For more gear reviews and videos check out guitarworld.com In this video Guitar World's gear editor Paul Riario demonstrates the features of the Marshall 1959RR Randy Rhoads Signature head and cabinet.
I have some of the last photos taken of Randy with this amp on stage with Ozzy just 2 weeks before the plane crash. I was on the front row. What an awesome experience that was seeing him live.
or Bogner La Grange...on high gain. Cool stomp box. It also has a boost and a mini-compressor in addition to the overdrive. Low, medium and high. It's way more than just a Billy Gibbons box...it's Angus Young, EVH, Randy Rhoads or anybody that known for playing hard rock on a plexi British style amp.
I think the cascading preamp here performs that function. This amp is obviously modified to give you that Randy sound even though I believe he used MXR distortion pedals through the front end of a stock Marshall. So probably it would over compress with added gain on the front end. Everyone likes different sounds. I love Randy's sound. It is perfect for Ozzy but pedals are transistors and even if they aren't they will always sound fizzy compared to real power tube compression like say old VH which comes from the output transformer power tubes. No transistors in the chain. I think Eddie even put his Phase 90 on the back end of his rig while recording. Basically using 1 Marshall as an output transformer tube compression box and then running it through a solid state poweramp and then the phase 90. Dunno for sure but my buddy told me that who talked to one of the engineers. Rock on
@@bruceniblett959 incorrect..this is Randy's sound while with Ozzy. Missing the altec speakers, of course.The signature sounds happen when the MXR EQ is applied, and the distortion+ was mostly used for Leads. The mistake most make is too much overdrive. The aggressiveness in his sound came from his hands, heart & spirit.
@@ZakEdwardsOfficial well you sound like you know. I just remember in the 1980s I had a Carvin X60 and I ran a Rat pro co distortion thru the front and it sounded exactly like rhoads sound. I was personally more into the VH warmer sound. Both great in their own way
you're have alot of knowledge and actually answer questions i would have about these amps. a good guitar player too. i have only been playing less then a year so you're a big help. thank you.
The 1959 aka JMP, was based on a 1959 fender bassman. Since shipping from the US to the UK was entirely too exspensive, Jim Marshall decided to start his own ampifier production line for ease of product placement.
@@DoktorDamage ya, the overall sound could've been way better. Too fizzy overall, definition was lacking. Whoever miked the cab sucked big time. That being said, Paul is a better player than what was heard here. Looked like a rush job to me
Good comment, and so true. Many, many years ago, a buddy ended up with a 4-channel 50 watt Marshall Master P.A. tube head. Paid $10 (!!!) for it, changed a few tubes, fixed it up a bit and cleaned up the controls and the insides. That amp ruled, what a major deal ! Funniest part is, the seller said: " I wanna get rid of it, it's crap and it says Marshall on it." That dude had absolutely NO idea what he had
When I was in high-school, a friend of mine wanted a Peavy XXX (brand new at the time, and before the internet was what it is today) because it was all about high gain and obscene amounts of distortion back then, lol. He kept saying that the amp he got from his dad was just old and not that heavy sounding, and he was trying to sell it for around $300-400. Come to find out it was an original Marshall JCM800... lol. Needless to say his dad put a stop to that amp being sold. We, as young teens in a small town, had absolutely NO idea how great that amp was in the early 2000s.
Late comment but my buddy snatched a JCM slash amp + cabinet + the snakeskin cover for 500€, fully functional and everything, the seller just didn’t know what they were sitting on.
You could be playing Randy's personal rig and lp custom and you wouldn't get close to his tone or sound. It was in his hands, that's why the players are legendary and not the amps or guitars they use.
eh..another tone is in the fingers person. ive heard many players sound like others; example is satchel / russ from steel panther. he does an amazing EVH. tone is your ear and how you perceive it
@@me-bk9er another guy who pulled off a great EVH tone was Phil X demoing the Friedman BE100 head. Plugs a Strat clone into it and starts ripping EVH riffs and sounded just like Eddie. So ya, sometimes the gear DOES get you there but the hands/approach/attack is also a worthy part of the formula
It was nowhere near the best. The only things that made it enjoyable were his pedals. Low depth chorus, tape echo on 1 repeat (almost an instant slap), and his MXR+ EQ. Even so, it sounds like he scooped the mids...
