All user reviews for the Marshall MG250DFX

Transistor amp simulation with efficient lamp
100 watts (2x50) with two Celestion speakers!
Simple adjustments:
2 channels: clean + overdrive
Quality effects built (flanger, delay, chorus, chorus + delay)

Used for many years, there is nothing that has moved, it's solid.

UTILIZATION

Simple configuration, there is a sound that quickly shipment. No need for manual use is simple.

The cleans are deep and clear. The overdrive is sharp, accurate with the correct settings. Can play everything from jazz to metal!

SOUNDS

I play mostly rock, in style it suits me perfectly. I use a lot of overdrive is really nice to have such a powerful sound. Even at low volume or headphones the sound is very good.

In terms of cleans, they slap, clear, I love. It remains its typical modern anyway.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been 7 years since I used it as the beginning! It is solid, so long as one is careful obviously.

I tried other models before, orange for example. But I must say that I liked the sound of crunchy marshall.

The effects are good qualities in addition there is an effects loop, it is a treat with a trendy wah above.

The finishes are impeccable. The Tolex has not moved after these years. This is good, it's clean and it's all over.

I do not regret my choice. This amp is fabulous in its range. I have for many years and is always on top, nothing has changed. Marshall is solid!

I've been playing guitar for roughly 10 years, in and out of various bands. we mostly play metal, nothing really heavy but not light either.

I purchased it at a local music store in town for $750 Canadian a couple years back.

Its nice because its a medium size amp but has all kinds of power. I found the effects to be quite nice especially the delay, its very clean, and of course it has the good old marshall distortion when you want it. I've braught it to many jam sessions and it keeps up with ease and is very durable. My fan occasionaly makes a bit of noise but once its warmed up it quiets right down and its done this for about a year and a half. the bearings are fine. Overall I love this amp and would buy another one in a heartbeat if something happened to it.

Noisy fan occasionaly

very durable, built as good as any other Marshall product

Great price, lots of power, nice Marshall sound even though its solidstate, effects are great. Other then a noisy fan its a great amp for someone who just wants to jam with some friends or to do shows with.

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I've been playing in bands for the past ten years and have owned many different amps. I bought the marshall because I did like the sound in the store and trusted the name if something would go wrong.

I bought it at guitar center for $500 which is the place i returned it for $250.

The clean tone was ok and the distortion was adequate.

In all Marshall MG series amps they are cooled internally by a very cheap little plastic fan. This amp made a strange grinding noise after 6 months of use. This was the fan motor dying. After a year the fan stopped working and the amp would overheat (one of these times was at a show). When this happens the amp shuts down and if you don't have a backup your screwed!! Marshall's warranty is over rated cause they don't pay for shipping. Just because it says marshall doesn't mean its good.

The construction quality is irreleavant because the whole amp depends on a 3 dollar plasctic fan.

Sounds ok but it was not reliable because of this seemingly small problem that ruined many practices and a show for me

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To me, for a guitarist, especially for rock, Marshall is the ultimate amp. All these new amps (Line 6, etc) are great too, but they're just trailing behind in Marshall's tracks. It's funny how people will buy one of these other amps and say "I can almost get a Marshall sound out of it." Just buy a Marshall!!! This amp retails for $700.00, but you can usually get one for about $500.00. You won't believe this, but I got this amp from Guitar Center for $349.00 plus tax! I had bought the MG100 HDFX head and had problems with the fan, (like many others)so I took it back and they swapped me even. Now that's great customer service!!!! That's my store from now on. As one other reviewer stated, be ready to haggle. There is so much competition between Guitar Center, Sam Ash, Musician's friend, AMS, etc, now I will never pay asking price. Do like I did. Find the lowest price on the internet, print it, and walk into the store. Most of them will meet or beat it. I wanted a combo that had the Marshall sound and would really rock on its own without having to take my 4 X 12 cab everywhere. This unit is perfect for that.

