This amp can do way more than that trust me ... I played it several times and it is heavy as hell .. It's a metal amp too , not just bluesy rock stuff .. Great amp
I found it a bit noisy for super high gain stuff. I owned one for a few years - I got it when it first came onto the market. I had to run a noise gate in the FX loop, even just for heavy rock levels of gain. This was with a well shielded guitar running dimarzio humbuckers. They may have addressed some of the earlier issues though - the other issue being that it cut out momentarily when switching channels. Cool amp though.
I can't wait until my backordered JVM 410H arrives. Thanks for doing a blues tone demo. There are a lot of videos focused primarily on metal tones, it's nice to hear this amp's versatility. Especially since I play many styles from blues to jazz to rock to metal.
Thank you very much. It is buzzing because I am using single coils and I'm sitting in front of the amp. If I stood to the side, it would not buzz very much, and it would be even quieter with a humbucker guitar.
saving up for this amp...itll be my first marshall. i currently have a line 6 spider IV...all the digital crud doesnt work for me, so i test this out at guitar center and fell in love with it.
I have been playing for 27 years and I have had a lot of different gear through the years. I bought Squiers recently, and there is nothing wrong with them - beginner or advanced - they still do the job fine. There is no correlation between good player - expensive gear necessarily. I play the same on a $100 guitar as on a $10,000 guitar. I really doubt many people would be able to hear the difference, at least on a youtube video.
Not very loud at all. The master volume feature works amazingly well on this amp. I had the master volume knob set at 1.2... which wouldn't be loud enough for playing with a band.
One of the best amp demos on the web. This gets an awesome. The only other amp demo I heard that was done well like this was for the Randall Lynch Box (mic'd cab) and recorded properly. Seriously the amp sounds great through those speakers. It's got me thinking now about a speaker swap. Great playing too.
Great demo as usual. This seems to be the most versatile Marshall ever built. From sparkling clean to hardest overdriven rock. Very nice playing too ;-) \m/
@kevanprince I'd say learn to dial in a few good tones with your current gear. You don't NEED to have 256 presets or whatever... just dial in a couple of good tones, and be content. You can definitely get there with your "dream rig"gear - it's really good.
Wow, rotren! That amph sounds great when a player of your caliber demo's it! I could actually "see" the sounds as you played. I'd close my eyes and listen, and I could tell what settings you were using!!What a great demo, thanks so much for sharing that with us. Your band kicks butt also! I'm always watching your demos and videos of you noodling, I've learned so much from them my playing's improved to the point where I'm getting offers almost constantly now! Thanks again!
Now THAT is how you do an amp demo! Best I've found online of *any* amp. You not only walk us through all the basic sounds, but you fit the type of music with the specific gain settings, rather than the random riffing seen everywhere else. AND you do it with Strat- *and* LP-style guitars (see other vid). Marshall's own videos are a joke in comparison. Thank you also for not getting bogged down in knob-by-knob explanations we can already read about online. Most excellent. ..... P.S. Nice chops.
I don't remember exactly, but I mostly set the EQ to 12 o'clock for every channel. I would probably want to turn down the treble a bit with the Strat, since it tends to sound a bit bright. I normally roll down the tone knob a bit on my guitar too, to compensate for this.
@nikolajhansen15 Its 100 watts and can be VERY loud if you want it. However, the Master volume works great, and it's very easy to get good tone at low volume. Seems strange to play a 100 watt head and speaking volume, but it does it really well.
@TheTangentUK Thanks man! I don't practice much these days, have no time. I did put in a lot of practice as a teenager though. Several hours per day back then.
Perfect demo Rotren. I don't care about the settings, I wanna hear you noodle on that Suhr, it sounds great and it says all about the quality of this amp one need to know! Thanks for these great 20 minutes!
