Just came across this vid randomly as I was looking at some amps....great vid! Wish more people would make videos like this. Quick & informative. Good stuff....and my god, those are some sick Les Pauls!
WOW! You are not kidding! The versatility of this amp especially when then FX loop is used, is incredible. Great vintage tones, great modern tones, great clean sounds. There's not much to dislike in this amp. Definitely a real musician's work-horse amp as long as it's built as sturdy as the originals. As always my friend, Johan, your videos are inspirational and absolutely educational. Your work and talent is much appreciated my friend!
Ok....I did it. I bought a brand new Marshall 1987x!! 90% based on research from THIS CHANNEL! NOT joking. If I remember right...”...my absolute favourite amp of their current lineup.” $2,750.00 CDN Loonies! Just grabbing the switch to turn it on and you know you’ve a professional, high quality amp. And a fire breathing beast! Thx Johan. 👍🏻
@@mbach1187 I toured as a young man in the ‘70s with a JMP. Only Marshall at the store. When I went to get the tones I wanted later I tried, foolishly to find it cheaply somewhere else. I wanted an amp that sounded like the bands in my head…Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Humble Pie etc…and in the end I forked out the big bucks for a real amp…50w Plexi. No cleans and cranked it sounded like it was going to explode. Modern amps, they sound like they are trying to achieve it but failing. Awesome amp. No bad tones and sweet as honey.
I'm lovin the tones, but the transition from the NWOBHM lick, to the bluesy/rock lick... to 70s SOUL at 2:45 just floored me. Great stuff all around, Johan!
OK… I haven’t owned a Marshall amp since about 1993. You keep making these videos that sounds good and I’m going to have to rethink my strategy. I probably don’t have your hands, but if I can get tones anywhere near as close as what you’re getting I’ll be more than satisfied. Another great video, sir!
As usual awesome video and killer tones! I would love to see a dB metre in some of the videos to get a gauge of the volume in some of these rooms - It must be earth-shatteringly loud!
Its all about headroom. I used to use a 50 watt head 4 12 cab but todays clubs are smaller and the new Marshall 20 watt Silver Jubilee, retubed with a 2/12 cab sounds almost as good without the sound man hating you. Johan has the best Marshall video's bar none. Thanks Mr Segeborn.
Having an effects loop is a huge bonus for these. I like running reverbs and delay and my '76 JMP just doesn't agree. You can make it work, lots of guitarists have, but it's a balancing act. I finally broke down and bought a Fryette Power Station that handles attenuation and has an effects loop. It works really well and makes me very happy.
Needless to say this amp his gonna become Marshall new bestseller, that is until you make a new video with any of their current amps. You've done it again. Johan.
I recently bought a used 1987X reissue. I really like it and I can get so many great classic rock sounds from it. With a Marshall Power Brake I can play it at reasonable volumes in my house.
In my opinion the Marshall Power Brake ruins the sound completely. Its one of the worst attenuators I have tried. Their rackdevice were much better, or a Weber or THD.
You're right, that amp sounds solid with everything you through at it. Your R9 and the standard Marshall 4x12 sounded the best to my ears, a classic tone that's on so many of my favorite albums from the 60's, 70's, and early 80's. Great demo, again! Could you review the new DSL1 mini combo? I'd like to get your take on it.
If Johan makes something, this is allways THE BEST! Actually I like 71, but when its about bass - maybe 70. I never thought Stagg is so old!! 70... Specian thanks about Angus Young riffs from all your videos - my students learning from Yours channel! Best regards, Zigfrid!
Cheers Johan! Robin Trower uses 2 of these with the "Bright Cap" removed( I work on his gear..). I have Jan. 1972 #1986! Great amp and the new 1987x's sound pretty close stock. If you upgrade them with better O/P tranny and Choke and batter components(Sozo caps, etc) then they're pretty much like the originals.
Love your videos Johan, & I'd love to hear the new Marshall Origin amps through one of the great cabs you have... I had a Ceriatone Chupacabra 50w that I absolutely loved, but I had to sell it because of financial problems...I've always wanted another, but the new Origin amps pushed with a dirt pedal might get close to what that amp delivered, maybe... So again, please demo the Origin amps if/when you get a chance...
