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I love the effects, digital as they are in this wounderful and powerful amp head. The particular amp head that I bid upon and won, has a pretty severe and undisclosed malfunction - its master gain control knob is loose from the amp face (not connected to the face, just free floating in the head) but Im not that much into death-metal, so I will let that slide. This amp head was such a great bargain, I can overlook this. I play other styles that dont require distortion and this aint no tube amp head, anyways. Another major drawback is that the cooling fan makes an obnoxious sound for a couple of minutes til it gets going good, and it then runs silent (Big fat hairy deal). All in all, its a top notch amplifier brain, the best Ive ever had. I am very pleased with my purchase.
Overall, it's a great head for people on a budget. I bought it to pair it with my Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier head. The clean channel is awesome. Crystal clear cleans. Crank up the gain and you have that classic rock distortion. Now here's the dirty about the dirty channel. It sounds ok. Not a sound you'd expect to come from a tube Marshall. It doesn't have the clarity it should have. It'll sound fine if you're just playing power chords. But if you want to play arpeggios or anything it'll sound dull and droning. I use the clean channel with the gain cranked for distortion and I use the dirty channel for my clean sound. A little unorthodox but it sounds better that way. All in all, its a great head to pair with another. As you probably won't find a single head that you're getting the tones you want out of it. Its also a great head if you're looking to play some classic rock songs.Read full review
I bought this amp a little while ago it does just what I need it to. It has on board effects and distortion, but I usually just run the effects from my pedal board. The biggest up-side to this amp though, is the amount of output power it has. Sure it might not have as much as some of the bigger Marshalls out there, but it deffinently has some kick. Plus, you get awesome, Marshall quality tone. If you are someone who needs more output at a smaller price, I highly recommend this amp for you (Although if you have a little extra doe, you should look into the Marshall JVM410JS, I think that's what I'm going for next).
The amp head does boast highly prized features, but it does not offset the cons presented by its size, weight (for those who have to continually gig it), and sensitivity of its effects (a bit of a task to dial in the delay). I will not complain however about its ability to combine the effects; offering both a clean, clean rock (which is quite loud), and an overdrive channel all linked over to the effects. Likewise, it proved to be a reliable amp head, as wells as produce high volume (with its loud cooling fan). Overtime, though, one realizes that it is not the ideal sound (tone clarity) they think of for electric guitar. It was a good selling point for Marshall (who could beat the price, advertising, and look at the time?), but as you can see due to the above cons, it just wasn't worth keeping in the long run... go combo amp (vox ac30 modded to your specs. is ideal) and always remember "resale" value!!!Read full review
If you want an awesome amp then pick this up used for super cheap, and pair it with a nice speaker cab. I have mine going through a 2x12 with v30s and it sounds killer. If you like rock/metal (or anything with distortion) you will like this amp. The FX sound great imo, ignore cork sniffing pedal snobs. It also makes a great pedal platform because of how pristine the clean channel is. While pristine, gain wise the clean channel is very sterile, so it sounds a lot better with a mild OD or blues drive sort of pedal to give you a little grit and growl. The upside though is if you run this as a pedal platform, you will have crystal clear delays/reverbs. The OD1 w/ gain at 10 will get you a crunchy metal tone so long as you have high output pickups. I don't, so I use the OD2 with the gain at 5, and it still has more gain than OD1 w/ gain at 10. The crunch setting is basically the worst thing about this amp. First of all if you turn the gain all the way up, it will blow your ears out with headphones on with no way to adjust the volume lower. The issue with this is if you use the emulated line out to record/gig, it bypasses the master volume, and with the clean channel not having a volume knob the only way to adjust the volume is by cutting with all the EQ knobs (sounds like utter crap). The clean channel however has no grit at all, so the gain just adjusts volume and things go back to making sense again. The crunch channel can't even clean up with gain at 0 when light picking while volume is rolled off. Overall though it's a great amp. It sounds awesome, and it ALWAYS SOUNDS THE SAME (none of that shitty tube reaction to insufficient current). Of course it's loud enough to gig with, I rarely turn it past 1 lmao. Also a tip to troll your engineer, is if you use the line out while gigging, you can turn the master up without affecting the volume of the signal to their board.Read full review
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