First look; MGL Modern/Vintage

[thegame]

Thank you Dan but I was hoping for a 'best of' Kerry King solo compilation

 

[DanTravis62]

Thank you Dan but I was hoping for a 'best of' Kerry King solo compilation

Oh the lead stuff is coming but I can assure you I do not like whammy bar abuse and it's not gonna show up in my solos

Particularly whammy bar abuse as horrific as KKs

 

[DanTravis62]

Sounds fantastic! Has all of the great qualities of an old Marshall, just more without having to boost. That is some of the best thrash tone I've ever heard. There is little doubt that this is the exact amp I will buy next year. Thank you for the efforts!

Absolutely man, I'm just stoked I have the opportunity to get some clips out for people so they can hear it in the context they need.

That's a huge problem with a bunch of online demos and youtuber/IG stuff - it's either just a normal in the room or a super ultra produced clip, and neither one give you a great idea of what the amp really sounds like, or what it would sound like with real world gear in a real players hands.

I'm doing a bunch of dental work this week so while im not 100% im also not at work, so I can get some demos out there.

 

[DanTravis62]

Also @japetus I hate you for picking this song and not "in the meantime" or "unsung" or another helmet song i've actually heard before, because I had to completely fake my way through this

however, I think it gets the point across for the spicy chords and harmonics, as well as the drop d power chord thing

 

[japetus]

Also @japetus I hate you for picking this song and not "in the meantime" or "unsung" or another helmet song i've actually heard before, because I had to completely fake my way through this

however, I think it gets the point across for the spicy chords and harmonics, as well as the drop d power chord thing

FUCK YES!!!!!!!! The intro you nailed, I always use it for harmonic testing.

 

[skoora]

FUCK YES!!!!!!!! The intro you nailed, I always use it for harmonic testing.

Yeah, that harmonic intro sounded dead on.

 

[glpg80]

Yes, Saturation is standard on ALL of our amp models. The tone cap switch is for the first tone cap in the circuit and that is only on the Modern/Vintage or Limited all mustard circuit amps. Both single and 2-channel amps have the switch. The 2-channel amps have a number of other switches on the front panel also. There's a very detailed description of all of the switches front and back for each amp listing on our website.

In all truthfulness I feel you provide a better sounding alternative to a Splawn Quickrod. Whatever you’re doing on the tonestack is extremely impressive because it’s carving all kinds of tones which Marshall’s really struggle to do especially after preamp voicing.

 

[MGL AmpWorks]

In all truthfulness I feel you provide a better sounding alternative to a Splawn Quickrod. Whatever you’re doing on the tonestack is extremely impressive because it’s carving all kinds of tones which Marshall’s really struggle to do especially after preamp voicing.

Thanks!

 

[skoora]

In all truthfulness I feel you provide a better sounding alternative to a Splawn Quickrod. Whatever you’re doing on the tonestack is extremely impressive because it’s carving all kinds of tones which Marshall’s really struggle to do especially after preamp voicing.

I am finding it peaked and narrow on the rhythm tones though. Makes me wonder how flexible the midrange is to help widen the sound a little without going for a scoop.

 

[chumbucket]

Thanks to MGL for providing this amp for testing and thanks to Dan for providing some kick ass clips! (Let's hear some more!)

 

[Mike Oxhuge]

In all truthfulness I feel you provide a better sounding alternative to a Splawn Quickrod. Whatever you’re doing on the tonestack is extremely impressive because it’s carving all kinds of tones which Marshall’s really struggle to do especially after preamp voicing.

Yes this is what I wanted the Splawns and many other Marshally voiced anps to sound like. And all of this without boosting. A home run for sure.

 

[DanTravis62]

In all truthfulness I feel you provide a better sounding alternative to a Splawn Quickrod. Whatever you’re doing on the tonestack is extremely impressive because it’s carving all kinds of tones which Marshall’s really struggle to do especially after preamp voicing.

Yep absolutely man

I think that's the biggest takeaway from my couple days with the amp so far - I would say it lands somewhere in-between 3rd gear of a quickrod, an mc2, and a MOAB (with the sat switch) as far as a venn diagram for the base tone. But what really sets it apart and makes it unique are the "outside the norm" tone stack shaping options between the modern/vintage and caps, which give it a large amount of versatility in the "usable gain" range for heavy rhythm guitar.

