All user reviews of 4/5 for the Marshall G80RCD

I bought this from sound control Leeds, paid £250, i wanted a louder amp that would not sound as small as my mg mkII 10 watt amp, I wanted something with a large speaker cone and a lot of power to gig with, and get more clarity.

This amp is great for what i use it for. Now I have more playing experience my requirements i more demanding. I bought a line 6 am4 amp modeller to put in front of the amp to give it better tone. This is really where the amp excels, using it effectively as a PA for the pedal's sound. The amps own sound,(especially distorted) is fairly harsh and not very valvey, but the amp modeller sounds great due to the fact that the clean channel does not distort to easily, therefore you just hear what the pedal is doing.

As i have said earlier, the overdrive on this amp is not great, but then for this sort of money and power you cannot expect too much. I have also had a problem with the jack socket, which has come lose although this is my own fault because i left the lead in and fell on it when slightlty drunk!

generally it has been very tough. i have dragged it all over the place and have not had any problems,(apart from the jack socket as mentioned!)The footswitch has been slighlty tempermental, but i do not use this as i only use the amps clean channel, and put my own pedall in to it.

Good for the money, especially for the beginner looking to become more serious,although do shop around as the line 6 spider II is also very good, has similar power and is going for a good price now.(bear in mind you may need to buy the floorboard pedal though which is quite expensive.) I am happy with this amp and with the upgrade of the am4 (excellent piece of kit this amp sound very nice.

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I bought my baby at a little shop in East Brighton called World of Music. I'd been looking for a large-ish combo to practice on and at the time this was Marshall's non-valve combo. The RRP on the amp was $750 (Australian Dollars)
When I first rang the store, they quoted me $650 for it. So I rang another store and told them I'd been offered $650 and asked them if they could beat this price. They wanted the sale so they said they'd give it to me for $599.
So then I rang back to World of Music and told them I'd been offered a price under $600 but said I'd rather not discuss the exact ammount over the phone. The guy went and had a chat with the manager and then came back and told me they were cutting their own throats but they'd give it to me for $565 which is a profit markup of ZERO!
So that's how I got my $750 amp for $565 and saved $185.

This lil' beauty has a MASSIVE tone range. The clean channel is bright and warm sounding, the overdrive channel can purr like a kitten in creamy old-style distortion or squeal harmonics in thrash style super heavy gain and everything in between.
The CD input is an added bonus which I use to plug a mic into for when I'm just practing.

I got no gripes with my baby, except its weight, but I can live with a heavy amp.
Maybe it could do with more than one guitar input jack.


Beautiful craftsmanship, solid as a rock. I never had any problems with it.

I LOVE this amp, it suits any style of music I wanna play and it has GREAT sound for a combo.
My old guitar is a pile of poo but it still sounds great through this amp.
I really recommend you buy this amp!!!

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80W transistor amp
Line input, line output, speaker output, footswitch in, input
Basic adjustments, 3-band EQ on the 2 channels plus a contour control for channel saturated.
Clear sound, crunch, chroma 1, 2 saturation, reverb

UTILIZATION

It is very easy to use, perfect for beginners and those who do not like to take the lead for two hours before finding their sound ..
This is a 80W transistor amp very sufficient to start ..

SOUNDS

There is no miracle .. this is not a tube amp!
For cons, I now a tube preamp before I connect to this amp and the result is fairly good ..
It's 80w so it's more than enough to play in a band .. we will not be masking the sound of the drummer as he is straight forward ..

OVERALL OPINION

I have for over four years and that is where we recognize that the Marshall because it's very very strong!
I take her everywhere with me, repeating in concert and I never had a problem ..
I do not regret this purchase because it is very good stuff ..
I will soon switch to all-tube amp but I would have really done a service ..
As for the choice again? There are so many new brands and new amp model that emerged in the last few years so the concurrency is hard .. I do not know where that is this amp in this new market ..