@Leon Todd. My 2 favorite rack mount pre-amps. MP-1 and my all favorite the ADA MP1. Don't forget "Character Tone" Hope you like the actual Nuno Bettencourt settings I got from his tech and ADA for the ADA MP-1 I sent you.
A post Spinal Tap piece of gear :-D Look at my Video made a few years ago: ruclips.net/video/RbSNFFIz8qg/видео.html :-D Thanks Leon, great as always! :-D
Nice one Leon! Been playing with this myself lately trying to work out a decent way to replicate it in the axe FX III. It's a bit of an enigma as the tone stack wasn't modelled at Noon it seems!
I remember playing this in a local music store waaay back in the day and drooling over it when it was $1400 new. Many years later I'm still drooling over it. I'm a big Smashing Pumpkins fan and this thing gets the MCIS tone big time!
The Marshall JMP-1 is one of 6 preamps I run in a MIDI rig. Along with it, the ADA MP1, the Rockman XPR, the Mesa Rectifier Recording, the Black Widow MGP-1a, and the KSR Ceres. Using a switching system, these all trigger with one press. They patch into assorted output sections. EL84 tubed Peavey Classic 50/50. EL34 tubed Marshall EL34 50/50 and 6L6 tubed Mesa Stereo 2:One Hundred. Beyond the power amps, Alnico Blue, Greenback, Creamback, Vintage 30, & Alnico Gold speakers with SM57 or e609 mics. And beyond those mics, real mic preamps. This is because many of the studio recordings I’ve always listened to growing up were done with this gear. There’s more to it, of course, more amps and more speakers, but the rack preamps aren’t connected to effects loops in my setup. I don’t use effects loops. The lines that come into the computer are bone dry. No effects anywhere in that chain, and those are what I record. Bone dry mic lines are used in all my songs. For the effects, those dry lines are sent out an AUX, through an Eventide Harmonizer, and they have their own return lines. These are then recorded themselves, a dry and wet. A lot of top end fizz is trimmed away on the dry mic line, which happens as soon as it enters the computer, they receive a Fabfilter Pro Q2 with some shelving. That’s it. This is old gear, voiced 35 years ago. Old technology, still working today. It’s not dependent on a computer to function, so when you upgrade your PC, no worries, the shit still works. The preamps are all vastly different flavors, nothing sounds like a Rockman XPR. ADA & Marshall are close, and Black Widow and Mesa are close, but nothing is alike. The KSR Ceres is a pedal, which is a preamp pedal without a power supply, so it’s noisy beyond any of the others. So much noise, noise gates do not contain it. Sounds great when you’re playing through it, but needs some edits done to trim away noise during silence, so I will be giving it to a student (my friend’s son, good kid). I have all these lines I can choose from, to help me understand and balance the system. If one of the amp/speakers sounds like trash there’s a reason why. And it has helped me to have ‘known goods’ to determine matching levels, matching EQs, etc. A mic preamp is a line amplifier itself, so this can be used to balance everybody, it can also be used to make amps behave in a pleasing manor. If you want touch sensitivity, a hot level on the mic pre will force you to underplay, and enhance those distinct harmonics. I am no professional, not educated in guitar, no formal education in music, no formal education in recording, I have never played in a band. What I am, is interested in learning and posting those results here on YT. Not saying my gear is better than your gear, my guitar is better than your guitar, none of that. I am willing to lose, happy with last place finishes, don’t mind being ignored, not here to teach you to shred or understand jazz scales. I am not bothered that Tyler Larson of Music Is Win posted a video of me titled Guitarists Who Suck. The handful of people who subscribe to my channel realize this, I do it for the joy of playing music, the small successes of recording a good sound. I’m the only person in my family who plays music, moved out of the house when I was 18 and started my own family, raised them, all adults, all functioning members of society. And soon, my time will be done. At peace, however, knowing people like you carry the fire. You’ve been great Leon, a good friend, a friend to all. I appreciate that the most. Take care, see you soon.
I oleo recently bought both , an JMP -1 and Alesis Quadraverb on Reverb. Sitting in my new “vintage dream tone” , home studio. Just finished plugging everything in the way I want the signal chian, and got gripped at by the girlfriend! Only because I spent about 3 hours messing with settings, volume levels, having a blast, and forgot to mow the yards.
My main live rig is a Marshall JMP1 -> TC Electronic G Major 2 -> Peavey Classic 50/50 Poweramp -> Marshall 1960A Quad, with a Hughes And Kettner Red Box for front of house/monitors if required. Absolutely love it. It weighs a ton, but I don't care. Does everything I need.
7:33 that is not a hard limiter, that is because the volume knob is maxed out. Roll it off to 1 o’clock max and the amp will have less hiss and performs better.
The best thing about this video is not the demo of the fine sounding valve pre. It the ideas of when to use chorus and delay! Those little parts sounded epic. Normally I use time based effects all wrong and what I'm playing trips over the repeats or gets discordant
Love this thing. It's kind of like a DSL-ish sound with more of a low mid focus. For me, owning this thing plus my JCM2000, I feel like I can cover the entire spectrum of Marshall style tones to a close enough approximation.
Love JMP-1 - I've owned several and it was my main tone source through the late 90s touring through Asia. Killer tones and super versatile. Maybe time I got one again.....hmmm...haha -- all the best
For years & years my main rig was a Marshall JMP-1 into a Marshall 9200 series power amp with a JFX-1 in the effects loop. All this into a Marshall 1960A. Great rig!!! I loved the midi for it to talk to the JFX. I was even able to MIDI switch the power amp voicing
Leon Todd it was actually the Marshall JFX-1 that did the voicing switching to the power amp. Everything was hooked up by MIDI for the JMP-1 & JFX-1 to talk to each other, but it was just a standard patch cable from the remote switching output of the JFX to the 9200. They almost seemed to all be designed to work together. If you ever see one of those JFX units, I highly recommend them.
