Thenewexhibit
Power User
What Marshall style amps do you guys like that bridge the gap between vintage Marshall and modern Marshall?
I haven’t ruled out the 800’s, but I think they might be right on/under the edge of what I’m looking for. The plexi’s and jmp’s sound fantastic, but I want a little more of the modern element with it. The Friedman’s tend to be a little too dark and wooly for me, even after adjusting the bass and depth, so looking for others. I think even the EVH Blue channel is great, and even the Bogner/Euro Blue is great, but just curious of other options. The JVM is cool too, but might be just a bit too modern/gainy/saturated. Revv could be neat too, but I know they are typically much hotter/saturated, although, they seem to be an amp model that still stays spongey when turning the gain to lower settings as opposed to getting “dry” sounding and stiff feeling as some other amps do.
For reference, I actually use the Shred Distortion pedal for a higher gain tone going into the Morgan AC-20 12ax7 treble, and with a YA 212 Mesa IR. It works great for that modern marshall style tone, and I generally run just that amp, and use different shades of drive pedals. But now with gapless switching, I wanna experiment more with different amps because I feel like I can cop that same sound, but much more dynamic and punchy with an actual amp model, so curious what could fit that bill and what you guys are digging!
I haven’t ruled out the 800’s, but I think they might be right on/under the edge of what I’m looking for. The plexi’s and jmp’s sound fantastic, but I want a little more of the modern element with it. The Friedman’s tend to be a little too dark and wooly for me, even after adjusting the bass and depth, so looking for others. I think even the EVH Blue channel is great, and even the Bogner/Euro Blue is great, but just curious of other options. The JVM is cool too, but might be just a bit too modern/gainy/saturated. Revv could be neat too, but I know they are typically much hotter/saturated, although, they seem to be an amp model that still stays spongey when turning the gain to lower settings as opposed to getting “dry” sounding and stiff feeling as some other amps do.
For reference, I actually use the Shred Distortion pedal for a higher gain tone going into the Morgan AC-20 12ax7 treble, and with a YA 212 Mesa IR. It works great for that modern marshall style tone, and I generally run just that amp, and use different shades of drive pedals. But now with gapless switching, I wanna experiment more with different amps because I feel like I can cop that same sound, but much more dynamic and punchy with an actual amp model, so curious what could fit that bill and what you guys are digging!
