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Marshall TSL122

Tube Combo Guitar Amp from Marshall belonging to the JCM2000 TSL series

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RaphRaymond RaphRaymond
Published on 04/26/07 at 12:47
Amp 100Watts lamp with 2HP and all three channels (clean and overdrive distortion). All parameters are separated, including the level of loop and reverb between clean and distortion.
I do not metals, there's the site of Marshall and other comments.

UTILIZATION

The config is simple, the panel is well done and quite clear.
Is obtained very quickly all kinds of sounds can the amp ... Namely three or four, in fact ... What Marshall, different EQ knob are not hyper extended, the switch of the bright clean is almost obligatory, the scoop of the crunch is a bit redundant, as that of the distortion because it does not radically change the sound ...
Independent reverb level is a good idea to have on clean and not saturation without having to switch ...

SOUNDS

The clean channel is very nice. It is often said that one of the best clean Marshall and I want to believe. It has "finally" a sense of dynamics and depth of lamps giving this relief so special and that the transistors do not ... JCM900 but that does not have much either. It is even slightly depending slamming guitars and microphones.
The crunch channel is really great, it's Marshall that his research often. The big overdrive that spot, ideal for the Hendrix and AC / DC for example. One pert pronfondeur dynamics and we had to clean in a much more bold.
The distortion channel is very vintage distortion, do not play metal on it is not made for that. So it's a fairly fat distortion aussin there, and very very Péchu medium. One switch lowers mediums but it is not conclusive and frankly, it's certainly a bit type sound, making it a little less runny / medium, but remains in the vintage and not in the "modern hi-gain" . It is an ideal channel to play the old and heavy har 70/80, but no more.
The reverb is not very pretty.

OVERALL OPINION

I tested it in the store long enough, I did not take.
I found this great Marshall in his style ... but it's not mine at all, I need my things colder snapping and modern, certainly offers a Marshall HiGain marked channel but do not s 'to deceive and to confuse HiGain = metal, it's just a Marshall distortion well with large medium that spot well as it should, in addition to a channel that lacks the CJM before. No sound revolution, then we play the AC / DC, Hendrix, Kravitz's, the Led Zep ... The rest will be just for fun quickly, but the grain have not.
I do not like it, but I put a note because it does very well what it is made.