Dialing In A Marshall Plexi - Marshall Studio Vintage SV20 

I got this amp a bit over a year ago and it's my favorite amp but not my "main" amp simply because of how loud it is. But man every once in a while I get it out, hook it up through a load box and my interface to tame the volume and I load up a speaker IR and think "wow this doesn't sound as good as I remember" (my cat has a habit of turning knobs on amps that she can reach so settings are never the same when I get it back out). So I pull up this video and re-learn how to dial it in and immediately remember why it's my favorite amp even if it isn't my main one hahaha. Thanks for the super easy to follow but detailed tone shaping lesson for this wonderful amp!

That was a superb demo of the SV20! Thanks for keeping it a no nonsense, and to the point video. Well done sir!

Sounds so good! Love the tips and walking us through how you would dial it in. This is such a great amp!

Plexi sounds amazingly beautiful! I like that super high gain sound of modern amps but I keep coming back to this heavy rock sound from the Marshall.

Oh yeah, dialing in really sweet tones on a plexi with a LP and Strat, that's my man 🤘 Good work 👍

I was going to return my new SV20C to the retailer... then I watched this vid and read some of the comments > everything fell into place

Amazing sound, playing and tips! This is the amp that I want! When I buy it, I'll come back to this video. So Thnk sir !! 🤟🙏😎🔥

Loved the tones! Exactly what I would go for🙌🏻

These were great suggestions. Dialed in my SL68 better than ever before.

This amp is just glorious

Just sounds absolutely bloody glorious ❤. I finally understand why people rave about Plexis now!

I bought the SV20H on the strength of your videos and I have not been disappointed!

Awesome playing Paul great Demo great Sounding amp.

Great tones, as always. 🤙🏻

Excellent

Beautiful.

man this amp and that strat sounds so good... I liked all the tones lol

Your tone is superb. It is really important to me to find a bloke that knows about it like me. Thanks for sounding really authentic and fat! Good job mate...no worries! 👍

Great tones

The Presence knob is the secret "boost" on most Marshalls that people often overlook. It feels like it brings out more gain, and "excitement" from the amp the higher it is. I would always recommend people (again, specific to Marshalls/clones) have the presence high, or maxed, and have the treble low or off, and work from there vs. the opposite of that. Presence high lets the amp breathe, low chokes it.

Great video! Also sounds like you were playing some Stan Lassiter on the strat early in the vid! Awesome!!! He's been a good friend of mine since 89! Insane good player

Good video, thanks for the info.

Marshall cleans are often overlooked, this little beast has some glorious bell like cleans, from srv to Frusciante cleans.

Thanks for the tone demo...One thing I think would add greatly to this tutorial is to roll the guitar volume knob down to 7/8 for lead and 3/4 for cleaner rhythm in your demo. This is the way it's done for recording and playing out live from my experience. Adding a fuzz face into the equation and turning it on and off for Rhythm and lead would emulate real life live stage use. I've been thinking of getting this amp after selling my Sovtek 100 watt amp because it weighed way too much and didn't have the tone I wanted...This Marshall amp seems to fit the bill pretty good...

Awesome!

Great video Paul. The only thing I would have like to see is your approach to adding delay and reverb in traditional plexi amps with no effects loop.

Gonna try your tips on my new origin 20 head! Hope ill get it in the ball park of this awesome sound!

great tones brotha!!!!

I would LOVE to see you do the same video but with the Marshall 1959 100 watt Hand-wired plexi....

Spectac son !!!!

Sounds great, Paul! Hope you are well mate. I use the UAD Plexi plugin and found I really like telecaster tone going through top left input with volume around 7-8. I like to cut some of the mids and tweak bass, treble, and presence to taste. It's a beautiful sound, really starts compressing in a musical way and feels great to play. If you pick lightly you get a nice "clean" tone and likewise dig in for the dirt.

One of the coolest best value amps around. It’s the sound you hear in your head.

What speakers are you using for this demo? I also have a SV20H because of your excellent videos.

I love this amp however it is a beast even on the 5 W mode. I truly can hardly tell the difference. I also have the silver jubilee with the master volume. It certainly makes it much more tamed or tame all lol but when you get this cranked through an oversize 212 it really rocks and sounds fantastic. Everything turned to 10 bought a sheriff 22 from victory used just to use the vintage plexi channel much more controllable and there are certainly other options out there. That was just my route to go, but I do love this head 2:36

Your licks and riffs and feel makes many things Sound spectacular...would be nice If you could introduce some of it and your techniques so that " we" could testplay super cool gear with super cool tones👍

I've been through 20 guitars trying to get two that sound like yours ! Awesome

I would love to watch your review of Egnater 30Mk2 combo and/or head. :)

Thank you for this video! I've just bought a SV20 :) Which drive pedal have you used in front of the SV20? Thanks!

What are you doing to get that sound? Much of what is going on with the tones in this demo is not from the amp. My guess is it's a load box with IRs and reverbs and stuff added after the IRs. I ask because getting a tone like this using a load, DAW and IRs is not straight forward. I am fairly new to it and am still working out how to use IRs and whatever delay and reverb you have going on that is giving your tones all that extra juiciness etc. What's more, somebody with an amp and cab is not going to get these tones using the settings you suggest, due to all you have going on after the amp. Cheers.

Hi Paul. Apart from the fact that the 20 watt amp hasn't got the low end of the old classics 50 and 100 plexi amps, is there any other difference in the quality of the tone? I really want to buy a good plexi amp (as all of my amps are modded versions of a Marshall) but wouldn't mind paying the extra £ and going for a 50 watt amp, if the new 20 watt amp doesn't really cut it tonally.

Great video. Great tones. Great playing. Just, if i’m not mistaken, the treble harshness goes away when you turn up the volume. And for clean tones you could always back up the volume on the guitar.

