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Topic: Marshall Vintage Modern

Hey you guys

What do you think of the Marshall Vintage Modern
is it a good amp for the Joe Bonamassa Plexi sound
or is it better to search for a 'real' plexi

2 Reply by kwsjb1238 (edited by kwsjb1238 2008-02-26 09:34:02)

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Re: Marshall Vintage Modern

Personally, I think it's one of the better amps ever made by Marshall- definetly the best they make now (although the JVM sounds suprisingly good for a 4-channel amp)... but the Vintage Modern is an amazing amp- great sound- you can definetly get a good JBish tone out of it.

Its got a good crisp tone out of it with the KT66 and you can get tons of different great tones out of it... the cleaner channel is my personal favorite on it (I don't really like too much overdrive)... it makes you work, but it sounds amazing!

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Re: Marshall Vintage Modern

but what do you think?
what is better for the Joe Bonamassa Plexi tone
a vintage/modern or a old plexi or a plexi from the Handwired serie

4 Reply by gsj (edited by gsj 2008-02-26 16:52:21)

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Re: Marshall Vintage Modern

The only player that I've heard get a good tone from a Vintage/Modern straight away was the Marshall demo guy. Everyone else makes it sound like a bag of spanners....me included.....and I've heard some top session guys try it out. No doubt that you can get your tone from it in time (eons) but instant gratification isn't it's thing. Get a Plexi if that's what you want.....and you have the money......or try a Cornell Plexi.

Mark_M wrote:

but what do you think?
what is better for the Joe Bonamassa Plexi tone
a vintage/modern or a old plexi or a plexi from the Handwired serie

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Re: Marshall Vintage Modern

I might be wrong here, but I don't really think of Joe's sound a representation of a maxed out plexi (I've always thought of Van Halen 1 and 2 brown sound as the best representation of that sound). I think if you want a close representation of Joe's sound relatively cheap, you would get a marshall silver jubilee (the amp joe played on the Mark and Brian show). For a single amp, that sounded pretty close to me.

Or maybe check into the cat5, carol ann, fuchs, or two rock. The Carol Ann in particular(from the website demos) sounded very much like Joe's sound to me.

Also remember, Joe plays at a pretty high stage volume with amp shields to get his sound.