Aw man I miss my old Marshall stuff 😢 69 Major 73 50 watt Two early 70s cabs Dearly missed but still have an 80s matching white tolex Anniversary stack - JCM800 combo Old late 60s cab unloaded 😒 and a 65 re-ish side panel JTM45 4/12 cab with the low wattage alnico's Brass logo leather handles Man it took a long time for that speaker cab to break in Unbelievable but sounds really sweet now Good stuff as always JS
Yup, sweet and nasty :-) Love your video's Johan Love the views in the beginning of video's , I think I've learn more about Marshall from you and getting to hear them, and about celestion speakers Thank you very much, Rock on
Johan, I recently bought the 1987x second hand for £700 here in the UK and I am literally blown sideways by how good it is. I never attributed how different, how characterful the Plexi is in the Marshall line up. I have a 1980 2203, a very rare 2144 2x12 and I have a Super PA from 1970 (that I use with pedals) and I have been chasing this sound for years without success. After getting a Princeton I felt I was getting somewhere with a 60's tone. Then I got the 1987x and there it was - the Zeppelin sound in a box, the Blur britpop tone, the Tom Petty sound, The Dandy Warhols and so many other sounds... I feel like I went right out in orbit on the search when it was here on earth - if only someone had shown me this amp at the beginning. The 1987x sound, whether its accurate or not as a reissue, is so damn good it takes my breath away every time. Like you I bought the Ironman 2 - I am sure they were made for each other.
@@mbach1187 I have a variety, but I mainly use a 1971 pre-Rola cab. I'm not sure it nails Led Zeppelin if you're a Zep nerd / purist, more likely it'll get all the character out of a quality Les Paul and you'll feel very connected to the similarities. I play the later Zep albums and its a lot of fun to play The Rover, Custard Pie, The Ocean etc.
I know you've done some speaker comparisons but I specifically request that you do a shootout/comparison using this reissue Plexi amp, your R9 guitar, and compare various cabinets using the same riffs, identifying the cabinets and the speakers in them. Because the cabinet type itself has a fair amount of effect on the tone, in addition to the speakers in it. This video here is pretty good just for that purpose but I'd like to see a cabinet shootout all by itself, using the same guitar, amp, and riff for all samples.
Well if you'd told me that it wasn't an early '70's Plexi I'd have done my $ 'cause I'd have bet it was. Sounded huge and I can understand why you like them, in so far as what is coming out now. I don't know if the old sound can be truly replicated but, as I said, this one is good enough for my ears. Sounded hard-hitting, punchy, and, well, just like a Marshall should. Great and really helpful video as true "bricks and mortar" stores become fewer and fewer and further and further away from me to actually test drive something before getting it shipped to the front door. Man, that IS a great sound, might just have to save up to get one. Any ballparks on the RRP? Euro's or U.Sd's is fine, I'll work it out. Thanks Johan. Top one M8 !!
Epi Phone and others - True "bricks and mortar" stores are becoming fewer and fewer, further and further between because you're only using them to test drive, before having whatever the item is shipped to your door. Think about that and maybe you might come to see and understand the value in supporting local businesses by purchasing the products they provide for you to "test drive"... as well as the service they provide and the people they employ. If you want local stores with a good selection of decent gear, this is what is required. Not ranting, just commenting. 👍
Todd Neary Like you "Not ranting, just" replying, I've lived in the same once small satellite city North of Sydney, Australia. My mantra has always been "think global, act local." For the first two and a half decades, life was pretty much the same in that we were a coastal holiday spot 2 hours north of Sydney for long weekends, Easter, Christmas etc.Then as Sydney grew we found ourselves a residential goldmine - Housing boomed, equitable employment opportunities did not (??). Most of us still had to commute the four hour round trip to Sydney or Newcastle (similar distance to our North). I'm 52 now and we have fast food, shopping centres (malls) and much of what makes a medium sized city (for Australia) and maybe a half a dozen music stores going an hour North, South and West. Despite this, I still buy from small locally owned businesses even though my income is not huge and it is obviously more expensive to do so. To find gigs here used to be easy until those one-armed bandits (poker machines) took over almost all the pubs/clubs to the exclusion of live music (??). In long (why use one word when ten will do) I actually do support