JMP-1 over Mesa 50/50 = best of both worlds = friggin' awesome! Also, I couldn't believe my ears when you played *Scorpions* at 2:08. Fantastic memories with this album!
On another RUclips channel I heard that Greg Mackintosh used the JMP-1 on Paradise Lost's "Shades Of God" and "Icon" albums. That information made me really, really want to buy one.
Sounds awesome! Those leads that were dripping with delay were smooth. I will admit I fast-forwarded through the chorus parts. Listening on headphones here and it sent my inner ear reeling a bit.
I have my jmp1 with the JFX-1 effects , monoblock poweramp, Bought em in the 90s when everyone was dumping rack gear. some good tones, rack weighs a ton, not for gigging, looks and sounds cool tho! there's gold in that there rack!
@@LeonTodd Cool Choruses, Very dated today, but definitely the chorus of the 80s, verbs good, delays great. I just used to slobber over the guitar magazines seeing that all gold marshall rack in the ads!
In the late 90's, I played a rack setup in a local music shop... Had a jmp-1, jfx(I think it was called?? The Marshall rack effects unit from the time), a Marshall 50:50 power rack amp. I wanted it so bad! But was a poor student, so it never happened 😫😥😩
That was the 1990s go-to preamp which killed the ADA MP2 and gave the Triaxis competition ... packed with 4 useful sounds mimicking the JTM edge, JMP crunch, JCM800 lead and the 9001clean. Lacking a compressor, but the speaker simulation output was the best of it's time, and the parallell efx loop a godsend for our stereo digital multi efx unit
Billy Gibbons uses one in his live ZZ Top shows. I think he got his modified to have some upgraded components. But he uses 0.007's and turns the gain up!
Got mine for about £80 needed a new transformer £60. Changed a load of capacitors and upgraded op amps £50 plus a lot of time and it sounds like $1million! They seem to be creeping up in price so if you do see one at an affordable price, jump on it.
@@LeonTodd been looking for awhile and cant seem to find any under $1k U.S. that's abit steep considering I got my jcm 2000 tsl 100 for $500. I honestly wish I could get one but I can't justify those kind of prices for a preamp anything more the $300 range on just a preamp seems crazy to me
Andrew Miller you could buy one from Europe as the voltage can be configured internally to 115v from 230v. Consider shipping and import tax in on the price though and if you need a tech to do the work for you (de-soldering 1 diode and supplying and soldering 2 diodes).
I always dug the sound of JMP-1, mainly because of early Deftones albums... I used to play one in a studio, but I never own one my own... so the question is, it still worth have one in 2022? BTW, amazing video, Leon 🤟
I think so . Still have mine from new. Into a JCM900 power amp section. Oddly I have found the speaker emulator outs best.🤔 Might be in part because I run it parallel back into a switcher, same tone , less noise 🤨 Takes dirt and boost into the front well. And the effects loop is good, despite all the hate, once you get it. Send to your effects rack of choice leave the effects blend open and you'll dig it. So often a hair of modulation is all you want. the send is post and then it blends , so you can also send pre the JMP but return to the effects blend if you want say clean reverb or delays Storing is quick and if you don't want midi you can run a 4 x preset foot switch.
Hi I always find when I run my Big Muff Fuzz pedal through the front end of the amp, the tone is too polished or digitised. Is there any way round this?
Great Demo. One piece of gear that used back in the 90's is a bbe 442 sonic maxx with the jmp 1. also with the ada mp1. with a rocktron intellifect Thanks for the demo. Cheers
These preamps still hold their own but surprisingly I’ve found running them into the fox return on a Marshall head doesn’t give the greatest of results. I tried mine through my JCM900 and JVM410HJS and it was ok. Then I bought a Synergy 5050 and was like WOW! If you’ve never heard one I’d highly recommend it. 100 watts (or 50/50 stereo) in a single rack space. Pretty insane sounding. On another note. Leon what software do you use to edit your videos? Cheers.
Take from a guy who was playing in bands when these came out and shortly bought one. Follow the JMP-1 with a BBE then in to the power amp. Every guy who had one of these in his rack used a BBE with it. Well, any guy who wanted to sound good did. That preamp goes from a so so 2-3 to a 10 with the BBE (both knobs set at 1 O'clock). BTW, still have one and still love it.
So, I just got my JMP-1 from reverb. Seller seems really cool and exited to have me have it! And no surprise you helped my decision. You and Frank Gambale who used one for years. Although FG felt it couldn’t get warm enough. I guess I will find out. Lol Thank you for your informative posts bro!
Hi Leon, I just bought a JMP-1 but I'm struggling to get a good hi-gain tone... I run my JMP-1 through master out in my audio interface and I use Mercurial Reaxis as power amp sim, and NadIR as IR loader. I want to get a rythm tone close to Deftones (Around the Fur/White Pony era). Can you give me tips to get my JMP to sound like that ? It would be great if you could also tell me what output level and channel volume I should use. I hope you'll read this comment. Thanks :)
Stephen from Deftones was using Seymour Duncan JBs back then i believe. I could be wrong as to the exact SD pickup but it was def passive and not an active type of pickup like EMG. Im sure he probably boosted it too
Hey Leon thanks for the video indeed. I am looking to buy a JMP1 and this video helped me a lot. Would you mind sharing more information on the memory man simulation you used at 12:59. Great channel find and subscribed, cheers!
It's probably coming from my Axe-Fx - there's a DMM mode in the delay block there. Either that or the memory man mode on Soundtoys echoboy, I use both a lot.
Great review! I have one ($235.00) paired with an EL34 100/100 (Free/broken, $90.00 repair). Lots of fun when you want an entire town to know you're jamming lol. Built it as a retro project and now have the JFX-1 ($400.00) coming this week. So with all that being said, good tones and good playing. I won't likely post a review lol.