I own the 1987x and previously had the sv20h. I never really got the sounds I hear in the video: that 'juicy' midrange sound with the nice, soft top end. In my case it's rather a little bit harsh and tends to be fizzy. Are the speakers maybe that crucial? I play vintage 30. Or do you have any recommendations for me to get your glorious tone?

Thank you.

Great Video - I hope one get one day - What FX Pedals were used. Sounded great in all settings - Thank You - Jim

Thanks!

Hey Paul! Your marshall studio series amps ( mini plexi, mini silver jubilee and my favourite the mini jcm800 ) variants have made me want all 3 if I could , not to mention your playing and demos really showcase what these amps are really meant for so thank you for doing them justice ! *** Here's my request that I bet *Alot of people want after seeing a video like this one and your previous how to dial in video* Can you do the sc20h ( aka the mini jcm800 ! ) next ??! I can appreciate your review and demo for that amp already back in 2019 but it would just be awesome to see you go through these same how to dial in" paces and indepth look at the amps tonal range with your strat and les paul the same way while hearing any tips, tricks, dos and don't s on this amp! *Please* lmk what you think whenever you see this ; thank you for all the amazing content and cheers from Niagara Falls Canada 🙏🏻🤟🏻 - Adam

I have one clean tone is amazing, with alittke help from some reverb! To get it, jump the channels, turn normal channels to about 10-11 o'clock, and have the high treble channel barely on. The tone stack is passive so more you turn to the right the more gain you will have unless you have them all on 10 you should be getting a clean tone if you've done the first step.

Bought one of these when they were first announced. It does sound this good however even on 5W mode it’s still really loud and have to use an attenuation to play at “home” levels. Nice playing!

what effects were we hearing in this demonstration? reverb and delay of some sort?

Have you tried coiled cables? It definitely removes some of the harshness in the treble

super!!!

Small chance anybody will answer this, but what was used for reverb and/or delay in that sound? Something in the FX loop or was that post processing?

Fantastic video and playing! I just got the amp myself! Just have a question - what is the signal chain enabling you to add reverb? I used the efx loop, but since the overdrive from this amp comes a lot from the power section, time-based effects were undesirably 'overdriven' as well, Curious to know your personal way of getting the feed from the head and the signal chain for the reverb. Also, what cab were you using? Thank you!

Like the demo.. what are the ambient effect you have in front of the amp, it sounds far from dry?

I don’t know who are genial host is…my impression is he is like a lot us, a talented and enthusiastic dad with a dedicated room. But I will tell you one thing…check out his left hand! He has by far the best left hand EVER! I will not insult everyone by saying what this entails…but he has the same little finger dexterity I saw on the big screen with Ritchie Blackmore for example. Very impresssive.

Hi there! I'd like to get myself a Studio Vintage Combo. Which pedals are You using with this amp?

I’ve found that plugging in to the normal high channel and jumpering to the high treble gives me more control over the trebles in this amp. I may be wrong, but I think that’s how Angus does it, too. Thoughts?

You can also get a cleaner sound by going into the lower inputs

I have the combo version of it. Is it possible to get these sounds out of that 10" speaker?

Wich cabinet buy with this amp ?

Some player!

Just to let folks know if you use the high treble input only it warms up if you go from 6 to max on the volume

What attenuator were you using in this video?

Hey Paul, were you using a attenuator?? I imagine the volume would have been really loud in this demo..

Sounds so good, wondering if this will be too loud in an apartment? I used to have a Fender Vibro champ and couldn't push it past volume 5

When plugged in to the high treble #1 input my new marshall sv20H has a loud buzzing sound if I turn the high treble volume up at all, even at 1. Is this normal or does my amp need to go back? Thanks

Hi friend, I have a plexi SV20H, but when I turn on delay and reverb in the send and return, the sound of these effects is distorted, how do you use these effects in the head loop?

Awesome video, how did you get the reverb? Is the effects loop "usable"?

Do you typically eq the amp to your neck pickup?

My stat pickups are so much noisier through my SV. Stock that came in my vintage original 50’s ri. Some of the best tones but hate the hum

how du u record the amp? great video and great sound

Great demonstration of a plexi!! what reverb are you using in this video? thanks!

What effects are you using? I hear delay and reverb.

Having all of the tone controls set at noon doesn't really make the EQ flat. It isn't a Baxandall-style of tone stack that boosts and cuts frequencies and is flat when set to the middle position. In a typical Marshall tone stack, there is always some degree of mid-scoop present and bass roll-off with the controls set like this i.e. all at noon. Having the Bass and Treble controls turned all the way down and the Middle control dimed provides a better representation of a flat EQ in my opinion.

A marshall prefers to be adjusted to its liking much more than you adjusting it to yours. Make peace with the sound it wants to make and it will be glorious!

I have one of those amps and it doesn't break up nearly as easily as yours, beginning to wonder if mine is dodgy as I ordered it as B stock 😂

sounds great =0 doesn't help the GAS for the amp , i realise that this is about dialing in the amp , but on single coil guitars, dialing back the tone pot on the guitar and even sometimes the volume a bit works absolute wonders in taming potential shrieking high frequencies

which pickups do you use on LP and which overdrive pedal? Great Tone!

What drive pedal did you use at 3:50?

Tone is in the hands. No matter what piece of gear you use, you sound pretty much the same (great, BTW), LOL

Strat is harsh? An es335 with PAFs barks and ice picks worse than any guitar I've played. If I could just find an amp besides a boring deluxe voiced for it to play cleans on. No Clapton 1968 stuff. You can get those tones out of any guitar, but jazzie cleans are a challenge.

No no no Jumping No no no

Excellent