my community but that's probably a result of being born and bred here rather than any conscious altruism, who knows. However I'm very much in the minority as in the last two and a half decades we've grown from 60,000 to 550,000 so the early twenty something's may have been born here but most others haven't and it shows or maybe that's just life among a larger urban populace - some good things but outweighed by the less good. **Old Fart alert sounding** I'll buy from those music stores first but they're not really guitar stores. The money here seems to be in catering to the school students - budget/beginner concert instruments and their associated strings, books, etc. The days of rows of guitars and amplifiers being the staple of the local music store have gone, at least where I live, to the Interweb. So to even maybe (better to check first to see if stocked) check a specific item out I have to go to Sydney and unless the deal is comparable to the web I'll check out New South Wales, then Australia wide, then ***. Ahh, maybe I've just turned into an old complaining fart. I live in a first world country, can't remember when I last had to skip a meal, have a roof over my head, earn what $ I do get playing and teaching and let's face it that's winning the bloody lottery for 95% of the global population. If I have to travel a bit to eyeball new gear what's the problem (six pack of beer and a cold chook and make a day of it) but, hand on my proverbial, I do support the local businesses we have, when they have or can get what I want/need. Take care mate.
Pastor Paul D, Thank you for your words and your work. If it's one thing that too many young ones need these days (especially the lads) it's good male role models who are actually there. So much of the anger and mindless violence can be redirected by a good man listening to, and helping with the "bloke stuff". Those things that you can't go to your Mother with but tends to end badly if you wind up in an unsupervised group of like-minded rudderless vessels. A father figure is so often what is lacking, sadly, and as with so much in life, the manual on "How to grow up to be a good man" doesn't come in written form but flesh and blood. One who has lived those years that seem, and can be, so crazy, someone they can look up to and respect (this is you, and your colleagues in case you missed it) and if he comes with a guitar (a ready-made, good, fun, portable and positive past-time) so much the better. I'm sure that helps a lot. I remember those pre and teenage years; Two younger brothers and a Mother, and without music and guitars, I truly think we'd have gone crazy. As you say though, they were indeed different times. Great idea about going on with your studies. I don't know how difficult the govt. in the U.S makes it, (financially) to study as a mature student but I can't imagine it's easy especially with a conservative presidency so I wish you all the luck. Too many of us, myself included, think at times that we've got it all worked out only to have the hubris come back to bite - we never stop learning, do we? And if we do I think that all we've done is learnt how to stop. That might be someone else's quote that I've paraphrased but if so it was accidental. If reading my earlier txt had/has anything to do with you going back to studying I think that it just maybe reminded you of something that you'd decided long before to do and now you've really given yourself the challenge. I'm sure you'll do well and be rightly proud when you finish. It's been really good talking/txting with you Pastor Paul, your txt means a lot, especially the last line. Your thoughts are a really well timed as I've been a bit ill lately and generous words and thoughts never go unwanted. I appreciate them. Thank you. Mark, The Antipodean.
I can't get over the tone you're getting with the API. I'm trying to figure out how to do the same with my 1987x on a tighter budget with no luck so far!
KILLER TONES!!! I love this amp too, nice and crispy. That Les Paul ain’t bad either. Your riffs are very reminiscent of old Sabbath with that Johan groove. Keep up the great work, I love your channel!!!
Seems like to me you can tailor your gain and tone just by the change in pickups and/or the API in the loop - no need to go and buy higher gain amps for ultra distortion guitar playing, just change the p/u and add the API to it. And the ability to go in reverse as well to sound more vintagey - I'd say it's a very versatile amp as long as you know how to EQ and setup a guitar.
Hey Johan Great video as always. I can't help but notice you gear to players that are into heavier guitar tones Metal etc... I myself am into Hendrix type tone's, I know there are a ton of other cats out here into the Hendrix tone's. Maybe you can do a rundown on what New Marshall head best fits the bill for the Hendrix platform / tone's. Peace!!
