All user reviews for the Marshall DSL401

CHARACTERISTICS see comments Lonewolf
4 lamps in EL84 amp (12W I think they are in fact, what makes us 48W, but I could be wrong!)
4 lamps prampli.

UTILIZATION

This is my 3rd Marshall, I have never read a manual.
The sound is "Marshall" regardless of the position.
Note that this is a TRUE qual: rglages put the treble, middle and bass 0 and there is no sound (or so), it is not too hard r but even Gler qd.

SOUNDS

I put my Les Paul in and the magic opre.
I dj a smile from ear to ear when I press the "Standby".
It is certainly not an amp "mtal". Has to take a Valvestate AVT or (if the words of Marshall LoneWolf you want written on it).

But for the rest (not trs techno ...), not notice it's madness.

OVERALL OPINION

So my 3 Marshall.
A JCM800 100W bcp too powerful
1 Mesa Boogie Caliber 50 + 50W more powerful, though jou but what's also ...
1 Marshall Valvestate 100W double body (I had to be drunk to buy that crap)
1 Marshall DSL401, which made me + that rconcilier with Marshall, but also with my guitar.
I love Led Zep, Aerosmith, Black Desir ... This is exactly what sound!

J'tais fan of saturates, I just fell madly in love with my channel "Clean", which let's face it, crunch as bte when tickled. J'tais buff pedals, I have a wah and talk box.
Free, free at last with the best sound ever (MESA quique the silent frankly good too.)
In short, I just rpar an injustice we can not put 4 / 10 a Marshall lamp!
For mtal is OK but no one else is glove.
I play funky on the clean, turning the 3mm rglage Bass, I sound exactment Black Ds (last album: lost, the place upside down).
Once I us the three positions and those of my scrapes clean channel, crunch channel is attacked (the real). Angus, Slash, Perry, Page they are all home now.
Lead is the crunch boost of 20dB (I think vrifier) ​​and is the only point where I will not 10/10 because it is not in Full Control (3 true channel).
The Reverb is not denied either, but hey I never touch the knob (except qd my daughter comes with me DCON).
If I change this amp one day, this will be for a TSL601.

40 amp w all lights
An HP 12 "celestion
8 lamps: 4 in which a preamp in a cylinder, 4 el 84 for the amp.
Reverb (on mine she walked in)
2 channel with a double:
Knob-clean with gain, equalization
OD1 and OD2, with volume, gain, equalization
Master volume, fx loop (effects loop), tuning the reverb.
Possibility to set external baffle extension.

Otherwise a good place to Marshall, the lamps are being protected.

UTILIZATION

Simple rules, manuals simple but useless.

I could not get a good distortion with some setting gives a clean sound, but always more boring and without rel.
For cleans cons are obtained by a sound rock, jazz, crunchy blues easily, but I find it no more.

Note that the equalization is effective clean trs in distortion should be dropped.

SOUNDS

The clean sounds are not bad but it sounds a little dry with accoutumence must add effects, and I find that the amp or worse (mostly distos I try to add (num America and analog). Domage my reverb silent cass

By distortion, I found it dirty, greasy and slimy in exs gain, and too flat and characters DO 2, and 1 OD is the same thing in less strong (l 'od 2 adds 20db, that's all the same a little disappointing!)

OVERALL OPINION

I purchase, jou 2 months with and I sold recement to buy a Peavey Classic 30 nine this time, cheaper and better now TElement

Unless we find a sound that only this amp gives (rock sound with crunch), which is not my case it's not an amp phnomenal. For a little cheaper, better now need a good hybrid transistor / lamps, and for that price, there is much better now.

