hashimoto's Metal Amp Rig

I love the Gain of this Amp , typical Marshall its very Tuby on Single notes and sober Gain on Chords. I can recommend this AMP specially for People playing the Rock Genre, no matter what Type, here it is very strong and really made for. Also when you could play clean things and some sort of Metal types too. Its great for every Rock Type thing no matter what: Hardcore, Punk, Hard Rock, Pop Punk, Shoegaze, Grunge, Psycodelic , Emo, Ska Punk, Pop Rock, Gothic, New Wave , Indie, Nu, Alternative, Math , Post Rock, ... and you can play it also clean where it has not the beauty of a Fender.
But ! With some Reverb , Delay , Modulation , Tape Pedals can also reach dreamy sounds and ambient and can be clean enough where you can play Blues, Easy Listening, R&B even with some crunch and even cleanish Jazz. With a Boost Pedals it gets even into classic Metal, Nu Metal and with a Fuzz into Doomer. For modern Metal I would choose something else to reach really a high quality modern metal sound , but with pedals and high output Humbuckers its very close to that range, I would say, where it sounds acceptable. Do not let people tell you this AMP would not sound good with Single Coil Pick ups or a Semi hollow Guitar, its then that these people searching for a specific sound they could not achive with single coil like Metallica, ACDC or whatsoever , but it sounds also great with these Guitars, but do not forget its a bright-ish gain AMP mostly what you will achive and when this is not the sound you are searching for this AMP is not ideal for you.
I play it at Home and I can not even tell what the Gain is really like by higher Volume, what should be even much more stunning. That you can not play this AMP at Home is wrong, but of course not cranked, the Gain on Low Volume is already nice to have. The Volume you put where you can hear something and thats fine and not too loud even not with sensitive neighbours, you will have even room to dail the volume of your pedals up. To use the volume into the High Imput, just get me from a lot of Gain Down to cleanish-crunch but not plain clean. The AMP is bright , not to bright and of course you can dail in Bass, but bright and very good for a band situation and to stand out the mix. Its also great for gain solo-ing realy shines here too. Do not expect to reach a very warm dark Bassy type of sound - to sound great here you can do , but for a very "warm" Sound there are other AMPs better , then I would go more for the JCM900.

And you got an AMP you can not only play at home, its loud enough to play it on a city ​​festival and from small Gigs to everything else. The Head can be carry its heavy but not too heavy , the 4x12 Cabinet alone, aww is painfull and too heavy on a lot of stairs, you wanna move it just a few meters in the room but not more. The Low Imput is also nice to have , most people do not use it, but when you wanna play something clean it is very nice. I did not tryout the Loop EFX , I love to put everything into the front, so I forgot. The AMP makes a lot of Fun to play, I just wanted to test it just a shot time and then played for hours. Its expensive , its very simple , it can just plug-in and Rock or plugn and be clean, only a few knobs to tune a bit the sound , nothing complicated very quick , you play more do less touching is nice to have. The AMP comes with a Speaker cable, it looks very cheap, I would better buy a good one, they do not cost that much. Do not just switch it on , it needs to be right connected to a Speaker Cabinet , what is easy and donefast you choose 16 Ohms on the Switch with a screw drine was already done and then to 16 ohm speaker cabinet imput , or you might choose 8 ohm or 4 ohm is possible, to use it into a stereo cabinet or 2 cabinets you have 2 outputs and is also possible, do not forget to half the ohms, your cabinet should be able to be load with at least 100 Watt of course. Its very robust Build, Corner Protected , the Carry handel is very very nice done, but its a bit open on Top to cool and breath , you should not put it into too small space and beware nothing will fall into the Amp there and not put your open beer on Top of the Head.

• Sounds very good Clean
• Very nice Fender Spring Reverb
• Can be played clean in Bedroom, Volume slightly over 1
• Can also be very very loud, starts at Volume over 3 , 40W AMP
• Does Not Sound Boxy at all
• Does take Pedals very well, every Pedal into the Front
• Got also an effects loop, who does need it ?
• 3 Channels Normal, Drive and More Drive, are OK for harsh Blues and Rock, but not so amazing
• 1x 12" Celestion A-Type , 3x 12AX7 und 2x 6L6
• 2 Imputs , 2nd one with -6 dB
• Robust, easy to Clean
• Switches Presence, Reverb, Master Volume, Middle, Bass, Treble, Drive, Select Switch, Drive Volume, Bright Switch
• Its a bit heavy 18,59 kg , but not too much
• Comes with Foot Switch , Channel select and Drive / More Drive
• 2 Speaker Outputs, 1 Inside, 1 Outside

• Very light weight
• Very good looking
• Neck feels good
• Bone Nut
• Pick Ups are more then OK for that Price , do Sound like a Jazzmaster
• Fredwork is good
• Strings do stay in Bridge
• The only thing I do not like , is the paint does yellowish and outworn fast

Looks Good Quality is good Has Pockets for Pics Length can be adjusted by screws , got enough Length It's nice Padded and Thick Wide and not too slim Too small Picks might fall/slip out of the Pockets somtimes