I've got the same Marshall cab as the one you use at 2:18. Great illustration man, fantastic tones as always. After watching you play your SG & hearing those wicked tones I decided I had to get myself one so yesterday I bought a '92 SG Standard lol. It arrives Monday, can't wait! Cheers for demoing all this gear Johan, it makes things a lot easier making decisions after hearing you put them all through their paces. Do you reckon that 50W Marshall head could be used at home? My 100W head just kinda sits there gathering dust now 'cos it's just too damn loud to get the tones I want.
Man that was awesome! I could hear so many differen,t iconic songs/players coming out of you as you played (and Mattias too). That thing covers so much sonic territory it's amazing. How does it compare against the Offset or Forsberg? Still patiently waiting for you to do some reviews/comparisons with a modeler (Firehawk FX, Helix, Kemper, Axe Fx). I'd love to hear what your sonic wizardry sounds like with those tools! Have a great day brother!
Thanks, this amp holds up well to any amp, but PureToneAmps and Forsberg is as good as it gets to me. I'm gonna demo the Code modelling amp on Friday actually! Cheers
Love my 1987X & I love those GBs in that 1972 Marshall 1935A cab Awesome Video thanks Johan.
Just came across this vid randomly as I was looking at some amps....great vid! Wish more people would make videos like this. Quick & informative. Good stuff....and my god, those are some sick Les Pauls!
I bought this amp a year ago with the help of your videos and I love it! Thanks Johan. you rock dude. cheers!
Man some killer riffs in this Johan! Cool to hear that side of your playing. Always love the videos man. Really dug the music in this one.
WOW! You are not kidding! The versatility of this amp especially when then FX loop is used, is incredible. Great vintage tones, great modern tones, great clean sounds. There's not much to dislike in this amp. Definitely a real musician's work-horse amp as long as it's built as sturdy as the originals.
As always my friend, Johan, your videos are inspirational and absolutely educational. Your work and talent is much appreciated my friend!
man i love your videos because you play two of my favorite things marshalls an les pauls . i think its the best combo for rocking roll
This segment at 2:16 grabbed me by the b*lls and spun me around in my chair!! Damn that tone from 70's echoing in my head. Thanks John!
Nice one brothers, great variety of tones!Fine demonstration, well done!
Thanks my friend!
Ok....I did it. I bought a brand new Marshall 1987x!! 90% based on research from THIS CHANNEL! NOT joking. If I remember right...”...my absolute favourite amp of their current lineup.” $2,750.00 CDN Loonies! Just grabbing the switch to turn it on and you know you’ve a professional, high quality amp. And a fire breathing beast! Thx Johan. 👍🏻
What cab you using with it?. What's overall experience with it in terms of getting early 70's type tones?
@@mbach1187 I toured as a young man in the ‘70s with a JMP. Only Marshall at the store. When I went to get the tones I wanted later I tried, foolishly to find it cheaply somewhere else. I wanted an amp that sounded like the bands in my head…Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Humble Pie etc…and in the end I forked out the big bucks for a real amp…50w Plexi. No cleans and cranked it sounded like it was going to explode. Modern amps, they sound like they are trying to achieve it but failing. Awesome amp. No bad tones and sweet as honey.
This is one of my dream amps and you made it sound amazing 👍
great mash-up of amps, pickups and instruments man! always liked those super distortion pickups
Thanks Johan,I just love the classic Marshall/Les Paul combination especially with the Di Marzio!
Thanks Clive! Thats my favourite combo too
I'm lovin the tones, but the transition from the NWOBHM lick, to the bluesy/rock lick... to 70s SOUL at 2:45 just floored me. Great stuff all around, Johan!
Thanks my friend, Im so glad to hear that!
Yes 2.45 was magic thank you
Which amp is this exactly Johan?
Another bunch incredible demo clips, thanks man. I'm going to buy you some long trousers for Christmas. ;)
Wow! Johan, you are also one heck of a Bass player!
Another vote for a review of the new Origin 50 head! Appreciate all your work; this channel is great!
Damn, amazing playing and tone ! Feels like every one of these little clips could be a proper song
Thanks man, its so good to hear that!
That was some interesting stuff you played! Nice.
Quite the range of tones there, Johan... truly a splendid sounding amp head
Thanks man!
