Marshall JVM & VM

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54stratlover

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Tried them out yesterday.

JVM..... I liked it. 4 very usable channels, (good clean w/reverb) Great footswitch. I liked the way that the amp was linear in nature and easily usable. 2 master settings for boost function. Only complaint.. 100w with no 1/2 power setting. I live to work the power amp section in any amp, and this puppy is loud. I would have snatched it is it had settings like a bogner for reducing the power amp section.

Marshall VM..... I didn't get it. I can tell that the amp has a lot of potential. It's just not an amp that I could set down and be satisfied with in an easy fashion, very quickly. The preamp settings serve dual function from what I can tell. Kind of like using a fender prosonic. Then there is a footswitch to switch between sides, or something. HUGE volume discrepency between the two. tried to resolve that issue and was unable to. I could tell that there were awesome toned there waiting to be found, Just I didn't have hours to do that. It was loaded with kt66s, and I think those are great tubes. I would have liked to seen the jvm loaded with them.

anyway I liked the JVM, and the VM left me wondering, I think it had potential, but was a little confusing in its function.
 
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I jam on the JVM in my local store all the time, i think they are gonna kick me out if i dont buy something soon.
 
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yeah, I really want to like to JVM. But for about the same price, I've got my eye on the Mesa Roadster combo...
 
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I tried the VM this week. It struck me as a cool design made to a price. I got some good sounds out of it, but nothing that blew me away. Build the thing by hand, strip away the extra junk like the mid boost and digital reverb, and dial it in with a decent pair of ears and you'd have a cool amp

I have no interest in that four channel Marshall. Marshall can't even make a two channel amp that doesn't sound deeply ordinary these days.
 
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I played thru the Vintage Modern a while back and wrote a review of it here. I personally liked it and I had no real trouble dialing in a decent sound. I just felt I needed to spend more time with it before I plunked down the rquired 1400$ for the head (and I still would have needed the cab too which is another 1000$). It was a good sounding amp and I found it to be quite usable. That being said.............. I bought a Komet! :banana: :notworthy
 
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54stratlover said:
Tried them out yesterday.

JVM..... I liked it. 4 very usable channels, (good clean w/reverb) Great footswitch. I liked the way that the amp was linear in nature and easily usable. 2 master settings for boost function. Only complaint.. 100w with no 1/2 power setting. I live to work the power amp section in any amp, and this puppy is loud. I would have snatched it is it had settings like a bogner for reducing the power amp section.

Marshall VM..... I didn't get it. I can tell that the amp has a lot of potential. It's just not an amp that I could set down and be satisfied with in an easy fashion, very quickly. The preamp settings serve dual function from what I can tell. Kind of like using a fender prosonic. Then there is a footswitch to switch between sides, or something. HUGE volume discrepency between the two. tried to resolve that issue and was unable to. I could tell that there were awesome toned there waiting to be found, Just I didn't have hours to do that. It was loaded with kt66s, and I think those are great tubes. I would have liked to seen the jvm loaded with them.

anyway I liked the JVM, and the VM left me wondering, I think it had potential, but was a little confusing in its function.
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You will not gain much if anything by trying to overdrive the power section of the JVM, the power section runs very clean and the amp was designed to get overdrive/gain primarily from the preamp. I play my JVM at home on 1 1/2 most of the time, when I do turn it up to 4 or 5 on the master the overall sound doesn't change much to my ears. There are some threads on this topic here www.jvm410.com, one of the designers of the amp has permission from Marshall to post there and I believe he went over this once or twice.
 
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My question about the VM is Why? Why pay $1,400 for something that isn't as cool as a Celtic Edana?

Haven't played the JVM. Could be a killer amp, but the volume is a problem with it. Of course, I have a mass to tame that sort of thing now, but I prefer knocking 50 watt amps down in volume to 100 watt amps if possible. I thinl most 50 watt amps are too loud. I'd prefer a 30 watt amp really for most situations or even a 15 watt.
 
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Everytime I go into GC, they're sold out of them, but I was there as a guy was returning the VM head. I talked to him about it and he said he'd worked out a deal where he could take the JVM and VM, then return the lesser of the two.

He seemed like a long time player, so it was interesting to see that he knew the JVM would be useful to him, while the VM was good, but limited. He also was sold on the idea of assigning FX to channels.....one of the best selling points of the JVM.
 
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Gr8Scott said:
My question about the VM is Why? Why pay $1,400 for something that isn't as cool as a Celtic Edana?

Haven't played the JVM. Could be a killer amp, but the volume is a problem with it. Of course, I have a mass to tame that sort of thing now, but I prefer knocking 50 watt amps down in volume to 100 watt amps if possible. I thinl most 50 watt amps are too loud. I'd prefer a 30 watt amp really for most situations or even a 15 watt.
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With 4 channels and all of them have 2 master Volumes and Gain controls and 3 different channels per channel. You can get any sound you want, volume is not an issue, You can distort at low volume nicely
 
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My question about the VM is Why? Why pay $1,400 for something that isn't as cool as a Celtic Edana?
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Why pay for anything compared to celtic amps other then availability i mean for me the celtic diedre is cheaper and WAY better then a vox ac30cc but as i live in australia that is my only chance for an vox style amp under 1500!
 
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