All user reviews for the Marshall MG50DFX

Transistor amplifier 50 watts RMS.

From left to right on the front:
between 6.5mm jack,
gain, bass, middle, treble (the light)
switch clean / OD
Gain, bass, contour, treble, volume (Overdrive)
Preset / Adjust (SETTING THE choice and intensity of the effect: chorus + delay, delay, chorus, flanger)
Level (output level of the selected effect)
Reverb
Master volume
mule output / headphone jack (useful to play to the end of the night without losing any proper relationship with his neighbors or his parents ...)
FDD button to activate or not the accumulation amp lamps.

Surla rear face:
taken for footsiwtch (supplied) to switch from light overdrive and enable or disable the effect (watch the reverb is not switchable ..)
in and out for effects loop
In CD
decision for HP
and taken to the power supply.
So the traditional TRS, we see immediately what to do for the sound.

UTILIZATION

When one would not know, we see plenty of buttons everywhere, but do not panic! The manual is your friend: it is simple, clear, and it will quickly become your friend. To find your sound, make it confience!

SOUNDS

It should trs good to everyone, it is versatile trs: we move from Red Hot Santana via ACDC and Green Day in the blink of an EYE.

Even me, playing with a simple Stagg I install superlight Elixir strings, and with this amp, the sound is nickel! (Why do I buy a guitar that is the skin of the buttocks? ^ ^). Then I can play my Red Hot Flanger with chris .... : D

OVERALL OPINION

I have since yesterday I write the time o! dja like any of this amp ... I think Marshall makes the best amps in the world ... (APRS to me). For 299, I am more than satisfied, I recommend it!

It's a transistor amp with digital effects section (reverb and delay are separate and a button manages the chorus / flanger / phaser).
Conection very complete with emulated output (to avoid anyway, not super top quality) and a series effects loop switchable via footswitch or front panel.
You can add an additional external HP.
Entry mp3 etc. ...
50W.
4 memory channels (each with its own gain, volume and EQ own) and a Master.
Tuner (requires optional footswitch)
The optional pedal is amazing

9 / 10 because of the headphone jack that doubles as a line out and on which emulator HP is very poor quality (usually at Marshall, damage)

UTILIZATION

Simple configuration, the only downside is that you do not see its setting when changing channel, thus forcing some to make small changes. But it's no big deal.
the manual is very clear, must be read before using the amp anyway, especially for the use of footswich and programming.
It gets very very easily with this amp sounds good, then if we try to make rock brittish typed, fine.

SOUNDS

This amp is super versatile, I used to play at home because my JVM remains in local recurrence. I almost thought for a moment to bring it to compare and transfer the JVM (no, seriously still remain).
In short, the sounds are very very convincing, for a transistor amp in this range, I would say it is extraordinary.
The effect section is somewhat rather weak, but it avoids having to beginners sounds too weird and difficult to configure.
The clean sound is OK (you can even do cruncher, but I would not recommend).
The crunch is a pure delight (without the dynamics of a crunch to lamps)
The overdrive is excellent, the OD2 and more compressed, to book for solo I think.
Each channel stores its settings, including built-in effects, effects loop, reverb.
It only remains to adjust the master volume to the situation. A delight.
I very strongly recommend this amp to those who hesitate for an amp in this price range, I think it is well above the competition.
The only drawback is that Marshall is a pure, no emulation here (actually I put in default but that is what led me to this purchase, because I hate low-end emulation lifeless at VOX-Line6-Fender and others).
This amp keeps personality while being versatile.
You'll understand, I love this little beast.
IF my JVM I loose one day in concert or just before (or lamps transformer), I'm confident with this little combo help, I get to do much with my job.

A MUST HAVE

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 months.
I had a lot of amps (tube or transistor). I'll never make me emulators (though I had a Vox AD60VT home pretty well, but nothing to make it sound like pauuuuvvvrrrreee ...).
Transistors in the combos, I liked peavey (depends on the models all the same, preferably at Bandit 112 of 1990 and sent to 110 of 2002).
What I like most is that he is very versatile, with its crank is a killer, 4 sounds beneath the foot (or 5 depending on the programming of that same bracket).
What I like least .... good, say you can not see its settings from one channel to another, so boring to adjust a setting.
The value for money is good, without more, do not push it the transistor, but it's good nonetheless.
With experience and when I write this commentary, I would do without this choice a moment's hesitation.
I would almost even say that if I had not already JVM410, I might have hesitated between the JVM and a head MG100HFX so it's nice not to wonder if the lamps are well heated If the sound is good auusi this time because he is a little colder, or warmer, or wetter, etc ...
Briefly, the Happiness in the transistor with this amp.

