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The mid honk is in the 8 MIC vintage 30 version.
Also the Marshall Vintage 30 have that honky sound to them and they are 16 OHM.
The MIC 16 OHM vintage version is scooped af and have alot of high end.
Perfect for the Orange amplifiers.
May sound pretty awful with naturally mid scooped amps like ENGL, MESAs and most modern metal amplifiers.
Confused yet? yes there are almost 10 versions of vintage 30's.
Check out this dude video explains it better:
Ah yes it is a one prick pony indeed. the drive channel is awful. the clean is great.
I modded the **** out of mine but didn't like it.
Converted it to a 40W SLO clone it is a monster now.
I have the HR Deluxe 2 which sounded pretty lame until I researched a few options. I barely played it until I ran a "Fromel" upgrade kit through it. That kit is overpriced as far as components go but honestly I didn't give a stuff since I was time poor at the time and couldn't get motivated to work it out for myself. Didn't even bother testing through the original Fender speaker but just grabbed a used V30 from Ebay. I suspect it was one of the good ones since from the first time I plugged my 69' Strat in after the work, it was like a timewarp sound straight back to the 60's. I'm running Sovtek o/p tubes but have a stash of black plate RCA that I'm just about to hook up. It sounds more vintage Marshall like an old Blues combo or something from back in the day, No pedals, no anything, just running the onboard channels and Reverb which was modified as part of the kit. As far as ultimate trash amps go - two words - Dean Markley. They surfaced for a while in the late 80's. Apparently the tube o/p version was Ok but I landed a real slug which had a transistor o/p. Luckily it formed part of a trade in for a 25/50 Silver Jubilee Marshall head before it totally faded away into the Amp. history junkyard.