Guitars

Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 837

So was on a hunt for a kerry king but then was told to check out a quick rod. Seems they kick some ass and sound like a hot rodded jcm 800. Any one have one? May be more up my road

Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 466

Splawn Nitro-best sounding and brutal amp they make. It's next on my list for sure.

Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 3847 Location: BOSTON

Splawns are pretty ballsy. some of the best Marshalls Marshall never made.

i have a supercomp i bought off some guy about a year ago. it's sick, although to be fair it was modified by FJA. here's a video of it just after beiong modified.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6o77C7w10

nasty friggin amp. Twisted Evil

Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 837

koury73 wrote:

Splawn Nitro-best sounding and brutal amp they make. It's next on my list for sure.

. On the same page brotha

Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 13400 Location: Earth

I'm endorse Splawn now. If you have any questions PM me and I'll give you the deets. The only one I don't have familiarity with is the newer 22 watt.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 12280 Location: PEORIA ILLINOIS

yea

quickrod is great for the juiced suped up marshall tone.probably the best solo tone out there right now.
nitro is great for the metal tone.

Im personally selling both my engls to get a bogner uberschall twin jet though. I thought about the fractal real hard but I couldnt respect myself without using tubes.

Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 5500 Location: White Haven,Pa

So someone school me.A quick rod is a souped up Marshall tone.So do you still need an overdrive to boost it like on my JCM800 or is it plug and go brutlzzz?2 channel?

Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 3847 Location: BOSTON

Eternal Scar wrote:

So someone school me.A quick rod is a souped up Marshall tone.So do you still need an overdrive to boost it like on my JCM800 or is it plug and go brutlzzz?2 channel?

plug in and wicked broots.

it has 3 "stages" of gain (called "gears") you select between, so kinda like plexi, to 800, to ballsed up 800.

the quickrod is 2 channel

the Supercomp i have is just the single broots channels from the Nitro mentioned above.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 12280 Location: PEORIA ILLINOIS

the quickrod is the marshall jose mod with splawns tweek which is better. Splawn, cameron and fryette all worked for jose arrendondo at one time is what I heard. I dont know if it is true.

Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 837

trying to hunt a used one down for around 900 or so. Guy had one in york pa but said it had a tube problem and he removed two tubes . as soon as i here HAD a problem with tubes im all set ...

Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 13400 Location: Earth

BLOODROOT wrote:

the quickrod is the marshall jose mod with splawns tweek which is better. Splawn, cameron and fryette all worked for jose arrendondo at one time is what I heard. I dont know if it is true.

I talked to my rep at NAMM about this. He said Scott never worked for Jose and that the circuit is it's own thing. Just to add some light to the question. How close it is to the actual Jose mod though? I dunno.

Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 2025

Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

BLOODROOT wrote:

the quickrod is the marshall jose mod with splawns tweek which is better. Splawn, cameron and fryette all worked for jose arrendondo at one time is what I heard. I dont know if it is true.

I talked to my rep at NAMM about this. He said Scott never worked for Jose and that the circuit is it's own thing. Just to add some light to the question. How close it is to the actual Jose mod though? I dunno.

Plate fed tone stack and cathode follower eliminated and used as extra gain stage are a couple things that make a splawn a splawn. Jose's mods used clipping diodes to add gain, LOTS of it if wanted. Both are good, but Splawns retain more of a "Marshally" grind to me. Diodes smooth out and saturate the tone more easily, like my Chupacabra.

Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 837

I may have to just buy a new one Laughing

Im after one that looks like a plexi . black with gold trim and face.. having trouble finding one used .

Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 837

hellboundinFTworthTX wrote:

Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

BLOODROOT wrote:

the quickrod is the marshall jose mod with splawns tweek which is better. Splawn, cameron and fryette all worked for jose arrendondo at one time is what I heard. I dont know if it is true.

I talked to my rep at NAMM about this. He said Scott never worked for Jose and that the circuit is it's own thing. Just to add some light to the question. How close it is to the actual Jose mod though? I dunno.