Randy's studio tone was horrible especially when you compare it to EVH' s sound. I can't even listen to the studio albums. His live sound on the Tribute album was wonderful.
Nice try, but nobody should ever attempt to try and emulate a once-in-a-lifetime gift from God like Randy Rhodes. Talk about him, present his signature amp, but don't say your are trying to recreate his sound or that you will attempt to show his set-up, or anything else like that. I thought Eddie Van Halen was the end all, be all back in the late '70s until I say Rhodes with Ozzie a couple of times live, then I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It sounded like he was playing the violin, like it was some amazing concert violinist plugged into a amplifier. There never was, nor never will be anyone who will ever come close to replicating the angelic sound that Randy Rhodes produced.
WE LOVE RANDY BUT STOP .HE WAS A GREAT GUITAR PLAYER,LET HIS MEMORY REST.damn it,idiots still have this stupid desire to pretend these wonderful mortals are more than they actually are. yes,i agree randy was great,he is dead now.i agree hendrix was unique,he is dead now.guitar has carried on without them but they influenced everyone. let their memory live on without the constant arguing and bullshit.
The playing sounded good! All he needed was the MXR pedals, distortion +, MXR stereo chorus, MXR 10-band EQ, and the specific Korg SE 500 tape delay (echo) that Randy used.
fuck that sounds so good. I don't care if it's not spot on or accurate about randy's tone, I really like the sound of it independently from what it's meant to model.
Damn Paul you do not lack for skills and talent my friend. That amp sounds killer. I heard this demo back when it came out, but I really appreciate both the amp and your fine playing now and then.
Hey Tim, same amplifier layout!, they only changed very few components and brought the B+ plate voltage up, the JMP came in two form's 50 and 100-this being said the JMP 50 was nearly identical to the JTM, and as for power tubes- the JTM 45 WAS designed with and uses EL34 power valves.
@VinCeXMS a cabinet is just essentially a box with speakers, the most common cab is a 4x12 thats 4 speakers. u can link a cab to a combo amp but usually one would have a head on top and two cabs which creates the standard amp stack and yes it does make things a lot louder. hope this has helped
My friend has one of these amps. That's nuts that there was only 150 of them made.. I never heard anything so loud in my entire life!!! You have to CRANK it to get the gain, but it sounds so sweet when you do. Can't wait to record it this summer! =)
@MeetyHam you need both, the whole head's purpose is to increase the signal to create an audible level of vibration in the speaker itself when it goes through the speakers. but the resistance in circuit of the speakers would probably stop the weak electric signal of a guitar or bass from even flowing through the speaker coils. if you try pluging a guitar into a cabinet,nothing really comes out. also, there are "combos" with the head and the speakers attached in 1 over-sized speaker cabinet.
Does anyone know if you could have a footswitchable channel installed in one of these? I'm considering trying to get one, but not sure I'm willing to be stuck on the high gain up on stage...
everyones talking about all the popular guitarists like slash and evh and randy but what about this guy Paul showing us this stuff hes pretty fuckin good if you ask me
Hey i was thinking of getting this amp but it would only be for my upstairs bonus room. Would that be good for it. I know that its so loud but I would use it with the volume box so i can crank the tubes but have it at low volume. Good or Bad?
RR used the MXR distorsion pedal... To get that sound I use my JCM 800 1959 (channels bridged), Hot Plate attenuator and a Boss SD-1, it sounds almost the same like After Hour video, believe!
@bisensee420 the guitar is obviously a gibson les paul custom but the pickups are (from what i think) are a 490R and 498T.same as mine. but when hes soloing he doesnt have the mxr m104 distortion plus soo.. and randy had the stock pickups of his 74 custom (i would reaaaaaaally like to know what pickups those were specifically, if u or any1 else you kno knows please tell me)
Shame this guy wasn`t allowed to play some of Randy`s riffs , but this guy does rock , I`ve been playing guitar for over 20 years and Randy was a huge influence mainly because of his classical training and his ability to leap from classical to total shred and back again in a few bars. I agree with the comment that these demo guys are masters of the fretboard. All hail the unsung guitar heroes XD
Listen to some of Randy's isolated guitar tracks here on RU-vid..Even though they are layered on top of one another it's still bright with not much bass
