All user reviews of 3/5 for the Marshall MG100HDFX

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UTILIZATION

Trs simple little use to be known to use a minimum of one amp. there is no button which asks for three hours this what it is!

SOUNDS

AAARG! big noise with microphones simple when you push a little gain!
crunch and clean sounds are not bad for a marshall. The clean is really clean if you do not force too much on the master, it's rare for this brand! The distortion is of course types and suggest the classic marshall, bold, serious, gueullard, trs rock what! lamps and less .. Indeed, repeating face a "real" all-tube Marshall (JCM 900) ca is no match at all. It lacks even when frankly body heat. When compared with any lamp, the pale figure transo done quickly .. Not the same price either! Good even when objectively c amp a lot.

OVERALL OPINION

Used quite a few times during rehearsals. Versatile enough to clean thanks nikel, with DIFFERENT grains that are available. We can not go may be to sound the most trash, but it can rev well to heavy dbrouiller couillu well! A background really buzzing with micro pnible simple, I am THE bad points. Question of the quality of sound is not bad for the transo, not so good compared other heads of the same brand.

Why this is 100 watts is beyond me? This amp is a decent practice amp but not great for blasting down walls. This amp is rated at 100 watts and is a solid state amp which are only good for one thing and that is playing at home. The tone of sold state amps are just lousy and unrealistic. The added FDD switch adds a bit of beef to the distortion tone for this amp. However, even that isn't enough to hook this up to a 4x12 cabinet and go out to the Whiskey.

UTILIZATION

Features
Twin footswitchable channels -- clean and overdrive
2 modes on each channel -- clean/crunch on clean and OD1/OD2 on overdrive
Independent tone controls for bass, middle, and treble on each channel
Contour control for dramatic mid sweep and "scooping"
Emulated line out jack and headphone jack
CD input which allows you to play along to your favorite discs
Built-in digital effects -- chorus/delay, chorus, flange, and delay
Separate digital reverb with level control
Parallel effects loop with mix control
Master volume
12 in. Eminence speaker
FDD (Frequency Dependent Damping)
Supplied 2-way footswitch (clean/overdrive, DFX on/off)

SOUNDS

The tone from this amp isn't that bad for being a solid state amp. It has two channels and two modes for each channel and all are very usable in the basic functions. This is an all in one amp for a beginner guitar player. Any one who has spent any time with a tube amp will not go for this other than to have as a practice unit for silence or office use. The crunch channel will get you a great classic rock tone. Trying using a Gibson Les Paul or SG and dial down the gain for some good Led Zeppelin tone or Ac/Dc crunch.The over drive channel are excellent for modern rock and will sound good with any guitar used with humbucker pickup.

This amp should stay at home and be used for just hamming and that is the dilemma I have for it being a waste 100 watts when it just needs to be about 15 watts.

OVERALL OPINION

These amps have been replaced by the Marshall MG101FX and is no longer in production. You can find these on the used market all day long. At new they were sound $460 so I'm guessing used would be about $280. Not a bad price but then you have to buy a cabinet if you don;t have one. SO there is more money that you'll have to shell out. I would not recommend this version of the series of amps from Marshall. I would get a 15 watt version and see if you like playing through it. If so then go out and buy a Marshall Jcm 2000 DSL 100.

The Marshall MG100HDFX is a solid state amplifier with onboard effects and 100 watts of power. It has a 1/4 inch input in the front for your guitar, as well as 1/4 inc connections for the foot pedal that comes with it and outputs for the speaker cabinet coming from the head. The head is split into three channels - clean channel, distortion channel, and the digital effects section.

UTILIZATION

The use of this Marshall amp is quite easy. It only takes a minute or two to figure out what everything does on this amp, and if you have any experience with Marshall amps, you'll figure this out in a minute. It is easy to manipulate the clean and distortion channels to get a variety of sounds and also is easy to pick and choose between the digital effects it has. I don't have a manual, but most shouldn't need it as it is pretty easy to figure out.

SOUNDS

I play a lot of rock and pop music, so while this amp definitley would suit these styles, I find the overall sound of this amp to be too tinny for my taste. The clean channel is okay, but the overdrive isn't full enough and isn't true to the name of Marshall in my opinion. I have only use this amp with guitar - usually a Gibson SG without any effects or anything, because this has effects on it. While it is nice to have a few different effects built into an amp, most of the effects on this are inadequate for me. I do like the delay sound in the effects section, but most of the other effects I don't use. This is great for the beginner, but definitley not suitable for professional recording.

OVERALL OPINION

I've been using the Marshall MG100HDFX for about six years - it was one of the first Marshall amps I used to record with. At the time it worked fine for what I needed it to, but moving forward it became less and less of a viable option because the sound quality just isn't all that great. Sure having a clean and dirty sound to go along with some effects is nice, but it doesn't mean that much if you don't like using them all that much. This amp is really geared towards people buying their first Marshall, or even their first amplifier, so it needs to be treated as so. I would recommend it for this use, as it is really cheap, but would not recommend this amp to advanced players or professionals.