Editing Jimi Hendrix (section)

=== Amplifiers ===
During 1965 and 1966, while Hendrix was playing back-up for soul and R&B acts in the US, he used an 85-watt [[Fender Twin]] Reverb amplifier.{{sfn|Heatley|2009|p=54}} When Chandler brought Hendrix to England in October 1966, he supplied him with 30-watt [[Burns London|Burns amps]], which Hendrix thought were too small for his needs.{{sfn|Heatley|2009|p=66}}{{refn|group=nb|During their second rehearsal, the Experience attempted to destroy the Burns amps that Chandler had given them by throwing the equipment down a flight of stairs.{{sfn|Heatley|2009|p=66}}}} After an early London gig when he was unable to use his Fender Twin, he asked about the [[Marshall amps]] he had noticed other groups using.{{sfn|Heatley|2009|p=66}} Years earlier, Mitch Mitchell had taken drum lessons from Marshall founder [[Jim Marshall (businessman)|Jim Marshall]], and he introduced Hendrix to Marshall.{{sfn|Heatley|2009|pp=66–67}} At their initial meeting, Hendrix bought four speaker cabinets and three 100-watt [[Marshall 1959|Super Lead]] amplifiers; he grew accustomed to using all three in unison.{{sfn|Heatley|2009|p=66}} The equipment arrived on October 11, 1966, and the Experience used it during their first tour.{{sfn|Heatley|2009|p=66}}

Marshall amps were important to the development of Hendrix's overdriven sound and his use of feedback, creating what author [[Paul Trynka]] described as a "definitive vocabulary for rock guitar".{{sfn|Trynka|1996|p=18}} Hendrix usually turned all the control knobs to the maximum level, which became known as the Hendrix setting.{{sfn|Unterberger|2009|p=215}} During the four years prior to his death, he purchased between 50 and 100 Marshall amplifiers.{{sfn|Heatley|2009|p=122}} Jim Marshall said Hendrix was "the greatest ambassador" his company ever had.{{sfn|GP staff|2012|p=52}}