Hi Tod, Thanks for your follow up demo on the JMP1. I watch Many of your reviews & you always get the thumbs up from me, However, Time line 13:38 . . . . If the volume Knob on the front pannel is set to aprox 9 o'clock & you adjust the volume perameter up instead, the outcome will be drastically different. I know you love the AxFx, but after almost 30 years, the JMP1 & Triaxis have proven to be in a league of their own and are still a main pre amp in some incredibly great performers rigs. . . . Out into a BBE & tc G-Force . . . Wow 😎 Cheers, Bk
Clean 1 is actually the one that does the cool edge-of-breakup sound. I think people try Clean 1 with the gain set low and it sounds and feels dead so they dislike it and change to Clean 2, which immediately sounds more present, but really it's pretty plinky and spiky at high volume.. and it does not break up nice. Try Clean 1 with the gain at 15 or higher. It's nice and full with less plink and sustains almost like it has some compression on it... and it breaks up in a smoother more musical way.
Going thru older vids my friend. ZZ Top uses one of these and gets amazing tones from what I saw on their video where they interviewed their tech. Great stuff man..
You do realize that by the time this isolation is over you are going to be an absolute razor on your chugging skills with all this playing time Leon. Ragdoll needs to get in studio ASAP and release that pent up Eh' ! If you want Ragdoll,,, *_You got it_* ! Ceratopsians rule!
Great vid Leon. So good to learn about gear that I've never played through. Marshall tones sound really unique in my opinion! Also, clunk is a definetly gonna stick around :) Cheers
Hey Leon try the jmp1 normal out into a behringer gdi21 tweed clean setting, massive improvement on the jmp1 emulated outs, it really sounds like a miked cab, cuts out the fizzzz
Excellent video!! I know Billy Gibbons used this with a Marshall power Amp and his tone is unreal. Just don't think I'd want to go 100% this route. It would be fun, to have one of these, to play with and see what I could come up with, but I'd stick with my current rig. I have 2 old Laney heads, which i switch between. . Both are the 1986 AOR heads. One is a 50 and the other is a 100. By themselves, they remind me of a plexi, but I think the Laney sounds better, than any Marshall I've played through. The core of my tone, is the AOR head into a matching 4X12 cab. I use an old Tube Screamer, into the front end, to push it just a little, which is pure magic. As for effects, I use a Behringer V Amp Pro for chorus, delay, and other effects. I also use a Zakk Wylde wah, to accent bends, pinch harmonics, and such. I use a 2 channel wireless and for guitars, my main ones are Les Paul's, all from 2000, 2003, and 2006, and a 1988 Jackson USA Custom Shop Soloist.
I wish there was a Vox version of the JMP-1. If you can demo a rocktron valvesonic top boost rack preamp I would appreciate. I think it’s the only analog Vox rack preamp available these days. I think rack gurus Lab Systems designed it.
Idk if there's some kind of hidden market that's really hungry, with these rack preamps, but people are asking for 400-600 euros for these and Lee Jackson units, pre or power amps. Funnily enough I watched Nielsen's vid, then your old vid (thinking that you didn't touch the emulation topic at all) and when I finished, you had released this new one. It's a nice sounding unit, UI could have like tone control knobs and just some different amp modes like JTM, JCM etc if you could improve it today. The emulation is also impressive for the time the unit was released, Nielsen actually sounded better like that than his through amp tone in the video, in my opinion. Funny thing about the tube critique is that the clipping diodes were one of the favourite mods in the marshalls. Like in your jose mod video. And became a very common thing in design in general. Also people throughout the history have made legendary sounds with their clipping diode pedals into their tube amps. Although in the 2000's internet was full of weird purism arguments that often were hypocritical or made no sense. Much like today as well, I guess. The weird sound was a bit like gated fuzz, cool special effect hidden in this.
I am curious about the output level on the JMP-1, is it really quiet? I ask because most of my preamps can put out a ton of level and way too much for an effects loop if cranked fully. Normally I run most of my preamps main output at fifty percent or less, the only one that I have to crank is an Engl E580. Fully cranked it gives +4db.
Great video and tones Leon. I've got a JMP-1 with the Marshall 9200 tube power amps and JCM 4x12 cabinets. I can get AC/DC tones,light saturation,and Dokken/Lynch Mob or Sykes type tones, heavier saturation. Hahahaha you're right, the clean 1 channel sucks though. Not clean at all. Hope to get AxeFX in the near future.
The Rockmaster is nice, don't get me wrong, but it also uses clipping diodes (if that's the basis for people saying the JMP is the inferior unit). Trace at Voodoo Amps told me this almost 20 years ago. I used to have one and it really is a nice unit. Can't compare it to the Marshall as I've never played it. The Marshall does have midi, so you'd need an external midi controller with the Rockmaster to change its channels along with an effects unit. I used a Peavey MidiPro with mine until units started coming along that could switch amp channels and effect unit presets at the same time. I think the G Major was one of the first that did that.
@@LeonTodd Caught a tip on R Shull's chan on a Nashville session player that's been running lessons/homeschool episodes during quarantine...DYNAMITE find. Session players that can find the time to even just interact are a very wonderful thing to me. I don't want to promote links on your channel, so the player's name is Tom Bukovac and he's super sweet melodic player with an edge on it. I watched like 10 seconds of an episode and when I looked down I was already holding my guitar. I LOVE LEARNING thank you for your content.
@@LeonTodd but you were on fire today - being a little indulgent with the fat pinches in the middle of the fretboard...but they're OOOOOOH so satisfying when the loop connects and the tone flows back into itself...Steve Vai got so addicted to the rush of extended heterodynamic release that he spec'd a sustainer into his new model lol
how the f.. do you get such an awesome sound out of a single sm57 on a marshall cab?? I got a jmp 1 as well, and connect it to a jcm 800 combo.. (vintage 30) nowhere near as good a sound..!
