Could i use this Amp and is it good?

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its a marchall MG100HDFX amp head. could i use it like any other smaller amp. i have been using a fender SP-10 for 2 years now and i hate it. would this be a good one?

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its a marchall MG100HDFX amp head. could i use it like any other smaller amp. i have been using a fender SP-10 for 2 years now and i hate it. would this be a good one?

I jam with a buddy of mine who plays a seven string through a MG100 head. He gets some great tone, but I think he's also got it loaded with EMGs.

The sound is straightforward Marshall, with lots of mid-range growl. It's not a bad amp, and it will give plenty of volume, but....

... well, my Mesa Boogie Trem-o-Verb eats it for breakfast. With half of the power tubes pulled out (50w). Of course, the difference is significant - tube vs solid state, and over a grand vs a few hundred.

What you will not get is any tubey sparkley magic. The cleans are clean but not shimmery, the distortion is solid rock distortion but not ... i dunno, kerPLOW rock distortion.

You can improve matters by building a decent signal chain. It does seem to respond well to chorus pedals and other modulation effects. I'm willing to bet that slapping one of those exciter pedals in the fx loop would really bring out the best of that amp.

I would urge you to save up for a decent quality cab. Your speakers will have a huge impact on your sound.... the cab that comes with this amp really isn't that bad, but if you can get a speaker cab loaded with celestions it will sound a lot better. Of course, that's more money....

One last thing. Depending on your speaker cab, you will need to turn this amp up to get a good quality sound. The cab that matches it starts to sound good at the volume where someone else can't hear you when you're talking... and that might be too loud for your environment, I dunno.

Getting a speaker cab with low-wattage speakers (ie, celestion vintage 30's) will let your sound better without having to turn up so much, to a certain extent. You should definitely try plugging your head into different cabs. A good music shop will let you do that, as long as you don't get obnoxiously loud.

Saul

You'll need a speaker cabinet, or some sort of cabinet simulator (which will probably cost more than a speaker cab). It's a Solid State amp, so it's going to steadfastly keep it's sound, but you won't be a member of the "popular" kids with the Mesa Triple-recs, Marshall Mode 4s, Gallien Kruger whatsitsfaces, etc. It'll sound like a Marshall, though....which is the sound of pretty much any rock or metal band. Behringer makes chaep 4x12 cabinets...like 200 bucks. The cabinet that goes with this head is cheap as well. Just expect to pay more like 500 to get your amp together.