The Hummingbird sounds great, I have to admit. But I don't like the pickguard. It's a bit difficult for me. I would actually like to have the 00-size but the Hummingbird inlays and head stock look soo good :)

Hummingbird is awesome! Both are great but the hummingbird has the tone and the looks

love love live these amps - Skip built me a bogen ch 17 - unreal vibe 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉not to be missed

One thing I’ve learned is that a plexi/1987 circuit can approach a JCM800 with a pre PI MV. In a similar vein, if the JCM800 had the master volume dimed here I’m convinced it would be a lot closer to the plexi, because then the difference comes down to just the cold clipper and the cascaded gain stage.

Hey Blake! This sounds killer! Are you using IRs here or speakers/mics? That's the most difference I've heard an 800 and Plexi I've heard online ever. Makes me wanna pick up a Plexi as well!

TRY REPLACING THE TUSQ SADDLE ON THE J-45 WITH A BONE SADDLE FROM BOB COLISI AND BONE BRIDGE PINS. YOU WILL BE GREATLY REWARDED.

La Grange by a mile

Are you playing these through the Creambacks or is this the IR V30's ?

Whoever is the owner of that head , Man!.you got a good one ...believe me they dont all sound like that one ..maybe ? some truth with what said about horzizontal input models versus.vertical input ones.??? My friend has a studio ,and when he went looking for a 800, I would demo them for him. We tried many and found one at Sam Ash used of course.. Lesson here, if you find one ( Keep it) ..

Unrelated to anything else in this video, that intro/ outro tune is gorgeous

Shiva wins it is undoubtedly one of the best amps ever made and hugely versatile, the marshall is a one trick pony.

2 years later, this video is still so relevant. Gibson continues to make these awesome guitars that become people's dream guitars. Thank you for the review and demo.

Blake, your vid popped up in my feed again today, and i am here to re-witness the greatness of 3:24. the way your camera shudders when you hit it hard there is magic. yours still stands as one of the best, if not best attempt at groking that tone on the SC.

What cab is it running thru

This amp sounds better than the mesa boogie amps Metallica uses i wish they stuck to using Marshall amps

What’s a BB preamp?

Good video

Thank you for this video

This or the bogner 3534… 😮🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

If I had to choose just one amp, I would go with a Mesa Boogie! 🔥

What speakers do you use in this clip?

I wager a boost pedal for sure. Not the amp.

Rythym they are quite the same... need to hear them soloing...

Speakers used? Sounds great!

Forgot something to mention. For me your first riff sounds very close to the beginning of „You really got me“ on Van Halen I. Very cool!…🤘🤘🤘

I think if you dial in treble and presence higher, you come damned close to the Recto. Killer Amp!

Sounds killer, what is the year of your R0?

I know I’m biased because I have a 1966 hummingbird, but I just love the deep tone.

The hummingbird fits your playing better. Id definitely keep them both, though

This or 1987x is next!

The Plexi has the leads screaming VIBE OPEN ORGANIC --- PERIODDDXXX!!! JCM800 sounds like any other tube amp with a compressed overprocessed distortion pedal pushing its preamp - MEDIOCRExxx!!!

Usually rock guitarists tend to underappreciate Blackface and Silverface amps because some had crappy sounding speakers that buried the mids and instead gave annoying icepicky high mids and highs, but if you put them good speakers, you will have a beautiful, balanced tone, especially with humbuckers and p90s.

Going to play both tomorrow but the hummingbird might be the one.

Les Paul every day and every time.

Great video!! I wish I had seen this 4 yers ago. I'm blown away. I'm getting one......Now!! Ha.

Wow that Lp jr sounds so nasty in a good way.

Ceriatone Amps make an all handwired “All Axcess Plexi “ 100 and 50 watt amps that will give you all the plexi tones from the sixties and seventies.

I never understood the big deal about these amps. I would take a Marshall any day over one of these. The dynamics seem to get lost with all that distortion but I know some guys love that. Great playing though.

This video is the best comparison I've ever seen. At the moment I'm deciding between the two guitars. I found 2 people selling these guitars at a reasonable price! The hummingbird (like you said) a wider sound, but I also like the more woody sound of the J-45. but I'm really torn!

how did this compare to the bogner goldfinger?

Hands down best demo of this amp. Perfect amount of bass dialed in, too many demos of this amp sound so flubby and are over-saturated.

Great job Blake u both sure sound great thank u. Would u say it comes closer to a Helios or an Ecstasy?

I had a Buddha used it on may gigs but on one gig it just wasn’t punching through I’ve ordered an RMC4 I also have an Xotic XW1 that is killer can’t wait to A-B with the RMC

Nice Tyler Childers cut as well.

Super ugly highs and too much presence from the 800. ...And I bet no good cleans if any at all.

Guitar and pickups used should be the first info on this known amp demo!!!

The tone at 4 minutes is "IT"!!!!!! Probably the gain channel with the guitar volume backed off.

I love them both but i prefer the mt100 you can hear all the strings ring out not one powers over the other. So maybe some built in compression but. The rectifier has too much crackling over the clarity of the strings if you get me

Nice tonal complexity!!

This is simply one of the finest amps ever made. If you have a job and this amp can't get it done, time to quit the project.