Marshall JMD

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Anyone have one of these? I'm considering the 50 watt combo. I need a grab and go with built in effects. We rehearse for 2 hours and I really hate loading in a head,cab and setting up my pedal board and then tear it back down and load it back in the car all for a short practice. Also we rehearse at night and I go straight from work which means loading a head and cab and guitar + board in my car in the morning and carting it around all day. Also any gigs we've been doing have been very small places. The idea of a 50 watt combo with built in effects that I can toss in the trunk sounds rather appealing.

 
Crickets huh....

I think I'm going to look at a Blackstar 40 instead.
 
Ive actually liked all the clips that I have heard from the JMD. The funny thing is that because they are using a digital preamp section I think these amps are getting panned. I don't know of many people who have them and I have not tried one yet, but I might get one in to see what they are all about. its a shame really because I bet after these go away and Marshall decides to discontinue them, they will be all the rage lol!

I think a 2x12 with all those features is killer and makes for an easy portable rig.

Thats just my 0.02

~R~
 
I love the clips and the concept,basically a spider valve by Marshall. the reliability scares me a little from what I've read. It's funny people scoff at the digital preamp but then you have people who can't throw their money quick enough at an Axe Fx.
 
BrokenFusion":3hpeeqe2 said:
I love the clips and the concept,basically a spider valve by Marshall. the reliability scares me a little from what I've read. It's funny people scoff at the digital preamp but then you have people who can't throw their money quick enough at an Axe Fx.
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I haven't heard anything about reliability issues yet but that's because I haven't reasearched it ! With that said, it doesn't surprise me and given the fact that you mentioned Blackstar, Ive already seen two of those amps blow up at gigs recently, so I hope these manufacturers start looking at there amazing china factory deals and hopefully re-evaluate the situation. I Don't care if they continue building in china just as long as they up the QC ;)
 
Gainfreak":ftplyyat said:
so I hope these manufacturers start looking at there amazing china factory deals and hopefully re-evaluate the situation. I Don't care if they continue building in china just as long as they up the QC ;)
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Yeah, I decided to hold out and maybe pick up a Budda SD combo or something along those lines.
 
Sometimes things that suck. Just suck.
Go to a store and play one. It almost sounds as bad as the MA. Almost... :D
 
I sat infront of Doug Aldrich playing through a JMD-100 half stack for several hours last April and the thing sounded killer. He ran it crunchy and boosted it over the top with his Rocket Fuel OD pedal. Very impressive tones from that amp and the built in delays/reverbs sounded real nice too... Considering buying one as a 'grab and go' rig!
 
I play my Diezel amps but needed a portable amp with built- in fx's for smaller stages and shorter gigs. I had a Vox VT 80+ but traded it for a JMD 50 head.

Using some presets offered in the amp by Marshall I got extremely organic tones from clean to scream. It's all in how one dials in the tones.

I am finding the amp to be a great sounding, friendly to use amp. Marshall's use of Soft Tube sounds really good.
 
I was almost going to get one of these and then I tried it out. That being said, I left it well enough alone.
 
I've heard some killer vids of the JMD. When I eventually got to play one I could not get a decent tone out of it. I will admit it might have simply been user error. Maybe if I had someone around that really knew the amp I might have felt differently.

Jim
 
Like any amplifier, the speakers or cabs that you use will account for more then 50 percent of your tone IMHO.

That's why many people might not like some of the lower end combo amps because they usually use one-off or weird/cheap speakers or if you are trying out an amp head sometimes people try an amp is a store with a beat sounding cab. When I try out a new amp head in a store like GC or ash I always make it a habbit to try the same amp through many different cabs before I give it the thumbs down.

With that said, I think they are killer amps that get a bad rap, but I much prefer the head version. Can you make them sound bad? Well, yes, you can, but you can also make them sound good, and having the ability to do a gig with just a head ,cab and footwitch makes these a killer option.
 
Gainfreak":1m94xl0e said:
Like any amplifier, the speakers or cabs that you use will account for more then 50 percent of your tone IMHO.

That's why many people might not like some of the lower end combo amps because they usually use one-off or weird/cheap speakers or if you are trying out an amp head sometimes people try an amp is a store with a beat sounding cab. When I try out a new amp head in a store like GC or ash I always make it a habbit to try the same amp through many different cabs before I give it the thumbs down.

With that said, I think they are killer amps that get a bad rap, but I much prefer the head version. Can you make them sound bad? Well, yes, you can, but you can also make them sound good, and having the ability to do a gig with just a head ,cab and footwitch makes these a killer option.
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Well said. If you're willing to spend a little time with this amp, you can get some really good tones. I have the 50-watt head and really like it as a practice rig. I'm even going to give it try at a gig just to see if others like what I hear. I'm surprised when I hear folks say this amp sounds terrible. Really? Did you really spend some time with it or did you just plug in, try a few presets, and deem it terrible? I believe there are few truely "bad" amps out there - just amps that don't fit the situation. If you play death metal - don't try and use a Fender Twin. If you want to play jazz - a Krank Kranenstein might not be the best choice.
 
I've been saying for the last few years here on RT that IMHO
that Digital Pre + Tube Power Amp is the shit

Unfortunately, Marshall did it wrong (I mean soft-tube are you
kidding me , they specialize in making sims of old tube rack gear
not guitar amps)

I use TH2,Vandal,Studio Devil and Le Poulin sims

Just my guitar - dano "timmy" clone - laptop - run into a marshall mono 100 and 4X12

I've never been happier with my tone :rock:


FWIW - Different people using the same sim on youtube clips
can sound remarkably different (some sound killer while other's
like garbage)



 
FUZZboat":1myrn0bs said:
I've been saying for the last few years here on RT that IMHO
that Digital Pre + Tube Power Amp is the shit

Unfortunately, Marshall did it wrong (I mean soft-tube are you
kidding me , they specialize in making sims of old tube rack gear
not guitar amps)

I use TH2,Vandal,Studio Devil and Le Poulin sims

Just my guitar - dano "timmy" clone - laptop - run into a marshall mono 100 and 4X12

I've never been happier with my tone :rock:

FWIW - Different people using the same sim on youtube clips
can sound remarkably different (some sound killer while other's
like garbage)

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i just bought the JMD:1 50watt head and i can't believe how great it sounds. i have several other "real" tube rigs and this head feels and sounds more tube than some of the real tube heads. i don't care if Marshall had Microsoft make the amp model software....they did a good job.

bottom line is what gets you the tone you want. the JMD:1 head gets me everything i've been wanting for years and never got using anything by line6, peavey or digitech. whatever works for you IS the rig for you.
 
it's been over a month and i'm still liking this head. here is a quick clip of the basic four presets i have setup with this head and a 2-12" celestion G12T-75 loaded cabinet:

 
Spend a little more and get a Hughes & Kettner Switchblade 50C.
 
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