All user reviews for the Marshall VS100R

This is an amp. a transistor with a prampli lamps.
It delivers 100Watts.
In terms of connectivity:
_Input To plug the guitar (ouff..)
_A headphone output to connect a headset
_A second exit to the enclosure of origin (of APRS that I have seen is not the same enclosure for everyone mine is a personal GoldBack Series 100W Marshall 8homs)
_A third output to connect a second speaker.
_a foot-switch
_A effects loop
_and to finish out a line-out (personal j'men used to send the sound on my PC)

UTILIZATION

The setup is rather simple:
_The Clean: volume, bass, mid, treble
_Overdrive 1: Gain, Volume, Bass, mid, treble
_Overdrive 2: Gain, Volume, Bass, mid, treble, contour
A Shift for the clean tone: Tone it adds to the active but I never in my guitar has as his ass
the footswitch ass is clear: two channels: one to switch from clean to overdrive, the other to pass the OD1 OD2 has
The power dimension that is getting a sound with more bass (at least I feel).

It's pretty simple: this amp has great versatility in terms of sound and you can easily find the sound that we like (do not be too difficult either):
_The Clean is a very clean sound (lol. .. I can not say any more I used some of that trs "mode", if I want to clean jou I take my guitar's classic goes faster and makes less noise for parents who are below my room)
_L'OD1 A rock sound instead, I used to jm'en the intro song in my group mtal then pass:
_L'OD2 Which has a much more metal.
The manual I have not had, I had this amp in a garage sale a 130 (this is commonly known in luck )

SOUNDS

This amp is good enough for my style of music rather because I am essentially mtal, and a monthly j'men used to go play in a ska band.
I use a Vantage VP820 for jou on this amp. (I know my guitar is not really made to do .. but mtal given me when I started learning has played and I still do not change the scratches). Sometimes I d use a mtal area with this amp but trs rare.
In terms of sounds that I use I have not really prdfini .. gnral in when I start has played with everything I put my settings at 0 and I rergle based on what I want to jou

OVERALL OPINION

I use this amp for 2 years, and as other reviews say this amp: it has never lach .. BMOL one: the footswitch which has little contact problem (maybe its just me too) and one of the feet of the amp that makes it mallle.
I have not much tried to amp before you choose because I saw it in a garage sale of a really cheap shot and a friend had already the same and that I had tried I question not possible I took
Qualitprix level for me it does gnial: 130 for an amp that develops 100Watts I'm pretty happy.
With the experience I would do this choice because to start a group, it is sufficient, for cons for scne I do not know what it's worth I've never done but I think would be sufficient with another amp behind him.

Voia other notices

UTILIZATION

The config is very simple, not need much time to get a good sound!
No need for manual!

SOUNDS

This amp is built for rock, and all the better!
I use a les paul and you can get any type of sound with the equalizer!
In this amp, everything sounds great, the distortion of a clean, through the overdrive.
And the reverb is a little more than we refuse!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about a week.
What I like most is the price for the quality it offers is amazing. What I like least, uh, it is no longer brand new lol.
I try every amp lights before this one, all the normal lights sound a lot better, but he defended himself more than well.
The value for money is EXCELLENT!
This choice I would do if I find myself in the same financial situtation.
I would say this amp is for those who, like me, looking for a good sound for not a lot. And it is also clear that this amp has great market in the previous year and is often found at the beginning of the group of 90 years as Oasis.

Amp hybrid penultimate generation in Marshall: tube preamp and amp transistors. The 100W (4 ohms) are present. The HP 12 'Marshall in cash and plans very well sound. There is a connection for effects loop, headphone ... and especially to connect a second cabinet, such as a 2x12 '. And then the sound becomes really huge.

Three selectable channels via a crank: clear, OD1 (saturation coarse-grained to the former) and OD2 (very metal distortion).

Add to that a real (small) spring reverb! It's better than most digital tinkering.

I put 8 / 10 for price / performance ratio.

UTILIZATION

It's easier than the new AVT series, because there is no onboard digital effects (good, sounds really synthetic, you have to like). It's easy to find her:
. clear channel, the key gives a nice bright terrain very vintage
. on OD2, the palette of sound is very broad. It is very close to the JCM. Connect your SG or Les Paul on it and that your deposit.

SOUNDS

Personally, playing punk rock or garage, I was filled. Frankly, with this amp, no interest to add a distortion pedal, but one tube distortion that adds more to the amp.

Interestingly, clear + channel function and bright reverb give you a thoroughly cleanse his sixties, vintage desire to play surf-rock, for example. This is well above or a Fender Frontman Dynatouch in this area.

OVERALL OPINION

I play on it intermittently for over ten years and it gives me a great amp to do everything, repeated use in and on stage with his Marshall typed and robustness. Really a good investment.

