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After building my JTM Clone and running my treble booster through it with burstbuckers for pickups I think this is what Jimmy Page used on that 2 album. ANY THOUGHTS OPINIONS FLAMES

That's the JTM45 and not the old JTM 100 right? I'm pretty sure he used a 100 watter with the volume not that high using a Treble Booster (or some other booster) and a Les Paul.

While I think you can get pretty close with a Marshall, I really don't think tha Page used the big guns much in the studio at all. Always sounds like lots of smaller amps to my ears.

That has to be a 100watter on "Heartbreaker"!

Everything Ive ever read on the subject had him never using Marshalls in the studio. Especially the first two which had all that hype about the Supro 1x10 that one engineer there for the early albums started then Jimmy confirmed which is why you cant buy a Supro for $25 any more. May not be true but listening to the albums myself I cant find one pure example of what I believe to be without a doubt a Marshall on the first albums. If anything is Heartbreaker is the most Marshall. Its very scetchy judging by ear even if your Jim Marshall. The sounds are very thin with piercing trebles made to sound huge by great live micing. Still even later his live and studio sound was somehow always like the early albums in some ways. I even heard he used a lot of AC30 on III and on.

I could believe that the a capella solo on Heartbreaker might be a Marshall. The rest of the song sounds too mushy and saturated for me to think it was one of his 100-watters, sounds like a poor little combo racked out way beyond what it was meant to do to me.

I do agree that other amps were used Flames. You are spot on with the fact that some of the tones are real saturated. Lotty flubbyness coming out of places too.

I am talking a JTM 45 I read that article that for whole lotta love he was turning the amp just enough to where it has "balls" but it sounded like heartbreaker. The first album he used supros and teles the second pauls and marshalls I think.

He also used Selmer amps in the early days. In fact, some of the real early footage shows him using it live with his Tele. If you have the DVD, you can see examples of this in some of the bonus footage on the first disc. Itl ooks similar to a Vox Super Beetle, but it is a Selmer. Anybody know anything about those amps? I believe the acoustic guitar that Django Rheinhardt used was a Selmer as well. I don't know if they still make guitars and amps or not, they are best known for their saxophones.