Hey, I'm Tom im from Sesame Street, I am 80 and my hobbies including writing reviews, reading revie...
Hey, I'm Tom im from Sesame Street, I am 80 and my hobbies including writing reviews, reading reviews, and helping people with their reviews.
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THE STORY--
It was when no sound came to my ears, that I decided perhaps now was the best time to get a new amp. I had used a 10" by 10" 10w BOOM BLASTER for over a year and it never ceased to depress me so I set out looking for one.
A cheap, practical, loud but quiet practise amp was my criteria. So I opened up Mozilla Firefox, went on various reliable sites like, GAK.com, about.com, guitarguitar.com and I talked to some reliable friends. They recommended the Marshall MG series, the only Solid-State Amps made by Marshall (except AVT hybrids). These huge-ass practice amps are made for the guitarist on the verge of the intermediate standard but not quite as confident as he/she wants.
I looked on GuitarAmpKeyboard.com for the MG Series and was pleased with what my young eyes saw. A perfectly decent, 30 watts of amazing guitar tone with a CD input to plug CD players, iPods, other amps in to play along to. It was also an amp that could be silently recorded or listened to through headphones, through the EMULATED HEADPHONES.
I decided that since by birthday was cuming up, I would ask for it of my Mum. I got it and it has been one of the best amps I've ever had.
SPECS--
Power Output - 30W RMS into 4()
Main Guitar * Input Impedance - 1M()
CD Input * Input Impedance - 3.3k()
Emulated Output * Level - +4dBV
Weight - 9.6kg
Size (mm) Width, Height, Depth - 476mm x 408mm x 240mm
FEATURES (in order of appearance on amp)--
-Footswitch jack
The channels of this amp can be changed with the stomp of a foot on the metal of a footswitch which plugs into this jack. (footswitch not included but can be bought cheap on eBay)
-Channel Select
"This push switch allows you to change between the amp's two channels. Clean and overdrive, via the front panel. When the switch is 'OUT', the clean channel is engaged, pushing it 'IN' switches to the overdrive channel." - Marshall MG 30DFX Owners Manual
-Clean Channel
A lush crisp acoustic or blunt tone can be gained from this, turning up the BASS gives the sound a depth to it, and when used with the FDD button (Frequency Dependent Damping) it can give a valve-like tone. The treble control gives the sounds a crisp lightening up and brightens it up, sometimes over crispy and too cutting.
-Overdrive Channel
A great sound for hard rock shredding. Notching up the BASS warms your riffs up, giving it more beef but tighening up as well. Turning the CONTOUR up gives the sound a bit of a PANTERA feel, but I'm not so keen on this feature so I keep on 0-1.75. Jacking up the TREBLE gives your sound the tone you want, the pure metal, but can also but punk and alternate rock. This gives your guitar the sound you here on the TV, it works for both me and my friend, one with a Jackson JS30RR (me =D), my friend with a GIBSON LES PAUL STANDARD.
-Digital FX Preset/Adjust Controls
Reverb, Delay, Chorus and Flange are the four effects on this beast. Reverb giving you a perfect echo for G N' R solo's, ACDC riffs... the lot!! The delay gives a repeat of a note according to what you have adjusted it to. Chorus gives and organ sounding vibrato which sounds great slow and clean. Same with the jet engine-like sweeps of the Flange.
-CD IN jack
As I explained earlier this "jam socket" is a portal allowing your beats to pass out of the Marshall Speakers. You can buy adaptor and cables, all for under £2, to let you plug in MP3 Players and iPods by connecting the cable in the headphone socket on the MP3 Players/iPods.
-Emulated Line Out
Another thing I've explained but I'll explain again. You can;
1. Plug inhead phones so you won't annoy your parent, neighbours, the president.
2. Jack up a lead to it and connect it to a recording device for "silent-recording"
There's really nothing much more expect to remind you that this product is extremely good and I strongly recommend you get it.
---thethomdude
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