All user reviews of 2/5 for the Marshall 8080 Valvestate 80V

i got this amp second hand from a freind

well at the time i thought it was a really good amp. I mean it had two channels, one is clean and the other is the overdrive channel. They are handy if you like playing the blues, or getting a simmaler sound...Apart from that there isnt a lot more on the amp. Its quite loud and its got a marshall name on it. its got a big twelve inch speaker...thats about it.

the fact its a bit limited and the clean channel keeps cutting in and out.

its alright

buy this amp if youre a marshall fan, but not if you like the sound of your guitar

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Transistor amplifier with a lamp in the preamp. Rather not badly built, memory.

UTILIZATION

Using ultra-simple
We easily get a sound. Well, it's different ...

SOUNDS

For rock not too demanding, it suits provided not push too hard earnings, whether on the OD1 or OD2
The OD2 has in any case tend to be very rough, suddenly it can please the beginner to the extent that defects are eaten after the distortion.

In clear channel is flat, very flat, too flat. I who love playing the blues on the clean channel, then forget about.

OVERALL OPINION

I bought this amp without knowing anything about it when it was released in 94 or something like that. Marshall was written on it and I had not too much wheat I could not believe you can pay me a Marshall. Especially if it has no point of comparison, it makes the distortion effect, we already see. Well, it was the honeymoon. It did not last.

Sold after 18 months, the machine can not bear comparison with real tube amps in terms of expressiveness and warmth of sound, as for the quality of the distortion.
I went on a small Mesa, which not only makes me really discover what a distortion amp, but also made me discover what a true clean channel successfully.
Therefore sold, and I never regretted. If some find this amp great is that you must not ask the same thing to an amp then.

I think everything adj t said ... So read below!

PRECISION:
I do not notice saying "Be indulgent, it is a transistor."
I note from all the amps (eg a 10W transistor will be branded a note to 0, a mesa boogie lamps - or otherwise - will not killer to 10).

UTILIZATION

Trs configuration simple, we like the sound is easily found, unless it is too demanding and that requires more than this amp can who knows its limitations (Note: For the price, the limits are Gentillet, c ' is a good amp).

SOUNDS

Its clear
Hon done everything except mdium, as with any Marshall. I would not go up that silent sound hot, but as long as you play on a guitar correctly, may do so. Crunch sound is nice too, too personal to j'vite of acute and makes good, but I think the amp is simple enough not to go rgler in dtails.

And especially with the reverb intgre, it is seen!

Disto:
I never tried to get the blues, but I think it's easily playable.
Thanks to the possibility of CONTRL contour, can be passed this amp on a lot of musical styles. You decide if the sound you are looking for your style can be obtained, but I think the personality of the Marshall is always INTERESTED. Now the saying that only Marshall to have a great disto ... It is particulire, that's all.

Personally I play punk / pop / rock ... just like Blink182 may be, sometimes with a penchant Nirvana. I really sound apprci Marshall, fits well with everything that is a little punk or grunge. I'm not a fan of mtal, but I do not think it's really for prvu, mtalleux to test it by setting the contour knob to 0. For punks, to 10. The others, well, amid what!

In gnral: very versatile, even if Marshall can be buried on the quality of sound for small to have a little more than average. But that price guarantees. on the other hand for note, I RPET, I compare with all that can be found as amp, transistor or not!

OVERALL OPINION

I've used for about 2 years and 6 months, it is about 3 months that I do more playing on it.

His most: it's a real amp, it has a good sound, as long as you love the sound Marshall (which is my case but I'm not big fan, my inclination is towards Mesa / Boogie) . It can find a lot of distortion diffrent, and clear sound is also quite variable.

Its less ... : Move quickly on the lack of medium to address the real problem of this amp: the fragility! a stepfather is curious srieusement he should live between 5 and 10 years for the lucky ones. Once the fault permires meetings, expect a failure SERIES (o MARCHEMAL the nickname). I have a friend who confirms rprateur see often go home. Valvestate on, there are often problem of knobs. I have not had me.

Report QualitPrix:
Quality of the ITS / Price: Trs good (and for the diversity of particulirement kind of effort to find).
Quality of the work (Longva) / Price: Trs means.

Personally I do not do more OPG, he's dead and buried. I m'achte a Mesa / Boogie F30 Combo next month (yay, I'm happy ...). In the long run, is cheaper to me, plus I would have a much better sound (bright lights amps).

DSOL to be a bit long in my comments, + + +

80w amp hybrid. A lamp ECC83 Marshall (who feels the dead rat for channel Overdrive
Supplied footswitch for changing channels and reverb
Rglages equalizer Gain, Medium, High, Low -> Channel 1 Clean / Crunch
Gain equalizer, Medium, High, Low, Counter and Volume -> Channel 2 Disto 1/Disto 2
Master Volume, Reverb ..