OK… I haven’t owned a Marshall amp since about 1993. You keep making these videos that sounds good and I’m going to have to rethink my strategy. I probably don’t have your hands, but if I can get tones anywhere near as close as what you’re getting I’ll be more than satisfied. Another great video, sir!
Thanks Mike, that’s kind of you! Cheers Johan
As usual awesome video and killer tones! I would love to see a dB metre in some of the videos to get a gauge of the volume in some of these rooms - It must be earth-shatteringly loud!
Its all about headroom.
I used to use a 50 watt head 4 12 cab but todays clubs are smaller and the new Marshall 20 watt Silver Jubilee, retubed with a 2/12 cab sounds almost as good without the sound man hating you.
Johan has the best Marshall video's bar none.
Thanks Mr Segeborn.
I have a 72 mk2 superbass ( metal panel , metal toggles).
Truly wonderful amp.
Good vid 👍
Very nice/rockin! Damn your a badass bass player too🤘
Sounds killer. I'd love to see you demo one of the new Origin series 50 watt heads.
Thanks! First chance I get :-)
Yeah I'd love to hear your opinion. They're like $600 or something for old school tones on a
low budget.
And on that note - still hoping for a video on the Class 5 ;)
The very last clips in the video is my favourite , what a killer sound.
Thanks for including what you are using aside from the amp very helpful!
Having an effects loop is a huge bonus for these. I like running reverbs and delay and my '76 JMP just doesn't agree. You can make it work, lots of guitarists have, but it's a balancing act. I finally broke down and bought a Fryette Power Station that handles attenuation and has an effects loop. It works really well and makes me very happy.
Yeah, it comes in handy often
WOW…..you’re a GREAT bass player Johan! Didn’t see that coming :-)
Great stuff my friend. Wouldnt mind this amp myself....
Needless to say this amp his gonna become Marshall new bestseller, that is until you make a new video with any of their current amps. You've done it again. Johan.
That 1935A cab has got some magic ;-)
Johan is such a bad ass! Love you, man!
Dude your riffs are on fire today!!! 💀
Thanks man! :-)
you are a great musician ,a legend.
I recently bought a used 1987X reissue. I really like it and I can get so many great classic rock sounds from it. With a Marshall Power Brake I can play it at reasonable volumes in my house.
In my opinion the Marshall Power Brake ruins the sound completely. Its one of the worst attenuators I have tried. Their rackdevice were much better, or a Weber or THD.
What a nice taste! Thanks for sharing! Cheers dear friend!!!
Around 2:20 with the 1972b cab. OMG. wow what a killer tone. sounds great throughout but with that cab, to me it's just Awesome!
Thanks Erik! :-)
You're right, that amp sounds solid with everything you through at it. Your R9 and the standard Marshall 4x12 sounded the best to my ears, a classic tone that's on so many of my favorite albums from the 60's, 70's, and early 80's. Great demo, again!
Could you review the new DSL1 mini combo? I'd like to get your take on it.
Thanks man! I'll keep the DSL1 in mind.
Agree with you Johan. I'm lucky I took your advice and didn't do any mods to mine. Cranked it sounds the best of all my Marshall heads.
If Johan makes something, this is allways THE BEST! Actually I like 71, but when its about bass - maybe 70. I never thought Stagg is so old!! 70... Specian thanks about Angus Young riffs from all your videos - my students learning from Yours channel! Best regards, Zigfrid!
We love you Marshall. You too Johan.
Cheers my friend! :-)
Awesome tones!
Nice job man. I have the 1959slp made 2001 before the effects loop. Getting a Weber 200 in a few weeks
1970 Cab just great and that Super distortion pickup is a brain shaker- good tones Johan
Thanks Gerry, glad to hear it!
Well..Always amazing tones from the man from Goteborg!
Thanks my friend
Cheers Johan! Robin Trower uses 2 of these with the "Bright Cap" removed( I work on his gear..). I have Jan. 1972 #1986! Great amp and the new 1987x's sound pretty close stock. If you upgrade them with better O/P tranny and Choke and batter components(Sozo caps, etc) then they're pretty much like the originals.
Love your videos Johan, & I'd love to hear the new Marshall Origin amps through one of the great cabs you have...
