Don't forget to check out the Better Gear episode about the Line 6 Spider: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9Ones-ft7m2iok.html

Both amps are well good enough for practicing at home which is really what they were designed for. I don’t get all these KZfaq videos slating the smaller practice amps.

The MG is one of the best sounding low power bedroom SS amps out there. What you on about fella?

I've been using MG15dfx for more than 10 years and I've owned 3 of the same model. Killer amp for solos and metal. I don't care about the price tag and what ppl say and I enjoy playing with it as much as my JVM410 and JCM800.

Funny. Most people who buy the Marshall MG series really like them. Even guys playing Marshall half stacks have said they like the MG series for dragging around to practice. I'm probably going to buy a MG30GFX for less than $300. Can't go wrong for a practice amp.

Nothing wrong with the MG... Great amps!

Another great vid!

As an engineer, the Marshall still has hope in a mix. That Line 6 is utter compressed trash. Seriously. I would not call it a Vs. match. That Spider needs to be squashed under someone's shoe

Line 6 was my first amp, it is now on the floor as a riser for my stereo receiver :) ...however, when learning guitar it did what I needed it to do, still would recommend if someone is just starting out.

i don't think it's an overstatement to say you are the freshest synth/gear/audio youtuber on the block right now sehr sehr geil

I personally like the marshall amps as i like the tone but we all have different opinions. Great vid!

i thought you had so many subs! how do you not! ill comment every effin video, keep it up man!

I've been working in music shops for awhile, either one is usable in a pinch; but if I had to play a gig and my main amp blew up, the marshall mg is the clear winner. Biggest weakness is speaker, so if you have a cheap replacement to throw in there, do it

Thank you for making this! I was literally having this old debate of which sounded worse running through my mind just now lol

It worked, you made me smile, thanks. It's really refreshing when you on a shopping tour like me, now since 4 months, to get something decent together and listen to all these paid folks, and then I see something like this, by pushing the product to the ground. Great, I am sure nobody paid you to say that - herrlich :-)

I recently had my MG10CD listed for sale after parting with my guitar and it just wasn’t selling. I watched this episode and wondered how my Microbrute might sound plugged into the 10 watt MG. I was pleasantly surprised by the tone I was getting. It complimented the Microbrute nicely. So, I decided to keep the MG10 and took down the listing. ‘Tis now my little synth amp.

I had a MG100HDFX Head unit with the 4x12 and it was unbelievably solid. It’s what introduced me to Marshall. It blew Peavey, Kustom, Crate, Randall and Line6 out of the water. Sure, it’s not the greatest Marshall to exist, but if you want affordable, raw, with tone and range, and that historic Marshall sound, the MG100 is great for that. Just know at the end of the day, adjusting the settings and a decent pedal or two, and you can find a sound you’re looking for without paying $2,000 or more for in just a head unit alone. Don’t settle for this stigma of shitting on lower end Marshalls because of the price. You can get anything you’re looking for with some extra equipment. Just know every band you listen to, and most KZfaqrs doing reviews, have extra hardware in their guitar or pedals and it will never be the same as you and your raw amp. Just get some new pick ups, and pedals, and you’d never know what Marshall you’re playing on.

I owned the 100 watt MG head and it was great! The speaker kills both of these amps right off the bat

Hook that marshall to a real speaker and they actually sound pretty decent.

They are good starter amps, I would recommend them to a complete beginner on a budget if they find one cheap, or if they prefer the orange crunchy sound then an orange crush 20 amp, which actually sounds pretty decent for a solid state amp, good little analogue amps.

Love your channel, and as a long time guitarist this episode really grinds my gears :D Try finding a 15 watt combo amp with diverse range, excellent tone and lack of sweet spots in this price range, they don't exist. Review the 1 watt battery powered Marshall MS2 next haha. Beginner guitarists should save their money for a real half stack and pedalboard, don't spend $$$ on a low wattage practice amp because you will likely blow the speaker rocking in your garage regardless of the brand. Both of these product lines sound great with a reasonable size amp head, 4x12 half cabinet, and an experienced guitarist. I've owned a Marshall MG100HDFX with the slanted 4x12 half cab for many years and it always turns heads. I dial in the tone on the clean channel and one of the distortion channels only, same with the fx section (doesn't get much use, what pedals are for), and the amp head and cabinet sound amazing with any pedal in your signal chain. Line 6 makes some of the best value entry level combo amps out there; I don't prefer their bite for my music, but it works very well when done right and their amp emulations are perfect for beginners looking to expand their sonic palette. Just my two cents, keep up the great work!

