Ive played at length triple rectifiers, bogner uberschalls, heavily modded jcm800s, peavey 5150s. THIS THING CAN GET THE MOST UNGODLY, BOWEL RUMBLING, AGGRESSIVE TONES OF ANYTHING IVE EVER HEARD. PERIOD. Shame about the reliability issues. I fucking love thos thing. Great review. Its sad that even if you take care of or replace the fans, certain caps and resistors, replace the pots, the power amp can shit the bed at ANY moment. I FUCKING love the preamp on this thing
@Dookiefists10 ай бұрын
The cabs this thing came with were fucking sick
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
Completely agree! I need to get one.
@ironandzinc5 ай бұрын
I put my marshall JCM 2000 through the MF400 cab.. the combo produces an amazingly unique sound
@SM-wl2sc4 ай бұрын
have one … it’s brutal
@theariesexperiment464210 ай бұрын
An absolute BRUTAL amp. Great tone. I personally think it looks the part as well. I've had two of them. I kept the second one. I still run live.
@kendall72fxr10 ай бұрын
Alex Skolnick said it was the best amp Marshall ever made. P.s. Picked a Blackstar Debut 50r because of your review. It is an absolute screamer 👍
@smokeaguitar301910 ай бұрын
I knew to buy gear when they had deal after deal in the 2007 meltdown. I treasure those gear deals every time I get to use em. I sure could not afford them now.
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
Yeah I wish I could go back to those 2007 prices for a day or two! So many good deals I missed!
@roberteffler33825 ай бұрын
I think you did an excellent job of showing the usable tones this amp will produce
@MuscleCarLover10 ай бұрын
First time viewer and this is unrelated, but that's a goated playing position for sitting down. I don't understand why so many play with the neck being horizontal as it just doesn't feel good to hold it like that
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
Yeah it’s weird. It just feels way more natural to play that way. Maybe it’s where I’ve spent a lot of time playing standing up, it’s a similar kind of position. But yeah, I agree! Thanks for the comment
@SuperCMO7910 ай бұрын
@@JakeLeighGuitar Been that way for me since day one. Have to test out my Rhoads now see if it works for me sitting... lol.
@Jimmylikesfuzz7 ай бұрын
I like these amps. They respond like a valve amp when you hit them with a boost. Just don’t use the scoop switch!
@MathiasBronnes10 ай бұрын
I have one, works nice for hair metal
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
Ah I haven’t tried it out with that yet. I’ll have to give it a go! Thanks.
@frankbrown37172 ай бұрын
Johnny5 used them as backups on a few of his tours. I used them, hard to dial in, but killer tones.
@Veheloth10 ай бұрын
I have an mg100hcfx lol. It works though. Dude, i grabbed a rigel and it sounds like an od pedal in this loop. Is it defective or is everyone demoing it on tube amps? With od it sounds great but it has to be boosted out of the gate.
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
I don't think it'll be the tube/solid state thing. In my video I demoed it using the Orange Pedal Baby, that's solid state. It definitely needs a boost in front to get into really high gain territory, but I felt it had enough when the gain on the pedal was cranked. Hope that helps!
@Veheloth10 ай бұрын
@@JakeLeighGuitar i think its a defective unit. Thanks for the reply!
@elliestevens92044 ай бұрын
Hey, I'm not a guitarist or know alot about amps. But I believe my brother has a Marshall Mode Four MF350 with a MF400B. How much could this go for in US dollars?
@KillaFXZ8 ай бұрын
Great job Jake for 5k subs!!!!!🎉😎
@Timferrari-ui8mu3 ай бұрын
Well, your entitled to your opinion brother..... I've owned many Marshall amps and cabinets over many decades and the MF 350 is a great Guitar amplifier and the matching cabinets the 350 and 400 are some of the best cabs I've played through as you can throw anything at them and they don't distort and its actually a mosfet type of amp meaning its solid state and valve.... The best of both worlds. I love these Marshall series of amps and cabs.