That says it all

UTILIZATION

Everything is told

SOUNDS

And even when I dcus by this amp

I tried it in his cabin. and 2 things, the marshall c, c tt lamps

the sound of the clean channel, I find how to say EXCELLENT, c marshall really the best sound I've heard (with essay on Vigier Excalibur Special TEXAS SRV) the clear sounds great, not too toufus actually not too marshall mm pretty clean overall, if you put the gain of this channel has BOTTOM, c how to tell REAL CLAQUE this amp.

he village as a bassman, t I surprised her. bold and bluesy well with low hum. c excellent. it looks like a head set jmp thoroughly, it makes its effect

cons by very saturated over the canal, I have not found the dyamique and ambition contributed to the channel clear
The crunch is bland and the EQ is not used really.
especially the medium, from 0 to 4 = useless
but typical c marshall (on my head problem JMP1 mm)
and saturated sounds good rock not metal, but to lead c c rap or not the mesa engl. too typ enough prcis

the volume on this channel is used sparingly, otherwise the sound is not really horible like the Valvestate with a kind of fuzz to overdrive reaches 10. c not good and it does not give a sound quality I find

against the gain by 6 and volume 4 gives good results

what's missing most of the c amp a presence. and above, it really Merd

OVERALL OPINION

Overall I think the amp is not worth the price of 900 euros. mm if you like marshall

I'm looking for a marshall to have a good saturation, c-been not that I would buy the c on.

the +, the channel clear
the - the channel eq of saturated and this one

this version is made for are bright / crunchy not only for saturated. c marshall a kind of hybrid between the renewal of its clear and pass the lead

40W RMS attention to the ears especially the neighbors in the apartment ...
For connectivity, so good (only minus the lack of the headphone jack).

UTILIZATION

Nothing to say, easy adjustment and sound Marshall is the appointment, by the way I am even surprised at the clear sound, exellent.

SOUNDS

Various tests with several Gratt:
- Ibanez: killing in my opinion, what it spits out.
- Gibson: essential with this amp.
- TV: exellent.
- Godin: it goes, nothing more.

OVERALL OPINION

Use for 2 years, I do not regret that choice.
Quite the contrary.

All lamp!
Pramp 4 12AX7 and 4 EL84 power not to tear the ears.
40W total
2 channels (bright / saturated with a boost on a saturated legalization channel
master volume and reverb effects loop +

UTILIZATION

The rglages are easy and fast it was a good sound.
For cons, the quality of manufacture Marshall leaves DSIR (the knobs are as fragile as glass), so watch for Ironbreaker!
And then the components are gnral fool quality: a fuse that blew the fuse because of false contacts, a diode bridge that grid after 2 years of use trs reasonable one leg capacitor pte due to vibration during transport by car (trs fault finding and more fun)
must be handy if ...

SOUNDS

Still, the sound is excellent and that's only because I keep it after all these stories, I almost ...
The saturation is perfect ... What's the marshall
on the other hand, the reverb is really no good but it's not for

Edit of 25/04/2006:
Well, I notice that I tempra parat too positive over time (and knowledge of other hardware).
The saturation is correct without more, the lamps are original quality of chapters I had in exchange for EH pramp, much more attention to dynamics and especially lamps microphone power: we must believe that marshall does not grow still testing select lamps as far as a (fund, a buzzer and a serious blow if a lamp is microphone, do the test in Maasin before buying under penalty of big d exception use in muscle, finally pushing what).
In short, a whole range of lamp just to see how the lights amliorent sound from a transistor (the Valvestate for example).

OVERALL OPINION

Apart from small failures that make you mad that comes down not find what stuck, it's a great amp to play hard and have no sound.
bought new 600, even when it's a great deal.

Edit of 25/04/2006:
600, was worth no more than nine!

Well I'm not going to repeat the technical details of the bte ... others have done and srement much better than me.

UTILIZATION

Simpler you die!

SOUNDS

So the total happiness.

I plug my Lag Roxanne standard:
- Its clear warm sound not entirely clear. a little background, but what the crunch. well snapping ... great for blues. playing with the gain we get really get a great palette,
- Overdrive 1: for beautiful rhythmic much fat,
- Overdrive 2: od which is 20 db and l. ... you fly away! the sound of Garry Moore. foot total.

