This recording setup refers to following amps: Marshall JTM 45 MKII Head and 1959T Super Tremolo 100 Watt

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The cabinets were closely miked with 2 Shure SM58 from the front. Both mikes were routed through a mixing console and then fed into my old Yamaha 4 track cassette recorder. Tracks 3 and 4 were fed with the backing track from a portable CD Player. At home a little room reverb was added and the internal equalizer of the multi-tracker was adjusted fairly neutral. The stereo signal was then digitised by the PC soundcard via n-tracks software. Besides normalising the signal , no other sound editing was done to the tracks.

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Both amps were used without power soaks (direct amp to speaker connection).

A compressor ( Boss / Ibanez) was used with just a little compression adjusted, to get most out of the clean channel (it adds a very nice sweetness).

A digital reverb unit was connected to the parallel Fx loop (Alesis Microverb and Nanoverb) and adjusted to just add a hair of reverb.

The 3 channels were used in the sequence Clean, Plexi, High Gain. Please note how nicely the 3 channels blend together from one channel to the next. The sound stays basically the same, but the amount of compression and the complexity/texture of the tone changes dramatically. If you roll the guitar volume knob down when using the high gain channel, it sounds like you are switching back to the clean channel, but it's really the dynamics of the channel when it cleans up.