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Fuck, I'll try that netmusicians site

Cool samples, dude.

To be totally honest, I didn't think it sounded that good, but I think it's a lot more to do with the recording/mic placement than the amp itself. Fangs for makin' em, though!

Go here:

http://netmusicians.org/?section=user&value=Mike

Clean sample is up, crunch sample is uploading

Doog wrote:Cool samples, dude.

To be totally honest, I didn't think it sounded that good, but I think it's a lot more to do with the recording/mic placement than the amp itself. Fangs for makin' em, though!

I think my mic position was a little off. I'm going to do a bit more tweaking before settling on a position for the OD1 and OD2 channels. It sounds a whole lot better in real life, particularly the crunch stuff

Yeah, I can totally imagine- miking an amp can be such a bitch sometimes.

I was in a bit of a hurry as I got home at 5 and needed to stop playing the amp before 7 to not be antisocial.

Nice work nonetheless, Mike. You covered all the bases for the peeps.

Dem throaty EL34s are sure working hard, and crunchy couldn't be any crunchier, even if mic'ing didn't play out as it should (tho I'm hearing what Doog did on the green channel, I reckon). If not for anything else, it sounds like the separate EQ controls really opens up the head to a world of tones available at your toes.

Now for a club venue to scweem that baby.

sounds good


crunch demo's got teh grungez, nice

EVERYONE SHOULD USE www.mediafire.com TO UPLOAD STUFF TO, IT HAS NO DOWNLOAD LIMITS AND JUST PLAIN RULES

Thanks for the link, Harry but if you go here:
http://www.netmusicians.org/?section=user&value=Mike

I now have a permanent online place for all the samples I have done.

Nice one Mike - the crunch channel sounds really nice.
An incredibly versatile amp by the sound of it.

Thanks Thom.

I'm just stitching the OD samples together now. I made this little sample of Clean and Crunch < 1min with hopefully better mic position, although I could have screwed it up again knowing me

right-click save as

Much better, yo. Sounds kewl.

Thanks mate - you know when your ears are just knackered? I'm listening to this back going - is that the same? I dunno.

Anyways it's a great fun amp and I love the way it sounds in the room, even if I might not be capturing it all that well!

Here's the final stuff, the heavier channels (which still have some great range) - some very funny playing by your faithful narrator lies within their bytes:

RightClick->save as.. for OD1 sample (includes incongruous song selection)

RightClick->save as.. for OD2 sample (includes Master of Puppets played badly)

Awesome. Cannot wait to have the chance to try one out. Manson's said today that it'll probably be another 6 weeks before they get more in - they just keep selling out as fast as they come in - arse!

SHE'S GOT CHO!

YO PIS TOL!!!!

robroe wrote:SHE'S GOT CHO!

YO PIS TOL!!!!

You knows it. I love that song. Thanks for listening peeps - defo play one Thom - they're a whole lotta fun

Well I listened to all of them and have a few things to say. As always, all this stuff is IMUHO.

THE GOOD

• You obviously don't take yourself seriously as a commentator and that's entertaining. You should be a gear tester for Total Guitar.
• If anyone is looking for a good range of Marshall tones, this is it.
• Clean mode 2 was my favourite. And it was pretty much a Plexi tone.
• Your attempt at Master of Puppets wasn't as bad as you think.
• You did a pretty decent job of capturing the tones.

THE BAD

• Still has the typical fizzy 'you can tell it's mostly diode clipping' upper-mids response that has pissed me off since the JCM800.
• Doesn't sound as harmonically responsive as older Marshalls.

THE UGLY

• This amp is completely SHIT for metal.
• Laney pwns this amp at both totally clean and totally gained out ends of the spectrum. Even the vintage voiced ones like the VC50 could kick the JVMs ass.
• As usual, it doesn't have much bass. On any setting. Less than my open back 1x12" combo.
• My original assumption that was based entirely on the DVD test Marshall gave out is completely unchanged.

But none of this matters if you think you got your moneys worth.

gary wrote: THE BAD

• Still has the typical fizzy 'you can tell it's mostly diode clipping' upper-mids response that has pissed me off since the JCM800.
• Doesn't sound as harmonically responsive as older Marshalls.

THE UGLY

• This amp is completely SHIT for metal.
• Laney pwns this amp at both totally clean and totally gained out ends of the spectrum. Even the vintage voiced ones like the VC50 could kick the JVMs ass.
• As usual, it doesn't have much bass. On any setting. Less than my open back 1x12" combo.
• My original assumption that was based entirely on the DVD test Marshall gave out is completely unchanged.

But none of this matters if you think you got your moneys worth.

1. There are no diodes in the signal path. there are no diodes in the amp - it is all tube.

2. I didn't particularly try to dial it in for metal and it tightens up a lot when you back the gain off (it is very overgained). Anyway I don't play that stuff at all.

3. This has Trememdous amounts of bass, I had the resonance control on ZERO because I dial it out of my sound personally - the guitar should be in the midrange IMO - the amp can get very bassy, believe me.

4. As far as clean, listen to the jvm_small mp3, I fucked my the mic placement on teh clean sample - believe me - it has a great clean tone.

5. If you're talking Laney vs. Marshall I'll bring up the switching Lag/ducking/popping on Laney models. Fast and seamless switching is very important to me.

I'm an indie-> hard alt rock player and there's everything I want here and more.

Thanks for listening and commenting. There is no diode clipping.