I come back:
. robustness. The receiver, worn by a friend as a full-oyster, broke his mouth and still works at the hair.
. sound. Frankly, penniless young Scrooge, an old Valvestate prefer a nine MG whose sound is less rich and Péchu (no lamp and digital).

As soon as I feel like itches, it's him that I turn in my basement.

Decidedly one of my best musical investments: 4200F at the time (new € 620?). It seems that according to the state, it is trading between 100 to € 200 today. To change the lamp preamp, open, but this lamp will cost € 10 or 15 max. The knobs are changed so easily.

8 / 10 for the report service / price

No comment

... From the headphone jack, that it should be emphasized as very practical

UTILIZATION

No manual (not needed)

rglages simple and intuitive, c is a Marshall

SOUNDS

Marshall sound, we like it or not ...

OVERALL OPINION

..... J hoped not to have resold the for nothing ... I buy a Mesa Boogie sense of place ... but I have to wait rponse ...

Even if I spend anything, I regret this amp with its own sound and versatility.

I recommend anyone who wants to work quietly with headphones while having a good sound, and have something very correct in RPET and concert.

amp solid and reliable (the silent mine .. almost new).

Hybrid Amplifier (lamp + MOSFET) 100W RMS:
Preamp Transistor (OD 1) or 12AX7 tube (OD 2)
Power amplifier transistor (MOSFET)
Volume effects loop
Reverb Clean and Overdrive

Connectors on the back:
effects loop
Output HP (2)
headphone
footswitch (supplied)

Three different channels:
Clean channel: volume, Equalizer
OD 1: gain, volume
OD 2: gain, volume
EQ common to both overdrive bass / mid / treble

On paper nothing special .. not only on paper in fact! 6 / 10

UTILIZATION

The configuration is quite easy ...
I got it used and I did not have the manual, I do not know whether or not there. Anyway it is not useful.
A little detail ...

Clair is:
In the light the config could not be simpler rule on its volume, equalizer and optionally a rule you set the low pass to cut the bass. It comes out very quickly and easily obtained a good clear sound despite the absence of light in the amplification.

Overdrive 1:
All be clear here ... it's very difficult to get its own (in both senses of the term ie clean / neat and clean / staff.
Overdrive 2:
One senses here the presence of the lamp (12AX7) in preamp.
That said without pedals or additional rarely find a great sound that kills everything.

5 / 10

SOUNDS

Clair is:
Surprisingly for me the highlight of this amp is the clean sound. Easily adjustable lens with a sometimes EQ adjusted, if necessary greasy and heavy. With short spring reverb (good quality) you get a very good clear sound.
Overdrive 1:
It's bold, it's dirty ... it's marshall you say.
Despite the equalizer is a huge gallery to find a good sound quality as the overdrive is bad.
I ended up personally by this obscure overdrive.
Overdrive 2:
It's always dirty but less fat and more settled.
The distortion is pretty good and its very distinctive rock (see hard rock / metal with knob gain a background).

The sound is really bad ... 3 / 10

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using 4 / 5 years (last used ...).

Plus: Complete level connections, settings and options (footswitch etc. ...).

Cons: The weight, the bad and bold, the absence of the floor lamp in an amplification overdrive ... and so many other things to think about it ... I dare (Ula) .

The price / quality ratio is quite poor. Save At that price a little and buy an all-tube RANDALL RG50 ...

With the experience I would do not have that choice ...

Hybrid light-amplifier / transistor
-100w
-Between a guitar, an effects loop, a footswitch between two HP port, a headphone
Three-channels (one clean and two saturated)
-A reverb for clean channel and a channel for saturated

UTILIZATION

Configuration and simple and effective.

SOUNDS

It's a versatile amp that provides large saturations. The clean sounds are not great. I use this amp with an Epiphone Les Paul standard and a gibson les paul studio. BPS when I home alone, I use all three channels of the amp and a distortion pedals expandora. sounds like the fat billy gibbons and dfouler me from time to time on the hard / metal, which is possible with this amp.
But when I RPET with a group, I use only the clean channel with a good distortion pedals. Indeed, the natural distortion of this amp is difficult to use in groups. The 100w is the well but soon found himself pushing the volume to del reasonable to agree to play while Gnant everyone. In sum, we obtain a slurry indigestible full of serious and low mdium. This impression is reinforced by the lack of dynamic notorious of this amp which is not even an amp with any lamp.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this amp for a 10aine of years without REALLY be satisfied. It makes perfect illusion if you play alone in either and you have the possibility to push the volume, but we want to play in groups things get complicated.
I wait to change it to go on a marshall vintage modern, which I think will suit me better.
The quality price ratio remains correct.
With exprience, I do not do it again may be the choice and went to a plutt lamp 50w amp (100w are difficult to use even by the most rabid of mtaleux

Amp hybrid: a lamp to emulate the sound, everything else is transistors.
Marshall Announces 100W, set next to a JCM900 with 8 HP 12 ", this" little "amp is not ridiculous ... It's good 100W ... Popuri electronics" plastic ", that is bluffing.
Complete connectivity: effects loop, footswitch channel select, 2 HP, a headphone that mutes the sound when you plug the headset (yes, logic ...) and the small exit "emulated" magic to go straight in the mixer ...
All settings that Paut wait on an amp of this size, three-channel, shared eq for both channels saturated, and overdrive on channel 2 the famous "contour" which acts on the midrange for a wide range of sounds .

