Congrats ?
May she bring you many years of awesome tone!
May she bring you many years of awesome tone!
South Africa & Marshall Amps
They still had the YJM about 3 weeks ago when I was last there. Musta got sold. Never tried the Kerry King head. Would be keen to hear a review of it.
Had my eye on that cab you got. Enjoy the new amp!
Had my eye on that cab you got. Enjoy the new amp!
Congrats! Enjoy... ?
Eish ? you weren't kidding about winding up your neighbours... that'll do it ?
Congrats, looks fantastic 8)
Sorry, reply #2 was mine, I'll take credit for this sale. ? ? ?ThomasN wrote:
Thanks to help from Shaun in this thread, I paid Coastal a visit earlier on this morning,
? ?Tokai SA wrote:Sorry, reply #2 was mine, I'll take credit for this sale. ? ? ?ThomasN wrote:
Thanks to help from Shaun in this thread, I paid Coastal a visit earlier on this morning,
My LP hasnt arrived yet, so I tested it with a Tokai they had in the store.
After about 1 minute I was eyeing out the guitar as well, trying to do the math of what the totals would be ?
LOL! All yours dude!Tokai SA wrote:Sorry, reply #2 was mine, I'll take credit for this sale. ? ? ?ThomasN wrote:
Thanks to help from Shaun in this thread, I paid Coastal a visit earlier on this morning,
Damn it! Oh yea! How much? ?ThomasN wrote: I may actually still speak to him at a later stage about a custom design. I heard an amzing Fender Tweed vintage amp that had been restored recently. Beautiful clean tone's!
Thanks to help from Shaun in this thread, I paid Coastal a visit earlier on this morning, and got to check out some amazing head and cabs that they have. I didnt find the YJM100 (possibly sold). HOWEVER I did find the Marshall Kerry King signature 2203KK, and a 1960TV cab ?
Lee at Coastal music is the best!
So she has a new home at my place, and my LP will arrive on Tuesday morning hopefully.
Lee mentioned that 2 of the heads I looked at were gotten at crazy low prices, and were both marked down from the original markup.
I got a few other small things with this as well, but the total came to 17.7k if I remember correctly :-\
I got a few other small things with this as well, but the total came to 17.7k if I remember correctly :-\
4 months later
ThomasN wrote: I may actually still speak to him at a later stage about a custom design. I heard an amzing Fender Tweed vintage amp that had been restored recently. Beautiful clean tone's!
Thanks to help from Shaun in this thread, I paid Coastal a visit earlier on this morning, and got to check out some amazing head and cabs that they have. I didnt find the YJM100 (possibly sold). HOWEVER I did find the Marshall Kerry King signature 2203KK, and a 1960TV cab ?
Lee at Coastal music is the best!
So she has a new home at my place, and my LP will arrive on Tuesday morning hopefully.
CONGRATZ on the amp . . .
. . . is this amp as bright as i think it is (seeing that it is a hot rodded JCM800 after all) ???
Would love to hear your view on the general tone of this monster.
Possibly one of the most diverse amps Ive had the pleasure of using.
When looking for an amp, I was trying to avoid the overly bright tones of the JCM800, which hurts my ears. When I tried this in the store, I was skeptical because of this, but when I switched in on, I was so surprised at its clear warm tone, with beating low end. It can go pretty bright, if you dial the Presence too high. (past 12 o'clock). But it has a nice warm vintage tube sound, which I really liked.
Given that its the Kerry King signature head, its also expected that when you power up, this thing is all gain from low volume to full, which it isnt. It is able to do low volume just great, with both clean (really clean), to classic JCM vintage tones (when turning up the preamp AND you can remove that screechy tone which I hate), right to so much, if feels like you ears will melt (beast mode). All which can be played at bedroom level, through to concert volume.
The built in noise gate controlled from the beast section is a very good quality, but personally I didnt find much use for it, as I prefer to play this without Beast mode, and like the sensitivity it can deliver. If youre playing really fast thrash type stuff, as well as shredding leads, it would definitely help, with muting out any feedback and horrible noise. Palm muting with the gate is almost unnecessary, if its turned up full.
Ive used quite a few Marshall heads in my years, including the Super Leads and Plexi's, and I can honestly say, this head is by far more powerful. People say with the Plexis, it will deafen you... This head, if dialed beyond 12 o'clock, will make you throw up if youre anywhere close to it.
All I can add is that physically this thing weighs a flippen ton. In the advert for it, when it first came out, Kerry King is holding it over his head... I honestly think they may emptied it guts before asking him to do this... unless he does power lifting in his spare time.
I hope this answers any questions.
At this stage, due to personal reasons, I am selling it for 2k less that what was paid for it.
When looking for an amp, I was trying to avoid the overly bright tones of the JCM800, which hurts my ears. When I tried this in the store, I was skeptical because of this, but when I switched in on, I was so surprised at its clear warm tone, with beating low end. It can go pretty bright, if you dial the Presence too high. (past 12 o'clock). But it has a nice warm vintage tube sound, which I really liked.
Given that its the Kerry King signature head, its also expected that when you power up, this thing is all gain from low volume to full, which it isnt. It is able to do low volume just great, with both clean (really clean), to classic JCM vintage tones (when turning up the preamp AND you can remove that screechy tone which I hate), right to so much, if feels like you ears will melt (beast mode). All which can be played at bedroom level, through to concert volume.
The built in noise gate controlled from the beast section is a very good quality, but personally I didnt find much use for it, as I prefer to play this without Beast mode, and like the sensitivity it can deliver. If youre playing really fast thrash type stuff, as well as shredding leads, it would definitely help, with muting out any feedback and horrible noise. Palm muting with the gate is almost unnecessary, if its turned up full.
Ive used quite a few Marshall heads in my years, including the Super Leads and Plexi's, and I can honestly say, this head is by far more powerful. People say with the Plexis, it will deafen you... This head, if dialed beyond 12 o'clock, will make you throw up if youre anywhere close to it.
All I can add is that physically this thing weighs a flippen ton. In the advert for it, when it first came out, Kerry King is holding it over his head... I honestly think they may emptied it guts before asking him to do this... unless he does power lifting in his spare time.
I hope this answers any questions.
At this stage, due to personal reasons, I am selling it for 2k less that what was paid for it.