Vox is American Brand. But some low range series are made in Vietnam.

i thought Vox is UK

Yup. Vox is a UK brand. NOT an American Brand.......

but is MG series that sucks? how about those higher watts one? like MG 50DFX of 100DFX?

MG series are the squiers of the marshall range

most people just look at Marshall cuz the big brother that rules n many big stars use them! look at other amp is not bad too...like crate, vox, rivera. but maybe some cant find in malaysia. spend some time travelling in sg n look for one too

Well.. for my Taste.. I actually prefer Laney MXD120 over Marshall's MG

i have played mg's in jamming studios, and some other places. to the threadstarter, do avoid it. it has been infamous for its bad bad distortion.unusable if u really do care abt how u sound like. the cleans are fine. but why buy an amp with only 1 selling point?

as a vox AD user, try the AD series. or the cube from roland.

Are you sure? I used to have a toneblaster, the cleans are not too great, not much presence and clarity. The overdrive is worse, very one dimensional, in the sense that the overdrive knob does not gradually break up and give you a usable distortion for different kinds of music. To me, it always gave a metal type of distortion. Unless that is the kind of sound you are searching for, I would stay away from the toneblaster series.

I actually sold it off for a Marshall MG series, which I think is much better than the toneblaster in both cleans and overdrive (at least it was more usable than the toneblaster overdrive).

Frankly, you won't go too wrong by going for a Marshall, after all they were in the amplification business much much longer than Ibanez.

Just my 2 cents.

This post has been edited by supercolossal: Dec 26 2006, 03:36 PM

The Marshall MG series ain't that bad, actually. It can pretty decent tight rhythm tones (scooped/ballsy) with a decent amount of clarity. Not really super high gain but good enough for a bit of 'chug' (if you play metal, that is).

For rock, it's pretty darn good and you can coax sweet, warm lead tones out of it, especially if you add in some verb or delay.

Whatever, I prefer it way over the AVT series I find in jamming studios, it's way too inconsistent (either that or the AVTs I happen to play in studios are banged up).

Well, this is from the 50 and 100 watt models anyway. I'm not too sure how bad are the lower watt models though. But if I had to choose between a cube or MG for low wattage, I'd definitely go Cube!

This post has been edited by valkyrie1232: Dec 26 2006, 07:00 PM

well im a MG series user. a shop guy teach me how to tweak a lil which suit me best. but its going sucky if u turn the gain max which is recommended on that manual for METAL playing..DUN EVER FOLLOW THAT. that one really sounds sucks. find the best setting u have slowly. there is lil potential though

That's right, most amps needs to be coaxed and tweaked, and the marshall MG is one of them. If you were to take a step back, that could mean that it is more versatile too.

Ideally we would prefers amps which will gives us the sound that we want from the first try, but I think to fully realize your amp's capability, you will need to fiddle around with all the settings and knobs.

After all, creativity does help to create the sound that you want.

I've seen my guitar tech coax really nice sounds out from the marshall MG, which was why I was convinced to trade in my toneblaster for the MG. All you need to is some patience and a good ear.

I'm currently using the 50W model, and I think having a bigger driver for this model does help to improve the overall sound.

hmm if the OD is switch off n pasang OD pedal, wil the OD be nice? lets say MT2

Wooow....VOX is british....and most British rockers in the 50's,60's70's used to hailed Vox and considered one of the key amps that produced many tones now being famous to be a trademark by our older generation guitarist for Rock, Blues and even blues rock....

Then Marshall came out with their high gain screeming demons amps, nobody was into Vox anymore...

But if you ask me....for moderate gain and blues rock based song playing...Vox will give you the tone you looking for apart from the Bassman from Fender...

It is...

Not sure about MT2 (too metal for me), I use a DS1 into the clean channel and it's pretty good.

Anybody else has any experience with the Marshall MG series amps? Would appreciate your personal reviews here.

This post has been edited by supercolossal: Dec 27 2006, 08:41 AM

I would love to have a VOX just coz Hendrix had one...antonio check ur PM

tone is in the fingers ...

if you watched G3..malmsteen still sounded awesome on a MG15

so..if you are using a MG..and it sucks..you know what i means

the question is will malmsteen use a MG15 to record?
the answer is a big fat NO.

even i can pull off some decent tones from my fender mini twin, but you think i would use it for anything else apart from messing around on?

main point is the MG15 is only marshall by name, thats all.
and for the price you pay for the MG15, you be better off getting the roland microcube or vox DA-5.


This post has been edited by Everdying: Dec 27 2006, 05:56 PM

Then again, Zakk uses and fully endorses the MG micro-stack.....albeit as a Practice amp...... Remember kids, The MG Sounds totally SLAMMING, and the overdrive is CRUSHING.....

Heck, he even got one customized to look like a micro-version of his signature JCM800 head and cabinets!!!! Just check out the Zakk and Elf photos in Guitar World!!!!!

And to throw more fuel to the already great big a$$ fire:

http://www.marshallamps.com/downloads/file...st_nov2002).pdf

This post has been edited by blacktrix: Dec 27 2006, 06:24 PM

correction.
Zakk is endorsed by Marshall.
so for tour bus practice of cos he cant be seen using anything other than Marshall.
btw, on Zakk's tour bus, its not a new microstack.
its actually the 80s version of the microstack made in UK called the Lead 12, which most say sound much better than the current ones.

anyway, the MG Microstack is a completely different thing altogether, i know cos i had a Microstack.
even tho its based on the MG15, there are some important differences.
1. Microstack 10" speakers, MG15 8".
2. Microstack closed back cab, MG15 open.
3. Microstack made in Korea, MG15 made in India

This post has been edited by Everdying: Dec 27 2006, 06:37 PM