Marshall JVM210 does EVH....

[Kyrpajyra]

There's a reason why Satriani had his JVM modded afterwards. Too much compression and presence imo.

 

[ElectricVoodoo]

That sounds awesome!!! Males me want to go downstairs and fire up my 205h.
Nice playing !!!!

 

[braintheory]

I'm a freak for tight low end, and Greenbacks can be woofy.

Depends which version GB’s. 25 & 30’s can be, but the 20 watt versions are very tight, never woofy IME

 

[braintheory]

There's a reason why Satriani had his JVM modded afterwards. Too much compression and presence imo.

The Satriani version I tried was still very compressed and processed sounding (even some Engl’s are less). I had it next to a reissue handwired Marshall JTM45 and the Satriani JVM sounded like a pathetic joke comparatively. Kinda like a bad recording of that amp and with the more gain and compression on the higher gain modes. With true JTM it was like the blanket was taken off and finally was hearing some real tone, detail and nuance, no artificial fizzy high end, but rather real highs that actually extend more in a way without fizz or other ugly artifacts to the notes

 

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[Speeddemon]

A built-in noise gate would also be ideal! It's by far the noisiest amp I've ever owned.

I believe the Satriani JVM version had the reverbs swapped for noise gates IIRC.

I concur with the earlier sentiments;
red modes = too compressed, fizzy, hissy.

EVH amps = great in their own right, albeit with those weird mids, but not really classic EVH tones.
Which reminds me, I still need to try out a Driftwood Mini Nightmare...

 

[thenine]

My JVM is modded by Fortin. One of the ones Ralphie was doing with him. It kicks ass and is super versatile with midi switching.

 

[jabps]

The Satriani version I tried was still very compressed and processed sounding (even some Engl’s are less). I had it next to a reissue handwired Marshall JTM45 and the Satriani JVM sounded like a pathetic joke comparatively. Kinda like a bad recording of that amp and with the more gain and compression on the higher gain modes. With true JTM it was like the blanket was taken off and finally was hearing some real tone, detail and nuance, no artificial fizzy high end, but rather real highs that actually extend more in a way without fizz or other ugly artifacts to the notes

I couldn't get rid of my Satch JVM fast enough. The stock JVM is just a balls out high gain amp, with a great clean channel and some good mid gain tones. The Satch was just sorta a toned down version of that "to me", regardless it went rather quick.

Was really disappointed as I wanted to like that amp with the supposed upgrades but "for me" that amp was just lifeless. I'm sure it works for some though. I loved my Peavey JSX, still think it's one of the best high gain amps Peavey has done, sounds great with 6L6's. Used that for several years but Joe never used the gain channels of the amp.