NAD Marshall JVM410H

[nightlight]

The first-ever amp I owned was a Marshall MG50DFX amp, and while it wasn't great, it was great for my early excursions into playing metal. I used to love it though, having just started out.

I think that's why it's quite surprising (to me) that despite having owned Engls, Soldano, PRS, Diezel, Mesa Boogies, Victory, and VHT amps, I've never owned a Marshall tube amp.

Recently came across a good deal for a Marshall JVM410H and thought I'd take a chance.

I got to say, I am glad I did! The amp is really interesting, what's really cool is that each of the four channels has three modes each, which change the amount of gain.

The cleans are fantastic in particular, I would rate this amp right up there with my Sig:X when it comes to beautiful cleans. Even better than the Archon I used to own.

The crunch channel is your rock and roll sound, I honestly think this does it better than any of my other amps, which are more metal-oriented.

The real surprise was the OD1 and OD2 channels. They can do very high gain, more than I think I'd ever need actually. I liked to use these on the orange channel, rather than the all out red, and set the gain far lower than I would if I just relied on my eyes.

What I really love is the amount of bass this amp can dish out without starting to flub. And the gain is surprisingly articulate and has its own thing going on when compared to my other amps.

Midi controllable and the footswitch is also really advanced and uses some innovative tech to be able to control the amp.

I was so impressed when I tried it through my Orange 2x12, haven't had a chance to go through the Emperor 4x12 yet, but I'm sure it'll be groovy.

The family shot. Planning to sell the Fireball 100 and pick up a Mesa Boogie Mark series amp whenever I can.

 

[Monkey Man]

Yo Brother AJ!

Man, the time-interval restriction I suffer at the other forum meant I wasn't able to converse more-freely with you on this. As we speak I've got a reply to you sitting in my dock that I can't submit 'til 9:20 or thereabouts, so I'm leaving the 'puter switched-on for this alone. I do this kinda thing every day and it's cost me a lot in (expensive in these parts) electricity.

On the bass thing:
My brother had all his tones dialled in for years with plenty of bass. One day I explained some AE principles to him and encouraged him to try dialling it back a little and giving his ears a chance to get used to that. He called me a few days later and said I'd opened up a whole new world of tone for him. IIRC it helped his playing a little too.

Just sayin'. Just 'cause the Rig handles the bass so well doesn't necessarily mean that one should "indulge" in it. After all, and as you'd know, an overall-bigger sound will be achieved through combining more "real" bass with the geetar, bass dialled-back, in a mix.

Worth bearing in mind perhaps. Regardless, it's an awesome-sounding amp IMHO. Good that you're running less gain I reckon, not just for articulation's sake, but also 'cause it can tend to be a tad noisy, something you'll have minimised given what you've done.

Congrats buddy. Nice one!

 

[nightlight]

Yo Brother AJ!

Man, the time-interval restriction I suffer at the other forum meant I wasn't able to converse more-freely with you on this. As we speak I've got a reply to you sitting in my dock that I can't submit 'til 9:20 or thereabouts, so I'm leaving the 'puter switched-on for this alone. I do this kinda thing every day and it's cost me a lot in (expensive in these parts) electricity.

On the bass thing:
My brother had all his tones dialled in for years with plenty of bass. One day I explained some AE principles to him and encouraged him to try dialling it back a little and giving his ears a chance to get used to that. He called me a few days later and said I'd opened up a whole new world of tone for him. IIRC it helped his playing a little too.

Just sayin'. Just 'cause the Rig handles the bass so well doesn't necessarily mean that one should "indulge" in it. After all, and as you'd know, an overall-bigger sound will be achieved through combining more "real" bass with the geetar, bass dialled-back, in a mix.

Worth bearing in mind perhaps. Regardless, it's an awesome-sounding amp IMHO. Good that you're running less gain I reckon, not just for articulation's sake, but also 'cause it can tend to be a tad noisy, something you'll have minimised given what you've done.

Congrats buddy. Nice one!

Hey Nicky, yes, I don't dial the bass up too much because I don't want to compete with the bass guitar! But it's amazing how tight and articulate the low end is on the amp even without a tube screamer.

Gain-wise, it is capable of way more than I usually throw at it because it does cause a horrible hum. That kind of makes it impossible to use without a noise gate, something the Joe Satch version of the amp rectified with independent noise gates.

You know about this, but for anyone who'd like to try a Kemper profile of the amp, do try the Mars JVM410H Rage rig I put up on the Kemper rig exchange.

 

[hopkinWFG]

Nice !! Nice collection !!

 

[peckhart]

Man I really should revisit this amp. And on one I know is solid.
I bought one of these when they first came out and it was absolutely awful. I was then, and still now convinced there was something wrong with it. I recall reading enough stories of some in the early batches being total turds. I tried everything and it was just a complete loose fizzy mess.
I know a lot of guys love them and I've heard others use them locally and they had a great high gain Marshall sound with them. I may be on the market for a more versatile amp soon too.

 

[Monkey Man]

You can't go too far wrong, mate.

Hopefully you won't get a dud again, but you'd think that any issues would've been sorted by now.