Darkside38190
Published on 08/15/07 at 13:32
50-watt solid-state amp (big watts, I should add!)
12" marshall speaker (I think)
Two channels, one clean and one overdrive/distortion, effects loop, line out, and footswitch!
Separate EQ for each channel, which is nice, but...they are not very useful!
The Master reverb is not bad at all, I must admit!
UTILIZATION
Very easy to use, if you know how to read, just look at what's written above the knobs and pay attention to how the sound changes when you turn them...There's no need to be an engineer!
As I mentioned above, the EQs aren't the best!
The manual at least explains what are the buttons for, which isn't bad!
SOUNDS
Typical Marshall amp...It really colors your sound!! It does fine with pedals, especially pedals with a high output, like the big distortion pedals!
For rock or metal...It doesn't like much other music genres!
The clean channel isn't the best, as I mentioned above, it colors sound quite a bit! As for the Boost channel, it's not bad, you can get from a nice crunch to fat overdrives!
But I still recommend you to use a pedal!!
But the fact that it colors sound isn't bad in itself, the only thing is that you can't get a nice clean sound! In my case, I use an Epiphone LP but I can't get the LP sound with this amp, which might have to do with my crappy dialings...But that's not the case with my JCM800.
OVERALL OPINION
It's almost 4 years since I have it! It's a nice little amp for beginners, to get to know your instrument!
I don't know what I like best of this amp. It's my first amp so I have a bit of nostalgia, it has been of great use!! It is great live and also for rehearsals!
What I like least is its weight...and, with time, I have been able to use other amps (tube and solid-state) and have noticed that this amp wasn't as good! It's not crap, far from that, but I nevertheless expected more from a Marshall!!
12" marshall speaker (I think)
Two channels, one clean and one overdrive/distortion, effects loop, line out, and footswitch!
Separate EQ for each channel, which is nice, but...they are not very useful!
The Master reverb is not bad at all, I must admit!
UTILIZATION
Very easy to use, if you know how to read, just look at what's written above the knobs and pay attention to how the sound changes when you turn them...There's no need to be an engineer!
As I mentioned above, the EQs aren't the best!
The manual at least explains what are the buttons for, which isn't bad!
SOUNDS
Typical Marshall amp...It really colors your sound!! It does fine with pedals, especially pedals with a high output, like the big distortion pedals!
For rock or metal...It doesn't like much other music genres!
The clean channel isn't the best, as I mentioned above, it colors sound quite a bit! As for the Boost channel, it's not bad, you can get from a nice crunch to fat overdrives!
But I still recommend you to use a pedal!!
But the fact that it colors sound isn't bad in itself, the only thing is that you can't get a nice clean sound! In my case, I use an Epiphone LP but I can't get the LP sound with this amp, which might have to do with my crappy dialings...But that's not the case with my JCM800.
OVERALL OPINION
It's almost 4 years since I have it! It's a nice little amp for beginners, to get to know your instrument!
I don't know what I like best of this amp. It's my first amp so I have a bit of nostalgia, it has been of great use!! It is great live and also for rehearsals!
What I like least is its weight...and, with time, I have been able to use other amps (tube and solid-state) and have noticed that this amp wasn't as good! It's not crap, far from that, but I nevertheless expected more from a Marshall!!