Neylus wrote:
And I prefer a lot my JCM 800 to my 2266, it has more punch, and it has something that the VintagModern doesn't have... awesome amp.
YEAH 50 FUCKING WATTS!
Neylus I can honestly say that you are the one person in almost 4 years of me coming to this forum that genuinely pisses me off with some of your posts and that says a lot seeing I've tangled with people so bad I almost got banned when I was in a bad place in my life and very short fused. Almost every post I read of yours not only on this forum but youtube is full of misinformation and false opinions about gear and especially the Vintage Modern, I am smart enough to differ whats opinion of some of your reviews and whats crap, so I'm only talking about the things concerning the areas that are NOT subjective like the attributes of the Vintage Modern vs those of the JCM 800. The JCM 800 vs Vintage Modern debate is subjective as they are both in my eyes iconic & great sounding Marshalls, but the bs in the above post is not a subjective opinion its just banter to me.
And heres why...
First off you're not comparing apples with apples, you're trying to compare your 2203 100 Watt JCM 800 to a Vintage Modern 2266 50 watt!!! No shit it doesn't have the punch its 50 watts less!!!. Plus on top of that the JCM 800s volume pot sends the god damn juice to the power tubes faster than the Vintage Moderns more useable master volume control does, meaning louder faster but NOT louder overall, so if you really want to compare a JCM 800s punch to a Vintage Moderns, do it testing a 100 Watt Vintage Modern and 100 Watt JCM 800 with both amps on 10 and you might wet your little knickers at how the great the VM is and how the amps are quite a match for eachother. A few people have done decibel tests a while back and the Vintage Modern rigs averaged 3-5 more db over the JCM 800s.
Theres opinions of tone & gear and then theres ignorance, almost everything you post is ignorance based off of what somebody else thinks and not your own actual opinion. Yes you're very talented at playing guitar but also very talented at running your mouth/keyboard with bs.
If people think I'm being a Vintage Modern fan boy they are sorely mistaken, to a point yes,but only because it is a great amp that beat the others out in my eyes and I can say this because I DID have the money to buy any production Marshall on the market that I wanted and I bought the Vintage Modern because it was the best package available and great at many things not because the only amp I could get was a VM. My favorite guitar tone on a recorded album was done with a JCM 800 on GNR's Don't Damn Me. Now with that said the Vintage Modern can compete on every level and more than a JCM 800 ever even wished it could in stock form. JCM 800s just didn't totally have "it" without help from pedals or modding an extra gain stage or the #34 mod, The Vintage Modern will get you there without doing a damn thing.
Everyone knows that JCM 800s have an on off switch mislabeled as Master Volume knob lol (joking!) The Vintage Moderns volume knob allows full control of volume, those old switches like the JCM 800 where the amp gets loud right away gave a false perception that the amp was louder than its competition because I think Marshall knew full well that most people would not have the balls to dime it to find out and the secret at the time was that it doesn't get any louder after say about 6 on the dial where as the Vintage Modern just starts to get the tubes hot there and pour on the coals after that point.
Amplifiers: Marshall 2555x 100watt Silver Jubilee Full Stack with matching 2551AV & 2551BV 8x12 70 watt Vintage 30 speakers.
Marshall 2466 100watt Vintage Modern w/ Matching 425A cab
1966 Fender Bandmaster
Effects: MXR:M234 Analog Chorus, Phase90, Slash Octave Fuzz, Slash SC95 Wah. BOSS: RV-3 & DD3 Reverb & Delay, GE-7 EQ,NS-2 Noise Suppressor, CS-3 Compression Sustainer
Guitars: 6 Les Pauls with Seymour Duncan Alnico 2 Pro Pickups.