As I said I wanted to be able to travel light and still crank. This amp more than does the job. I used to have an original JCM 800 with 1960 cab back in the day. This amp actually sounds better. Sorry to all you tube freaks. I read all this griping about tube vs solid state. Most people just don't take the time to tweak the knobs! I love the delay/chorus effect. I can play at low volume and sound like I'm in an arena! There is amazing versatility of soung with the gain knob between 1 and 10. When I want to really hear the guitar's tone I put the gain on 1 or 1 and 1/2, and I get get a great slightly distorted edge with great sustain. But if I'm feelin' the need to let her scream, I can go to 10 and Nuge out! But it definitely sounds better with the master volume jacked up!!!! And I don't have to worry about tubes blowing. I can get any sound I want from this amp. I can do Van Halen without any external pedals and flip the supplied footswitch and go to a beautiful clean sound. I can make my Strat sound like Stevie Ray and my Washburn hollowbody sound like BB King or Alvin Lee (ouch, I just showed my age). I can get just a little bluesy edge or melt your brain distortion. The reverb is great, just experiment with it. Setting it on 4 or 5 works for most things. The scoop feature is very useful and dramatically changes the sound so turn it slowly to hear the different nuances of tonal variey. I put the master volume on 5 and made the mistake of standing directly in front of it and my ears hurt! But when I really want to rock I have a Marshall 4X12 cab I hook up to it. There are two outputs in a stereo configuration and it works great! (Wow, now I need that second cab to go with it.) I use the emulated line out on stage straight to the board and it really sounds good, and the same jack doubles as a headphone jack. It's got the effects send and return which I use with my RP100 processer but I like the sound I get from the amp better. It's more natural.

The only problem I had was with the fan. It sounded a little funny. Anyway, I didn't take this one back. I just keep playing it as much as possible and have hade no more problems. The rep said as you use it more it loosens up and gets better. That seems to be the case. I don't hear any noise anymore. Any way when you're CRANKING a Marshall, who's worried about a little fan noise you can't hear? Oh, it's a little heavy to carry for a practice amp. But the sound is worth the weight!

This amp is very solidly built and it looks great sitting on top of my MG412 cabinet. Classic Marshall stage presence in looks and power! The onboard effects are very useful, just take the time to learn how to create your own sound. I have had two other Marshalls and never had any significant problems. The JCM set-up never gave me ANY trouble, and I had the first Marshall Solid state back in the 80's that I pretty played on 10 all the time.The only thing that ever happed to it was the ground wire screw got loose one time. I purposely pushed that amp to the limit for years and tried to blow it and never hurt it. It was indestructable!

For me this was the best investmant equipment-wise I've ever made. Bang for buck it has no equal. It's got it all. The sound, the power and the looks of a rock star at a great price. Just with the 2 enclosed speakers I could go any where with this amp. But you can also hook up 2 8 ohm 4X12 cabinets in stereo and probably make your ears bleed.

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Paid $625 Canadian

I like the overall sound quality of the OD2 channel. It took some playing around with, but I found a nice hard crunch that I really like. Having the on board effects and a master volume are also very handy. This thing is also very loud and can maintain its quality tone at these loud volumes.

Recently my clean channel has started to have an overdrive tone to it, even at very low volumes and with the gain knob turned almost all the way down. At these settings it should be a nice bright clean sound, but seems to have taken on characteristics of OD2. I'm at a loss to explain this and will have to take to the shop to have it look at.

This thing is built like at tank. But since it sits in my music room it shouldn't fall apart. Also with my problem in my dislikes section it would seem the electrical components may be having an issue. If this turns out to be the case then I will be returning it and seriously considering a different brand of amp.

Its has the great Marshall sound that I love. And it is very versitile. However, with my recent glitch I may have to seriously wonder about the overall quality.

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I bought this Marshall MG 250 DFX at Guitar Center, in southfield Mich for $499.99

Its a good size and a good price. It has a quiet clean channel. Now the rest of my review, read the next section.

When i bought the amp it was a floor model. I played threw it for a little while and seem to be what i was looking for. I got the amp home and pluged in my head phones, and found out the headphone jack didnt work. So 4 days later i took it back to a diffent guitar center in Roseville Mich cause the original location was out of stock. So i got the new amp and about 3 weeks later the fan on the back went...its still works but the barings are shot in the fan. So again i take it back and get a third amp, that was about 3 weeks ago, and now this fan is shot. Ive been busy lately and proably have only log 1 full hour on that amp and the fan is shot. I bought a marshall cause i thought it was one of the best, i wanted a marshall for years. Now all i have to say is ive gone threw 3 amps in less than 2 months. Ive never been let down so bad, when i thought i was buying soemthing so good. Oh ya ive had problems with the digital effects and channel 2 is extremely noisy. The amp is also lacking something, it maybe because the back of the amp is sealed but it just doesnt sound very full. Im taking my amp back tomorrow, 7-13-04 and im gonna look at mesa boogie, i think marshall has diffently lost a coustomer here.