I had a Ceriatone Chupacabra 50w that I absolutely loved, but I had to sell it because of financial problems...I've always wanted another, but the new Origin amps pushed with a dirt pedal might get close to what that amp delivered, maybe...
So again, please demo the Origin amps if/when you get a chance...
Great sounds! Great amp!
Aw man I miss my old Marshall stuff 😢 69 Major 73 50 watt Two early 70s cabs Dearly missed but still have an 80s matching white tolex Anniversary stack - JCM800 combo Old late 60s cab unloaded 😒 and a 65 re-ish side panel JTM45 4/12 cab with the low wattage alnico's Brass logo leather handles Man it took a long time for that speaker cab to break in Unbelievable but sounds really sweet now Good stuff as always JS
Wow, great bassplaying!!!
I’ve never seen crocs look so good.
I have a 76' 1987x and its amazing!
Such a great Marshall tone!
Thanks! Glad to hear that!
Johan du sätter Sverige på kartan när det gäller gitarrsound. Fantastiskt bra jobbat. Alla dina uppladdningar är grymma 😎😎😎
2:45 Goddam Johan, you are the coolest cat on RUclips mate. Love your work!
OMG! The 1st demo was so amazing I had to change my pants! Wow!
Hahaha! ;-)
Nailed the VH tone in the first clip and pretty darn close to a Corrosion of Conformity tone in the last clip with the same combination. Awesome!
Thanks man, I'm so glad to hear that!
You change the sound a lot with the eq,, great amp
That last riff was sweet!
awesome riffs :)
Yup, sweet and nasty :-) Love your video's Johan Love the views in the beginning of video's , I think I've learn more about Marshall from you and getting to hear them, and about celestion speakers Thank you very much, Rock on
Wow a really good sounding Marshall, I think the 71 Marshall is one of the best amps.. but the new one is really good Thanks
Thanks man, this amp comes very close to those early 70s Marshalls
Johan, I recently bought the 1987x second hand for £700 here in the UK and I am literally blown sideways by how good it is. I never attributed how different, how characterful the Plexi is in the Marshall line up. I have a 1980 2203, a very rare 2144 2x12 and I have a Super PA from 1970 (that I use with pedals) and I have been chasing this sound for years without success. After getting a Princeton I felt I was getting somewhere with a 60's tone. Then I got the 1987x and there it was - the Zeppelin sound in a box, the Blur britpop tone, the Tom Petty sound, The Dandy Warhols and so many other sounds... I feel like I went right out in orbit on the search when it was here on earth - if only someone had shown me this amp at the beginning. The 1987x sound, whether its accurate or not as a reissue, is so damn good it takes my breath away every time. Like you I bought the Ironman 2 - I am sure they were made for each other.
What cabinet are you using? And would you say it does a decent job of early zep live sound?
@@mbach1187 I have a variety, but I mainly use a 1971 pre-Rola cab. I'm not sure it nails Led Zeppelin if you're a Zep nerd / purist, more likely it'll get all the character out of a quality Les Paul and you'll feel very connected to the similarities. I play the later Zep albums and its a lot of fun to play The Rover, Custard Pie, The Ocean etc.
The 1987X with the eq in the loop sounds like a hot-rodded, modded amp! Totally killer tone!
Love the Sunburst Les Paul sound
i put a boss OD-2 in front of the 1987x and it was working for me. and the effects loop was great for delay
One day when i have money ..... Great tones as always!
Thanks! :-)
Love this tune starting 2:44 . Sounds like 70s fusion, excellent. Is there any more of it Johan ?
I know you've done some speaker comparisons but I specifically request that you do a shootout/comparison using this reissue Plexi amp, your R9 guitar, and compare various cabinets using the same riffs, identifying the cabinets and the speakers in them. Because the cabinet type itself has a fair amount of effect on the tone, in addition to the speakers in it.
This video here is pretty good just for that purpose but I'd like to see a cabinet shootout all by itself, using the same guitar, amp, and riff for all samples.
That super distortion in drop D sounded sick
Great tone!
Hey, nice chops on the bass!
Ladies and gents john the riff god has returned the man who can make jazz sound like doom and doom sound like prog jazz fusion
Hahahaha! Thanks Donna ;-)
The R9 with a Super Distortion sounds kick ass!