OVERALL OPINION

Bought two days ago and tried the same evening at a monstrous beef at the bar of square MCON www.squarebar.net (http://www.squarebar.net) I adopted the bte in a jiffy.

40W dlivrent the Sound and should not hsiter sollicit the craft. I recommend this amp to anyone looking for sound rock, blues, hard rock. I do not agree that sr styles rclamant a precision Swiss ... but for fans of the type AC / DC, Gary Moore and his ilk ... let's rock!

40W Tube Combo (4XECC83 preamp, power 4XEL84 +), three channels, clean, OD1 and OD2 (OD1 20 dB, a spring reverb, a master volume (super convenient to not break down your walls when you play in an apartment ... ) and set the effects loop. Well, basically everything has been said before me ...
I'm not 10/10 principle ...

UTILIZATION

- The config and the handling is super simple;
- I mainly play rock, hard rock and heavy 80's, well, there's no picture, sound is there, right there! in addition, good surprise for me is clearly the clean channel (no pun intended ...), which is crappy I find quite convincing, with colors and curves heated through and crisp (!!), perfect for picking on the folk ballads and blues. Note that in pushing out the gain of the clean channel you get a really nice crunch to play rock in the 70's Creedence and company ...
- The clean equalization are effective, they are slightly less OD1 or OD2 in the channel, even if the range of settings, expanded more than respectable with practice (it's been a week since I ...)

SOUNDS

- It is perfect for my style of music and my expectations (I had tried the fender hotrod deluxe ben ... and it's not for me, j'men suspected as much but hey, Ok the clean channel is nice, but I found it too dry, especially the crunch channel is almost non-existent ... even with a good pedal ...)
- I play it with a Yamaha AES 620, with its original pickups (Seymour Duncan SH4 JB in the bridge and a micro Yamaha Alnico 5 in the handle), I intend to change the neck pickup to a SD SH2 Jazz, while the Marshall I find it really less rough than before (must say that I have abandoned my old Park 10 W I started ... yeah, I know ...)
- As said before, sounds (between the clean channel and two OD) cover well the range I was looking for ... and even more so is the clean sound a little dirty (even if you can get clear sound "clean" ) to the bluesy, up to the right of families to large distortion of the heavy (even with the metal or metallica deftones). And with a pedal and an EQ in my opinion it should not have to push to be able to bcp the large metal ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a week and that's the ball!

I love everything about him!

Quality / price ratio, € 850 buy in stores with nine two-year warranty, well it's very expensive qd, for sure ... but hey, I really regret not my investment, and I must say I am more more surprised by the opinions I have read on the forums ...

I would do this choice, this combo is perfect for my needs and my tastes, because anyway, it's still a matter of taste, and must try before you buy!

Edit 11/06: after three months of intensive use, confirmed opinion, excellent, versatile, clear sound amazing, top saturation, it is a pleasure to play this combo, I took a liking to the guitar since I, and I became much more demanding with my game ..!!!

Musical greetings.

40W all-tube amp
everything is there, qualisation spare, master volume, reverb, effects loop, exit 8 or 16 ohms.
However, I regret the absence of a knob "volume" on the clean channel, I use the "gain" for a good rgler but would have been better.

UTILIZATION

Operation is very simple, it's a Marshall (this is my 3rd brand I begin to know)
is heated, it enlve stand by and live sound!
the manual is dispensable as always ..

SOUNDS

Just as good at pricipale:
this amp is really comfortable ds most playing styles, from jazz to hot grandpa hard rock (mtal?) ffrn the small son.
Clean Channel: I t is the most surprised! possd with a JTM30 rput to have the best clean Marshall, I expected a clean sound but a little goes everywhere. well I'm grossly mistaken with my Telecaster sound is warm and soft and desire, we augment Lorqui gain crunch it right! some do not love me! in bridge it keeps a good momentum for Rhythmic and handle is simply sublime in a small blues or jazz!

