Marshall MG 30 GFX

T.T.

Ok... Until my bank balance says I am allowed to buy a decent valve amp I am using the above mentioned combo.

After weeks of twiddling and mounting it on an angled stand I may have just got that Angus sound I was after all along.

I appreciate the purists out there may say you need to have a handwired-by-virgins 1965 road worn 100 watt head with Unicorn teeth knobs and Soviet submarine radio valves running into a 4×12 cab assembled by Satanists running through a flux-capacitor, back into a TARDIS then into a small aubergine in a studio lined with a nice bit of beer stained green floral carpet and a bootprint on the ceiling allegedly made my Frank Zappa.

But my Lp into a £150 Marshall sounds reasonable to me.

Comments please...

Funkfingers

T.T. said:

my _____________ (fill in the blank) into a __________________ (fill in the blank) sounds reasonable to me.

Comments please...

This is the only comment that really matters.

ICBM

Tone is in the hands. Or the fingers of the knob-twiddler. Or something.

Actually it's a perfectly decent practice amp, if you're not expecting it to sound like a cranked Super Lead full stack in your bedroom. Tilting it up has probably helped too. Well done for using your ears and not just your eyes...

chrisj1602

If it works for you and your situation then it’s good! 

Sassafras

People make too much of what their heroes might've used.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
(no cats were harmed in this experiment).

YellowLedBetterMan

The Marshall MGs are actually some of my favourite practice amps. Good for you.

BlueStrat

The only thing that matters is you’re having fun playing it - Thats the only measure that matters. Keep on rocking!

T.T.

Sassafras said:

People make too much of what their heroes might've used.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
(no cats were harmed in this experiment).

Sassafras... Aerosmith reference?

Alex2678

I had an MG100 for years and it was great 

Alex2678

I used to jam with my friends when we were younger doing thrash metal covers with my MG100 and it sounded great, now I’m old, sat on my own in my living room playing clapton licks through a valve amp that’s too loud for my house. The mg100 days were cooler 

Sassafras

T.T. said:

Sassafras said:

People make too much of what their heroes might've used.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
(no cats were harmed in this experiment).

Sassafras... Aerosmith reference?

Not intentionally.
I only know a few of their songs.

p90fool

I did a gig of Johnny Cash covers with a borrowed Affinity Tele once into the clean channel of an MG30, if you'd offered me something more expensive halfway through I wouldn't have bothered changing. 

Funkydung!

There is a guy called Dave Simpson does YouTube videos, was on Andertons recently, he uses them If I remember rightly? 

bingefeller

Those are good amps, I had an MG15 for years and loved it.  A lot of people upgrade the speakers on them.  

T.T.

Sassafras said:

T.T. said:

Sassafras said:

People make too much of what their heroes might've used.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
(no cats were harmed in this experiment).

Sassafras... Aerosmith reference?

Not intentionally.
I only know a few of their songs.

The word "Sassafras" is a  lyric from "Love in an Elevator". 

Funkfingers

It is also the name of a band that came from Mountain Ash, South Wales.

Sassafras

T.T. said:

Sassafras said:

T.T. said:

Sassafras said:

People make too much of what their heroes might've used.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
(no cats were harmed in this experiment).

Sassafras... Aerosmith reference?

Not intentionally.
I only know a few of their songs.

The word "Sassafras" is a  lyric from "Love in an Elevator". 

Well, I have had quick sordid sex in many a stairwell, so there's a slight connection.

Fez

Funkfingers said:

It is also the name of a band that came from Mountain Ash, South Wales.

I saw them once when they supported Black Oak Arkansas, back when Methuselah was a lad.

Rocker

To the OP, great to read that you enjoy playing guitar.  Long may it continue.  The equipment you use are only tools of the trade.  You make the music, not the equipment.  Always remember that.