The Marshall MG100FX is a great amp IF you tweak it like THIS!
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2024
- In this video I explain how I tweak a Marshall MG100FX to make it sound great! I'm playing a 2010 Marshall MG100FX 2x12 Combo using a 1973 Gibson Les Paul Custom.
Johan! I caught the Hotter than Hell riff at the beginning. Rock on dude!
Glad to hear it! I love Kiss
@@JohanSegeborn we love Johan!!
This must be the first Marshall amp, that even Johan could not make sound like a plexi.
Can’t win ‘em all 😄
It got more of that jcm 800 sound
Interesting, sounds close enough for non musicians, I have a1959hw and an mg50, i got the MG to sound as close as i could to my 1959 and recorded samples of both and showed my friends, they could not tell any difference at all.
I still have my old Marshall MG15DFX. I lowered the gain of the overdrive channel by replacing the red LEDs with blue ones, and put in a Celestion 8 inch speaker. It's a lot of fun to practice!
Johan makes really good videos
Congratulation, almost 100k subscribers. Thanks for your videos !
Yeah 100k let's go!!!
Quick everyone, tell a friend. We got this!
Thanks!
Thanks, that would be great 😃👍
cool amp and underrated, definitely benefits when one can sit with it and tweak and the effects are nice sounding. I saw STARZ former guitarist Bobby Messano using the MG100HDFX which has more knobs but he made that amp sound great also. Thanks for sharing
Thanks man!
Older versions use a LED clipper red and green asymmetric on the OD side. I have the older MG100 head, which I picked up for free no less. Cleaned it and the pots especially. Sounds pretty dope through a proper 412 cab. With V30s and GB it sounds pretty Marshall to me.
I love that Custom Johan! I want one too!
Thanks! Yeah that one is a keeper indeed
Aaahh... My first Marshall ever. Learned all the classics with it, for maybe 8 or 9 years! Today I have a 1982 Jcm 800 4104 😁
The MG's secret is the damping button! It gets you closer to a greenback response. Nice feature
I watched the video before reading the comments and completely believe a lot of guitars hear with theie eyes... I was not expecting as much unfavorable opinions of the tone as I did. I thought Johan made this amp sound absolutely excellent considering what it is, a solid state entry level Marshall. It definitely ballparks classic Marshall tones WAY better than I truly expected and for a budding guitarist this amp would sound beyond excellent.
I bet if it were played thru a 4x12 with pre rola Greenbacks it would sound pretty impressive tbh.
spectre sound studio proved that this is 100% the case. blind demo’d what he claimed was 3 different guitars and people were all making their claims, then later showed that they were all completely different guitars than he stated. if you don’t suck, your gear tends to sound a lot better!!!
Always wondered how these sounded, btw i just landed a 72' twin with jbl's and wow 👌. Thanks johan for another rippin vid.
Cool! Then you have the Brown sugar tone!
@@JohanSegeborn brown sugar tone!
Nice amplifier and great demo. Cheers from Hawaii. Darrell
Thanks Darrell! Cheers
Brought the my marshall mg carbon head years ago after watching your videos
There's one of these in cash converters Eastleigh UK been there for weeks think it 75£ - bet it's gone tomorrow! I am advised it might only be the 50 version of this
That’s a generous price 😆
Hi Johan, awesome stuff as always.
For the last MG series prior to these round power button ones, I found a spot in the distortion channel to insert a tone control (SWTC, essentially a ProCo Rat Filter knob), to dampen some of the treble and get a more pleasant drive tone overall, no other changes. Not sure if it's possible to do it on these newer amps however.
Aloha and Mahalo Johan. Marshall made some interesting if not good sounding solid state amps.
Aloha Victor!
I like them. I've played a number of amps of the years and these are fine. I think the one I used was better than the AVT combo I used. They aren't too gainy but great for classic rock, which is pretty much where I live.
Klasse Sound 🤘
I think this amp can be ok used clean as a pedal platform, and upgrade the speakers.