The out side seems strong and rugged, but the fan in the back is diffently a hunk of crap.

After 3 amps in 54 days, and nemerous problems i would NOT rememend this product at all.

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I bought it over the internet. I paid $500.00 for it.

NOTHING. After I traded the unit in for a line 6 spider II 1x12 combo, I have nothing good to say at all about the marshall amp.
I paid two hundred dollars less for the line 6. It's one speaker short of marshall unit. And it can still go louder and stay clean.

The contour knob. Never could get the tone I wanted. If I finally got a heavy crunch out of it, the high end frequencies were far deminished. Even using the trebel toggle on my guitar, I could never find an equilibrium between high and low ends.

the same as any other amp in the 300-1000 dollar price range.

Get yourself a spider II or vetta amp. If you want to spend twice or triple for a solid state amp with the same punch as line 6, then go ahead go out and get a marshall.

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Amp was purchased at ST. Johns Music, in Edmonton Alberta.

- for me, 2 by 12 amps are the perfect size
- includes a nice footswitch
- clean channel sounds great (you can crank the gain to 10 and use the master volume to controll volume level for a wonderfull warm sound). with the gain at 10 the clean channel becomes very slightly distorted,and SWEET SOUNDING.
- using the DFX Chorous effect over the clean channel sounds just the way I wanted it to. As nice as a dedicated pedal.
- is as loud as I would ever need
- closed back
- the amp sounds big, not just loud. loads of low end response

The digital reverb is not great. I use a little, knob set to 2, any more and you will sound muddy, and your tone seems to get lost. at 2 it is nice, if you need or want more you are out of luck.
-CHANNEL TWO is this amps weakest point!! and that is what most people are interested in when buying an amp. Channel 1 is dead silent, Channel 2 more gain = significantly more noise.
- I have had this amp for 2 months and can't find a gain and EQ setting that I love. I have found some that I like.
- If you want modern high gain, Nu metal sound you will need a pedal, and maybe a noise gate as well.

I run my pedal + effects processor set up through channel 1 and get exactly the tones I want

- the amps fans are loud, so loud you can hear them over your guitar if you are practicing by yourself



construction/ quality - looks and feels like it will last a long time. no issues

This review came off a little negative, that was not the intention. I plan to use this amp for ten years before I get another one. Just writing this review has me wanting to practice again right now. The amp sound exactly like I had wanted but I use 2 distortion pedals to find those tones. so the cost of a pedal should be factored in to the cost of the amp.

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Guitar Center $420!

Loud, good sound, footpedal, great distortion.

Heavy, not tube.

Good constructiononly problem is my handle came loose.

All in all, this is a pretty good amp. I wanted an amp that would work for small to medium gigs. I wanted a tube, but didn't have the money, and the saleguy said this was my best bet. It has and FDD button which is supposed to make it sound realistically like a tube. The FDD button adds depth and character to the sound, but it doesn't quite capture the warmth of a tube. It comes with effects, which are not top rate but not too bad. The reverb sounds pretty good for being digital. The distortion is awesome, has that marshall crunch. The amp has a contour button that changes the sound from classic rock to nu-metal tone. The only complaint is that the clean channel distorts at high volumes. All in all it is a pretty good amp, if you can't afford a tube, but want a pwerfull amp that delivers, this is it.

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I bought this amp because it only has two 50W amps and 2 HP 12 "separate property.
I use it with a POD2 on new lines effect return on the back. (Left & Right)
On the front I only use the master volume. Anyway I use it as stereo amplifier for the POD.
It is undeniable that the sound is huge and magnified the effects of the POD. More than 12 HP 2 instead of one gives more breadth to the sound and the sound level is important. (This is more than a 100W mono amplifier on a single HP 12 ").
In fact I did not plant POD Stereo Amp + HP + 2 = big sound!