Overdrive channel
OD1: the crunch par excellence, we find the typical Marshall sound with my Tele I can play black or DSIR gnral rock on that channel with my LP (or other double-scratch ) then it is in its legendary AC / DC, with the gain on the bottom is nearly in the heavy and with half it's perfect for the vintage blues as it should!
OD2: principalmente I use this channel for solos, neck pickup is found in the wonderful solos of Guns'n'Roses! Low load (too?), This channel provides more dynamic and probably surprise you to use THE FIRST, adpote! In rhythmic cuts I recommend the low and add trebble to have more precision if the sound is embedded in some serious trs Submitted.

EDIT: I just bought a small boost electro-harmonix (lpb-1) and engaged with the boost on the clean channel, it has a sound between clean and crunh quite sublime is gnial for ZZ Top in the palm mute (the barn ^ ^), it's great with my tele. same with the boost in distortion, the neck pickup solos are a dconcertante ease and can attack the real solos Black Sabbath, AC / DC or Led Zeppelin. Finally, the OD1 was a powerful but tjr prcis which can switch qques riffs from Van Halen or Led Zeppelin.
I recommend this type of pedals on this amp, I redcouvert it since I Acquisition (thank you Frediani).

OVERALL OPINION

I love everything about this amp, its versatility and legendary grain (I did not have anything to marshall 3). This is the kind of amp that one child care and research gear will be more Dornava on guitars as the DSL401 Ragit much to the sound of guitars diffrent, either simple ( especially for clean and rock), double or humbeckers (for saturation dynamics and furious)
purchase of nine OCCAZ because Marshall is a big bnf (1000euros seen in France!) if I had nine ct I will sell to the same as a 700.800 ENGL thunder .
I can not wait to have my Gibson to be able to operate more in doubles.

All adjacent t said ...

P'tet missing a volume for the clean, although I'm not too gn by its absence ...
Not much to say on this point, go to a 7 for the HP and that stinks a little bit anyway ... damage

UTILIZATION

Simple, RAS

SOUNDS

Well, I play Gibson SG, the original micro level, with a delay, a wah, tremolo DIY a fairly simple rig like.

I liked my VS 100 but I wanted to taste lamps, j'tait not too lost in the buying ...
I liked the clean, much deeper than the VS 100, I find it unfortunate that with my neck pickup j'adoooore not to use it more often in my group. With the bridge pickup the little crunch of the bundles derrire makes me happy too.
The OD one, seemed nice until now, what a Marshall overdrive, but n'tait not love at first sight, I do not put on weight gain, a full quarter of the race of the knob, according to the attack with a punk p'tit cot 77, and any alternative Rican, has suited me and worse c'tait all. But for some weeks I rpeter the sound I was looking for a long time, so force hack, search, he finally killed REALLY!

The DO 2 I of a total unused, for I Feedback dja a DS-1. But hey, it does not cost very much this channel ghost, so no penalty
A 8 to be fair, it's not a 800, but worth it all the same.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had about six months, he suits me well until now. But in concert against a Vox AC-30 2 HP's, it is pushing up the level and distribution titillage ears, so I am often forced to tax the baffles some friends that play with us (ValveKing 412, 1960 A, 'j must 'the 1960 TV tries another friend ...). I thought changing the HP, but face the multitude of MODEL I'll probably drop the IDE and test a rather * 12 simultaneously with the Goldback, time will tell ...

I like the sound, the cot combo handy, the price (pay 460 euros including shipping secondhand ...). So a good investment with little sleeves.

