Topic: Marshall Vintage Modern
What do you guys think of the Marshall Vintage Modern?
Is this a good amp to create some Joe-like sounds?
Joe?:d
- Pieter-Jan
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Joe has said in the past he loves the sound of the clean channel. I think it would make an excellent amp for those sounds. I personally would pair it with another amp or I'd use a nice overdrive pedal in front of it to get your leads.
Overall I just wish they had a more useable lead channel. It seems like its a one trick pony. Nothing wrong with that in certain situations. But If I had it it would be clean all the time and I'd run a Fulltone fulldrive or OCD in front of it.
- gsj
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It's an 'old school' style amp. You have to use your guitar's controls to get the best from it and it will show every screw-up that you make.....but it will also make you shine too when you use it right.
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Hey.
I have a marshall vintge modern 50w combo, with a tokai les paul .
The amp is brilliant and i'm sure you can pull a good Joe tone but i was wondering if anyone would have any suggestions as to what settings to use?
Even a rough guide to getting close to his sound would be brilliant!!!
Marshall's are definatley the business!!!
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- Pieter-Jan
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Hi
My settings are:
Reverb: full on (I don't have a delay/reverb pedal yet, so I use all of the reverb of the amp..)
Master Volume: 9 o'clock
Presence: 3 o'clock
Bass: noon
Middle: full
Treble: noon
Low Dynamic Range
Mid Boost off
Detail: 2 o'clock
Body: noon
So the sound of the amp is set clean..than I use a Maxon OD808 (Tubescreamer) which is set like this:
Volume: full on
Gain: full on
Tone: 9 o'clock
What are your settings?
Re: Marshall Vintage Modern
Pieter-Jan wrote:
Reverb: full on (I don't have a delay/reverb pedal yet, so I use all of the reverb of the amp..)
The reverb of the VM is the one thing that I don't like - it's just too digital sounding - I really wish they put a reverb tank in there... guess you can't get everything
Other than that, the VM is probably my favorite amp right now (along with a Mesa Lonestar and Stiletto) - it's just got that great clear, crisp tone that a lot of other amps don't have - it's not muddied at all by a ton of distortion etc.
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- gsj
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So, Pieter-Jan just so I'm clear on this.....you asked what we thought of the Marshall Vintage Modern (it's not a 'VM' anymore than a Road Worn Strat is a 'RW') and if it was possible to get a 'Joe' type sound from this amp.....and you already own one??
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I asked you guys what you thought about the amp..at that time I didn't have one yet..but I've bought one just now yeah..
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Cool. Can you get 'the' tone?
Pieter-Jan wrote:
I asked you guys what you thought about the amp..at that time I didn't have one yet..but I've bought one just now yeah..
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Of course you can't get the exact 'joe-tone'..but it's a great amp for marshall+les paul bluesrock sounds!!
The high dynamic range isn't really great..but the low dynamic range sounds really good!
Joe used a combo version on the Jools Holland show!
Re: Marshall Vintage Modern
Pieter-Jan wrote:
Hi
My settings are:
Reverb: full on (I don't have a delay/reverb pedal yet, so I use all of the reverb of the amp..)
Master Volume: 9 o'clock
Presence: 3 o'clock
Bass: noon
Middle: full
Treble: noon
Low Dynamic Range
Mid Boost off
Detail: 2 o'clock
Body: noonSo the sound of the amp is set clean..than I use a Maxon OD808 (Tubescreamer) which is set like this:
Volume: full on
Gain: full on
Tone: 9 o'clockWhat are your settings?
Hey i have mine set to:
Body - 2
Detial - 3
Mid boost engaged
High range
Trebble, middel and bass full
Presence over half
REverbs over half
MV just wherever it sounds good
Then i use a boss sd - 1 to tighten it up for lead
Message me back sure if u get any other good joe tones ...
ta
Fender Strat, Tokai Les Paul, Marshall VM, Boss DD 3 (Japanese), Proco Rat (origonal) and Boss SD - 1