The Marshall MG50DFX is a 50 watt 1x12 combo from Marshall's MG line of solid state amplifiers. The specifications are as follows:

"The Marshall sound in a compact practice/backstage amp!"
Delivers a dynamic yet toneful punch
50W of power
12" speaker
2 channels (footswitchable)
Digital effects including reverb, delay, chorus, and flange
FDD (Frequency Dependent Dampening)
CD ins, plus emulated line out, and emulated headphone jacks

There's nothing really to write home about for this amp features wise. It's got two channels (clean and drive), each with its own EQ controls. There's also some mediocre quality digital effects, a damper (read: compression) switch and a master volume control.


UTILIZATION

This amp is meant to try and deliver the classic Marshall tones in a portable package that won't hurt the wallet. It would be all well and good if the amp sounded reasonable, but like many of its tube counterparts, the MG50DFX just drops the ball nearly everywhere tone wise...

The clean channel was about as generic as it got. Flat sounding overall with no real sparkle or definition regardless of the guitar used. The only way to really get the clean channel to sound good was to turn up the reverb and delay and play ambient licks, which had a kitschy digital sort of quality to it.

The drive channel was much the same issue. Boring, sterile, and otherwise just buzzy and thin sounding. For some inexplicable reason, Marshall chose to put a "contour" control on this channel as opposed to a midrange control. It's easily one of the oddest controls I've seen, because it's basically taking a preadjusted midrange frequency and providing some sort of range between low mids to high mids as opposed to letting the user dial in as much or little mids as they desire.

The digital effects were mediocre at best. It features a chorus, flanger, delay, and a chorus/delay blend, as well as a reverb. They weren't the WORST built in effects by any means, but they didn't really sound stellar... just flat and dull, much like the rest of the amp. Using the chorus would cause the amp to get a bit muddy, and trying to use the flanger or delay would mean your tone just got buried under a wash of effect.


SOUNDS

I used this amplifier with a bunch of different Fender/Gibson style guitars. I can safely say I didn't like any of the tones in the amp. Next to my main rig at the time (Mesa Boogie Mark III/Basson 2x12), this amp was a complete and utter joke. The tones were just worlds apart, and I loathed the tones out of the amp so much that I got rid of it within under 24 hours (a record that still stands after more than a year and a half since owning it). It doesn't have much of an EQ curve per se... it's just really flat sounding. The contour control does put you in scooped or boosted midrange territory if you max it out at either end but it's still so thin and buzzy sounding that it really didn't make a difference... the choices were thin and buzzy with a cheap sounding "scooped metal" type tone, or a slightly more passable boosted midrange gain tone, which could've been okay if it wasn't for the inherent buzzing of the gain channel...



OVERALL OPINION

I don't much like modern Marshall gear and this amp is no exception. Cheap, lifeless and dull sounding overall... it's not even worth looking into unless you can find one for well under $100 used. Marshall has discontinued that particular version of the MG50DFX... so I guess it wasn't well received. That's probably for the best, since it's easily outclassed by comparable amps in the same new price bracket like the Peavey Bandit or Vypyr 75... both of which retail for about $350 CAD, approximately what the MG50DFX would've sold for new.

I was so disappointed with this amp that, after I got it on a Friday evening and played around with it, I took it into a local music shop on Saturday afternoon to trade it away.

In short, don't buy this. It's cheap, sounds thin and buzzy and it's a solid state Marshall... you can't ask for much worse a combination in my honest opinion.

Transistor 50w rms, with front from left to right: Line in, clean channel with gain, bass, middle, treble, OD channel with gain, bass, contour, treble, volume, a knob of delay effects, chorus, flanger , a level fx, a reverb level, a master volume, a button emulation (I did not feel much difference in its use, taking out emulated / phones.
Simplicity? No better!

UTILIZATION

For the config, you can not get any easier. For me who am not a big fan of his set to the end of the night, great!
The sound is clear

SOUNDS

very pure and crystalline, that is what I prefer in this amp and so I taped the first time! And there's this little assayed with knob gain is frankly practice.
Small flat, the EQ is practically useless, we do not feel any real difference from one setting to another.
For distortion, lovers rock sounds to sound metal will be served, knob contour skips to sound like AC / DC to Metallica, and if more are made with mumuse gain ...
Effects? clean enough, they are light enough and therefore do not color the sound too, personally I prefer. on the other hand for the delay, fans of dub, go your way, on the other hand, coupled with the reverb, you can get a sound close enough to Shadows example.

OVERALL OPINION

After a little over 2 years of use, I'm still not tired! I tried an H & K Matrix 100 that I sold almost immediately, the Fender Frontman 100 of a dude, but I can not play other than on the MG 50 DFX!
My sounds are reggae, blues, dub and metal, I found the versatility this amp with a really huge + for clear sound!
Value for money at the rate where I gained is unbeatable, 180 Euros for sale (one year old amp).
Sure, I would do this choice!