UTILIZATION

Little we used to be amplifiers, nothing confusing, super simple, there's only to turn and there are ... Almost plug and play ...
To get the sound you want to micropoil, spend a few minutes, because there are many settings, but not need an engineering degree. All is well.
I have never seen the manual, but he did not fail ... However, I know that at Marshall, they are very complete.

SOUNDS

Again, the level is surprisingly ... This is certainly not a JCM but it works pretty well for the price, it really is not stolen ...
It can be used with any type of guitar, enthusiasts single or double, you get your happiness ... Marshall clean sounds are not super famous, but largely listening las two overdrive channels allow all levels of the crunchy overdrive fat enough ...

OVERALL OPINION

I bought this amp to a friend who gave up the guitar for really cheap, I saw one at € 200 (OCCAZ of course ...) there is little time to shop, and he who achgeté has not been stolen from me.
It's super reliable (advantage of transistors, it is often forgotten), solid, it's more than a match for a drummer, an excellent price / quality ratio, I would say if one is 300 € ... But it is above its rating, so it is less ...
An excellent choice if you want to redo the power and his honorable with a limited budget ... I prefer tubes, but this one, I still jealously guards!

Tube preamp and transistor.100 watts that are there.
Connectors: Guitar Input (whew!), line out, headphone out, footswitch input, an additional sortei another forum, and send and reurn module for external effects.
A reverb, a clear channel and two channels of overdrive and adjustment module external effect.
A button "power dimension" and "toneshift" (which I use for anything else).

UTILIZATION

For the config is not simpler, and more all the knobs are accessible on the front (it seems silly like that but it's not always the case, to believe that some manufacturers think that I had to do it to put my guitar to press a switch).
Well, the sound is subjective but I like. It is not clear for the porn actress.
This is not the holy grail type lamp thousand euros while, but training bass drums guitar and I never had to push him into a corner.
The sound is stamped Marshall not need to talk for hours. (I find it still much better than the current series)
The manual is useless in my opinion, but good.

SOUNDS

For rock, blues, clean sounds that do not worry me.
This is not to hard rock for my taste but it's not my goal, that's fine.
I like to disconnect my ToneLab to play with him, the sounds are complete in my opinion.
The sounds are round, clear and very present bass with the setting.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months and I love it. I bought used for 150 euros etje pas.J absolutely regret 'in even want another!
I render with my strat's overdrive and good fun.
Its only downside is its weight when it is necessary by repeating the lug pfff.
One day I added some speaker to match.
what I like about it is also leaving "emulated", it goes straight into the multitrack.
Training guitar bass drums I've never needed to push him into a corner.
At that price I doubt any remake that choice. (Even more expensive for that matter)

100 W transistor - tube preamp

Everything else was said.

UTILIZATION

Very easy to use.

Three channels with 3 band EQ to sculpt almost any sound.
Bright switch over to refine all this.

No need for manual is intuitive.

SOUNDS

Very versatile.

Used with a Les Paul Custom.

Clear sound surprising, slamming and round at a time.

The distos are quite good but also quite modern type-rock.
It is best to stay clean and add a good distortion pedal based on its style.

The clean sound is really the big plus of this amp.

OVERALL OPINION

I have for 15 years and do not want to part with it.

Very good buy for the price and still effective despite the years. No technical problem. In addition it is robust. On a rock-solid.

I also have an all-tube amp to complement but I love playing on the VS100. The sound is now.

Excellent amp at the cost of the opportunity.

A few years ago solid state amps were still not really accepted by most guitar players. Players felt that they sounded too digital and unnatural. In the 90s Marshall attempted to bridge the gap between tube amps and solid state amps by making hybrid amps. The Marshall hybrid amps contained a tube in the preamp with a solid state power section. This solid state power section meant you could easily simulate load on the amp and get great tones even at low volumes. It has a clean channel and an overdrive channel. The overdrive channel comes with two voicings and the clean channel has its own EQ. They call it a 3 channel amp but it is really a two channel amp with two overdrive modes. It puts out 100watts of power with an effects loop. It has a rather flimsy spring reverb. When i got mine it was almost broken off. It pretty much rattles inside the amp chassis. 100 Watts is a lot of power for such a little combo amp.