Thanks! :-)
Well if you'd told me that it wasn't an early '70's Plexi I'd have done my $ 'cause I'd have bet it was. Sounded huge and I can understand why you like them, in so far as what is coming out now.
I don't know if the old sound can be truly replicated but, as I said, this one is good enough for my ears. Sounded hard-hitting, punchy, and, well, just like a Marshall should.
Great and really helpful video as true "bricks and mortar" stores become fewer and fewer and further and further away from me to actually test drive something before getting it shipped to the front door. Man, that IS a great sound, might just have to save up to get one. Any ballparks on the RRP? Euro's or U.Sd's is fine, I'll work it out.
Thanks Johan. Top one M8 !!
Thanks! I think it's around $2000. Cheers Johan
Johan Segeborn Thanks M8.
Epi Phone and others - True "bricks and mortar" stores are becoming fewer and fewer, further and further between because you're only using them to test drive, before having whatever the item is shipped to your door.
Think about that and maybe you might come to see and understand the value in supporting local businesses by purchasing the products they provide for you to "test drive"... as well as the service they provide and the people they employ. If you want local stores with a good selection of decent gear, this is what is required. Not ranting, just commenting. 👍
Todd Neary Like you "Not ranting, just" replying, I've lived in the same once small satellite city North of Sydney, Australia. My mantra has always been "think global, act local." For the first two and a half decades, life was pretty much the same in that we were a coastal holiday spot 2 hours north of Sydney for long weekends, Easter, Christmas etc.Then as Sydney grew we found ourselves a residential goldmine - Housing boomed, equitable employment opportunities did not (??). Most of us still had to commute the four hour round trip to Sydney or Newcastle (similar distance to our North).
I'm 52 now and we have fast food, shopping centres (malls) and much of what makes a medium sized city (for Australia) and maybe a half a dozen music stores going an hour North, South and West. Despite this, I still buy from small locally owned businesses even though my income is not huge and it is obviously more expensive to do so. To find gigs here used to be easy until those one-armed bandits (poker machines) took over almost all the pubs/clubs to the exclusion of live music (??).
In long (why use one word when ten will do) I actually do support my community but that's probably a result of being born and bred here rather than any conscious altruism, who knows. However I'm very much in the minority as in the last two and a half decades we've grown from 60,000 to 550,000 so the early twenty something's may have been born here but most others haven't and it shows or maybe that's just life among a larger urban populace - some good things but outweighed by the less good. **Old Fart alert sounding**
I'll buy from those music stores first but they're not really guitar stores. The money here seems to be in catering to the school students - budget/beginner concert instruments and their associated strings, books, etc. The days of rows of guitars and amplifiers being the staple of the local music store have gone, at least where I live, to the Interweb. So to even maybe (better to check first to see if stocked) check a specific item out I have to go to Sydney and unless the deal is comparable to the web I'll check out New South Wales, then Australia wide, then ***.
Ahh, maybe I've just turned into an old complaining fart. I live in a first world country, can't remember when I last had to skip a meal, have a roof over my head, earn what $ I do get playing and teaching and let's face it that's winning the bloody lottery for 95% of the global population. If I have to travel a bit to eyeball new gear what's the problem (six pack of beer and a cold chook and make a day of it) but, hand on my proverbial, I do support the local businesses we have, when they have or can get what I want/need.
Take care mate.
Pastor Paul D, Thank you for your words and your work. If it's one thing that too many young ones need these days (especially the lads) it's good male role models who are actually there. So much of the anger and mindless violence can be redirected by a good man listening to, and helping with the "bloke stuff". Those things that you can't go to your Mother with but tends to end badly if you wind up in an unsupervised group of like-minded rudderless vessels. A father figure is so often what is lacking, sadly, and as with so much in life, the manual on "How to grow up to be a good man" doesn't come in written form but flesh and blood. One who has lived those years that seem, and can be, so crazy, someone they can look up to and respect (this is you, and your colleagues in case you missed it) and if he comes with a guitar (a ready-made, good, fun, portable and positive past-time) so much the better. I'm sure that helps a lot. I remember those pre and teenage years; Two younger brothers and a Mother, and without music and guitars, I truly think we'd have gone crazy. As you say though, they were indeed different times.
