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What's so bad about the Marshall Mode Four?


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a good friend of mine has one

 

i think it sounds okay......not great but good is the best way i can describe it

he has gigged it for about three years without a problem and it has performed admirably

i didnt like it as well with the matching cab for some reason....sounded better with his old marshall cab..

not sure what speakers are in that one though

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I think they're OK sounding. It's just that they don't sound like your typical Marshall. Listen to Darren Malakian of System of a Down, or Alex Skolnick of Testament. Both of them are Mode 4 users. Too many players expect them to sound like a Louder DSL, or JCM, and they just aren't. If anything, due to their hybrid design, they sound more like the old Valvestates.

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I love the amp, you can dial in any tone. i never had an amp that this could not match and better. I think that is why some people do not like them you can dial in bad sounds as well as excellent. It is not an amp where you just turn up the volume.

 

 

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I love the amp, you can dial in any tone. i never had an amp that this could not match and better. I think that is why some people do not like them you can dial in bad sounds as well as excellent. It is not an amp where you just turn up the volume.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQL8eDaCGk

 

very interesting. I think it's time to go demo it :)

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like them or not, I believe it was the stupid high price they were asking for essentially a multi-channel valvestate head, as someone else kind of mentioned, that created all the dislike.

 

I went to GC several years back when the mode 4s came out and I think the price for the head was $1300-ish.

I was looking for something after selling my 5150 and the sales guy tried to hype that thing up to me. I never felt more like I was at a {censored}ty used car sales lot while in a music store than I did at that moment.

I did try it, it was meh.

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