It's usual in many low cost solid state amps that raising too much the gain makes the sound too much sharp treble buzz, cheap fuzz, to explain somehow. After all I like solid state amps if they sound good, and mostly to avoid the costly valves replacement and
maintenance. Hey Johan could you make a video of some other good solid state amps maybe Tech 21, Randall, Fender princeton chorus, Roland JC...
Great channel and thank you !
from Texas
You got some nice sound from that amp, as you usually do. I'm missing the raw power you sometimes can feel from 100W tube amps with beefy transformers, but that's an unfair comparison. Wonder how the amp would sound through one of the cabs in that room.
Thanks Johan!
Thanks Bengt! I actually played one of these through a vintage Marshall cab in a video long ago. I think this tone holds up pretty well to that
One thing Marshall actually doesn't get enough credit for is their on-board effects. I have a Keeley Phaser that doesn't sound as good as the one built into this amp
I had one of these back in the day. Not a bad amp, can get a good 80s rock tone but just couldnt get the tones I wanted.
I've heard some old solid state amps sound best when you put all tones down and crank the volume. I think some amps have active and some passive tone pots, so results may vary.
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Johan if you ever get the opportunity could you test a fender black knob'' evil twin '' ?- I loved the red knob twin video
I had an MG 100CFX and it was a great amp but it was far too loud so i sold it . I may buy the 50 watt version for a different flavor . They come up for sale second hand in my area quite often usually for around 150 to 200 dollars .
I've just modded a Mg10, easy to inprove for low money, few caps and resistors...
Sounds ok for what it is. It just doesn't "bloom" like a tube amp does.
Hot hot, hotter than Hell! 🤘 sounds good man
Thanks! Glad to hear it. 😁🤘
LP Custom in an MG series... certainly an odd pairing but I'm quite surprised at the results
Thanks :-)
I use a G100RCD with a 4x12 v30 cab. Yeah only use the clean channel. I've got a Bad Monkey and a linear boost in front of it, and it definetly chugs! And turning down the volume on the guitar lets you play chords nicely. Yeah need to turn down the bass, but otherwise I prefer a more neutral eq on the amp, and rather adjust it on the Bad Monkey. A weird thing to note, is that the FX knob seems to add some good sounding bass when turned up a bit, even though nothing is connected..
Thanks interesting feedback
Hi Johan, would you consider doing a comparison between the Hiwatt and a Fender silverface using the Fane Crescendo?
Hi! Yeah that can be arranged! Maybe a Dual Showman SF?
Yes, this would be awesome!@@JohanSegeborn
You should try a Marshall VS15 + 4x12 cab 😉...
Hi, Johan!
I can understand, why you don't like those series, I prefer Valvestate, despite it's lack of different effects. But its ok. I was satisfied with this sound. See you!
S.
Thanks man, glad you like it!
I'd take a first or second gen valvestate over an mg any day, they had accutronics spring reverb and uk-made celestions
It sounded great! However, this time I was already biased in a positive way towards the MG 😄. Perhaps you already know Dave Simpson's channel. He's another guy that can make anything sound great, although he favours solid state amps. One of his favourite amps ever is the Marshall MG100HDFX (head), together with the speakers that came with its matching Marshall MG cab. He mostly plays Strats, though, but if I remember correctly, the logic behind his settings is similar to the logic you explained. 😃
Thanks glad to hear it! Dave always sound great!
now i have to buy one LOL 😅 i ask myself how could sound the clean channell dimed with a boost in front, have you tried? :)
Glad to hear it! I didn’t try that but it’s extremely loud with plenty of headroom so I think it takes boosts well
I use a Bad Monkey and a EHX linear boost in front of it (the head version, not the combo). You can really drive it hard. I dont dime it though: gain 3/4, mids neutral, treble bit over neutral, master 1/4. Crazy loud, and sounds very beefy with gibson 498s and through a 4x12 with vintage 30s. This is my budget setup for when I dont use the Rockerverb 50 mkI, so yeah it definely works.
@@JohanSegeborn dimed the volume i think is not usbale, but clean channel with gain dimed and boosted could be an idea with the master at a reasonable level :)
That amp sounded totaly okey.
