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Firstly this one is for More Cowbell, he asked on the old board/before the dataloss for a short chord and lead section on each of the modes of the JVM so he could have a play with his EHX Graphic Fuzz to see how close he could get to each of them. So here it is, I set all the controls to midnight and played through the modes one by one, sorry that it's not quite loud enough to obliterate all string noise on the clean modes, but I guess they're less important anyway:

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The second one is a redo of that JVM vs. 6100 into each half of my 2x12" that I did. I made a flipped phase speaker lead for the 6100 so now their power amps are in phase and can be played together through both speakers in my cab without interfering with each other and cancelling each other out in a nasty way. So they sound beefy and hardcore together now. Also I used an SM58 (with the grill off) and an SM57 on teh two speakers in the same position on each to do the mic'ing, so hopefully it should be more representative.

My favourite sound on the 6100, Crunch mode B with gain at 6, is very similar to the OD1/Green channel on the JVM, especially towards the end when I back the gain back from full to 12 o clock, I think it sounds very similar. Anyway regardless you get to hear the difference between the amps, and what they sound like combined, I think they sound different on most channels, with the JVM having a wider range of gain from breakup to insane Mesa-like saturation, but I like them both.

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Anyway, hope some of you find them interesting.

EPIC!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

No worries, sorry it took me so long to get round to it.

Mad Marshall Mike.

great demos mike ! always amazes me to hear all those different sounds you can get out of a jvm.. very versatile amps !
the 6100 and jvm together sounds nice, esp with low gain i think, the jvm beefs it all up, you used that baja tele right ? i love how you can always hear the attack even through a heavy distortion, just cuts through.

matt69vdub wrote:Mad Marshall Mike.

haha.. yeah, pretty much

heavium wrote:great demos mike ! always amazes me to hear all those different sounds you can get out of a jvm.. very versatile amps !
the 6100 and jvm together sounds nice, esp with low gain i think, the jvm beefs it all up, you used that baja tele right ? i love how you can always hear the attack even through a heavy distortion, just cuts through.

Thanks for checking it out Kim, yeah I think they sound cool together on all but the OD2/Orange more high gain saturated stuff, probably because the 6100 isn't as distorted as the JVM, which is really high gain at that point, on the Clean, Crunch and OD1 modes I really like it though, unfortunately I'd look like a proper poser bringing two heads to rehearsal along with the A/B box and both footswitches, the JVM is fine for me on it's own! It was nice to fix the phase issue and play them together though.

And yup it was the Baja telecaster bridge pickup on everything but the second clean section, it's character really does shine thruogh, and you're absolutlely right, it has a tremendous attack

Thanks for checking them out peeps.

JVM Crunch/Red +6100 Crunch B is sexy as fuck

thanks for putting all that together

whats you fav setting mike?

Wow I love it. The JVM OD1 Orange/6100 Crunch B was unbelievable!

Haze wrote:JVM Crunch/Red +6100 Crunch B is sexy as fuck

thanks for putting all that together

whats you fav setting mike?

Live in a band setting when I'm just using the JVM I use Clean/Green as my clean tone, Crunch/Orange as my verse crunch sound and either Crunch/Red (if I want a thicker bassy chunk) or OD1/Green (if I want a more defined JCM800 style crunch) as my heavier crunch chorus sounds.

Crunch/Green I use as a breakup sound and OD2/Orange is my high gain sound for some of the punkier stuff we do.

Thanks for checking it out guys, I think the two amps together sounds really huge at times.

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Nicely done, Mieksta.

I'll watch em tomorrow at work

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CUNT.

I got excited seeing 14 replies.

I usually wait until you get burt hurt about noone replying until I post.

But aye. Still want the 6100.

I like it, but I'm actually preferring the deeper sound of the JVM.

Anyways I do get annoyed when I go to all this effort (including a dangerous trip up the stairs with 2x12" cabs and heads) and noone fucking bothers.

Nice demo. I got to figure out how to wire up my 2x12 so I can run 2 heads into it. That would be awesome...

The JVM and the Baja tele really sound nice together...

6100 sounds pretty damn good as well.

Kinder-rocking computer time for me, comments not so opportune from over here! Nice, meticulous work as always on a detailed comparison! It pains me to watch more than a few times, it's all just making me green with envy. Therefore you officially suck.

I reckon I'd possible have enough funds to afford a JVM410C combo once I admitted that those tones could rock the socks off my feet better than the pedals I'd sell to to easily justify it all. It appears Jim Marshall has begun to grace the threshold of the practical limits of classic, rocking tones, at least to my simple-minded ears, that is.