Replicating Blackmore's Major tone on a JMP

[Papus]

Anyone got any suggestions for replicating Blackmore's Marshall Major tone on a JMP (any model) or indeed any other Marshall amp?

A little background info:
Blackmore modded his Majors heavily over the years - he rarely had the same sound for more than 12-18 months at a time.
The first mod was a primitive cascade/PPIMV mod ("Made In Japan"), then came experiments with bright caps in conjunction with treble booster pedals and the AIWA tape deck as a further boost ("Burn", "California Jam", "Live In London"), then came additional preamp tubes for even more cascaded distortion ("On Stage", "Long Live Rock And Roll").
Later, even MORE cascaded distortion ("Difficult To Cure", "Straight Between The Eyes").

[plexipaul]

Check out the Brotech Fatpipe Pro pedal.

[MartyStrat54]

Those Majors are ultra linear amps and really loathed a distorted signal hitting the phase inverter. I've heard all sorts of rumors about Ritchie's amps. I think the mod with an extra 12AX7 is true. The main thing is his sound was a pretty clean, snappy tone. My fav amp is my 78 JMP 2203 with NOS preamp tubes and EH 6CA7's. It will get pretty close to that Major tone, especially with a Strat. My main Strat has the Lace Golds in it and they are lower output. This seems to help a lot. Back in Ritchie's day, he played Strat's with stock pickups and they were lower output ones.

[SteveD]

I'm off to see Ritchie at ye olde city of York next Friday. Then an indian curry washed down by a few :chug afterwards, stay the night and travel back after a good breakfast somewhere the next morning

[Papus]

I'm off to see Ritchie at ye olde city of York next Friday. Then an indian curry washed down by a few :chug afterwards, stay the night and travel back after a good breakfast somewhere the next morning

I'll never get to see Blackmore coz we don't have any castles or chateaux grand enough for him to perform in :(
Steve can you get a look at his rig and post your thoughts here?

[surfnorthwest]

I'm off to see Ritchie at ye olde city of York next Friday. Then an indian curry washed down by a few :chug afterwards, stay the night and travel back after a good breakfast somewhere the next morning

I assume you are seeing him with "Blackmores Night", man that is a band I am just dying to see but they rarly tour here in the US. I love the final sound of Blackmores Night I have their CDs and DVDs, have a great time.

[Rheproman]

What are your proposals for Blackmores Tone on a YJM?

[OdgeUK]

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If you can make your amp sound like the first 32 secs of this video then you are there :)

That chord at 0:32 is so clean and powerful. Loads of gain is for amateurs.