 

[MGL AmpWorks]

I am finding it peaked and narrow on the rhythm tones though. Makes me wonder how flexible the midrange is to help widen the sound a little without going for a scoop.

The circuit has plenty of Marshall midrange girth if you want it. Nothing at all scooped in the amp voicing. Most of the circuit is NOS mustard caps and they are all about the mids. Just depends on where the tone controls are. Listen to all of our more classic demos that Jimmy Burkard has done. Dan’s vision is to try and show more modern and aggressive tones. In the Vintage Dirty gain voicing, the amp will easily cover any classic rock Marshall tones.

 

[DanTravis62]

The circuit has plenty of Marshall midrange girth if you want it. Nothing at all scooped in the amp voicing. Most of the circuit is NOS mustard caps and they are all about the mids. Just depends on where the tone controls are. Listen to all of our more classic demos that Jimmy Burkard has done. Dan’s vision to to try and show more modern and aggressive tones. In the Vintage Dirty gain voicing, the amp will easily cover any classic rock Marshall tones.

Yeah Jimmy has already done a great job with the more "wide midrange" classic tones, and that would honestly be really redundant of me (and i'm not as good at it!) to do something similar. My vintage mode is more trying to pick up where he left off, and the modern mode with higher gain is obviously much more of my wheelhouse.

I thought that was a given that if you wanted to hear the classic rock tones that isn't exactly my forte

 

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Yeah Jimmy has already done a great job with the more "wide midrange" classic tones, and that would honestly be really redundant of me (and i'm not as good at it!) to do something similar. My vintage mode is more trying to pick up where he left off, and the modern mode with higher gain is obviously much more of my wheelhouse.

I thought that was a given that if you wanted to hear the classic rock tones that isn't exactly my forte

What is interesting is when i first got the amp, i dialed it in and when i watched one of my favorite videos of his on the red corcuit, me and jimmy had ours dialed in damn near identical, but sounded completely different. The amp really responds well to different pickups and styles

 

[Ricky Rockhardo]

The circuit has plenty of Marshall midrange girth if you want it. Nothing at all scooped in the amp voicing. Most of the circuit is NOS mustard caps and they are all about the mids. Just depends on where the tone controls are. Listen to all of our more classic demos that Jimmy Burkard has done. Dan’s vision is to try and show more modern and aggressive tones. In the Vintage Dirty gain voicing, the amp will easily cover any classic rock Marshall tones.

Plenty of midrange.

Here is a quick (and crappy) clip of what it can sound like when dialed a bit more vintage-ey (sorry the phone mic gets overwhelmed



And here is in the modern setting with an MXR classic OD in front for a little extra:

 

[Ricky Rockhardo]

 

[Mike Oxhuge]

Seems this amp is like a good vintage Marshall in that as long as you have a good cab, good speakers, good guitar and pickups you really can't fuck it up and make it not sound great.

 

[VonBonfire]

Absolutely man, I'm just stoked I have the opportunity to get some clips out for people so they can hear it in the context they need.

That's a huge problem with a bunch of online demos and youtuber/IG stuff - it's either just a normal in the room or a super ultra produced clip, and neither one give you a great idea of what the amp really sounds like, or what it would sound like with real world gear in a real players hands.

I'm doing a bunch of dental work this week so while im not 100% im also not at work, so I can get some demos out there.

I like how you used basic gear for the demos, not some oddball guitar/speaker/mic combo. Known quantities take the guesswork out of the equation when someone is trying to decide if a piece of gear is right for them.

 

[DanTravis62]

I like how you used basic gear for the demos, not some oddball guitar/speaker/mic combo. Known quantities take the guesswork out of the equation when someone is trying to decide if a piece of gear is right for them.

Yep, that's the idea. I have more stuff in the oven with some less common speakers and mics, but especially for the main demos it makes sense to use the type of gear that everyone has a reference point for

Like yeah I can use my vintage 421 and 121 and i'm sure it will sound great but then everyone is going to have a slightly skewed idea of what i'm doing in my signal chain.

And regarding speakers, the only "Fancy" ones really are the scumback BM75LDs, and even then they aren't wildly exotic or anything, just like a really well done, killer sounding blackback. The rest of my cabinets and speakers are the salt of the earth stuff - V30s, 12Ls, T75s, reissue GBs, a sheffield somewhere, a couple other common ones.