EDIT: Since this weekend (RPET 'and concert), I couple with an Orange PPC 112, it's crazy what has brought is better Dfine with a bit more bass, and print to have on the OD1 more than a monstrous overdrive crunch standart, but always with his "true rock'n'roll", better distribution, more no complaints

A good home 8
A big 9 coupled with the speaker, is subjective, but for me the quest of the sound is finished for a while ... j'espre
Re-Edit: over time I feel more and more limited right for me at least sounds (especially the OD I like the clean good), I can not do without one of Orange * 12 so I find a combo of one "small". I am thinking of selling or test other then HP's configs
Must be honest for the price it is far from being catastrophic but I did not get tired so fast so eventually I will put 6

Has good all told we will not add
40W valve amp Full powered.
Nothing is missing level connectivity and features

UTILIZATION

Good setup is as simple as a traditional amp, no need to get out of MIT to get the desired sound.
However, there is a major default configuration, the clean channel has only one button to gain, the button "volume" is not present on this cannal, distinguished engineers Marshall, a potentiometer on the grid of the tube to between, cost and makes no 50centimes teriblemen service.
Simply put, it is difficult to obtain the "pure" especially high volume, there is always a small Relan saturation, not to mention that with the gain less than 2, push the master volume "VERY" above, you can imagine the time lost balance the volume between both channels Audible.

SOUNDS

Is it your style of music?
I do not see a style of music this amp is not comfortable for a little fawn that changes its play and we play the equalizer is just typing the Will of his ...

I use an epiphone supernova (ES335) and stratocaster "Eric Clapton" in the fender. This sounds differently but in all cases, the receiver does not betray the Personal guitar.

The cannal clean is rather successful for the marshall, I like the sound a bit dark and deep, very different from the hot road on which I play sometimes.
In short I like, but if we look on the crystal-clear sound very typical Fender ben ... buy a Hot Road ...
If in addition we add the problem of the button "gain" is a bit complicated to have a "pure" high-volume
Otherwise, by turning knob that damned "gain", we get a vintage sound very aggressive and bite anything wrong, why did this aa t Designed to its mid-saturated type blues.

Let the evil cannal "overdrive". (Why we bought a Marshall I think)
This is just the cot:
Heavy Gun of the old JCM 800's type.
The rock songs from the Smashin 'Pumpkins (who play on a JCM 800 for that matter).
Rock a little more current
Through the almost frenzied punk rock.
We can even equalo with 'V' have his "texturquot; the Satriani (note that this setting is unusable Repeat ')
In short, you have all my overdrive possible "Great." Just a little time to find its settings ...
But if you already have an amp and you have a little ear no problem!

OVERALL OPINION

Well I use this amp for almost 2 years, I like it, it's a good companion, he even rendered great service by amplifying pianos and acoustic guitars sometimes.
What I hate is that damn cannal clean and potentiometer "Volume" absent and the possibility of not being able to gain "0".
I test a lot of models before but widely diffused in the marks.
EDIT: Changing the lamp took place yesterday, so I used the lights for 5 years.

On OCCAZ, it's 500 or the price of a transistor amplifier 100W nine. There is no photo, because of lamp change every 3 years an amp lamp is "indestructible" there are only passive components except lamps and audio transformer are true monsters of quality therefore nothing to fear ! Rings and die.

With experience, if the time I had a bit more budjet (twice as OCCAZ triple nine) I will opt for the head TSL100 + baffle, who owns a little more "finesse" level adjustment, presence and three CHANNELS really separate volume knob and a clean ... Tone Shift and Deep.

Even if the bulk of the base 401 is in the DSL, those who love the sounds settle their hair will shift a little frustrated ...

Finally this amp is an ideal companion for guitarists who like to play with all neighbors and have ...
EDIT: I think after 5 years use this amp, it is still gnial. The other guitarist in my group is crazy effects and uses a VOX Tonelab home course, it underfoot a simulation of all major spend hours tweaking it, I have just three sounds and I am satisfied.

With xprience and budget a little DIFFERENT, I really opt for a TSL100 4 * 12 ", but the rest of the mgalomanie and luxury. I play now on a sound and I use the DI output line OUT, again nothing wrong, except that the sound loses some of its charm but it is the fault the damn sound that is not a guitar amp g ant! Damned!

For retubing, I opt for a Kit "Hi Gain" Eurotube home.
Many say he may want to change the HP, perhaps that has brought more. In the meantime, you can dj do things so well with all original ...