Two dealbreakers of the 10" Vintage combo amp format: 10" - dealbreaker. Pls end the myth that "small amps" should have a small speaker. top/back-mount controls on a combo amp is also a Dealbreaker. Controls must be front mounted, eg for when leaning the amp back. There's a reason why combo amps stopped using top mount controls and switched to front mounted controls: because front controls are objectively much better.
@@AJC-jo3ds Its been common for decades for guitarists to use smaller speakers in the studio, plenty of legendary players seen in front of Marshall stacks in stadiums recorded through Fender Champs & Princetons. Considering Marshall used 'studio' in the names for these products, they focussed more on studio requirements and 10" speakers are popular for the quicker transient response and sitting better in a mix with less requirement for processing, all the additional low end from 12" or larger speakers is going to get EQ'ed out. Nothing wrong with EQ, just it brings with it phase adjustment, so better to get closer to the end result at the source if at all possible, hence the popularity of 10" speakers in this environment.
Careful what you wish for…….and play one yourself first! While I appreciate the quality of playing and the “Guitarist” media as a whole, they’ve seriously got to review their recording methods. Every amp sounds the same and faultless which says to me that the recording is way over processed and not a true representation of what the gear will sound like when you hear it in a room - unless of course you only like hearing yourself after a recording? Seriously “Guitarist” STOP the misleading recording’s, you’re misrepresenting the actual product you’re demonstrating and bringing your own reputation into question by this deception. 🤷🏻♂️
Jeremy Johnston it took me years to have the money fella it’s like playing a super nice les paul with the ultimate hardware I bought mine from world guitars.......I hope one day you get one you won’t be disapointed.
Buying the SV20H from American Musical Supply. They let you make payments. I havent seen the combos though just the heads and cabinets. Just bought my LP 2 months ago and am going to buy the head and cabinet next month. Gotta get an attenuator though so i can cr cr cr crank that beast. Ive got neighbors who are understanding but only so much.
Did they mention the condenser microphone that was used to record the amps? I noticed someone else had asked as well but did not get an answer. I don't recognize it.
The 800 vintage classic is a cool, but they should have put a 12-inch speaker in it. An 800 used to come with the g12 65. That's what my 50 watt combo had .I bought the silver mini jubilee 2525c for that reason plus it sounds awesome .
The Studio Vintage ( mini Plexi ) absolutely stomps the Studio Classic ( mini JCM 800 ) for getting cleaner, usable tones ( even with crunch ) with far more headroom. It's simply more warm & organic. Yet it still has plenty of KILLER driven tone with rich harmonics & sustain when cranked. Absolutely love it.
such vids make me stop bashing my head against the wall for getting rid of my 800 combo; reminds me of my frustration trying in vain to get plexi tone out of an 800. i guess i should appreciate that yes i am confident how to get 80s Metal 800 tone, but that wasnt the main tone i pursued. A bit of a grass-is-greener situation. Maybe if i had had a plexi in the 80s, i would have been frustrated with it when trying to get a jcm800 tone like (im thinking) Accept albums. i wanted Hendrix / evh/ acdc/ srv tone, and the 800 couldnt deliver that. When i hear the 800s and their limits in good demo vids, im like yep, thats the sound -- and the limitation, i know it well. The demos are confirming, I need a plexi (or two), to get the lower gain, thick clean sounds.
@@eternalism8274 Congrats! I don't see how anyone in search of killer tone at a realistic & usable volume level with plenty to spare.........could even be remotely disappointed in this little Plexi. Good for you.......and I'm a little jealous right now, lol. Rock on Brother.....because with THIS mighty little amp, I'm confident you will.
@@eternalism8274 See my other response to you. I just now posted it, but that was before I realized you had responded a couple months ago with your story about owning an 800 combo. Hey, so did I !!! it was years ago, and I was having the same experiences: It was a great rock amp, but just not as organic & warm as I wanted. When I first saw videos about this little 20w Plexi, I went & demo'd a combo......and immediately said to myself: "Too bad they didn't make this amp back when I gigged professionally all over east/central Florida". It definitely has the sound I was striving for all those years. I retired from the club scene back in '01. I could afford one of these SV20 Plexi's......but I'm no longer in any band, and it's far too much for "a bedroom amp"........yet I'm still damn tempted to pick one up........just to have & use once in awhile. Take care Brother.
These recordings are pretty honest. No comping of takes or sneaky repairs, as it would compromise the video. The solos weren’t first takes, but the arrangement is pretty simple; double - tracked rhythm guitars, bass and drums 😄
Sounds really good. It’s a shame they don’t have 12” speakers. Marshall is being such liars when they claim they did all these comparisons to find the perfect speakers for these and it just happened to be a 10. I don’t believe it for a second. For two reasons. 1 reason is no way both versions just happen to sound best with the 10”. 2nd reason is, if those amps sound superior with the 10”, then why is the recommended cab you buy for the heads 12” speakers? I love these amps Marshall, and I’m still gonna buy one of the heads, but I do feel insulted as a long time customer that you lie about this and think everyone is so dumb. Where’s the 10” extension cab that’s supposed to go with these huh Marshall? Definitely makes me think less of you. And you should have put a master volume on the plexi version. I know it’s not authentic or whatever, but would have been nice. Even in good size venues cranking up those two volumes to get that tone, your stage volume is gonna be loud as hell. Like two loud, but whatever. I’m still gonna get one. Would much prefer a nice 1x12 combo but Marshall is forcing me to just buy the head.
