NAD! Marshall Vintage Modern 100 watter

[ConcreteVampire]

Rawk! Fucking love this amp! Yzlynch thanks for the input, and clippage.

Amazing tone machine is amazing. Strangely does what its advertised it does!

Nails early Marshall toanz, Blackmore, Page, Who... etc...

Then acts like a vintage amp with a gain mod. Excellent!

Slam it with a clean boost... whoa! Got a VHT CL in the room...jealous!

Lovely bloom, and ringing feedback, cleans up to seriously fat clean with volume knob.... kt66's are full of warm win!

Clippage to come.....

 

[tweed]

Congratz!

 

[King Guitar]

BIg fan of the 100 Watt VM here.

 

[glip22]

BIg fan of the 100 Watt VM here.

For someone who has owned and jammed every amp under the sun. I am really wanting to check one out.

 

[King Guitar]

BIg fan of the 100 Watt VM here.

For someone who has owned and jammed every amp under the sun. I am really wanting to check one out.

There is not an amp I haven't had, just about. The Vintage Modern is misunderstood. It is not a metal amp, if you want raunchy rock and roll it kills, I run a Les Paul Custom 57 VOS & boost it with a Keeley SD-1 and it delivers the goods.

 

[yngzaklynch]

I'm glad people are finally "getting" this amp.

Congrats man!!! Have you tried the settings I sent you?


Jim

 

[yngzaklynch]

BIg fan of the 100 Watt VM here.

For someone who has owned and jammed every amp under the sun. I am really wanting to check one out.

There is not an amp I haven't had, just about. The Vintage Modern is misunderstood. It is not a metal amp, if you want raunchy rock and roll it kills, I run a Les Paul Custom 57 VOS & boost it with a Keeley SD-1 and it delivers the goods.

Brad I was using the Keely SD-1 forever but find the Barber Direct Drive to be a little better. If you haven't tried one I can loan you mine for a week or two.


Jim

 

[King Guitar]

BIg fan of the 100 Watt VM here.

For someone who has owned and jammed every amp under the sun. I am really wanting to check one out.

There is not an amp I haven't had, just about. The Vintage Modern is misunderstood. It is not a metal amp, if you want raunchy rock and roll it kills, I run a Les Paul Custom 57 VOS & boost it with a Keeley SD-1 and it delivers the goods.

Brad I was using the Keely SD-1 forever but find the Barber Direct Drive to be a little better. If you haven't tried one I can loan you mine for a week or two.


Jim

Jim,

Aprecitae the offer, the Keeley SD1 is getting my rocks off with VM so no worries, thanks for the heads up though.

 

[ConcreteVampire]

H

I'm glad people are finally "getting" this amp.

Congrats man!!! Have you tried the settings I sent you?


Jim

Yeah. awesome!
Right now im goofin with a line 6 dist modeller....

The micro amp in there sets this thing on firetouch harmonics, warm hugeness!

Really for the money I've got a very satisfactory alternate for a clean well modded JTM, with switching for $$$ less....

 

[racerevlon]

BIg fan of the 100 Watt VM here.

For someone who has owned and jammed every amp under the sun. I am really wanting to check one out.

There is not an amp I haven't had, just about. The Vintage Modern is misunderstood. It is not a metal amp, if you want raunchy rock and roll it kills, I run a Les Paul Custom 57 VOS & boost it with a Keeley SD-1 and it delivers the goods.

+1000

I have the 50-watt full stack--I like the 50-watt as I think it breaks up more nicely and sooner than the 100-watt. Plug a Les Paul into this amp and it's pure Rock 'n Roll bliss!

Cheers,

 

[ConcreteVampire]

Wow this thing LOVES single coils too! got some Van Zandt pu's in a Strat in low range and its heaven!

 

[yngzaklynch]

Wow this thing LOVES single coils too! got some Van Zandt pu's in a Strat in low range and its heaven!

Great amp for so many things. Even Yngwie likes them and he's a die hard Plexi guy.


Jim

 

[GuitarGoat]

I played one the other day. Definitely cool. If I was looking for the Marshall tone, that's where I'd go!

 

[PentatonicPunk]

I can get a pretty good deal on one at a local shop and am seriously considering one. How well does the amp do the 80's hair metal thing without a boost ?? I will probably order a rocket fuel in the near future, but I was wondering how the amp handled that style without the help of a boost. Also how does the build quailty seem? Big modded Marshall fan, but these have had my attention for a long time.

 

[ConcreteVampire]

I can get a pretty good deal on one at a local shop and am seriously considering one. How well does the amp do the 80's hair metal thing without a boost ?? I will probably order a rocket fuel in the near future, but I was wondering how the amp handled that style without the help of a boost. Also how does the build quailty seem? Big modded Marshall fan, but these have had my attention for a long time.

Enough distortion, bit missing that slight bit of compression and note definition. That said, the 80' s sound is all about the extra gain stages, boost etc...
This is that out of the box. ANY clean boost will get you there... bro my emg loaded Strat got me there today!

The Marshall that will get you there without a boost, will cost you 2-3 times as much..

 

[GuitarGoat]

I can get a pretty good deal on one at a local shop and am seriously considering one. How well does the amp do the 80's hair metal thing without a boost ?? I will probably order a rocket fuel in the near future, but I was wondering how the amp handled that style without the help of a boost. Also how does the build quailty seem? Big modded Marshall fan, but these have had my attention for a long time.

I thought it sounded fine for that kind of music. I was just playing a Strat with a humbucker in the bridge; however, your results may vary...

 

[yngzaklynch]

Where are the clips?

 

[jasonP]

Yeah this amp is a 1968 filtering so 100/100 mains and rest 33uf with 10uf on the extra pre-amp tube.

It's pretty close to a old Marshall with a ppimv with linked normal and bright channels on the low side.
I built this amp with some cool tricks I learned on the metro-amp forum and it rips pretty good. Not super high gain but it sounds awesome for hard rock stuff more of a mid gain thing. With a boost it sounds killer.

Didn't you guys put the vm against a cameron head and thought it sounded pretty close? What boost were you using?

Jason

 

[yngzaklynch]

Yeah this amp is a 1968 filtering so 100/100 mains and rest 33uf with 10uf on the extra pre-amp tube.

It's pretty close to a old Marshall with a ppimv with linked normal and bright channels on the low side.
I built this amp with some cool tricks I learned on the metro-amp forum and it rips pretty good. Not super high gain but it sounds awesome for hard rock stuff more of a mid gain thing. With a boost it sounds killer.

Didn't you guys put the vm against a cameron head and thought it sounded pretty close? What boost were you using?

Jason

Quite some time ago a bunch of us were at Amplifires house. A lot of guys thought my boosted VM matched up fairly well against the Cameron. Now I love the Vintage Modern but if you can afford a Cameron buy one. The Cameron does more and is tighter. However the VM costs way less and does sound fantastic in it's own right.

Jim

 

[PentatonicPunk]

Any build quality, breakdown issue with these amps ??? I have heard some not so good things about Marshall;s quality control recently and was wondering if this has filtered down to the VM??