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« Marshall AVT150 »

Published on 10/09/02 at 15:00
I bought a half stack for $1960 Aussie Dollars in Sydney.
The Head Retailed for $1799 and The Cab for $1099 so obviously its alot cheaper in a buying them together.

Great range of sounds:
Accoustic Simulator with its own body control.
Clean channel with own gain control.
Overdrive 1 with its own gain and scoop control.
Overdrive 2 with its own gain and scoop.
16 DFX including: a large range of reverbs, Delay, Flange, Modulation, a chorus and a combination of chorus, modulation and delay.
Can set the DFX for the Clean channels (Accoustic sim and Clean) and also a different effect for the Overdrive channels which is great.
150 watts but still sounds good at low volume.
Foot switch with 6 controls which is awsome. Accoustic Sim,clean, od1, od2 on/off and also dfx clean, dfx od on/off.


You cannot combine any of the DFX which is a big bummer as that would make this amp truley unbeatable. Although you can select different ones for the clean and od tones 2 DFX combined within the one channel cannot happen, although 1 of the effects is a combination but its a bit limiting.

Earlier Marshall Valvestates contained a contour knob which effectively allowed you to have whatever tone you liked. This has been removed and replaced with a 'Scoop' switch which has only 2 choices to fine tune your tone. Very disapointing as why would you go from an unlimited range to just 2 choices. They seem to have gone backwards there.

The amp is built very solid but is still fairly simple to move around. All knobs and switched look great and have functioned without a problem.

A great amp and you will be very happy especially if youve never had any DFX's before or never had a contour knob.

It will take few days to get your head around the 24 different knobs and 6 controls on the footswitch but once you no whats going on youll wonder how you ever got by without them all.

All it needs is the contour back and the ability to combine the DFX's and you will not find a better amp. If these two things dont bother you, then you have already found it!

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