The WORST Marshall Amp... EVER!

In this video I take a look at my old Marshall Mode Four from the early 2000s. Let me know what you think in the comments!
Guitars used in this video -
JL-1 - ltcustomguitar...
SBC Guitars Thrace II - reverb.com/uk/...
Fender Telecaster - thmn.to/thopro...
Gibson Les Paul - thmn.to/thopro...
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[@riokinsey2134]

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

[@theariesexperiment4642]

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.

[@Dookiefists]

The cabs this thing came with were fucking sick

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

Completely agree! I need to get one.

[@ironandzinc]

I put my marshall JCM 2000 through the MF400 cab.. the combo produces an amazingly unique sound

[@SM-wl2sc]

have one … it’s brutal

[@roberteffler3382]

I think you did an excellent job of showing the usable tones this amp will produce

[@kendall72fxr]

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 👍

[@Jimmylikesfuzz]

I like these amps. They respond like a valve amp when you hit them with a boost. Just don’t use the scoop switch!

[@smokeaguitar3019]

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.

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

Yeah I wish I could go back to those 2007 prices for a day or two! So many good deals I missed!

[@MuscleCarLover]

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

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

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

[@SuperCMO79]

@@JakeLeighGuitar Been that way for me since day one. Have to test out my Rhoads now see if it works for me sitting... lol.

[@Timferrari-ui8mu]

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.

[@elliestevens9204]

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?

[@gogsythreat]

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

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

Haha, totally agree!! I’ve done nearly the same thing, HX Stomp and Orange Pedal Baby. The heavy amps can stay home!

[@Fartrellcluggins69]

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.

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

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!

[@Fartrellcluggins69]

@@JakeLeighGuitar i think its a defective unit. Thanks for the reply!

[@MathiasBronnes]

I have one, works nice for hair metal

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

Ah I haven’t tried it out with that yet. I’ll have to give it a go! Thanks.

[@KillaFXZ]

Great job Jake for 5k subs!!!!!🎉😎

[@bigwomp932]

Amp 1 crunch sounded siiiiick

[@thomaslarson438]

The amp wasn't bad! I had one and you had to crank the volume for it to sound good!

[@BasementGuitarSuperstar]

I’ve never heard of this model. Thanks for the video

[@rangerc310]

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.

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

Ah yeah, that’s no good at all. Can definitely see why you’d say they’re junk!

[@AnimalJohn85]

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 :)

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

Haha!! Love that comment. Thanks, and thanks for the kind words too!! Yeah it’s funny how much our tone tastes change over time! 😊

[@adriankurt1872]

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 😉

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

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 😊

[@neepathius7]

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!

[@ironandzinc]

I bought the mf350 head and the mf400 slanted cabinet for a whopping 200 euros for the entire half stack 😁

[@diarrhea_splatter]

Love this dude, so damned funny!

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

Haha, thanks for watching! :)

[@jhvuvnik65s24]

The mode 4 is hands dow one of the best bass amps ever made if you like distorted bass

[@RadOGuitar]

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

[@johndo9648]

6:15 what's that for an interesting 🎸?

[@JakeLeighGuitar]

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!

[@johndo9648]

​@@JakeLeighGuitarthank you . I will.

[@Jeff-jz5sf]

It’s definitely NOT ugly if anything

[@marcaustin]

You made it sound great

[@Luke77777771]

For me the worst Marshall amp ever ist the JCM 2000 Series. Now i have the JVM 410 for me the Best ever!

[@CatalystOfFire]

JCM2000 TSL100 was pretty bad as well.

[@Jeff-jz5sf]

Wrooooong

[@ironandzinc]

yo.. you don't want to go there.. those are words we can throw down to 💪 That amp is awesome

[@CatalystOfFire]

@@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!