Marshall JVM410H

I think I've played all Marshall amps out there and I've gained enough experience in 40 years of gigs and recording studios for writing this review. Let's talk about a 100 watts head..... This is stuff that has never been something manageable for sound volume and especially for home use until now.
Well, I turned it on right at home!!
As soon as I arrived I connected it to a Marshall 1960B cab and I started very, very carefully to turn the volume knob to hear the first 4 chords at volume 1.
THE REVELATION!!!!
Marshall finally learned!!
I had a DSL 50 watts head that at 2 volume was going to blast my ears ...
Instead the JVM at volume 1 sounds.... volume 1, without shaking the walls. And at volume 3 it really sounds at volume 3, without being unmanageable. It's not the classic Marshall that at 1 volume you don't hear and at 2 you are stuck on the wall.
Those days are long gone....
I stayed about an hour to try it both in the cleans and in the distorted maximums, I tried it in all combinations of the distortion stages: green, orange and red: each one has a sense, a sound, a change of sound colour that also encompasses the sounds of the most important Marshall heads made so far. With the cleans it sounds quietly jazz and the eq works great.
And I have come to the conclusion that it is absolutely possible to keep such a monster even at home and you can get perfectly valid sounds even at 2 volume.
Yes, you read it right: AT HOME!
Surely it handles much better than a 40 watts Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, there's just no comparison...
If you are looking for a definitive solution to have any kind of sound at home or in the studio, this is the amp for you.
You can't imagine how much fun you can have with all the sounds under your fingers. You can get your sounds with the channels selection and the booster with the Master Volume section (read the instructions). No more boosters or distortion pedals!!
Highly recommend the pairing with case 1960B (the straight one) for a complete sound. Have fun!!!

This amp can give you all that you need - so many different sounds you can get.

The knobs on the panel might look intimidating at first - but it's really easy to get used to.

THIS IS ONE LOUD AMP!

I only have one complaint - which has nothing to do with the sound. One of the protective plastic corners on the amp was missing a screw. I know it is nothing serious, but it makes me wonder what Marshall's quality control guys are doing.

Side note:
The grip handles on the cab i bought with the head starting cracking from the screw holes a few months after purchase (and I never used the amp away from home, wasnt carried around, etc)... Thomann were kind enough and very professional to send me a replacement set of handles. But the new ones also have cracks developing around the screw holes - and they have never been used. Defective - straight out of the box! MARSHALL, WHERE IS YOUR QUALITY CONTROL?! very cheap plastics being used at the expense of the customer!

This amp offers a million ways to be dialed in. Its amazing, what sounds and types of sounds you can get. On top of that, its exorbitantly loud but can sound great on low volumes, too.

The build-quality is great. There are no flaws, the amp looks perfect.

The endless amount of buttons has me wondering, what everything really does, what settings are safed and so on. I guess if i would use only one amp, this would not happen. In other words, its easy to learn.

The one thing bothering me a bit, is the transformers and the magnetic fields. No other of my 100W amps has this problem:
When used in a small room like (5x4 meters), you cant escape the magnetic fields and hear some humm (guess its like 50Hz) depending on how you hold the guitar relative to the amp.

All in all, its an amazing piece of equipment, i would buy it again everytime.

Owning it for the last 2 years, this will be long but hoping, helpfull.

- Channel 1: Solid clean channel for bluesy or fx heavy tones, with potential to go full AC/DC

- Channel 2: There is a low mid frequency you can not get rid off, it sounds very compressed and lucks agreesion in the upper mids. Good with strats though

- Channel 3: Very good for moded JCM 800 tones. Insane amounts of gain and great of ammount of mids to cut through.

- Channel 4: Hidden jem. It's darker than channel 3 (mids are shifted lower) but with great definition. Good for leads and super plexi like tones in the green and orange mode, that channel 2 can never get.

A few tips:

- It has insane amounts of gain and compression, so there is no point putting the gain pot past 10 o clock on OD 1 & 2. As you increase the gain, the sound becomes dark and muddy, especially in low volumes.

- The master volume is the best out of any amp i have ever played,. It is smooth and very linear. Its tone comes from the preamp so you can have great sound in bedroom levels very easily.

- The footswitch is amazing, super intuitive and is the key why i love this amp. You can make it work any way you want it and it is very easy to programm

Final word: It's not going to replace a JCM 800, a Plexi or a 5150, but if you need something that can cover a lot of ground without having to own multiple heads, this is for you!

I used this head in conjunction with a Marshall 1960A and the sound quality is amazing. I maybe a little bias as this is my first head and stack together i used a Spider III amp before this so its my first stack and i'm already sold on it.

It has 4 different tone modes:

- Clean
- Crunch
- OD
- OD 2

Amazing versatility combined with amazing sound clarity and full fat and rich tone i can't always make my mind up on what tone is my favorite but its nice to be in that position and terrible at the same time.

The head is fairly heavy though so luging it around alone is quite hard but my Stack came with wheels making it a lot easier to move the thing as a whole.

It's very hard to say anything wrong with this Head, it sound great, the built quality is beyond fantastic and it looks fantastic. I honestly can't complain about i i love it.

I've had it nearly for a year now, nothing has broken and nothing has gone wrong with it, it has gotten better with age and sounds louder and crisper and has the tone versatility to allow me to experiment with my playing more than before.