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MGR/ricky_guitar « Marshall JTM-60 »
Published on 04/30/03 at 15:00I am an Amp service tech
Pretty nice thick distorted tone for a single 12. The amp is a dual channel with Passive EQ for each ch. The tone is due in large part to the sweet Celestion G12 Heritage speaker. I love the tolex and grille cloth color, brown and tan.
The Clean channel while extremely loud is terrible,as is the boingy spring reverb. Both channels produced a fair amount of 60 cycle hum even at low gain settings. I was suprised due to the attention given to placing the tube layout perpendicular to the magnetic flux of the transformers. a design patented by Peavey Electronics, I was suprised that no mention of Peavey's patent on the chassis. This amp was made for US use.
The Speaker rattled on it's baffel board as it is held in place with only 4 machine screws and Tee clips mounted to the board, lock washers would be a big improvment, apparently the speaker had vibrated loose. The Tolex was applied very nice. Cabinet is made of 1/2 particle board. Baltic birch would be a better tone wood for the cabinet. The Standby Switch makes a loud snap, in the audio when turned off
If you can purchase one of these amps for $300 or under used you would get a good value. The nice low end on distorted sounds makes the amp desirable. Everyone knows Marshall wrote the book on distorted tone,since The "F" company from California makes the absolute standard of all clean tones, while the JTM60s clean channel is very loud if you are used to Fender you won't be happy here. Overall I would rate the amp average to about average for a tube amp. If you are stepping up from solid state this will seem like heaven to you
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
Pretty nice thick distorted tone for a single 12. The amp is a dual channel with Passive EQ for each ch. The tone is due in large part to the sweet Celestion G12 Heritage speaker. I love the tolex and grille cloth color, brown and tan.
The Clean channel while extremely loud is terrible,as is the boingy spring reverb. Both channels produced a fair amount of 60 cycle hum even at low gain settings. I was suprised due to the attention given to placing the tube layout perpendicular to the magnetic flux of the transformers. a design patented by Peavey Electronics, I was suprised that no mention of Peavey's patent on the chassis. This amp was made for US use.
The Speaker rattled on it's baffel board as it is held in place with only 4 machine screws and Tee clips mounted to the board, lock washers would be a big improvment, apparently the speaker had vibrated loose. The Tolex was applied very nice. Cabinet is made of 1/2 particle board. Baltic birch would be a better tone wood for the cabinet. The Standby Switch makes a loud snap, in the audio when turned off
If you can purchase one of these amps for $300 or under used you would get a good value. The nice low end on distorted sounds makes the amp desirable. Everyone knows Marshall wrote the book on distorted tone,since The "F" company from California makes the absolute standard of all clean tones, while the JTM60s clean channel is very loud if you are used to Fender you won't be happy here. Overall I would rate the amp average to about average for a tube amp. If you are stepping up from solid state this will seem like heaven to you
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com