UTILIZATION

Now only the opinion (I do not use it), but I tried the Marshall preamp section:
is correct on the "Clean Channel", but I find the "Overdrive Channel" dégueux. Can not find a gain setting with a slight overdrive as does the POD or Marschall lamp. I can not find a natural compression sound!
The sound with the gain is a kind of nasal distortion, blah!
The effect section in this case is just enough space with a stereo effect that gives a coloration.

SOUNDS

Start with a Dimarzio equipped with the clean channel the sound is fine but limits the tes style clean sounds. The channel saturated again does not suit me.
Anyway I use a POD preamp, there is no problem here for the Blues or the Marshall Brit Brit Hi-Gain
I still POD Stereo Amp + 2x50W + 2 = HP big sound!

OVERALL OPINION

Value for price. But think about investing a Tubescreamer type pedal in use on the clean channel to have a nice full sound.
Otherwise the extent of 2 HP to switch to a noise level more than adequate and very strong!
It is on by putting a preamp in addition to the price the investment is higher.
But in fact for the uninitiated, be aware that the performance of HP and their numbers that are not sound watts. And it is this characteristic that I was looking in my purchase.

Transistor amplifier with a small amp simulation lamp that warms a little sound.
2 HP 50-watt
2 channels in the clear: gain treble bass meddle in saturation: gain volume bass treble contour
Digital effects: chorus, and delay or chorus or flanger or delay
a control level of each effect
Digital reverb
a general master
a CD input, emulated output + headphone, a stereo effects loop, can change the HP (Output 8ohms)

UTILIZATION

I have a clear channel switch / saturation and effects / no effects
lots of bass in the clear, really, when you push a little, it seems that all is farting! otherwise the sound is pretty good, fairly crystalline, slamming according to the settings.
for distortion, it is true that the sound is more difficult to resolve, I put some personal gain (about 3 / 4) and little contour (like 3 or 4) is the only way to get some sound crunch, a little "dirty", and with it a great deal in volume. But I use to never gain back, the sound sucks too!
Another boring setting: a move from clean to distortion by the sound switch keeping the same volume, not easy ...

SOUNDS

Despite these annoyances, we come to have fun! One can very well play jazz, funk, blues, rock, hard rock, but this view of the metal amp shows its limits: no présicion basically sound. The effects are not great, I use the config chorus + delay, with a relatively short delay, and control of knob bottom, it gives a good boost for solos when playing with the switch.
I play mostly blues and rock with my epiphone LP standard: blues with neck pickup tone and decreased slightly over 3 / 4, bridge pickup with a rock bottom! It happens to get great sounds and playing for hours ...

OVERALL OPINION

I've had 3 or 4 years. I like this amp in general. But it weighs a little heavy (22kg) and is not convenient to carry. The value for money is good, also there to see: he was voted best amp for this several times ...
With experience, I do not know if I would do this choice, obviously when I bought it I played a Squier 10 W! then ... I thought it was great. Now I wear it most of all-tube amp, but hey, now have to see the price difference, and also the patience of my neighbors in the face of much heated lamps ...
Edit: I changed the pickups for my epiphone PRS McCarty, the sound is much better, but I can not wait to go to an amp lamp ...

So it's a transistor amp with a simulation lamp. I chose this amp because I wanted the Marshall sound. I would gladly place an order for a JCM800 but the sounds are hard to play, allori with the transistor is much more enjoyable. He gives 100 watts, enough to play in clubs and theaters. There is a small range of effetcs, I do not use it because I am trs "Old School", I like good sound you scratch like crazy. I use a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop 56 'and for me the sound is accquit. I am glad trs.

UTILIZATION

It is easily adjustable, just tweak a little. All that is in my opinion is ncessaire. Can be obtained trs sounds DIFFERENT must rgler according to his desire. I lot of my earnings to get a sound more than enough for the Hard Rock. One who is a fan of blues, rock, hard rock will find easily are considered.

SOUNDS

It is ideally suited my style of music. I play mostly hard rock, but I'll be back soon good Blues calm escalating more and more. The clean is just as hot as I like it. Nothing to say it's a Marshall. I use my Gibson Goldtop 56 'and j'obtient sound of the vintage. I loves.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it now for 2 months. What I like mostly is the crunch that DGIG naturally. I test a lot of amps before selecting it (I work in a music store). But it's this one that suited my expectations. I think it's correct price cot. I would do without this choice hsiter