Leon you may have mentioned this somewhere but how are you using the fx loop, I’m just so confused about the different options. Do I run it like a daisy chain between jmp1 then to fx init then to power amp. Or put fx in the loop?
Damn dude !!! I know this unit for years !!! it's sounds so awesome !! I'm huge marshall fan for some kind of stuffs like aerosmith or even Zakk Wylde, Spinal TAp^et also my fav over all, John Frusciante. Please do me a favor, take your best 60's strat and make a special John Frusciante Tone with your JMP1 please make a dream come true! Greetings from Belgium
I look at prices every once in a while and it''s astronomical what they're going for now. A decent one will be almost $800 USD. Ridiculous! The Axe3 can do this and more, so for now no JMP1 for me. However, I do have 2 MP1's! :-)
I had mine modded by voodoo amps at the time Trace was working on getting some more hardware to finish the upgrade. I think the Platinum upgrade is finally available. I need to send mine back to have it done. It was unbelievable. The difference all the tones enhanced the noise Will be virtually gone with a new transformer I haven't had a chance to get it back to him but I will. If it's good enough of Billy gibbons it's good enough for me !!!
I've noticed, that when you're using the FM3, the high mids are always slightly harsher and less pleasant than when you use real amps. Almost every time. Dunno if it's a modelling flaw, or just how you set it up...
I actually brought this up with Pete Thorn last week. I hear that with a lot of the Fractal stuff online. He told me a lot of it was dependent on choosing the proper IR.
@@nicholastotoro7721 Come to think of it, I can't hear this harshness when people make blind tests against real amps, so it makes sense that it's a cab modelling or IR thing. A comparison is always welcome :)
Mike's vid - ruclips.net/video/qaqvyS67SmM/видео.html
@Leon Todd. My 2 favorite rack mount pre-amps. MP-1 and my all favorite the ADA MP1. Don't forget "Character Tone" Hope you like the actual Nuno Bettencourt settings I got from his tech and ADA for the ADA MP-1 I sent you.
*JMP1
A post Spinal Tap piece of gear :-D
Look at my Video made a few years ago:
ruclips.net/video/RbSNFFIz8qg/видео.html
:-D
Thanks Leon, great as always! :-D
Nice one Leon! Been playing with this myself lately trying to work out a decent way to replicate it in the axe FX III. It's a bit of an enigma as the tone stack wasn't modelled at Noon it seems!
i realize it is pretty off topic but do anybody know a good website to watch newly released movies online ?
I remember playing this in a local music store waaay back in the day and drooling over it when it was $1400 new.
Many years later I'm still drooling over it. I'm a big Smashing Pumpkins fan and this thing gets the MCIS tone big time!
There cannot be enough hi quality videos about the JMP-1. Yeah, call me a fanboy.
The Marshall JMP-1 is one of 6 preamps I run in a MIDI rig. Along with it, the ADA MP1, the Rockman XPR, the Mesa Rectifier Recording, the Black Widow MGP-1a, and the KSR Ceres.
Using a switching system, these all trigger with one press. They patch into assorted output sections. EL84 tubed Peavey Classic 50/50. EL34 tubed Marshall EL34 50/50 and 6L6 tubed Mesa Stereo 2:One Hundred.
Beyond the power amps, Alnico Blue, Greenback, Creamback, Vintage 30, & Alnico Gold speakers with SM57 or e609 mics. And beyond those mics, real mic preamps.
This is because many of the studio recordings I’ve always listened to growing up were done with this gear. There’s more to it, of course, more amps and more speakers, but the rack preamps aren’t connected to effects loops in my setup. I don’t use effects loops.
The lines that come into the computer are bone dry. No effects anywhere in that chain, and those are what I record. Bone dry mic lines are used in all my songs. For the effects, those dry lines are sent out an AUX, through an Eventide Harmonizer, and they have their own return lines. These are then recorded themselves, a dry and wet.
A lot of top end fizz is trimmed away on the dry mic line, which happens as soon as it enters the computer, they receive a Fabfilter Pro Q2 with some shelving. That’s it.
This is old gear, voiced 35 years ago. Old technology, still working today. It’s not dependent on a computer to function, so when you upgrade your PC, no worries, the shit still works.
The preamps are all vastly different flavors, nothing sounds like a Rockman XPR. ADA & Marshall are close, and Black Widow and Mesa are close, but nothing is alike.
The KSR Ceres is a pedal, which is a preamp pedal without a power supply, so it’s noisy beyond any of the others. So much noise, noise gates do not contain it. Sounds great when you’re playing through it, but needs some edits done to trim away noise during silence, so I will be giving it to a student (my friend’s son, good kid).
I have all these lines I can choose from, to help me understand and balance the system. If one of the amp/speakers sounds like trash there’s a reason why. And it has helped me to have ‘known goods’ to determine matching levels, matching EQs, etc.
A mic preamp is a line amplifier itself, so this can be used to balance everybody, it can also be used to make amps behave in a pleasing manor. If you want touch sensitivity, a hot level on the mic pre will force you to underplay, and enhance those distinct harmonics.
I am no professional, not educated in guitar, no formal education in music, no formal education in recording, I have never played in a band. What I am, is interested in learning and posting those results here on YT. Not saying my gear is better than your gear, my guitar is better than your guitar, none of that. I am willing to lose, happy with last place finishes, don’t mind being ignored, not here to teach you to shred or understand jazz scales. I am not bothered that Tyler Larson of Music Is Win posted a video of me titled Guitarists Who Suck.
The handful of people who subscribe to my channel realize this, I do it for the joy of playing music, the small successes of recording a good sound. I’m the only person in my family who plays music, moved out of the house when I was 18 and started my own family, raised them, all adults, all functioning members of society.
And soon, my time will be done. At peace, however, knowing people like you carry the fire. You’ve been great Leon, a good friend, a friend to all. I appreciate that the most. Take care, see you soon.
You have a great channel,I always learn from you when I have a chance to watch. Love your gear,your knowledge, and your sharing.
"Solo guitar studio" what is you channel called? Can't find it.
@@peterschaefer1665 I'm sure you've noticed by now, but if by chance you haven't, it's Solar not Solo! Carry-on guitar man!
JMP-1+Alesis Quadraverb!!! My rig for about 10 years!!!!
Was mine too and I still have it!!!
Quadraverb is THE shit. One day I'll buy myself a jmp1
Nice. I literally just bought both on reverb last week!
I still have mine too
I oleo recently bought both , an JMP -1 and Alesis Quadraverb on Reverb. Sitting in my new “vintage dream tone” , home studio. Just finished plugging everything in the way I want the signal chian, and got gripped at by the girlfriend! Only because I spent about 3 hours messing with settings, volume levels, having a blast, and forgot to mow the yards.
Thank you for this video, the tip on cutting 80Hz and 10kHz was pure gold and has changed my tone for the better!
My main live rig is a Marshall JMP1 -> TC Electronic G Major 2 -> Peavey Classic 50/50 Poweramp -> Marshall 1960A Quad, with a Hughes And Kettner Red Box for front of house/monitors if required.
Absolutely love it. It weighs a ton, but I don't care. Does everything I need.
7:33 that is not a hard limiter, that is because the volume knob is maxed out. Roll it off to 1 o’clock max and the amp will have less hiss and performs better.
The best thing about this video is not the demo of the fine sounding valve pre. It the ideas of when to use chorus and delay! Those little parts sounded epic. Normally I use time based effects all wrong and what I'm playing trips over the repeats or gets discordant
Pretty impressive rack preamp considering the era in which it came out. Sounded pretty cool!
I used to use one live with a Peavey 60/60, a Marshall quad and a Yamaha FX500. Good tones for those days.
My Setup. Except i was using either the JFX-1 or a Peavey Multieffect which i forgot the name off.
Those old peavey power amps are pretty nifty!
I used mine with an FX500 too for nice combination. These days I have both the FX900 and FX500 connected via switch selector.
When you put that room reverb on, it made all the difference. It really filled in everything
Subtle yet effective!
I loved my JMP-1. I had it in a rack with a sonic maximizer and a Marshall power amp. The tones I used to get where amazing.
That's a Great Pre! Especially when joined with your Axe-Fx. Well done and thanks for sharing brother!
Be Well All!
Love this thing. It's kind of like a DSL-ish sound with more of a low mid focus. For me, owning this thing plus my JCM2000, I feel like I can cover the entire spectrum of Marshall style tones to a close enough approximation.
This into the DSL power amp basically gives you a midi programmable DSL which is pretty cool
Love JMP-1 - I've owned several and it was my main tone source through the late 90s touring through Asia. Killer tones and super versatile. Maybe time I got one again.....hmmm...haha -- all the best
For years & years my main rig was a Marshall JMP-1 into a Marshall 9200 series power amp with a JFX-1 in the effects loop. All this into a Marshall 1960A. Great rig!!! I loved the midi for it to talk to the JFX. I was even able to MIDI switch the power amp voicing
I didn't realise the 9200's power amps could change their voicing like that - very cool.
Leon Todd it was actually the Marshall JFX-1 that did the voicing switching to the power amp. Everything was hooked up by MIDI for the JMP-1 & JFX-1 to talk to each other, but it was just a standard patch cable from the remote switching output of the JFX to the 9200. They almost seemed to all be designed to work together. If you ever see one of those JFX units, I highly recommend them.
JMP-1 over Mesa 50/50 = best of both worlds = friggin' awesome!
Also, I couldn't believe my ears when you played *Scorpions* at 2:08. Fantastic memories with this album!
Great album, so many ripping tracks on it
Exactly my old set up!🤘🏼
Love the JMP1 I’m running it through a Mesa 290. , Two 4x12’s. Sounds Beastly!! OD2 & clean 1 all day
I literally laughed out loud when you said "ughh, what was that?".
A JMP1 vs JCM 800 metal tone shootout would be awesome to hear.
I love these preamps. Maiden still use them live exactly like this running into the return of a 50 watt jcm2000.
Exactely! If it's good enough for Dave Murray it's certainly good enough for me
On another RUclips channel I heard that Greg Mackintosh used the JMP-1 on Paradise Lost's "Shades Of God" and "Icon" albums. That information made me really, really want to buy one.
Bruh the Michael Nelson video was amazing. Got me to use my Shredmaster as a preamp. I'm watching your video because I liked his video so much lmao
Sounds awesome! Those leads that were dripping with delay were smooth. I will admit I fast-forwarded through the chorus parts. Listening on headphones here and it sent my inner ear reeling a bit.
I have my jmp1 with the JFX-1 effects , monoblock poweramp, Bought em in the 90s when everyone was dumping rack gear. some good tones, rack weighs a ton, not for gigging, looks and sounds cool tho! there's gold in that there rack!
Hope do you like the JFX?
@@LeonTodd Cool Choruses, Very dated today, but definitely the chorus of the 80s, verbs good, delays great. I just used to slobber over the guitar magazines seeing that all gold marshall rack in the ads!
In the late 90's, I played a rack setup in a local music shop... Had a jmp-1, jfx(I think it was called?? The Marshall rack effects unit from the time), a Marshall 50:50 power rack amp. I wanted it so bad! But was a poor student, so it never happened 😫😥😩
That was the 1990s go-to preamp which killed the ADA MP2 and gave the Triaxis competition ... packed with 4 useful sounds mimicking the JTM edge, JMP crunch, JCM800 lead and the 9001clean. Lacking a compressor, but the speaker simulation output was the best of it's time, and the parallell efx loop a godsend for our stereo digital multi efx unit
Billy Gibbons uses one in his live ZZ Top shows. I think he got his modified to have some upgraded components. But he uses 0.007's and turns the gain up!
Still a bucket list piece of gear. I got hooked early on from iron maiden, def leopard, and the band Extol.
If you see one cheap nab it, super fun unit
Got mine for about £80 needed a new transformer £60. Changed a load of capacitors and upgraded op amps £50 plus a lot of time and it sounds like $1million!
They seem to be creeping up in price so if you do see one at an affordable price, jump on it.
@@LeonTodd been looking for awhile and cant seem to find any under $1k U.S. that's abit steep considering I got my jcm 2000 tsl 100 for $500. I honestly wish I could get one but I can't justify those kind of prices for a preamp anything more the $300 range on just a preamp seems crazy to me
Its a shame tho because I've lusted after one really bad ever since hearing Extol's album Undeceived that guitar tone is glorious
Andrew Miller you could buy one from Europe as the voltage can be configured internally to 115v from 230v. Consider shipping and import tax in on the price though and if you need a tech to do the work for you (de-soldering 1 diode and supplying and soldering 2 diodes).
I always dug the sound of JMP-1, mainly because of early Deftones albums... I used to play one in a studio, but I never own one my own... so the question is, it still worth have one in 2022? BTW, amazing video, Leon 🤟
I think so . Still have mine from new. Into a JCM900 power amp section. Oddly I have found the speaker emulator outs best.🤔
Might be in part because I run it parallel back into a switcher, same tone , less noise 🤨
Takes dirt and boost into the front well. And the effects loop is good, despite all the hate, once you get it.
Send to your effects rack of choice leave the effects blend open and you'll dig it. So often a hair of modulation is all you want.
the send is post and then it blends , so you can also send pre the JMP but return to the effects blend if you want say clean reverb or delays
Storing is quick and if you don't want midi you can run a 4 x preset foot switch.
Hi I always find when I run my Big Muff Fuzz pedal through the front end of the amp, the tone is too polished or digitised. Is there any way round this?
Nice vid! I bought JMP-1 while ago and your video gave me a lot of new ideas how to use it.
Awesome!
Great Demo. One piece of gear that used back in the 90's is a bbe 442 sonic maxx with the jmp 1. also with the ada mp1. with a rocktron intellifect Thanks for the demo. Cheers
You're speaking my language!
Marshall = best tones ever
triaxis best tones, i answer for my words )
...Until you hear a Friedman.
These preamps still hold their own but surprisingly I’ve found running them into the fox return on a Marshall head doesn’t give the greatest of results. I tried mine through my JCM900 and JVM410HJS and it was ok. Then I bought a Synergy 5050 and was like WOW! If you’ve never heard one I’d highly recommend it. 100 watts (or 50/50 stereo) in a single rack space. Pretty insane sounding.
On another note. Leon what software do you use to edit your videos? Cheers.
Pretty insane pricing as well ahahah kidding, synergy is doing a great job
love it... lets crank the bass up...
Marshall JMP1: "they think that knob does something"
Take from a guy who was playing in bands when these came out and shortly bought one. Follow the JMP-1 with a BBE then in to the power amp. Every guy who had one of these in his rack used a BBE with it. Well, any guy who wanted to sound good did. That preamp goes from a so so 2-3 to a 10 with the BBE (both knobs set at 1 O'clock). BTW, still have one and still love it.
So, I just got my JMP-1 from reverb. Seller seems really cool and exited to have me have it! And no surprise you helped my decision. You and Frank Gambale who used one for years. Although FG felt it couldn’t get warm enough. I guess I will find out. Lol Thank you for your informative posts bro!
FG, the thunder from down under!
Hi Leon, I just bought a JMP-1 but I'm struggling to get a good hi-gain tone...
I run my JMP-1 through master out in my audio interface and I use Mercurial Reaxis as power amp sim, and NadIR as IR loader.
I want to get a rythm tone close to Deftones (Around the Fur/White Pony era).
Can you give me tips to get my JMP to sound like that ?
It would be great if you could also tell me what output level and channel volume I should use.
I hope you'll read this comment.
Thanks :)
What kind of pickups are you using?
@@davidmiranda7937 EMG 81 85. I have a LTD H 351 NT
These are PAF clones made by Martin A Smith
Stephen from Deftones was using Seymour Duncan JBs back then i believe. I could be wrong as to the exact SD pickup but it was def passive and not an active type of pickup like EMG. Im sure he probably boosted it too
@@davidmiranda7937 I have SD SH2/SH4 pickups on another guitar that I left at my mother's.
Do you think it would be worth to replace the EMGs ?
Hey Leon thanks for the video indeed. I am looking to buy a JMP1 and this video helped me a lot. Would you mind sharing more information on the memory man simulation you used at 12:59. Great channel find and subscribed, cheers!
It's probably coming from my Axe-Fx - there's a DMM mode in the delay block there. Either that or the memory man mode on Soundtoys echoboy, I use both a lot.
Again, Love your reviews mate
Keep up the good work
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7:31 that, young sir, is a "character tone"
"Clunk, different to chunk." Couldn't resist! lol Tube or no tube, the JMP1 sounds good (when set right) but not everyone's cup of tea. 👍
If that's not a t-shirt slogan, I don't know what is
Great review! I have one ($235.00) paired with an EL34 100/100 (Free/broken, $90.00 repair). Lots of fun when you want an entire town to know you're jamming lol. Built it as a retro project and now have the JFX-1 ($400.00) coming this week. So with all that being said, good tones and good playing. I won't likely post a review lol.
be keen to hear your thoughts on the JFX-1 - might be the most overlooked piece of Marshall gear ever.
@@LeonTodd I have one and it’s brilliant! Would love to see you do a review on one mate 👍🍻
Sounds great really.
Hi Tod,
Thanks for your follow up demo on the JMP1.
I watch Many of your reviews & you always get the thumbs up from me,
However, Time line 13:38 . . . .
If the volume Knob on the front pannel is set to aprox 9 o'clock & you adjust the volume perameter up instead, the outcome will be drastically different.
I know you love the AxFx, but after almost 30 years, the JMP1 & Triaxis have proven to be in a league of their own and are still a main pre amp in some incredibly great performers rigs. . . . Out into a BBE & tc G-Force . . . Wow 😎
Cheers, Bk
JMP-1, g major and a bbe used to be my main rig - stadium rock tones at any volume!
Clean 1 is actually the one that does the cool edge-of-breakup sound. I think people try Clean 1 with the gain set low and it sounds and feels dead so they dislike it and change to Clean 2, which immediately sounds more present, but really it's pretty plinky and spiky at high volume.. and it does not break up nice. Try Clean 1 with the gain at 15 or higher. It's nice and full with less plink and sustains almost like it has some compression on it... and it breaks up in a smoother more musical way.
I need to revisit this one!
7:27 sounds exactly like my 70s Fender Bassman Ten if you crank it.
A friend of mine had that preamp and had a couple of overdrive pedals in front of it. he got a really saturated sound
A comparison with the Fractal model would be nice - unless you've got that covered already :)
I'll have to revisit it
Going thru older vids my friend. ZZ Top uses one of these and gets amazing tones from what I saw on their video where they interviewed their tech. Great stuff man..
THANK YOU KINDE SIRE. THUMBES UPS FOR BEING HONESTS!
You do realize that by the time this isolation is over you are going to be an absolute razor on your chugging skills with all this playing time Leon. Ragdoll needs to get in studio ASAP and release that pent up Eh' !
If you want Ragdoll,,, *_You got it_* !
Ceratopsians rule!
Great vid Leon. So good to learn about gear that I've never played through. Marshall tones sound really unique in my opinion! Also, clunk is a definetly gonna stick around :) Cheers
The JMPre and brit pre models in the Axe-Fx do a great job of copping these. Hope all is well with you my brother!
@@LeonTodd Yes those brit models are great! Yes, we are well, and hope you all are doing great as well! Cheers brother.
Clean two with the chorus - instant Def Leppard!
Hey Leon try the jmp1 normal out into a behringer gdi21 tweed clean setting, massive improvement on the jmp1 emulated outs, it really sounds like a miked cab, cuts out the fizzzz
You should get it modified like Neal Schon, Billy Gibbons, etc. Apparently it makes them way better than they already are
LOL!
A preamp I would like to own
Excellent video!! I know Billy Gibbons used this with a Marshall power Amp and his tone is unreal. Just don't think I'd want to go 100% this route. It would be fun, to have one of these, to play with and see what I could come up with, but I'd stick with my current rig. I have 2 old Laney heads, which i switch between. . Both are the 1986 AOR heads. One is a 50 and the other is a 100. By themselves, they remind me of a plexi, but I think the Laney sounds better, than any Marshall I've played through. The core of my tone, is the AOR head into a matching 4X12 cab. I use an old Tube Screamer, into the front end, to push it just a little, which is pure magic. As for effects, I use a Behringer V Amp Pro for chorus, delay, and other effects. I also use a Zakk Wylde wah, to accent bends, pinch harmonics, and such. I use a 2 channel wireless and for guitars, my main ones are Les Paul's, all from 2000, 2003, and 2006, and a 1988 Jackson USA Custom Shop Soloist.
I wish there was a Vox version of the JMP-1. If you can demo a rocktron valvesonic top boost rack preamp I would appreciate. I think it’s the only analog Vox rack preamp available these days. I think rack gurus Lab Systems designed it.
Idk if there's some kind of hidden market that's really hungry, with these rack preamps, but people are asking for 400-600 euros for these and Lee Jackson units, pre or power amps. Funnily enough I watched Nielsen's vid, then your old vid (thinking that you didn't touch the emulation topic at all) and when I finished, you had released this new one. It's a nice sounding unit, UI could have like tone control knobs and just some different amp modes like JTM, JCM etc if you could improve it today.
The emulation is also impressive for the time the unit was released, Nielsen actually sounded better like that than his through amp tone in the video, in my opinion. Funny thing about the tube critique is that the clipping diodes were one of the favourite mods in the marshalls. Like in your jose mod video. And became a very common thing in design in general. Also people throughout the history have made legendary sounds with their clipping diode pedals into their tube amps. Although in the 2000's internet was full of weird purism arguments that often were hypocritical or made no sense. Much like today as well, I guess. The weird sound was a bit like gated fuzz, cool special effect hidden in this.
There's a LOT of hoarding going on. Some people have three or four of anything popular and classic.
Great demo..Which kid of control unit (Remote foot controler) is used to control the JMP 1?
I am curious about the output level on the JMP-1, is it really quiet?
I ask because most of my preamps can put out a ton of level and way too much for an effects loop if cranked fully.
Normally I run most of my preamps main output at fifty percent or less, the only one that I have to crank is an Engl E580. Fully cranked it gives +4db.
The output level is hot but unfortunately so is the hum. Playing live gigs with lights on the stage make this thing too noisy.
Everytime I hear someone say "Presences" my mind goes here with paul gilbert: ruclips.net/video/dGAxQFG88QE/видео.html
Hahaha yes!
Great video and tones Leon. I've got a JMP-1 with the Marshall 9200 tube power amps and JCM 4x12 cabinets. I can get AC/DC tones,light saturation,and Dokken/Lynch Mob or Sykes type tones, heavier saturation. Hahahaha you're right, the clean 1 channel sucks though. Not clean at all. Hope to get AxeFX in the near future.
The Rockmaster is nice, don't get me wrong, but it also uses clipping diodes (if that's the basis for people saying the JMP is the inferior unit). Trace at Voodoo Amps told me this almost 20 years ago. I used to have one and it really is a nice unit. Can't compare it to the Marshall as I've never played it. The Marshall does have midi, so you'd need an external midi controller with the Rockmaster to change its channels along with an effects unit. I used a Peavey MidiPro with mine until units started coming along that could switch amp channels and effect unit presets at the same time. I think the G Major was one of the first that did that.
Aaah the g major - I kinda miss mine even though I have a G Force
Leon Todd
I’m old LOL!
The diodes in the Rockmaster were only there to form a faux noise gate called a "coring circuit".
Hey! What model and color is that Les Paul? Love it!
2002 Standard Premium Plus, Cherry Sunburst
At about 3:34-4:20, you have an almost spot on Killer Dwarves Dirty Weapons tone and riff going on! 👍
Cool to hear someone familiar with them! Played a festival in the states with them a few years ago and they were awesome.
Leon: Here's [another thing X] and it doesn't seem too bad
Me: *continues to silently steal riffs*
I do the same when I watch guys like Rabea, pete thorn and Shaun Tubbs on here. So many goodies :D
@@LeonTodd Caught a tip on R Shull's chan on a Nashville session player that's been running lessons/homeschool episodes during quarantine...DYNAMITE find. Session players that can find the time to even just interact are a very wonderful thing to me. I don't want to promote links on your channel, so the player's name is Tom Bukovac and he's super sweet melodic player with an edge on it. I watched like 10 seconds of an episode and when I looked down I was already holding my guitar. I LOVE LEARNING thank you for your content.
@@LeonTodd but you were on fire today - being a little indulgent with the fat pinches in the middle of the fretboard...but they're OOOOOOH so satisfying when the loop connects and the tone flows back into itself...Steve Vai got so addicted to the rush of extended heterodynamic release that he spec'd a sustainer into his new model lol
Rhett and Tom are amazing at what they do, both dudes I'd love to hang with
how the f.. do you get such an awesome sound out of a single sm57 on a marshall cab?? I got a jmp 1 as well, and connect it to a jcm 800 combo.. (vintage 30) nowhere near as good a sound..!
When I bought Marshall EL34 100/100, the owner had one of these and I opted not to buy it… still kick myself for that!
Anybody tried it through a Roland JC 120 ? I'm curious
Leon you may have mentioned this somewhere but how are you using the fx loop, I’m just so confused about the different options. Do I run it like a daisy chain between jmp1 then to fx init then to power amp. Or put fx in the loop?
Any Marshall 3203 Artist heads down there?
Those can sound amazing when set up right.
Never seen one but I've always wanted to try!
Interested in those too. Theres a guy selling like 4 of em near me
So do you feel you can get all the Plexi and 2203/JCM800 tones out of this?
I need one! Great r
eview!!
Good vid, great advice!
Leon, tell me, does it make sense to purchase an additional JMP-1 if I already have Triaxis? I have doubts ..
Damn dude !!! I know this unit for years !!! it's sounds so awesome !!
I'm huge marshall fan for some kind of stuffs like aerosmith or even Zakk Wylde, Spinal TAp^et also my fav over all, John Frusciante.
Please do me a favor, take your best 60's strat and make a special John Frusciante Tone with your JMP1 please make a dream come true!
Greetings from Belgium
Dammit now I’ll never get one at a reasonable price...
If that’s plugged in to your return how would you patch fx pedals in? If you wanted to switch between the jmp-1 and the amps pre amp.
The JMP-1 also has a loop so you could use that and assign it per patch.
Ha! Hysteria ;)
I look at prices every once in a while and it''s astronomical what they're going for now. A decent one will be almost $800 USD. Ridiculous! The Axe3 can do this and more, so for now no JMP1 for me. However, I do have 2 MP1's! :-)
ok that's just silly
Hey, if it’s good enough for the Rev Billy Gibbons… all the haters can take a seat! Great video!
I had mine modded by voodoo amps at the time Trace was working on getting some more hardware to finish the upgrade. I think the Platinum upgrade is finally available. I need to send mine back to have it done. It was unbelievable. The difference all the tones enhanced the noise Will be virtually gone with a new transformer I haven't had a chance to get it back to him but I will. If it's good enough of Billy gibbons it's good enough for me !!!
I've noticed, that when you're using the FM3, the high mids are always slightly harsher and less pleasant than when you use real amps. Almost every time. Dunno if it's a modelling flaw, or just how you set it up...
I actually brought this up with Pete Thorn last week. I hear that with a lot of the Fractal stuff online. He told me a lot of it was dependent on choosing the proper IR.
Probably comes down to IR choice. I'll have to do a side by side with the Axe and the JMP-1.
@@nicholastotoro7721 Come to think of it, I can't hear this harshness when people make blind tests against real amps, so it makes sense that it's a cab modelling or IR thing.
A comparison is always welcome :)
I would buy a half dozen for $400 each. I paid waaay more than that for mine.
Where the sound of the video ?
sadly they are not produced anymore
Are you able to run this direct into an audio interface?
there is a basic speaker emulated out on it.
You are a nice guy, especially the last tip！--> "Don't spend thousands of dollars for this gear"
I find it cool that people ragged on this back in the day and now people are like wow so good and ahead of its time.
Always the way isn't it?
Leon Todd I wish Marshall would release the JVM 401 in a pre amp like this with more modern features
It's me or ADA MP1 sounds better?
It’s you.
came for def leppard and left satsified
Cabsim legend 👍👍👍
Billy Corgan used these all the time
👍🇺🇲❤OD2 & CLEAN 1👍.......🤓BASS SHIFT.....SUCKS !!!!!!....your last setting was the best , I can tweek it much better😁
which pickups are that?
Pickups by Martin A Smith
oh ffs, right after I sold mine :|