Thanks for posting this video, I bought the Blackface version of the TMDR before the Blonde was introduced… it sounded fantastic with my Strat on those sparkly clean tones but forever I was struggling trying to get pedals to sound good with this amp so much so I almost thought about keeping this and buying another valve amp just so I could use distortion and fuzz pedals. The answer for me was to apply the firmware without the bright cap, and I swapped out the Jenson speaker for the Celestion neo cream back, essentially creating a blonde version in a black housing. Couldn’t be happier with the amp now I use it every day. I don’t feel the need to buy another amp anymore.
Awesome, I like the idea of doing this to the stock one and removing the tone master badge for a stealth tone master that would potentially trick the purists! I still love valve amps but my back is less fond of them.
Great video , Surprised to hear your thoughts on the Marshall DSL , I have the DSL40CR and think it is awesome , Really enjoyed what you showed on the TM and think I will be going to audition one in person as soon as I am able , Could be dangerous , It may follow me home.😂 Have a great week.👍
Thank you! The DSL40 isn’t a bad amp by any stretch, I just couldn’t get it to do what I wanted it to do. I had a JCM2000 back in the day and for me, the current DSL range doesn’t stack up to that. Good luck checking out the TM, it’s a great amp for the most part, still using mine daily.
I bought it(regular one) for home use and I didn't like it for this. I like how it sounds on 22w. I sold it and after some time I started to think that it wasn't that bad, but when I compare it with tube virsion, I started to think that Tone Master is good, but not for me.
Thank you for this! Massively helpful. I am back and forth on this amp, but have worried how fuzz and overdrive will sound with it. Your demo examples sound great. Did you find some pedals didn’t work as well, or were you able to coax good tones out of your favorite dirt stomp boxes?
Thanks for watching and for the kind words! For the most part the kind of drives I like to use work well with it in my experience. I’ve used several bluesbreaker style, klon clones, TS type, it takes all of them just fine.
I literally have 14 pedals (5 drive/boost pedals) on my pedal board and every single one of them sounds good through this amp. It was designed to take pedals and it does it extremely well.
@@JasonWharton82 I've had mine since 2020, I do love it, but it shares equal time in use with my Marshall sv20c. & not just because of the attenuation in the Tonemaster . Yes they are completely different & so they serve different needs. Pleased that you're enjoying your Tonemaster and a good time to revisit with a video since the buzz has well died down. 😎 Edit = 'attenuation', not auto corrected 'attention'.
@@JasonWharton82 Excellent...in fact you could use "no cab sim" and then hook in, for example, a Mooer Radar Cab simulator and chose from a whole host of cabs & speaker configs..I presume.
Exactly, I’ve experimented by loading up a speaker sim in helix native in my DAW and much preferred the results, these days I tend to just mic it if I can or use the HX stomp for my amp sim. Micing the tone master is my preferred option but obviously that’s not a silent option.
Record from cab simulation is awful and useless. I will expect better result for this money. Anyway this is bullet prof amp and don't have possibility to breakdown?
Hard to say, mine has been flawless since I got it and I use it multiple times per week but don’t gig. One of the biggest draw backs of this kind of amps is availability of the parts, they are DSP based which means they are not as straight forward for an amp technician to fix as a traditional amp, but at the same time they have fewer parts to break and don’t require re-valving (re-tubing for the American folk).
