DoctorPaul's Guitar Emporium

Marshall JVM410H, 100W quad channel Valve head

 

Bloody hell fire.  'What Guitar' called this amp "... the most heinous high-gain profanity imaginable" . This was bought as a replacement for my TSL100. The TSL is a great amp, powerful, toneful, versatile ... but THIS? This takes all of that to the next level, and then some. So, four channels (Clean, Crunch, OD1 and OD2), each of which has three gain stages, each one with more gain than the last. So that, effectively, means 12 channels, all of which are accessible on the fly by footswitch. There are independent controls for volume, gain, bass, middle, treble and reverb for each of the four channels, so everything is controllable to a tee. They've also thrown in a pair of master volumes, so that you can set two volume levels and footswitch between the two. ALL of that is accessible via the ridiculously clever footswitch, which is programmable to allow each of the switches to call up whatever settings are dialled in on the front of the amp. So, you want the clean / red channel, the FX loop on, reverb off and the lead boost from the master volume? Click, done. Then OD2 / green, no FX loop, reverb on but no lead boost? Click, done. Awesome. And the footswitch is connected to the amp using a regular guitar lead. 

All of that tomfoolery is controllable by MIDI (you know ... that shit that keyboard players use), which I've dabbled with, and it works well.  Now (thankfully) my dabbling days are over ... I've been there, done it, and didn't want to wear the stupid MIDI T-shirt.  Suck it up.  I'm sure that MIDI has its place for busy-giggers, but I'm not one of those any more, so screw it.  I'm happy stomping on some switches.  

 

Anyway, an AWESOME amp. This one is a keeper. Thankfully, reliability also seems to be good, so there's no real threat of it dying like my TSL.

 

Anyone want to buy some used MIDI cables?!