Marshall Vintage Modern

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Love this amp! That is all.

Richie Sambora
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I have a Vintage Modern full stack with the matching 425A/B cabinets. Whenever I get dissatisfied with whatever tone mod I'm trying to make I take a Les Paul or a Strat and plug directly into that stack with no effects and it's pure bliss. I play the VM stack for a while then get delusions of grandeur and go back to trying to get something bigger/better/faster/more. Never works though. If the VM had MIDI switching and not that damned stoopid momentary switch for the dynamic range I'd sell off pretty much everything else I have and that'd be it. Unfortunately, to get that quality of sound I have to run a Hughes & Kettner TriAmp MK II, a Marshall JVM 410H, a Hughes & Kettner Switchblade, a Hughes & Kettner Trilogy, a Diezel VH4, and my "secret sauce" MIDI rig all in parallel. It's an awesome, big tone, but the gear overhead is massive. With a boost you could do everything from jazz to death metal on the Vintage Modern.

Cheers,

Race
 
Played one at GC. I didn't care for it much. Admittedly I didn't spend more than 15 minutes with it so who knows...... :confused:

Oh, and I've never heard a Sambora tone that I liked. :thumbsdown:
 
The pictures look great.
I had a VM and a JVM side by side for about 2 weeks.
Played them both at band rehearsal through G12H30 loaded 4x12's.
I have to say, the VM really left me feeling bored.
It sounded almost like an amp to me. YMMV
The JVM kicked the crap out of it, as did a 2203 and a 2210
The VM just sounded dull and lifeless after a ton of tweaking.
It did sound good getting slammed with a few OD pedals.
But it seemed to need them to get it singing.
Needless to say, I still have the JVM, 2203 and 2210.
 
Badronald said:
Played one at GC. I didn't care for it much. Admittedly I didn't spend more than 15 minutes with it so who knows...... :confused:

I've been in the same boat with it but yngzaklynch makes that baby sing!!!!!!!
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racerevlon":eilie7y9 said:
If the VM had MIDI switching and not that damned stoopid momentary switch for the dynamic range I'd sell off pretty much everything else I have and that'd be it.
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Wouldn`t a G-major`s relay be able to do that?
 
+1 on the VM, I have a full stack and boost with a Fulltone OCD and really dig the tones I get out of it.
 
As hard as it is to say, and I do love alot of older music, Eagles, Led Zep, Floyd, Neil Young, Lynard Skynard, and ofcourse GnR.

I don't really dig the VM I've played. I think I'd need to crank and boost it to be sure, but it just didn't sing for me. Hesitant to add that I may be a modern/preamp distortion kinda guy.. I love low wattage heads like the Blackstar Ht5 and DR z though, and the THDs are amazing.

So I like modern high gain, and boutique, but not really a vintage marshall guy.
 
Ancient Alien":3qc23aja said:
The pictures look great.
I had a VM and a JVM side by side for about 2 weeks.
Played them both at band rehearsal through G12H30 loaded 4x12's.
I have to say, the VM really left me feeling bored.
It sounded almost like an amp to me. YMMV
The JVM kicked the crap out of it, as did a 2203 and a 2210
The VM just sounded dull and lifeless after a ton of tweaking.
It did sound good getting slammed with a few OD pedals.
But it seemed to need them to get it singing.
Needless to say, I still have the JVM, 2203 and 2210.
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I had the same experience. Three times. I kept trying to like it but it always came up way short for some reason. I have heard people's clips and thought they were cool, though. I like my JVM much better, and of course my 2205 and 2203. :thumbsup:
 
I'll try and get a video clip up soon. Any consensus on what type of guitar you'd like to hear? Modern shredder with high-output pickups? Les Paul? Strat? I've got way too many guitars so I can probably accommodate the majority rule, and I aims to please! One caveat--most of my replacement pickups are Dimarzio--I only have one guitar that's got Duncans in it and that's an Epiphone Les Paul that has Phat Cat P-90's in it (awesome 70's rock tone).

Let me know and the majority will rule!

Cheers,

Race
 
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