Do you know when its done?
Thanx alot Johan 👍
This one’s from 2010
@@JohanSegeborn
Thanx Johan. ☺️
I own a mg 50 cfx..What about if i changed the custom speaker to celestion? Is it worth the money or should i go for something else?
I would need to play the speakers back to back to know I’m afraid
@@JohanSegeborn it would be very useful such comparison!
Johan if you had 500 bucks to buy a amplifier to give you the best marshall tone you could get, what amplifiers would you look for ?
Marshall MG100FX sounded good and punchy to me , maybe a little harsh but overall great tone, bet it would do good in a mix ...
Thanks! I was really impressed by the Laney VC30, but it’s maybe a bit more on the Voxy side. Here in Sweden you can have a Marshall JCM800 4210 or JCM900 for about that money sometimes
Thanks Johan😊
thanks i really thought that laney sounded great and with a 70/80 no less ...@@JohanSegeborn
Hey i know you didn't ask me but someone might find this useful maybe:
Other than a real bargain, i've heard good things about the last AVT/ Valvestate 2000 amps. IE "They sound like a real Marshall." Pair it with your favourite speakers and it should fit the budget and tone requirements. The factory ECC83/ 12AX7 is perfectly fine. And says Marshall on it. A real Mullard is a dream upgrade one day. Make sure the owner took care of it, though, like anything really.
-Cheers
Not related, but - working in music stores for decades the States I've played through nearly everything, but never had the opportunity to play through Crescendos. You've now revealed I need a Crescendo!
So.... before I go down that rabbut hole you've got to do a video with Crescendo clones compared to a real one, with Gilmour references....
It's your fault, Johann! 😮
Hahaha! 😆 Sorry about that. I’d be glad to compare crescendos to the available reissue(s)
@@JohanSegeborn That'd be great.... It looks like there's just the Weber FC12, a couple others? They look kinda like an EVM 12L, do they maybe sound similar in front of you? Include an EVM for comparison if so? Use the same DR103 settings you used in the Floyd vs the Who video... and weigh them to see if the magnet is similar to the 122346...
and do the "Breathe" snippet, and maybe a little Strat neck pickup snippet from the melody intro to "Echoes"....
In your Floyd/Who video, the purples sounded like another Celestion variant - with the characteristic variation of "clogged sinuses" coloration 500-2k I've fought for decades. The Crescendo - clear. Sounds bright but not JBL ice picky/narrow peaky...
About 50/50 close mics and the 414/hall mic? API I presume? No phasey weirdness with all of the mics, good job... Strangely I've got the same cab with a Nord Lead stored behind mine as well, maybe that's the key and I don't really need a Crescendo....? No....? Thanks for your heroic efforts, you're the John Lomax of guitar ephemera! (and you need to make IRs while you're going to this much trouble....)
I really, really want to hear Dave Friedman’s new plexi style amp with built in variac. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard an amp Johan didn’t make sound good. This amps not horrible but it sounds like the heart of it is missing. Like the punch just isn’t there. Maybe it’s just my ears.
Thanks, it’s of course a matter of tone per invested buck
@@JohanSegeborn I love all your video’s. Hope you don’t think I was trolling. I learn from every amp demo on this channel and always much appreciated.
I wonder how a strat would sound?! You got this sounding pretty darn beano-esqe like blind faith tones but can it hendrix?!
Thanks! I didn’t try Strat unfortunately
Absolutely agree J 👍
Does this also apply to the smaller versions of this amp? 50, 30, etc?
I had the most recent MG30FX for about 3 weeks. It is grossly underpowered for playing a small club. I should have known better The OD two voice which I had programmed for my solo preset was much quieter than clean, crunch, and OD1. Very disappointing. It's a good low volume practice amp, but not for $300!
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Prices just went up on those amps after releasing this video 🤔
😂 Cheers
Definitely wear double ear protection
It's all surfarce mount.....bummer!!!!
Really Johan? Seriously??
Content is running short these days, ha?