Hey matthen13, I've had my JVM for nearly four years and, yes, I absolutely love it, but there are a few things I've found which might help you out. First of all, these JVMs, I haven't heard two that sound the same, sometimes I've plugged in to another and struggle to get my sound. It's a VERY versatile amp, and also very sensitive to the slightest change or mod. The settings I often use to get the sound are really unexpected, or unusual, but that is what the JVM is about to me.
You might be right about the slightest changes that affects the sound, I"m glad that I run into your comment 'couse I was a little suspicious about that.
@igimysterio yes. u can either set it so that a button on the footswitch is locked to a particular setting (eg. green clean), or you can set it so that a button on the footswitch acts as a scroller through the different modes (eg. set footswitch button 1 to the clean channel, and press it once it goes to green clean, press it again and it goes to orange clean, press it again it goes to red clean).
I've just bought a 410 head. It's amazing! this review sold it to me. I play with a Washburn N4 and it's awesome. Need to find one of them Suhr Strat's as well. Love that SRV tone you get
Hey... rotren thanks for the video it has been incredibly helpful. I'm thinking of buying the jvm205h which is 50watts but i don't know what cab to buy. I love the the sound you're getting from the cab in the video. What speakers does it have? what speakers do you think would sound better? thanks for this video and for you're help.
Yeah I think was extremely lucky. I got it at L&M in Edmonton. I asked if anything was wrong with the amp since it was so cheap... they almost got offended and said NO, nothing is WRONG with the amp! I can't believe it sat there for weeks before I came along.
@knutegn Greenbacks are great - I would pick them personally. V30 nice too. Go for a 4x12. I have a 2x12 because I have no roadie to carry the cabinet for me... ;)
phantastic sounds from the JVM4, a good sounding strat and a fine guitar player. great vid. this vid certified my decission, that the JVM4 will be my next amp ....
@brynendas you can either try rolling back the tone till it stops feeding back, look at your cables and see if you can upgrade them, or buy an eq pedal and take off the frequencies that are feeding back, finally you can buy a noisegate which would stop hiss and so stop the amp from feeding back the hiss frequencies.
@jeTTa002 actually it can,via the emulated line out,you don't need the cab connected,i use it to record directly into my apple iMac,just MAKE SURE the amp is on "standby" otherwise you'll blow the tubes
look for the "hot plate" what it does is that it lets you control the volume of your amp, so you can crank your tubes all the way up to get the most overdrive out of them and still have a quiet enough sound not to blow up your speakers :P its a MUST for any tube driven amp in my opinion
The DSL sounds good, but the JVM is of course more versatile. 1300 for head and cab seems like a good deal. I would go for that. I've seen the JVM410H on ebay for between $1000 and $1500. I was very lucky I got mine for $1000 Canadian Dollars!
@assafm76 1. I used the camcorder's built in microphone. 2. Yes, it is surprisingly good. Almost as good as miking the cabinet, which is still the best way to do it. 3. Yes, it sounds great. 4. Suhr Classic.
The EQ was very flat - mostly around 12 for bass/mid/treble. However, I nowadays turn down the treble a bit, to get a fatter sound. It's all a matter of taste.
Doubling the number of speakers used on an amplifier adds 3dB SPL to the volume, making the amp twice as loud. So changing from a 1X12" configuration to a 2X12" will double the volume, as will moving from a 2X12" cab to a 4X12". also remember 100 wattts isnt twice as loud as 50 watts-it takes ten times the power to double the perceived volume. What this means is that a 100W amplifier is only twice as loud as a 10W amp
FYI I have this amp and it sounds huge down to drop B tuning. VERY versatile amp and in 3 years only had 3 or 4 valves changed and it gets gigged every week. The emulated line-out output is fuzzy though so the "silent recording" option is pretty poor!
@christosFP these are almost identical amp on the stats sheet ( 4 channels, fx loops, etc), but the mesa is an american amp and the marshall is a british amp, it's a personal preference, i prefer the marshall.
At 10:40, when you flip to the bridge pup and roll back the volume, that sounds just like "Life In The Fast Lane" by the Eagle, tone. I have a 410h on the way. Can't wait to plug it in.