@@BlakeC27 I purchased the combo, because the damn heads been on back order everywhere ive looked since March. But the circutry on the combo vrs the head is the same. I have a 4x12 loaded with 16ohm greenbacks and i can tell you this..you wont be displeased with the sound. Im sure the 10" set up is a price point thing, They do sell as 12" ext cab for the combos, But most guys wanting these and bitching about a 10" speaker like a girl wanting 2 more inches of D.... already have a 12 inch speaker set up or they are just bitching cause they cant afford toilet paper to wipe thier own ass.
Got to wait until Marshall gets a clue and offers the JMP AND JCM 800 1 WATT series again . Those sound identical to the above amps but sound like that at TV volume levels . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M276pkb80s4.html
The JCM 800 ( I used to own & gigged a 50w JCM 800 combo w/2x12's and a 100w JCM 900 combo w/2x12's for years & had them modded by perhaps Florida's best amp tech at the time: Lars Jacobson ) doesn't have anywhere close to the clean headroom vs this SWEET little Plexi. The JCM 800 sounds decent enough for higher gain applications pretty much the way my bigger versions did..........but I swear to you, I would MUCH rather have this little Plexi vs the JCM........and that goes for the two that I just mentioned owning myself. When trying to capture some really clean, sweet, woody tones at gigging volumes, the JCM's simply fall on their face. Well, my 100w version could get some clean tones fairly loud, but still, they were nowhere near as good as the sheer body & tone this Plexi can deliver. The more you mature as a guitarist, the more you come to realize there is no escaping the fact that you're much better off with an amp that can clean up & still have enough balls & all-important tone, and you can always add a good pedal for any more overdrive if or when ya need it. But with a high gain amp, you can't add what isn't built into the amp from its' foundation/design to begin with: killer clean tone with lots of headroom ( high volume ). It just isn't in there to find, especially that sweet tone. I retired from the local club scene here in central Florida back in 2001.........but this new little Plexi 20 watt ( ok...."Studio Vintage" .....I'm calling it a little Plexi ) has me drooling to own one........and their 20w Origin is a sweet little amp too, especially for the incredibly low price. Of course the little Plexi is a better amp vs the Origin.....but for nearly a grand more, it damn well better be.
@@RsqSqr Thank you for the kind words. Brother, let me tell you, I learned the hard way through years of trial & error. This was way back before the internet, and ya couldn't just yank the shirt tail of all the great guitarists. These young cats today learning to play, don't know how good they've got it, when it comes to learning. They have it all, right there at their finger tips, thanks to the internet.
Wish I could get this out of my VHTs. I probably could if I knew what I was doing but I live in such a rural area Id never find anyone to help me if I fucked then up.
Hi and thanks 🙏🏻 I’m happy to tell you I have done exactly that! It’s available here; music.apple.com/gb/album/colours/1554916343 or here; www.amazon.co.uk/Colours-Richard-Barrett/dp/B08X6CBV5P or through richardbarrettguitar.com
@@richardbarrettguitar1228 i have already bought and listened them all. It was like visiting old friends :), tunes are so familier from "blues headlines" but with new ingredients they taste incredible now. And especially listening them in whole song context is so exiting. Thank you so much!
Very nice tone and playing indeed. I prefer though to play on a clean amp with more headroom rather than being limited to a type of tones, as with those Marshalls. They do excel in overdriven/compressed/saturated/distorted tones, to put it short: the sound of Rock. But so do quite a few good pedals (CmatMods Signa Drive or Mythos Herculean to name a few) that allow me to still use my amp(s) for clean sounds if I need/want to, having the option to push on my pedal's "drive" for crunchy or searing Rock tones. \m/
Chris Hendrik My point is that if one is to have one amp per tone, it ends up with a stack of them. I' rather play on a versatile one, with quite a bit of headroom to get the clean tones and tweak it with a couple of good pedals to get dirty/overdriven ones.
@@frantisca that's fine but you will never get the same sound as one of these amps using pedals..and you can clean them up using your volume knob.. the whole point of having a Marshall is to get that particular tone isn't it? So commenting about not wanting an authentic Marshall sound on a Marshall amp review video is kind of pointless isn't it?
@@sollyharr I wouldn't be so sure: have you tried the Signa Drive ? Mythos Herculean ? MP's Loud&Proud ? You DO get very realistic Marshall sounds and I challenge you to recognise which is which on a blind test. All those pedals clean out well with the guitar's pot volume. For lower budgets, there are even a bunch of Mooer mini pedals that reach a very nice Marshall tone. The difference is you can stack a dozen pedals easily for the fraction of a (good) amp's price. Don't get me wrong: I love Marshalls and their tone, but I haven't got the space and the time for maintaining a JMP 45, an 800, a Studio etc. On the move, I need a simple solution, allowing me numerous tones, without worrying too much about weight, different valves, etc. Nowadays, most of the sound is through a good, low wattage amp with a lot of flexibility miked through the PA. Rock/hard rock groups are using most of the time one or two amps that are directed to the console, the rest of the cabinets being empty and theatrically set-up for the show... ;-)
@@frantisca Well that's nice for you Rene...but the video isn't about your particular setup or what most people are using, it's about showing us what those particular amps sound like, and weight wise those amps aren't any heavier than a hot rod deluxe with a big ass pedalboard etc...i myself have both options with Marshalls if i want the full rock effect or a fender with some pedals for the rest..but so what? the fact is this Studio series is great for getting those classic sounds in a smaller size and i would say they would be flying off the shelves right now..😘
