Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
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Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
A friend of mine wants a Marshall sounding valve amp. It needs to be 15 to 50 watts. The tone needs to be available at both high and low volume. It needs to cost less than $400. Not interested in new amps, just second hand ones.
What should he be looking out for on TM please?
What should he be looking out for on TM please?
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
Tough but doable... I'd try pick up a $300-400 Jet City JCA20 then rewire the preamp into a JCM800 or Brown eye. Then you'd have an equivalent of one of those new marshall studio amps
The JCA20 isnt bad stock but maybe a little too modern sounding to really pull the Marshall thing off.
The JCA20 isnt bad stock but maybe a little too modern sounding to really pull the Marshall thing off.
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
Jet city good for modern yeah. The JC i had (100w) was 6L6 and real good for high gain nonsense. Classic Marshall not so much.
Perhaps the bloke will fall in love with it though.
Perhaps the bloke will fall in love with it though.
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
The crunch channel is a hot rodded Marshall. The OD channel is essentially a poor man's Soldano.
Before I modded my JCA 22h, I could get any crunch sound that my band mate could through his DSL, with little difference in tone.
Before I modded my JCA 22h, I could get any crunch sound that my band mate could through his DSL, with little difference in tone.
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
But if you mean Plexi when you say classic Marshall then yeah, not enough headroom and too much bass in the circuit to pull that off.
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
the early 80`s Solid State marshalls are fanflippintastic. the models from the 800 series. I bout mine for 130 bux complete with Celestion g70
There are still some that think the neck PU is moved to accommodate the extra frets which only proves they cannot detect the difference in length of each.
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
Maybe one of those Marshall Haze amps they made a few years back?
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
Probably needs to stretch his budget, or just buy a katana... DSL for $500 https://www.trademe.co.nz/music-instrum ... 57933915e4
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
yeah they are awesome..you don't see them pop up very often thoughmrmofo wrote:the early 80`s Solid State marshalls are fanflippintastic. the models from the 800 series. I bout mine for 130 bux complete with Celestion g70
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Re: Marshall crunch tone valve amp for under $400?
buy a Marshall
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