UTILIZATION

It has a few more knobs than your normal amp. Starting at the left you have the input for your guitar cable. The first set of knobs are for the clean channel. After the clean channels EQ knobs there are some buttons for a clean boost or clean OD sound for the clean channel. The next two knobs are the gain and volume for the overdrive 1 channel. Then there is a button to switch between OD 1 and OD 2. The overdrive 2 section has gain contour and volume. The contour knob will be your best friend with this amp. After these knobs there is the shared EQ for the overdrive channels. The last set of knobs are for the FX loop and the reverb. You can adjust how much reverb you get on the clean and dirty channels. Because it is a combo instead of a head the amp is pretty heavy. It is probably more than 60 pounds. This may hurt your back.

SOUNDS

The gain on this amp is very contemporary sounding. Playing with the contour knob you can go from a classic British sound to a searing high gain sound. The contour knob emulates the loading of the power amp. Chuck Schuldiner from Death used this this amp on most of his albums and it sounds exactly like what you heard on these albums. With the contour knob on low the sound is more classic Marshall. It has a lot of bite and clarity. With the contour knob turned up all the way the it tightens way up. With the contour knob up it almost sounds like a modern 6l6 amp. The clean channel is good but it is not great. The clean channel has a very cold sound even with the reverb on. I am not able to push this amp to its maximum volume but it would be interesting to see how the speaker holds up under the strain of 100 watts. Normally a 100 watt amp would have at least 4x12 hooked up to it. This combo just has one speaker.

OVERALL OPINION

These amps offer great bang for the buck. Since it is a combo you will not have to worry about getting a cabinet to go with it. These amps put out a great metal sound for such a little price. With the turn of a single knob you can go from classic British gain to a searing modern metal sound. Dont let the valvestate badge scare you off these early hybrid Marshalls sound really good.

Preamp tube for a total of 100 watts

Many more features at:
- Three channels (clean, crunch, distortion) with separate EQ and reverb for clean and crunch / distortion
- Only the pre-amp tube is therefore a weight that allows the stroll too easily without risk of breakage
- Crank that manages the transition from clean to crunch and distortion
- Output line-out to connect on a table enjoying the pre-amplification Lamp
- A button 'power dimension, which provides a depth and dynamic sound even at low
- Button treble boost on the clean channel

UTILIZATION

Super simple config with the separation of the equalizer and reverb for clean and crunch / distortion.

I've never needed to read the manual so the configuration is simple.

SOUNDS

I play it with an Ibanez JS100 and a ESP Viper 100

With the JS100 is perfect, the crunch is precise and can be quite powerful in pushing the gain.

Viper 100 with the clean is pretty muffled but just flick the 'tone shift' and it immediately gives a bit more treble. The crunch, it's like nickel, sound is very precise and whines when it is needed.

For the same distortion with a max gain and presence that goes with it is not metal and I think it looks a bit messy sometimes.

OVERALL OPINION

I have the combo for over 10 years now and I've never had a crash without having changed once the lights.
The knobs crackle a little when I do not use it for a while but the neck of a bomb anti-scratch and get more than 6 months.

So I paid the head VS100 them months ago etje can find my sound studio repeated even if the act of plugging it into a cab 1960 did not serve him as well as the cab home.

(Originally written by Gratt'oche/translated from Audiofanzine FR)

Hybrid amp with one tube within a solid-state design.
Marshall indicates 100 watts. Compared to a JCM900 full stack, this "small" amp is nothing to laugh at. I think it actually does provide 100 watts... The "plastic" electronics produce a surprisingly good sound.
Comprehensive connections: FX loop, channel selection footswitch, 2 speaker outputs, one headphone output with speaker mute function and line output with speaker simulation for direct connection to a mixer...
Very comprehensive settings for a compact amp: 3 channels, shared EQ for both distortion channels and Contour function (OD2 channel) that increases the sound range.

UTILIZATION

Nothing surprising if you have already used a guitar amp. The setting is very easy, simply turn the knobs... It's plug and play...
You'll have to take a few minutes to find exactly the sound you need, but you don't need to be an engineer.
I have no user's manual and I don't miss it... But I know Marshall user's manuals are very comprehensive.

SOUNDS

The sound is surprisingly good... Of course it doesn't sound like a JCM but it's really good for the money...
You can use the amp with every kind of guitar no matter if it has single-coils or humbuckers... Marshall isn't famous for its clean tone, but it is still decent enough. Both overdrive channels provide all distortion levels from slight crunch to fat overdrive...

OVERALL OPINION

I bought this amp really cheap to a friend of mine who gave up guitar. I recently saw this amp at a shop (secondhand) and it was even cheaper.
It's super reliable (advantage of transistors over tubes) and robust. It's loud enough to play with a drummer and it offers an excellent value for money.
It's an excellent choice if you want a budget amp with a good output power and a respectable sound. I prefer tubes but I'll still keep this amp!