UTILIZATION

Good to the rglages is according to its tastes. The 3-band channel EQ will not give any clear, the knobs have no effect bcp, especially that of Mdium
It has a large pannel of sound in the Overdrive channel, although it still sucks, low and loud.
Full manual but is a little nothing.

SOUNDS

The clean sound is cold, without being ashamed.
The Overdrive channel is really bad shit, too much crunch, imprcis, weakling, you get no sound but it would be saturated when apprcie prsence of the same contour knob.
I did not understand if the lamp used is really something, at least we can have a really clear sound sympatoche on Channel 2 but TFW of the Contour knob ...
80W? Yeah, must get high qd same, it not really boost ...
I used a MT2 with pedals, silent sound nice, except when we turn up the volume too high.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been a year since I had this amp, I could sell it as 100!
Its clear medium overdrive rotten ... the reverb is not bad even qd
The Master Volume knob of spit and cut the sound sometimes, so it is urgent to change.
I also had a problem of "crunch" that sometimes appeared when I played, the sound became really filthy.
Problem with the footswitch also, sometimes going on Channel 1 to Channel 2 by itself without me doing anything.
Price lev for a crappy amp.
Obviously I do not absolutely do it again this choice for an amp that's really not worth peine0.

All been said .... except that the date of my early 80s (it was almost the same age, but I have aged better than him ...) and that c is apparently a pre-set all welded to the paw, a repairer who is c me the learned in a small repair. And also with no problems, well almost ...

UTILIZATION

To repeat, not lugging a heavy, and then the tapper in the walls or shake al rear of a car, I have even had an accident with which he emerged unscathed, m not moved him not at all.

SOUNDS

You have the sounds that corespond has its price, although many amps is called a lamp, costing more than twice, do not really superior in sound quality ... to meditate
But very very little power to 80watt, compared c is less powerful that a kustom 36 set at noon ...

OVERALL OPINION

I've used during the ten years from now and he lugs around to mate with a friend who wants to play it. At the time I had exchanged the cartridge 3 against fags am a fifty euros c were a third hand.
The pros: price, weight (damn tube amps), the value for money
The -: ben for concerts not powerful enough, to repeat it all depends on the mood of the drummer.
Ben al times in the same conditions do not worry I do it again the same choice, but the day of today I will go my way.
Finally he made my day so we will not spit, even if it is often called a beer the poor, it served more coffee table than the poor amps.

Everything was already said

UTILIZATION

I do not own this amp and hopefully more

get a good sound I tried a few years and J have finally sell it.
you it may be that it came from my amp but the palette was a little varibr /> 80W transistor ok, why my friend with his 65w Valvestate had better sound over fishing and presence?
one day I did the update changes any component, change the lamp in a preamp model different brief to give it a facelift and many bof were managed better.

SOUNDS

I jou with several guitars over the stratum to the bc rich, test more pedals and pedals are ok but the grain marshall sound is somewhat flat and lacking in definition vary in saturation

OVERALL OPINION

I've used the number of years and there's a few years I bought a lamp is in fact the only I understood the difference between a good and a bad amp.

this amp must be taken for what it is a 80W transistor ideal when you start a group but quickly shows its limits if you're picky or demanding on the sound. even a scratch a sound fade over 1500 euro. anything that is put before scratching or indeed, even quality of this amp acts as a filter and let out a sound rather flat.
this opinion is only my opinion of course.

Hybrid Combo (one ECC83 in the prémaplis), 80W, fx loop, footswitch jack, 2CH, with each 2modes So the gain is staged in four different sounds, EQ per channel, control "tone" to move from his typed a british a more compressed (everything is relative). A hp, I think from memory it is still a celestion.

UTILIZATION

config simple, just turn the knobs, the sound must love eh ^ ^ it's marshall, for my part it was rather marchemal ... Obviously bought used, potentiometers changed but I always had disturbing parasites and other whistles. I have never been able to find the sound I wanted, of course you will say it marshall, we like it or not, for me it was my first amp, and not really afford to buy else ^ ^ so here goes.

SOUNDS

um not really convincing, giving more metal in the register, I liked a clearer sound. The second overdrive mode is horrible, no way to get anything too runny, not to say nazillard dégeu ... oh sorry I said?

OVERALL OPINION

I kept my 2 years, it seems, it starts to do relatively far, water has flowed under the bridge since then ... For a beginner it's probably a good solution but it will soon consider a rise in quality.