Nice playing

I think Guitar snobs are above Synth snobs tbh. Just a little bit. We all listen to an artist that recorded their best album with potato’s and Pringle cans. Also there’s tons of albums that are complete crap that sound nice.

i love both of these amps yall are on something

You know, they actually sound pretty good when they are together. I bet if you split the signal, mic'd em up nicely, and blended them together, you could get a really unique and, yes, good tone.

The Marshall MG still gives you that analog feel. I've owned one of each. I think the Marshall is the better choice.

I bought an mg15dfx dirt cheap, slapped a 10" greenback in there, changed the cloth grille from the boring black to a cool black and brown grille, got a custom marshall block logo, and boom. A completely different looking and sounding amp. It sounds cheap, but it still sounds good. Its a little muffled even with a great speaker but it has a cool ambient vibe. Like the sound you want when you're playing on the balcony of an old lodge in the middle of the woods.

Ummm what Era Marshall MG are you talking about...it's definitely not the older ones 2004 to 2010 they were excellent pro quality...

KZfaqr Dave Simpson swears by those old Marshall MG's. And he does get a really nice tone out of them actually. I think the secret is playing through a JCM800 cab with good speakers.

So I have the Line 6 III version of this, and I changed the speaker to a Skar Audio full range and sealed the little cab. Sounds better.

Is think i saw a rickenbacker guitar in there like the one styled after the bass. Those look cool i wonder how they play/sound i had a 4003 bass till it got stolen. Uhhhg.

I fixed an old gorilla tube amp someone gave me, to the best of my limited capabilities. It always on when you plug it in now but it works. I kinda like it.

Ok...so just what do you recommend for an amp in keeping it within the same price range?

I’ve used the MG15FX for my whole I really like it.

I bought a brand new MG100FX COMBO in 2010 for 350€. The sound was very very un-clear and I couldn't get to make good repetition with it. It stayed at my parent house for some years and I finally tryed to sold it for some years first for 200€, then 150€, 100€ and finally 50€. No one wanted it ! In the mean time I bought a Orange Tiny Terror and a 2X12" cabinet with two celestion vintage speaker. Long story short, I cut the amplifier in two and separate the amplifier from the original speaker of the MG100FX and I short-wired the effect potentiometer (exept reverb wich is ok) to be sure I could ONLY use the clean clean on the cabinet. It works ok now (for occasionnal use).

I use a Spider 75 with the cheap foot controller fed by the output of a cheap transparent overdrive stomp box and for as cheap as I got it used, I really like the versatility. It has a lot of serviceable tones as far as I'm concerned, but yeah, it can sound pretty crappy.

I think it's just that the tone snobs have given these amps a bad reputation. They are both fine for beginners or for noodling around on in small spaces where higher volumes aren't needed.

I use the mg50 and man it is amazing with a guitar pedalboard guitar processor. And I use a wolfgang standard. Good all around amp for metal, hard rock, blues.

“The St. Anger of amps”... that was harsh!

Cooles Video :) Hast es echt geschafft die beiden Kotzkrüken in diesem Kontext eine einzigartige stimme zu geben :D

I've run into the full size MG heads at rehearsal studios from time to time. They're usable for metal if you throw an overdrive pedal in front of them. At least the HDFX series anyway. I wouldn't record an album with them or anything. But they're fine for band practice.

revisited this one and I think another amp or guitar related video is overdue!

The random cut of the mouse beating the meat Rocky style killed me. Is that from ratatouille or something? I have nothing more to add, I know nothing about guitars or amps.

I’m a fan of good solid state amps. Alongside many vintage tube amps I’ve owned over the years, I’ve always had my early 90s Fender Sidekick 25. It has the classic Fender tone and is a solid, reliable, light workhorse, and even has a real spring reverb tank. Both those amps in the video sound like those tiny, plastic, battery-powered amps you clip onto your belt.

