Originally posted by decay-o-caster
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Great amp, if'n you happen to be into big cool Marshall tones.
There's also another recent thread in the Product Reviews section.
Originally posted by jpage
I had the Tusk and was a bit disapointed with the amp. I bought it thinking it would be essentially a plexi with the ability to sound cranked at any volume. IMO, it fell short in this area. Had some nice clean and "pushed" tones but definitely not plexi-type gain. I have a Voodoo V-Plex now and in comparison the MP was "flubby" and "muffled". No sparkle on tap.
Maybe a great amp for some but to call it "plexi" based definitely is misleading. I've played plexis and Marshalls for 15 years and I have never owned one that sounded like the MP Tusk.
I thought the Ganesha had the tonal flexibility to nail
Plexi, Superlead, Superbass, metal panel, and JCM800
tones with high accuracy. I played every Marshall in
existence in my misspent Rock 'n Roll youth. I'd take
a 100W Ganesha over the best of them. Of the dozens
of amps I've owned, the Ganesha was the most "me".
Just nailed what I wanted to hear. YMMV.
Originally posted by jpage
Wow, my Tusk was broken. It was nothing like these reviews.
Unfortunately, we need to go by word of mouth on some of these small builder's amps and for some reason, there never is a negative thing to be said about them. The guy I sold my Tusk to put it on ebay two weeks later.
Originally posted by jpage
Unfortunately, we need to go by word of mouth on some of these small builder's amps and for some reason, there never is a negative thing to be said about them. The guy I sold my Tusk to put it on ebay two weeks later.
Originally posted by decay-o-caster
I will seldom say anything really negative about a piece of small-builder gear, even if it doesn't work for me
Originally posted by jpage
Why? Do you think that only large companies deserve to be criticized?
Originally posted by decay-o-caster
No, but I hang out with some small-company gear guys, and I've seen the damage even thoughtfully written negative statements can do.
I'm not going to potentially screw up a little guy's business just because I didn't personally dig the pedal or amp. Words on the internet take on a life of their own. You say a pedal doesn't work for you, soon it's being read as the pedal's over-rated, sucks, just hype, whatever.
Not to mention, WWIII suddenly breaks out when you say that you don't particularly like AmpX, and the president of the AmpX fan club jumps in and tells you you don't have ears, your amp's a POS, etc. I just choose not to get into any pissing matches. So sue me.
When trying to decide on new gear, I look for people who seem to have the same kinds of likes and dislikes as I do based on the history of their posts, and I look for the new stuff that they like. Or if someone whose taste doesn't coincide with mine loves something, I know I can pretty much write it off. But if someone slags gear, it just turns me off and I ignore the rest of the message.
Originally posted by jpage
But it wasn't the amp for me.
Originally posted by PlexiBreath
Here's an example. I can be as happy with a plexi Marshall as a Super Reverb, these amps are worlds apart but I'm very comfortable with either, but put me with a Vox AC30 or derivative, and I'm just not a happy camper. Subjectively, for my playing style, an AC30 sucks, and sucks hard. But some of my favorite players sound like God through them, just listen to Brian May, Jimmy Page, Richie Blackmore, and many others. So the last thing my ego is going to let me do is say an AC30 sucks, all it does is make me look like I can't play.