MGR/James Hutton « Marshall AVT150 »
Published on 12/03/01 at 15:00Concept Music
$1400 AUD
This is a great practice amp. It is the same as the AVT-275, with only one speaker. It can be upgraded to the equivalent of an AVT-275 with the purchase of a second speaker unit. It can also be used to run a marshall quad box. It has 4 channels, Acoustic, clean, OD1 and OD2. It has a large selection of digital effects. There are great reverb, chorus and delay effects. The acoustic channel is a nice surprise. The clean channel is 'Marshall good' and so is the overdrive 1 channel. Using these two channels with varied settings you can replicate many sounds from bands using combinations of soft to harder overdrives. It packs a punch for a small amp, with a great tone for most sounds. The tone controls (bass, middle, treble) are very effective in perfecting your prefered sound.
If you are looking for a real heavy sound using a pedal through the clean channel make sure the gain down or your sound will become to muddy. This limits your volume potential, although this amp does pack a fair punch for a single speaker combo. The OD2 channel I do not like. The sound is not very heavy and is VERY dirty. You are better of using a pedal, since it will provide a heavier sound with less noise. There is a huge selection of reverb effects which differ very little from each other, so I haven't found them to be very useful. The rotary selector for the channels is hard to use if you wanted to quickly change effects while playing.
Rock solid !!! Pun intended
While some of the features would of been better of left out the good ones are really good. A versatile practice amp with great tone, volume and effects. Makes it a great amp to learn on since it is so versatile and has many effects so you do not have to fork out extra cash to have a large repertoire of effects to learn how to use them all.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
$1400 AUD
This is a great practice amp. It is the same as the AVT-275, with only one speaker. It can be upgraded to the equivalent of an AVT-275 with the purchase of a second speaker unit. It can also be used to run a marshall quad box. It has 4 channels, Acoustic, clean, OD1 and OD2. It has a large selection of digital effects. There are great reverb, chorus and delay effects. The acoustic channel is a nice surprise. The clean channel is 'Marshall good' and so is the overdrive 1 channel. Using these two channels with varied settings you can replicate many sounds from bands using combinations of soft to harder overdrives. It packs a punch for a small amp, with a great tone for most sounds. The tone controls (bass, middle, treble) are very effective in perfecting your prefered sound.
If you are looking for a real heavy sound using a pedal through the clean channel make sure the gain down or your sound will become to muddy. This limits your volume potential, although this amp does pack a fair punch for a single speaker combo. The OD2 channel I do not like. The sound is not very heavy and is VERY dirty. You are better of using a pedal, since it will provide a heavier sound with less noise. There is a huge selection of reverb effects which differ very little from each other, so I haven't found them to be very useful. The rotary selector for the channels is hard to use if you wanted to quickly change effects while playing.
Rock solid !!! Pun intended
While some of the features would of been better of left out the good ones are really good. A versatile practice amp with great tone, volume and effects. Makes it a great amp to learn on since it is so versatile and has many effects so you do not have to fork out extra cash to have a large repertoire of effects to learn how to use them all.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com