Great idea about going on with your studies. I don't know how difficult the govt. in the U.S makes it, (financially) to study as a mature student but I can't imagine it's easy especially with a conservative presidency so I wish you all the luck. Too many of us, myself included, think at times that we've got it all worked out only to have the hubris come back to bite - we never stop learning, do we? And if we do I think that all we've done is learnt how to stop. That might be someone else's quote that I've paraphrased but if so it was accidental. If reading my earlier txt had/has anything to do with you going back to studying I think that it just maybe reminded you of something that you'd decided long before to do and now you've really given yourself the challenge. I'm sure you'll do well and be rightly proud when you finish.
It's been really good talking/txting with you Pastor Paul, your txt means a lot, especially the last line.
Your thoughts are a really well timed as I've been a bit ill lately and generous words and thoughts never go unwanted. I appreciate them. Thank you.
Mark, The Antipodean.
I have one of these with a Bogner mod. It is the greatest thing since sliced bread and I really like sliced bread.
Your bass guitar playing style with plectrum is extremely musical.
THE sound of rock! \m/
2:45 that's really great!
I can't get over the tone you're getting with the API. I'm trying to figure out how to do the same with my 1987x on a tighter budget with no luck so far!
Put a xotic so drive in front of it and step on that
2:17, wow!! Exactly the guitar tone I want for my heavy- metal band :)
Are these old greenbacks btw?
@3:17 great bass player too wow!
love the outdoors segements
Man! You could get that amp still never sound like Johann... because no one does. Simply the best.
I heard a guy 1987X that he had worked on by David Bray and it was a killer head!
Fantastic!
api in loop yessss, going to try my 560, killer
I hope there’s 55hz greenbacks in Valhalla
Don't know if it has something to do with Greenbacks, but it sounds like if you were in Valhalla... for sure!
I think Odin would insist on them
KILLER TONES!!! I love this amp too, nice and crispy. That Les Paul ain’t bad either. Your riffs are very reminiscent of old Sabbath with that Johan groove. Keep up the great work, I love your channel!!!
First riff sounds like early Van Halen. Nice!
Seems like to me you can tailor your gain and tone just by the change in pickups and/or the API in the loop - no need to go and buy higher gain amps for ultra distortion guitar playing, just change the p/u and add the API to it. And the ability to go in reverse as well to sound more vintagey - I'd say it's a very versatile amp as long as you know how to EQ and setup a guitar.
Hey Johan Great video as always. I can't help but notice you gear to players that are into heavier guitar tones Metal etc... I myself am into Hendrix type tone's, I know there are a ton of other cats out here into the Hendrix tone's. Maybe you can do a rundown on what New Marshall head best fits the bill for the Hendrix platform / tone's. Peace!!
I love my JCM800 2203X. Just awesome.
Cool, I haven’t played the 800 Reissue yet actually.
Those JBLs speakers instantly added some Allman-esque tone.
I've got the same Marshall cab as the one you use at 2:18. Great illustration man, fantastic tones as always. After watching you play your SG & hearing those wicked tones I decided I had to get myself one so yesterday I bought a '92 SG Standard lol. It arrives Monday, can't wait! Cheers for demoing all this gear Johan, it makes things a lot easier making decisions after hearing you put them all through their paces. Do you reckon that 50W Marshall head could be used at home? My 100W head just kinda sits there gathering dust now 'cos it's just too damn loud to get the tones I want.
Man that was awesome! I could hear so many differen,t iconic songs/players coming out of you as you played (and Mattias too). That thing covers so much sonic territory it's amazing. How does it compare against the Offset or Forsberg? Still patiently waiting for you to do some reviews/comparisons with a modeler (Firehawk FX, Helix, Kemper, Axe Fx). I'd love to hear what your sonic wizardry sounds like with those tools! Have a great day brother!
Thanks, this amp holds up well to any amp, but PureToneAmps and Forsberg is as good as it gets to me. I'm gonna demo the Code modelling amp on Friday actually! Cheers
Johan Segeborn can't wait! 😎
SOME GROOVY BASS PLAYING
4:03. Pure magic!!
Monster amp !
AWESOME!!!