Marshall Mg-Series

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mg? Nah, stay clear where possible! Weak amp, loud fan, no tone. Thats how i'd describe it, if you want a decent marshall without burning your wallet, the AVT series are a great sounding amp (even better with a 1960 cab ;)) for the price you pay. Tone is better in the smaller combos i've found when you crank them.

They aren't even that much more expensive than the MG range and you get a much more better rounded tone than the MGs.
 
my experience with an AVT:

When I was 16, my band signed to a small label and we were due to start touring in 3 weeks. I had a crate half stack. fuck. I talked to the owner (this was a small label) and he agreed to give me 600 bucks for a new head. I went to the store, and got the biggest AVT they had. The AVT150. I took it home, found a sound, and was on the road the next morning. I played my first show with it, and wasn't very impressed. The second show, I plugged it in, smoke came out of the vents, and that was all she wrote.

Luckily one of the bands we were out with let me use their head every night because they were right after us. Mesa Boogie 50/50 and a Marshall JMP-1 preamp with a 1960. When I got home, I sold all of my possesions to acquire this setup, and I'm still using it today.

Review: Fuck an AVT.
 
and let me just go further to say....even though your are 15, don't waste money on stupid gear. it's pointless.

if you just save your pennies and continue with the crap you have now, and then get something REALLY GOOD, and treat it well. it'll last you damn near forever. you won't end up buying this, and then that, and then that, and then finally getting something good.
 
The AVT for what they are, i think do a good job. I liked it while i had mine, never had any major problems... I'm more of a fan of orange amps though now :)

Obviously you get better quality when you pay more, and depending on how serious you are about your guitaring depends on what gear you should buy.
being only 15, i don't think buying $2,500 worth of gear (let alone on an amp) at that age is the smartest idea.

A guitar is only as good as the player as the saying goes. When i was 15, hell i only had some dodgy 20-watt peavey and a strat knock-off.

I reckon grabbing a decent 50-watt amp which is a tube one if you can will do you. And the more watts don't make the amp sound excessively louder, a 100w amp is only roughly 3db louder (not double) than a 50w amp. a tube amp will sound better, louder, cut through more and sustain a much more lineal tone than any solid-state would.

And also, lets face it, usually anything louder than what a 50-watt combo (SS or Tube) could handle, you'd be running through a P.A. IMHO...
 
i said that about running through the P.A. earlier...

i dont think he should spend 2500 hundred bucks (hell i got my rig, for 1100, worth 2700 new now, prices went up) for an amp now at 15...but he certainly shouldnt save up all his little pennies and blow 500-600 hundred...use what you got, and if it seems like something worth doing down the road, get something worth getting
 
$1100??? :eek:

Thats not bad at all! Man that was a good buy...

Anyway yeah, no way you need a stack in a band situation. I've practiced in full on rock and metal bands with a 30-watter roland amp w/effects. Turned it up only 2/3rds and it cut through fine, it was only solid state aswell. That goes to show that you can manage EASILY with a 50watt combo.
 
a lot of bands these days are going for the orange sound, but an orange head and cab...wow at that price, and even worse, i know some people who dig up the original orange heads....forget it.

so you a see a lot of unsigned bands humping around orange combos.

but you know what, fuck most guitarists in bands and their lack of any knowledge gear-related. they are like "ooh orange" and buy it.

they have no concept of tone. and may go firmly fuck themselves < /rant >
 
I'm more of a combo fan these days, went through the stage of head and cab, but it just gets annoying lumping it around everywhere so im stickin with combo's ;) .
 
hehe luckily after a while, i didnt have to hump it around, IN IT'S SHOCK ROAD CASES, anymore...

heavy bastards...good thing too, cuz i slipped two discs in a car accident and still haven't been able to get em fixed up
 
A couple of years ago, my church bought an MG100DFX from a former guitarist/drummer I played with, and as soon as we used it, we had that problem with the fan being loud. As soon as you turn it on it it goes HRRMMM and is very obvious. It's like turning on a car. It usually settles down after a while, or if you kick the shit out of it. I know it's been fixed a bit by this one guy, but it never stops.

Needless to say they still use this amp and it still sounds like a car after a good couple of years.
 
Listen to these guys an get a combo tube amp or something. 100 watts for a tube amp is a lot. I have a 160 watt Peavey Mace and I can't even turn it loud enough to get the tubes cooking. it's too painfull :D oh well it's a beast
 
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