Plate fed tone stack and cathode follower eliminated and used as extra gain stage are a couple things that make a splawn a splawn. Jose's mods used clipping diodes to add gain, LOTS of it if wanted. Both are good, but Splawns retain more of a "Marshally" grind to me. Diodes smooth out and saturate the tone more easily, like my Chupacabra.

A Chupacabra was that animal on the land of the lost with will ferral !! haaaa

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 12280 Location: PEORIA ILLINOIS

Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

BLOODROOT wrote:

the quickrod is the marshall jose mod with splawns tweek which is better. Splawn, cameron and fryette all worked for jose arrendondo at one time is what I heard. I dont know if it is true.

I talked to my rep at NAMM about this. He said Scott never worked for Jose and that the circuit is it's own thing. Just to add some light to the question. How close it is to the actual Jose mod though? I dunno.

Hmmm good to know. I read it at another big name amp builders forum from the amp builders posts. thanks for clarifying. Wonder why it was said. I'm just gonna stop reading s#%t on the interwebz.

Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 13400 Location: Earth

Yeah I wanted to know too because of all the cool "modded" Marshall amps that have popped up over the years. I was talking to Dal from Splawn and I said "so when did Scott work with with Jose?". Dal replied that Scott didn't know Jose more than just from maybe bumping shoulders at trade shows or if they had mutual clients. He said Scott has never worked with or for Jose. I kinda drew a blank after that and we changed the subject. I dunno why that other amp builder said that.

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:07 am

Scott is a great amp builder.... I've been through a bunch of Marshalls trying to capture a certain tone I was chasing and settled on this Splawn 50 watt Competition. Excellent build quality and supreme selection of parts etc. you simply can't go wrong with one Wink

Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 1646

splawns are great amps, i bought my first splawn in 2006 and have owned a couple quickrods,promod, competition and a couple nitros. never had a problem with any of them, i played the competition live and it sounded great with a band mix. they are well built amps for the money and alot of choices in how you want it to look. scott is easy to deal with and i think hes a good guy. you dont need any pedals to boost like you do with a 2203, all of the splawns have plenty of low end and gain.

if there was a weakness in the splawn line it would have to be the clean channel, over the years its gotten better but the early versions had alot of early breakup and was nothing special. its a great amp for solos and lead work but its unforgiving and if you suck it wont cover it up. they are tighter feeling than a marshall and are very clear sounding in the gain.

Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 13400 Location: Earth

One tip I got from them is do not buy one with KT88s. They won't warranty those tubes because they have been very unreliable. Now I don't know this from personal experience with them but I originally ordered my Nitro with KT88 and they talked me out of it for the reason I explained above. I have EL34B in mine.

Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 1646

Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

One tip I got from them is do not buy one with KT88s. They won't warranty those tubes because they have been very unreliable. Now I don't know this from personal experience with them but I originally ordered my Nitro with KT88 and they talked me out of it for the reason I explained above. I have EL34B in mine.

im not sure about the warranty issues but i had a nitro with tungsol el34 and another with kt88 and i liked the kt88 nitro the best, just depends on what ya like but i played my kt88 live and used it for over a year and never had a issue, i really like how the 88 sounded with the nitro.

Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 13400 Location: Earth

Les-Zombie wrote:

Lanning is Killdozer wrote:

One tip I got from them is do not buy one with KT88s. They won't warranty those tubes because they have been very unreliable. Now I don't know this from personal experience with them but I originally ordered my Nitro with KT88 and they talked me out of it for the reason I explained above. I have EL34B in mine.

im not sure about the warranty issues but i had a nitro with tungsol el34 and another with kt88 and i liked the kt88 nitro the best, just depends on what ya like but i played my kt88 live and used it for over a year and never had a issue, i really like how the 88 sounded with the nitro.

Yeah the 88s sound better but Scott won't replace them under warranty if they blow within 90s days (or whatever the time period is) like he will with the EL34s. They said they have been getting complaints about the 88s not lasting from clients.