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.

The Marshall 1960A 4x12'' Cabinet is a very nice sounding Cabinet I got the Angled one the Sound fills good up the Room , you hear it all around. It does not Sound Boxed. The 4x 12" Celestion G12T-75 Speaker do match very good to the Gain of the JCM800 and JCM900 Amps. It is very heavy 37kg, you do not want to carry them alone , when then just a few meters or push/pull it on the ground. Easy to push and pull does glide over a smooth floor. The Handels on both sides are very well build you can heavy pull the Amp and carry it with 2 people. Very Robust build, Corners are protected. The Cabinet comes with 4 Wheels, so you can roll it too, sad no electric motor and no stearing you can not ride on the cabinet over the streets. It can be operated in 4Ohms or 16 Ohms and 8Ohm in Stereo. With a Switch to choose between Stereo and Mono and 2 Imputs. It can be loaded with a, up to 300 Watt Amp. Can be very Loud if you want to and sound a wide area. It comes with a cheap Speaker cable , you better buy a better one.

• Cheap
• Pick Ups are OK
• Troggles are OK
• Binding looks nice Cream Color
• Stays in Tune
• Freds are Sharp and Buzzing , needs Work
• Bridge makes Noices
• Very Heavy Guitar
• The Paradise Amber Flame Gloss looks fake

• By far Too Heavy
• Very Bad Fredwork, needs a lot of Work here
• String Action hard to get down
• Neck is a bit Sticky, not so nice to play
• Did replace the Dot Inlays , was possible and easy to do here
• Good Looking, Binding, Paint ect. Looks great
• Stays in Tune
• Pick Ups not the best , but acceptable , sounds like a Tele
• Bridge, Nut, Pots, Tuners - nothing special but everything OK here

Its build soild Versitile Pick Ups are Good, typical Strat Sound and not overdone Freds will worn out after years, but are good Fredwork is OK Stays in Tune Electric is OK No Hum and Hiss Tremolo is fine Paint will age after years, but is good Action hight is not too high Light weight Can be played well when sitting Neck does need a bit ajustment

• 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

Its robust, 1,5m long enough to combine Head and Speaker directly , made in Germany.

Robust , Cheap Instrumentenkabel. Only Had issures that the screw did come loose where you can solder the connections , but I did tighten it ones and since then its was no issure anymore.

Robust and long lasting, looks very nice, Tweed , by Fender does its job.