I love my MG15R, the distortion is really good, specially after turning the volume knob past the 4th marker. My mids, treble and reverb is at max. Bass and gain are both dialed around 9. It's kept underneath my desk on the floor, so that adds a nice depth to the tone, and you'll stop hearing some static noise this way. I mostly play stuff similar to lamb of god, bodom, nevermore and such. If anyone is looking for a metal monster for a small room and this is within reach, have no doubt.🙂. Even with my 7 string it packs an insane punch. While i respect this videos opinion, if a metalhead is checking this, go check out Ola Englund's review of the MG15.

Surprised you didn't include an old fender mustang! The old ones were pretty terrible haha

Line 6 amps sound better than they used to but now, they're more difficult to use. Like it will nail Billy Corgan's sound at it's most crazy, but then it's hard to dial in "normal."

I have been able to get good sounds from entry-level amps like the Peavy Blazer (II/Red) and a Fender (Japan) SD-15CE, but with so many great options for guitarist now, I am kinda surprised at how shieze these best sellers sound, especially in your very well made video. The speaker is invariably where the cost-cutting occurs on practice amps. I wonder if a $40 speaker swap would help these.

Lmaoo, the line spider 6 is the only electric guitar amp I’ve had for about 10 years! gotta say I’m a fan, great practice amp, you can maneuver and make some nice tones

I love my spider3 75 watt combo. I just sent back a Marshall dsl40cr. I was very disappointed with the tone. Especially for a 850 dollar amp.

I like the marshall much more. But the truth is in your hands. Practise and get a better sound, no matter what amp you have, is the best investment!

As someone whose straddled both the synth and the guitar worlds for some time this was a great vid, maybe try another guitar vid now that you've gotten alot more subscribers? Dunno that I'd even recommend the Line 6 for industrial though. TBH I don't even know why you'd go with either unless you were a kid because $500 should get you a good used Line 6 Pod Pro and while even that ruffles purist feathers, you can get great tones for recording purposes. I talked once with the Singer/Guitarist for the swiss band Sybreed and I was shocked that they didn't mic a single cab for any of their albums.

I'm a Bass Player who wanted play a little guitar and got me a Spider V3 so I have a soft spot for Line 6. I have couple of their products. However, the Spider 3 is the rather "special" one amongst all the other giants made by Line 6. And, my opinion on items like this are the following: everything has a place, you just have to figure out where you want to use it. If "shitty" sounds are you thing, welcome to the "Spider" way of doing it. Otherwise, get yourself a Helix floor or rack model and be happy with a financially thinner wallet in the process and have an eargasmly useful sound in perpetuity.

I do not understand why many people say line 6 amp is bad..I used to use it .... I said line 6 is good ... but now I have moved to marshall ......both have a nice sound

I'm the proud owner of a MG15 DFX, the original MGs, I bought it some 15 or 16 years ago, and to me it sounds fantastic!!... the only drawback is that you can't dial a small amount of gain, even at its lowest position, it really goes to eleven!!...you have to play with the guitar volume for this, but you don't hit the gain channel of a Marshall to play skinny poppy songs, right?...having said that ,the cleans are round and very defined, and with the right guitar, you could even play some jazzy lines if required...the effects are a sweet addition ,but not top...but all in all the package keeps you playin'!!...was my practice amp until I got a Roland Microcube as a gift, and now the MG stays ay my holidays home...but still used and loved!...And there I can make it roar with it's tiny 8", and man, it's LOUD!....Maybe some day I'll try the ext. spkr. mod, but for the time being, I'm happy with it.

The rat punching the steak? Ah! my man!🤣🤣

I run a Helix through the aux in of an MG30dfx and it gives the MG a whole new purpose and it does not suck at it.

Es war schwer zu sagen, welcher Verstärker schlecht klang, weil dein Freund ein großartiger Musiker ist. Gute Arbeit!

Funny though that these amps are almost definitely better than any amp Hendrix,page, Lennon,Clapton,gilmour etc had as a first,second or maybe third or fourth amp before they got good and really got going in their respective club circuits and upgrading gear n makin money and getting better.

try the mxr prime distortion pedal. it is the worst bit of kit that I have. or possibly some of the mini bedroom amps in a shootout.

so, the problem is the speaker quality or the amp? 😯

Man, Send that MG to Dave Simpson and tell me if it's a Bad amp xd

I love the Marshall MG and I can dismiss this nonsense.

