Selling it now for 500 is stoopid, put it in the attic for 5 years and forget about it.
The prices on mid-late 70s marshalls have already started to creep up and I'd bet they wont stop.
It's a bad time to sell- like Rob's said, I sold my Hurricane for 600 recently ;/
Last edited by Lew; 16th September 2008 at 01:58 AM.
I like big necks and I cannot lie. You other brothers can't deny
I'd love to get this, but it would mean a massive change for me. Obviously it would mean I have to sell my JVM. Which would be crap because love it or hate it - it's a one stop shop for sound. Whatever you want, it'll do. So shifting to this would give me an awesome tone but a limited tone.
On the other hand, I don't play death metal, etc so about 2/3rds of the JVM channels are pointless. In fact I only use 3 of the 12. Clean green, crunch orange and OD1 green. Considering that od1 green and crunch orange are the same, I only actually use 2 channels?!
I could get by if it had a decent clean headroom and use pedals for dirt. I'd like that in fact. Even if it broke up at gig levels I could back the volume off temporarily.
I'd also be giving up the ease at which I can connect a line out from the JVM to the mixer and therefore into my in ears.
I'm really torn by this as I think it'll be awesome and right up my street, but it's such a massive shift in mentality. Like buying a new car with a billion buttons, toys, options, etc or buying an old classic. Very difficult and definitely a head/heart conflict.
Very confused.
Any thoughts?
Kev
Isn't it just what Foster's looking for? And his budget's £500
Blah blah blah.Originally Posted by suityou316
Enough about him, back to me.
K
- genuine lol
I'm not gonna tell you to change - only you really know.
That said I'm wondering if people will be going dewey eyed over JVMs in 30 years? I can't see it.
As for 'breaking up at gig volumes' it will if you want, but won't if you don't - that's the joy of this era of JMP - still the good circuit (a few years later it goes JCM800 and starts to get gainer and less flexible imho) but with a proper master volume. Put it this way - I had it at pub-gig volume (and it was a pretty loud gig) c. half way on the master and just under half way on the pre and it was good and loud and clean enough to do chorus pedal in to the front end but close enough to the sweet spot that an od or boost sounds nice and driven. It'd go cleaner still by dropping the pre, but for me I preferred to allow the clean sound to warm/grit up a smidge (I can't abide "tinkly" clean).
Another thing I love about this amp is that even with everything whacked right up (yes I have done this a few times - once was in the front room at home - I thought my head was going to fall off lol if you're wondering what it sounds like at this setting go and listen to Thin Lizzy's "Live and Dangerous" album
re the volume thing - it is surprisingly tame-able (I have practiced through it at home) - rehearsal volumes come on at about 1/3-1/2. 1/3-2/3 imho would be gig volume for the middle of the road sounds (or for dirt pedal use) - and as you approach all on 2/3 that's where you start feeling it as much as hearing it.
(yes reading that back it does sound like a huge sales job and probably make folk say "If it's that good why are you selling it" - I can only say that I have thought hard about it - and for me, right now, the 18watter (that I have here but have not yet handed over the cash for until this one sells!) better suits my needs - a very different thing. If I were still in the band I would still be in my "my gas is cured forever" mode :wink: )
As for being a good buy for Foster, the reason I didn't mention it was partly because he had a particular stipulation for portability, so a valve 2x12 probably doesn't fit the bill, plus most folk know I've got it up for sale so if he was interested he'd probably have said.
Red ones are better.
I never EVER got sick of mine in all the time i had it, and the only thing that made me sell it was the fact i was awkward to lug around and I didn't have a car.
I had a friend who called it "rosalie" cos it NAILED that sound.
Easily breakup at gig volumes, and mor ethan enough headroom to turn up the master and turn down the gain for cleans. Sound good at home volumes too. Simple, versatile, great sounding amps.
Gibson Les Paul Custom
Orange Retro 50
Orange Tiny Terror HW
Marshall basketweave 2x12
Ibanez TS9
A big thank you to riffcaster PR consultancy there
Red ones are better.
fao the new person who PM'd me about this - I replied but thought I'd say so here too as the default message settings don't tell you you have a new one
Red ones are better.
bump-tastic.
I have had SOOOOOO many enquiries about this, including long email trails of questions, answers, pictures, from all over the UK, Sweden, and the US, resulting on now 4 different "I'm definitely having it, I'm just getting the money together..." but still no money on the table, so here's a bump
Red ones are better.
This can be viewed / demo'd at GASFest on Saturday
Red ones are better.
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