Played a Marshall Vintage Modern

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Re: Played a Marshall Vintage Modern

I played one today at GC. I initially didn't like it at all, but after tweeking around w/ it it just began to sing. I really enjoyed the clean tone, and the distortion (after messing w/ it) gave me a nice, thick, chunky tone and a great solo tone.
Interesting enough...they had two, one w/ the matching cabinet and one w/ a normal 1960 lead cab. The matching cabinet was approximately $900 or so and the other was like $600 and the normal cab sounded loads better.
I really, really, really liked it. And I will probably buy it.

 

[BluesGuyJ]

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Any videos of Gilbert playing the Marshall VM? I never heard of this till now.

 

[ErikH]

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Any videos of Gilbert playing the Marshall VM? I never heard of this till now.

Yeah, same here. That's the first I heard of that. Although, I did see his pic on the Marshall VM page on their site. He's been a Laney user for years.

 

[Ayrton]

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Don't have the details, but the Marshall/Gilbert deal went down right after G3.

 

[stevie_bees]

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I read in an interview that Slash used one, as well as his signature amp, on the latest Velvet Revolver album.

 

[RockNRoling]

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I played one the other day too. Really impressed. I have not liked many of the new marshall stuff, but this is like a JCM 800 with a little more control over the sound. I played a 50 watt version and I had to have the thing cranked over half way up to get a decent volume. I would probably recomend the 100 watt to any one that plays with a drummer. Good sounding reverb, and the hi and low (pretty much chan 1 & 2) switch are both nice. The only thing i didn't like was the EQ knobs didn't really do a whole lot. It pretty much has its own sound and you just crank up how much drive you want. Best Marshall that has been made in the last 10 years!!

 

[BloodRose]

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seems that Paul Gilbert is the latest Vintage Modern endorser...

Ive seen ads with Slash endorsing them.. I find it hard to believe he will park the jubilees.

 

[theodie]

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Erik, compare it to the 2100.

 

[ErikH]

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Totally different animal, Dave. This amp has the true vintage Marshall sound to it. It cleans up better as well. However, I still love the 2100/2500 MkIII's. The VM has a little more diversity in it because you can switch between gain levels where as with the MkIII, it's just the master volumes.

BTW, saw Great White this weekend. Mark Kendall uses the MkIII 2100 and matching 1960A cab.

 

[BloodRose]

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You can play the hell out of it! The bill won't even cross your mind when you're deafening yourself.

Congrats Brew! give a review once you work it out in your domain... Also, let us know how it reacts with the diff cabs..

I really like the VM. I would be confused as to what cab to get tho..

 

[WhoFan]

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i'm seeing a few of these VM Marshall heads popping up used already.. strange as they are not that old...