Answer: I guess that term started, because I was first known for taking Marshalls and modifying them to sound better, Marshall originally copied the Fender 59 Bassman, with the only difference being the output tubes. So the similarities of the M-1000 to the Marshall is the M-1000 uses the same kind of output stage(El-34/6550's), but the Preamp section is totally custom and different.

Answer: How we were different from other mod's is we would completely rip the guts out the Marshall chassis and rebuild the amps to however the artist wanted it.

Answer: Their was never official schematics made for the M-1000 and the GP-1000, we went from me designing it on the board to the production line, the M-1000 schematics that are floating around are from one of my European distributors that drew it himself. Their will be a schematic for the GP-1000 in my new schematic book to be out soon.

Answer: Their were two designs, the first one was a direct copy of my popular custom made Deluxe amps which sounded like a modified Fender, the second version came about because when I sent my salesman out they kept hearing musicians asking if they were like my modified Marshalls, so at a sales meeting my sales crew asked my to change them more like the hot-rodded Marshalls, so I don't the tube DI and used the two extra tube stages for MORE gain.

Answer: The core of the amps are the same for each player, the only differences was the extra stuff: Channel switching, tube effects loop, etc...

Answer: It's hard to be exact, we made about 100-150 of the M-1000 heads a month for 6 years. Also my gear was shipped all over the world.

Answer: We made about 50 heads a month for two years.

Answer: We definitely sold more heads than cabinets, I would say around a 1000 all together.

Answer: Absolutely, I get between 20-30 thousand hits a day on my website www.leejackson.com from players all over the world and about 500 emails a week, and a good portion are from players asking me to start another amp company. It costs a truck load of money to start an amp company so I'm looking for the right investors right now.

Answer: Plexi Marshall

Answer: Wow....that's hard their are so many, I like any tone that is real, clear and defined.

Answer: I think it is great for the right situation, Their is nothing like a Miked tube amp, but I have found mixtures of both on recordings seem to work great. The guitar emulators seem to be in there own frequency range that make them stand out in the mix.

Answer: Man you have the questions! Well the best way to answer is Life is all about learning and each amp that I designed I learned...a lot! The Metaltronix stuff was my first baby, and my first time to own a manufacturing business, so each step was new. whereas working for Ampeg and Crate which were already established amp companies, I had to work within there design frame, they did let me throw away all the parts they were using and spec in my parts, but I had to design a amp that didn't require soldering at all.
Lee Jackson Amplifiers was the culmination of all my years of designing, I feel they are the best of all my design ideas in one box, I still have the same two XLS heads off the production line, I have been playing through them for 8 years with only changing the tubes.

Answer: That's way too hard to define without knowing what market we are talking about.

Answer: The XLA series is designed after the custom amps I built for George Lynch, Steve Vai and Zakk Wylde.
The XLS series was what I felt to be the next step in amp design, it creates a wide variety of tones and features.

Answer: As I said earlier I was always learning and I found I had to strengthen the chassis and remote the main circuit board etc..., so the Series II was all the updates that made the heads more roadable.

Answer: It's called Powdercoat, It's expensive and takes very special processes to apply it.

Answer: That's typical of any amp, their are so many parts that make up an amplifier and each part has a 5 - 10% tolerance, when you add up all the variables the amps come out sounding different.

Answer: I think Jason has been doing a great job of pulling info from all over and creating a place for Metaltronix players to find out more about their amps.

Answer: Wow, so much...where to start? I am currently building pedals (which you can purchase on www.leejackson.com) as well as working on a new version of the M1000 amp. Plus, I have been doing some record producing and consulting. I have also been working with this guy Tom Volpert, who has developed a new form of data compression that has IBM, Intel and Apple excited. So I've been very busy.