics the signal goes to my Digi 001 interface into Pro Tools LE. No EQ or compressors were used!!! I added some room reverb and that´s it! That's one off the really wonderful things about this amp. You don´t have to process the signal to make it live. This motherf#%er is full of BIG tone!!! The tracks that feature bass and drums are recorded at Smi and were recorded as backgrounds for guitar students. I used them so you could hear the amp with a band.

Guitars used:
PRS McCarty Hollowbody II with .012-.052 strings.
Fender Strat. 1979 with Lindy Fralin pickup in bridge position .010-.046 strings.
Seymour Duncan 60´s reissue Tele with Strat pickup in neck position and 4 way pickup selector. .010-.046 strings.
No name 60´s lap-steel with: .018-.060 strings
Hand made green glass slide.
Lots of Coffee.

1. Dust My Slide #2
PRS. Bridge pickup. Some slap-delay from a line6 DM-4 was added between guitar and amp.

2. The Broom
PRS. Neck pickup.

Amp settings:

Powersuck: Bedroom (max)
3. Mad Lap
Lap steel

Amp settings:

Powersuck: Club

4. Can't Stop Playing Slide
PRS. Bridge pickup.

Amp settings:

Powersuck: Bedroom

5. I Feel Like Playing Slide
PRS. Neck pickup.

Amp settings:

Powersuck: Bedroom

6. Tele Rock
Tele. Bridge pickup.

Amp settings:

Powersuck: Bedroom

7. Tele Rock #2 Same settings as 6.

8. Tele Rock #4
Tele. Bridge pickup.

Amp settings:

Powersuck: Club

9. The Mudd
Tele. Bridge pickup. Slapback delay from DM-4

Amp settings:

Powersuck: Club

10. Tele Slide Tele with both pickups on (4th mode) amp has same settings as 9.

11. Tele Slide #2
Tele BJF Saffron Yellow Tremolo Amp settings as 9. exept Volume: 3.

12. Clean Tele
Tele. Bridge pickup.

Amp settings:

13. Clean Tele #2 Tele, 2nd position, some slapback delay from DM-4, same setting as 12.

14. Clean Tele #3 Tele, 2nd position, some slapback delay from DM-4, same setting as 12.

15. The Friss Tele Bridge Position.
BJF Little Green Compressor and hall reverb. settings as track 12.

16. The Strat
Bridge pickup.

Amp settings: