Marshall MG15fx
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
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I kinda think half the problem comes from always wanting amps to sound like something else, rather than just leaning into using what you have in front of you.
100% with you there
I love these little MGs. And as someone who used to buy a whole bunch of peaveys (both the bandits and the little rages), I really see the value of these. I've been also considering this issue of what to get someone who is newer to the guitar that introduces them to Clean/Dirty, EQ, and some basic FX. If I was working with a higher budget, I think I'd give a beginner some studio monitors and a Strymon Iridium, simply because I feel that it's more home appropriate and also if guitar doesn't stick - they still wind up with a killer sound system to listen to music. But the MGs are really great to pick up cheap used and it provides somewhat of a response to products like the Positive Grid Spark that are aggressively marketed to beginners as being drastically better than and therefore invalidating cheaper practice amps like the MG. As you've demonstrated here, the sounds are really decent.
I still have a Marshall MG 15 CDR that I purchased in 2004. Its not a bad practice amp. It only has reverb. Works great with pedals.
I got mine today deliverd😅
Sounds good. I hope your daughter loves it and has a happy birthday!
Thanks so much!
I’ve owned 3 MG’s, a 10, a 15, and a 30. My favorite is actually the 10, it’s pretty much the perfect clean practice amp imho.
I think a great all purpose amp is the Boss Katana 100w. Perfect for recording, practice and gigs. It's also affordable.
Hey Jack,
You did a nice job of getting some usable tones from that little amp.
I got this as my 1st amp 3yrs ago aged 55 when I started to learn to play, I still consider myself a beginner, this is a great review I'm going to go back thro the vid and write down all of your settings so I can try them for myself as I've struggled to make it sound anywhere near decent, maybe that could be more down to me being a crap guitarist 😂🎸🎸
Buy all the gear recommended in the description, run your amp through it, and you'll sound just like all these reviews.
I've been selling guitars recently and the guitarists coming out to my house are all blown away by the Quliter Aviator Cub. Solid state can be very good.
Ive had more than a few requests to review Aviator gear
Also, it’s really nice to see you tackle some solid state stuff. If you ever get your hands on a Quilter you’ll be very impressed. That’s been my go to brand for almost a decade, never regretted getting away from tubes. And those definitely are gig worthy and more than loud enough.
From 1994-97, I tried playing music with someone who had an earlier Marshall MG combo about the same size as this one during the summer of’94 (he also had a guitar built by Marshall, essentially their stab at a cheap Strat). I was not a guitar player yet, so I couldn’t tell you about its features. It probably predated this model’s features by at least 8 years (and may not even have had a hi-gain switch). I only know that he played it loud enough to aggravate his mother who forced him to part with both amp and guitar. The following year, he got a different guitar/amp rig.
At 14:58, what you played was like a combination of “Your Love” by The Outfield with the Air Supply version of “(Making Love) Out of Nothing At All”. That’s no mean feat.
I've owned the mg30fx for roughly 5 months now. Sounds great especially when ran through an mxr AB switch running total of 3 amps switchable on mxr Ab. Awesome sound, until the mx-30 went into just a straight up un- controllable loud hum...... Little research and found the problem to be the TDA 2050 Ic chip screwed to the heat sink went bad. No rookie repair! Chip can blow up just from static electricity from a persons touch. So turn amp down before turning on, I also recommend turning it off when you're changing accessories or changing guitars on your input. A standby switch to the main amp would be a great improvement for safety I sure got my bottom lip out when my new amp went down but it's fixed now. If that happens to you get quality old stock on your chip.....$4 ones will work but you get what you pay for. There's a guy in England Stuart who is doing the same repair on RUclips so it is out there documented how to repair. Keep rocking in The Free world and have these new guitar players treat it with care.
I own the 50 watt version as a home practice rig, sat in on a gig that required a Marshall sound. Was going to rent a head but last minute I decided to bring it instead and wow, turned up loud on stage and through the house I was shocked at the performance. So was the band. Will I use it again, hell ya, it just loves pedals and plays with them very nicely. 50 watts is plenty loud for a fairly large bar especially mic’d up, it’s just a good amp, not a tube amp at all but it’s its own thing.
Dave Simpson, who is a great player, has an MG100HDFX and it is his favorite amp above all. ;-)
From Leo: They are just ok. I worked on a lot of them, the circuit board build quality is marginal. The little 15 fx is a good practice amp. The MG 30 and 50 have so much hiss on the gain modes that I don't know how anyone can enjoy them, not to mention the harsh gain tones.
I really like the MG series. You plug in and get some cool tones easy. The clean channel is good and the amp takes pedals well. I can get good drive tones easy and usually faster than with my Katana
I actually like that it's not device based. Im not into these new amps that you control from an ap - I played a Fender GTX100 at a gig once, and while it got good tones, one gig my phone had a hard time connecting, which kind of threw the whole thing and made me nervous.
@@JackFossett Jeez. I could imagine the WTF am I going to do. Basically powerless. I'm looking for a little practice amp because I've been staying at my 94yr old father's house helping him and keeping him out of those stinking homes. That would kill him in a matter of days. Was looking at the Spark but I'm not a gadget guy. Seems too much for my technology challenged old guy.
I have all my equipment at my condo and I'm not there enough. Mesa Mark V 25, Beat Buddy, Boss looper, etc.
I saw this Hendrix impersonator guitarist. He had these beautiful Jimi Hendrix jtm45/100 reissue stacks with the extra tall B cabinets. And he had them switched off and was playing through an MG100 half stack!! Only pretending to link them all up.
Haha that’s hilarious
I saw some mods to these amps like a simple speaker out jack to connect bigger cabs like 2X12 and 4X12 cabs. It might unlock the real potential of these little monsters.
Only negative about this amp is the high gain mode. All the other channels are great and the clean takes distortion pedals well.
Nice, I just got my daughter a guitar and amp for her birthday as well cheers
An MG15 with FX is good. You get 2 channels with built in effects, a line in so you can play with a track, and room for an upgraded 10" speaker if you want to mod it. No need to pack up and travel with a rats nest of cables for all your pedals and lines to a computer system when you can just pick up a box and bring it to a friends house to jam. And it doesn't sound that bad with a 10" greenback. A creamback might be better.
I owned a MG15CFX, and while I agree with your comments on it, I couldn't get rid of it fast enough. I was never able to get pleasant sounds out of it. Now, is it better than the Harmony clean solid state 5W amp I had as a teenager? Yes. But is it worth the price they're asking for it given other options? Not to me it isn't. Still, I'm just one person and I don't like to poo poo other people's gear choices or decide what they do with their money, so I concede the amp does have its place, and you certainly made it sound good.
You got some really sweet tones, from clean to dirt, from that little amp. I think you just sold a bunch of them : )
I don't know if you're also a bass guy but, Peavey is re-releasing the Cirrus bass this or next month, I hear.
Very Cool, Thankyou. Cool Amp, Sounds Great. Intro Jam was Awesome. I have an MG15MSii Mini Stack (Head with Twin Stacked Speakers, It is awesome 2 Channel Amp. The Overdrive Channel is Amazing, sounds great. Nice Reverb too. All the Best. Cheers
I was never a fan of the MG, but I think that was mainly due to the OE speaker. I was also never a fan of the peavey bandit series with the OE speakers ( sheffield and scorpion ). However, drop in a creamback in the MG or a swamp thang in the peavey.... whole new world that sounds fantastic. Cheap amps are super cheap mainly from the dirt cheap speaker used. The preamp values usually aren't too far off from their tube counterparts. In the case of the 80s and 90s peaveys - they literally used vi tage marshall preamp values, but the controls were different - they effected the frequencies different and resulted in a more present tine. Take out all of the 4558P op amps and put in 4558D for a smoother drive tone. I have been playing a teal stripe bandit 112 with an attenuator for about 6 months now. I recapped it and changed the op amps and put in a swamp thang...sounds fantastic. I haven't flipped the switch on my Hiwatt the entire time.
That said....all the tube purists love tubes so much.....they put 45 solid state preamps in front of them......
That doesn't surprise me about speakers. I've found speakers make one of the biggest possible differences in amp tone, not just for quality but also for character.
It isn’t that they’re bad little amps, it’s that in the same price range you can get stuff 100% better from Fender, Orange, etc…
What's better by either Fender or Orange, really? Fender put out a 20 watt amp that has the same exact voicing, just with different gain and volume levels, set up in presets named after classic Fender amps. Meanwhile, it doesn't give you the ability to switch between voicings and effects quickly, even with a footswitch. Orange put out a 20 watt amp that, at the most, has a digital reverb, and a tuner. Of course, they're not misleading people like Fender is. But I don't think their amp is better than the Marshall. I think it's even, where I prefer the Orange's crunch sound, but the Marshall's versatility.
* Whoops, I forgot that Fender's 20 watt comparable amp doesn't have a footswitch option!
Orange💀
Really impressive tones/recording you got out of this thing! I started guitar with a Marshall MG50 years back and always thought it was alright despite all the hate for them.
I've tried a few of the later versions over the years and again thought they sounded fine ; the issue is they are just built like s*** and have a silly noise floor to them where they hiss more and more as you turn them up.
Marshall really need to re-invigorate the MG line (or offer a new range of affordable solid-state/hybrid combos) as they have been sitting on their assess for too long without any innovation compared to the competition - I say this as someone who loved Marshall amplifiers growing up and what the company used to mean for me.
Great video!
-Gabe
Only weakness on this amp is the High Gain channel. It sucks. But the others are great actually. So for high gain i just run a pedal. But you still get the effects.
I have no bias against solid state amps - I have an early 90s Fender that has been a home workhorse for years, and a I’ve even gigged with it a lot. With Marshall solid states, the problem for me is the same as what all the Marshall amp in a box pedals suffer from. They can deliver something akin to the Marshall crunch or high gain tones, but when you turn the gain down, they have zero Marshall character anymore. I’m someone who really only likes the Marshall edge of breakup/ low gain tones, and these just can’t deliver that.
I tried an MG in a guitar center once and found some great sounds. Grabbed a cheap used one and couldn’t get a thing out of it that I liked. Funny how that works. Maybe a speaker upgrade would have done the trick.
The gear snobs talk about this sorta stuff all the time, how two of the same vintage tube amp or legendary fuzzbox from the same year can sound different from each other, but rarely do they talk about solid state amps in the same context, but yes...two of the same solid state amp can perform noticably different from each other, parts tolerances are always slightly different regardless of make or model
Modded mine by putting a Celestion 8"15w in it, makes a huge difference in the lows because of the thicker magnet.
sounds like a great affordable amp
I've got a marshall mg15fx as my first amp... And was disappointed. Long story short it is better to get an inexpensive processor (eg I've got hotone ampero one) and connect to a good speakers set. Then you get a lot more robust setup supporting cab/amp/mic simulation and a way better sound.
I got an MG 30 CFX about 9 years ago to start with and used it for about a year. Was an alright amp besides the distortion, but in hindsight i would have chosen another one. That amp makes up for a nice deco though.
I have the 30w and 15w (both non FX) The 15 is good for rehearsals and the 30 for small-medium clubs.
Hi Jack, that mim strat sounds ace is it stock? hearing that makes me wonder if i care where its made anymore. The MG is serious VFM great vid mate Cheers Steve.
I had an MG100, was kinda okay by it’s own but sounded pretty awesome with my BSM treble booster.
It's not the tools...
It's the craftsman 😉👍
Dave Simpson (RUclips channel) swears by MGs, and his rig sounds incredible through them.😉👍👍
😎✌👍❤🖖
I had a solid state Marshall 1x12 from the 90s I think. Maybe slightly earlier? It wasn’t bad. Had a nice response to it
Yeah the response is solid. It definitely doesn't have the 3d feel like a nicer amp would, but it doesn't feel flat and lifeless either.
Curious Jack, what made you pick this for your daughter over the Katana or other similarly priced amps? I don’t own any amps in that price range, (but i do have an almost 4 year old) and just made me wonder 😊
Is this a plexi or a JCM 800? No. However, a lot of 'beginner gear' is looked down upon by guitar players because when they started playing using cheap guitars and amps, they were not good players so they remember that gear sounding bad. As people can see from the demo video though, a good guitar player can sound good with cheap gear.
sounds really good
Sounds good when you play it!
I got to learn how to play the electric guitar on an MG30. That being said, get a Boss Katana 😂
Does the MG work well with Ultra high gain mode with a guitar with Single coil pick up ( got a early 90s Fender stratocaster) ?
If you think this is good you should try one of the old Lead 12 combos from the 80s. They are excellent.
For the money clean channel with peddle 😅 the gain channel Isnt much but again for the money 9/10
Add a Dec boost in front of it and it will wake all the way up
Sounds pretty good to me. 😃
I think so too!
@@JackFossett Agreed. Looking for a little amp to play at my 94yr old father's house as I've been looking after him. Think I might have to pick this up !!
anyone knows how many decibels is it?
What foot switch works with this amp
I have 100 watt head I like it
Hi, You trie it with good speakers
As a previous owner, a total piece of junk😅
Marshall mosfet solid state back in the 1980s were a hundred times better than this stuff! They went backwards!! I would take a mosfet Marshall over a tube version any day of the week. This mg stuff, no way!
i owned one of these when i was 16, i dont care how hard you try to make it seem cool. those things were a POS lol
It’s the latter I’m sorry to say.
I'm quite disappointed with MG15FX. The sound quality isn't good, overdrive channels sound is mushed. Ended up getting a processor, which gives a way better sound.