History:
Purchase: I spent a good couple of months searching for my first amplifier, and came around to narrowing my field down to a Roland Cube 30, Line 6 Spider 30 or the Marshall MG 30DFX. It ended up costing around $420 Australian Dollars from Turramurra Music in Sydney, around $50 more than the other two amplifiers.
(The parentals had a small thing about me getting a bigger amp)
What I Like About This Unit: The MG 30 DFX has brilliant tone on the clean channel. Playing an ESP Ltd EC-300 with EMG-HZ passives through the amp, I can gain a wide range of tones from a bluesy sound to a near perfect acoustic tone.
The four effects: reverb, chorus, flange and delay, work well considering the MG 30DFX is nothing more than a small practice amp. But, if you're serious buy some decent pedals - they'll sound a whole lot better.
For a thirty-watter the MG 30DFX delivers fair volume, but unfortunately it still won't get you over a drumkit.
What I Do NOT Like About The Marshall MG30DFX: I occassionally get a rattling noise if I've been playing for too long.
The overdrive can sometimes, also, be too "gainy". That is, the distortion compromises the various notes you want to hear. Great if you want to practice heavier Nu-Metal tunes (eg Slipknot, Mudvayne, etc), but I tend to turn the gain right down to "3" for Metallica, Velvet Revolver and the such.
The amp doesn't come with a footswitch either, even though it has the plug. Means leaning over to press teh channel button every time, which can get irritating.
MG30DFX Quality: The body of the amplifier is built to take a fair beating, as are the controls and plugs. However, if you to really kick around your amp I'd go a roland cube, just because they're so much heavier duty.
Summary: Good practice amp for someone playing harder rock to all-out metal. Nice, bodied, clean sound too; which is good for a blues or jazz sound, or even for rock.
A great practice amp for electric beginners, but not for those with more experience.
Rating of this product: 4
This Marshall Guitar Amplifiers Review Submitted By: Juzzed
Date: 2005-04-24
Marshall MG30DFX Guitar Amplifiers
Usefulness Rating: 4.33333 out of 5. 3 reader(s) voted.
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