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Re: Which impedance should an amp have?
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 11/7/2000 11:08 PM |
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Andrew |
Re: Which impedance should an amp have? By the way, does anybody know how the Marshall VS100 sounds? In case, I don’t get my selfmade amp working, I want to buy this. I have one of these. The clean channel is pretty good sounding, it has a tone shift button which boost the mids and cuts some bass. But its a push button mounted on the face of the amp and it's not foot switchable. The distortion sounds aren't very good in my opinion. At low volume it's not bad, but turn it up and the amp sounds thin. They also share the same eq (bass, mid, treble) but have there own gain and volume controls. So you've got to find a happy medium between overdrive 1 and overdrive 2 as far as eqing goes. The contour control works only on the 2nd distortion channel and gives you some pretty nasty metal tones. The reverb is not bad. Clean and distortion channels have there own reverb controls, it's a little dark sounding for me, but with the clean channel it sounds good. The amp has a few other features as well, which makes it a very versitle amp but in my opinion the clean channel is the best thing about this amp. I bought this amp a few years ago and it sounded good in the store, at the time i was in a modern heavy rock band and need a more modern sound, and the versitility of the amp, but after a few band practices I went back to my trusty Marshall JCM 800 100 watt half stack and a Marshall shredmaster distortion pedal. The vs100 is now my practice amp at home. I hope this helps Andrew |
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