@gogsythreat10 ай бұрын
I've had mine for about 20 years, loved it for all the time I used it. I retired it for the a reason you didn't mention. It weighs a F~*king Ton hehehe. I switched to a Blackstar OD100 and now using a Boss GT 1000 into a SD 170. (Pedal board amps). Long Live the M4
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
Haha, totally agree!! I’ve done nearly the same thing, HX Stomp and Orange Pedal Baby. The heavy amps can stay home!
@untoldguitaristАй бұрын
Man that amp sounds killer for hybrid tube/solid state amp.
@BasementGuitarSuperstar9 ай бұрын
I’ve never heard of this model. Thanks for the video
@johndo964810 ай бұрын
6:15 what's that for an interesting 🎸?
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
That’s an SBC guitar. They’re a small custom UK builder, they’re on Instagram etc if you wanna check them out. They make amazing stuff!
@johndo964810 ай бұрын
@@JakeLeighGuitarthank you . I will.
@bigwomp9324 ай бұрын
Amp 1 crunch sounded siiiiick
@thomaslarson4388 ай бұрын
The amp wasn't bad! I had one and you had to crank the volume for it to sound good!
@GhostNoteAudio2 ай бұрын
It sounds awesome. But it IS unreliable. I have two dead ones in my attic :)
@adriankurt187210 ай бұрын
Hey there, great content you put out my man 😀 May I ask you a question ? Where did you find that amp so cheap ( I really liked the tone ) ? Here in germany they try to pull 1.8k € out of your pocket for it. Greets from good 'ol germany 😉
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
Hey, thank you so much for the kind words!! There’s tons of them over here in the UK. I bought mine on eBay. There’s currently 5 on my local Facebook marketplace for between £200 and £250, plus a few more expensive ones up to around £350. 1.8k, wow!! Don’t do that!! Haha. If you do get one at some point, there are way more tones in there, I barely scratched the surface! Thanks for your comment 😊
@neepathius74 ай бұрын
nah... one of the best sounding ive ever heard. maybe everything else is cause for concern but same people say that about the bv100h which rips!
@rangerc31010 ай бұрын
I had one of these when they first came out. I played it for 2 weeks and the Motherboard got Fried. I plugged straight into the amp with the matching cab. In my personal opinion, Junk.
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
Ah yeah, that’s no good at all. Can definitely see why you’d say they’re junk!
@marcaustin10 ай бұрын
You made it sound great
@ironandzinc5 ай бұрын
I bought the mf350 head and the mf400 slanted cabinet for a whopping 200 euros for the entire half stack 😁
@jhvuvnik65s246 ай бұрын
The mode 4 is hands dow one of the best bass amps ever made if you like distorted bass
@AnimalJohn8510 ай бұрын
Remember going into play it again sams in derby and trying one of these out... Hated it back then because i was so new to everything but as ive got older i genuinely think they were cool bits of kit and something different. Safe to say 15/16yr old me would not agree with that but he could go f!*k himself ;) Some reet tasty tones you got there sir :)
@JakeLeighGuitar10 ай бұрын
Haha!! Love that comment. Thanks, and thanks for the kind words too!! Yeah it’s funny how much our tone tastes change over time! 😊
@Jeff-jz5sf9 ай бұрын
It’s definitely NOT ugly if anything
@RadOGuitar10 ай бұрын
if u use brain and good other stuff, marshall ms-2 will sound good ;) Cheap Marshall heads always was buy with cheap cabinet and play by poor guitar players :P
@Luke777777713 ай бұрын
For me the worst Marshall amp ever ist the JCM 2000 Series. Now i have the JVM 410 for me the Best ever!
@CatalystOfFire10 ай бұрын
JCM2000 TSL100 was pretty bad as well.
@Jeff-jz5sf9 ай бұрын
Wrooooong
@ironandzinc5 ай бұрын
yo.. you don't want to go there.. those are words we can throw down to 💪 That amp is awesome
@CatalystOfFire5 ай бұрын
@@ironandzinc I had one for a decade and never ever had a problem, but it's a pretty tinny sound unless you really really really crank it. Great for recording!