I wonder if my Marshall CODE50 is better than this MG. I don't have any complaints tbh

Nothing wrong with the MG especially the older ones and the line 6 IV was used in many recording studios one of them was Sigma sound..if you really done you're research you would have known this..

Guys these amos are fine for beginners .noones touring or gigging with it .its a digital modeling marketing move. Someone with a squire,sawtooth ,epi, or first act ain't gonna know tube tone and it won't matter to learn on. They're greeeeeat like Tony tge Tiger says for begineers

How about some retro gear the roland D110

I was never a big fan of line 6, i borrowed a bass pod and it did have a few cool sounds, you couldnt really tweak them. I liked my boss gt6b waaaay better.

You said you were a lousy guitar player in one of your videos. I submit to you a lousy guitar (or synth, novelty, or toy...you choose). The Casio DG-20. A synth with guitar strings that is sure to disappoint both the synth user and the guitar player. Check it out and feel the pain. Great work by the way.

another one to search out - the ZOOM 505 guitar multi-effects pedal. Cheap plastic box with the most awful sounding digital effects. ZOOM has done some outstanding multiFX, but that wasn't one of them.

What’s wrong with the Marshall?

I used to work in a guitar shop selling the Line 6 amps. Spider was so bad that even the beginners did not want to buy one. It makes a pro guitarist sound like an amateur.

Had both 100w Marshall MG Best amp best price Loud cuts through live on lead channel.. Line 6 & Roland needed an eq boost pedal.

I had this korg effects board that was pretty lame. Dont remember its name or what even happened to it, guess i gave it away.

Got a Marshall DSL1 (full tube) combo but same size and with Celestion (not hardwired speaker). This me out of Polka.

can you make a good gear serie?

Wayne static gigged with a mg100hdfx. I have one as a backup amp and well just nostalgia I guess. I've never used a line 6 anything however the marshall MG sounds a little splashy. However it's a decent amp.

I had the line 6, it sucked big time. So I bought the Spark 40, it sucks even more. So going to try the MG30GFX. Have seen some great reviews on it. Buying it tomorrow so 🤞

You should do a behringer V amp

The Marshall is a great amp.

I have an MGHDFX 100 head... And its an amazing pedal platform using the return of the loop... lmao

i agree with the combo amps of line 6 but with the heads you can get amazing tones

Please try reviewing MG15 CDR next time.

The 50 watt mg is a good amp with the tube emulator on. Small ones are probably bad.

I like the pic of the RIC 4001 or 4003.

I thought you gonna make an intro entirely with electric guitar tho 😅

As someone who has owned both an MG and a Spider, the Marshall is vastly superior. The Orange I have now sounds far better than either though.

Really like the mg fx even the small 15w version and spend a lot of money on higher end amps to never achieve the great metal tone they have. The cfx was a bad version on the amp that definitely sucked had the 50w myself and it was nothing like the older model. Its one of dave Simpsons most favorite amps and he's a guitar god in regards to tone. Have also had thr line 6 spyder 15 which definitely deserves a spot on the worst amps ever list.

This is funny because I run a a/b box and have a line 6 spider 3 75 watts with my mgfx 100 watts half stack running simontainiously

that 70s Les Paul Recording tho.

3:21 NO YOU!!!

Marshall MG50GFX bad or?? Anybody?

Great video, i never knew that mg is considered shitty amps like line6 😂

They sound fine lol I people just like to hate things lol doesn’t matter what gear you have if you can play, you can play.

Spiders sounds SO muffled as soon as you want to get distortion out.

lets say that now i get the line 6 memes...

What’s considered a good practice amp then ?

I kind of like the high gain spider sound. You could record a shitty black metal demo on it

The Marshall amp rocks.

Why bad gear? The Marshall MG has no place in bad gear. The Spider is right there, it's really bad. But what do you think makes the MG bad? I have 3 MGs, the MG15 CFX, the MG30CFX and the MG100HCFX and I am more than happy with all 3. I even think the MG100 HCFX is better than my previous bugera tube amp. As I can unconditionally recommend the Marshall MG series. The old MG series (DFX) really wasn't that good, but the new MG series, which can also be seen in the test, is much better. Many probably don't know that there is the new FX series and connect the FX sound with the old FX series