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I use a fairly new Marshal VS100 head with a fairly new marshall cab (that
can handle 300watts). It's loud and it was fairly cheap. If you ask me,
the tone is nice and through a reverb unit it splashes and drips like
nothing else. I don't know how to describe it.. it's less harsh than a lot
of amps, it's kind of like.. honey, it sounds smooth to me.
At shows a crank it to 10 and it sounds great. Anything above somewhere
between 2 and 4 sounds good. It's definately a different sound than the
norm, but I really like it.. and it's the amp I had. Tone controls don't
really do THAT much, but turning the low end pretty high and the high and
med kinda lower will make it a lot less peircing on the high notes.
If you want to hear what it sounds like:
especially Pollution in the Ocean and Coca-Cola death squad, though MP3's
don't really do any tones justice.
I guess in the end it's up to your own personal tastes. I recomend playing
around with different amps and see which one you want.
-thor 1460, monsters from mars
--- viktor423 <> wrote:
>I have a 1969 Marshall 50 watt head that is one of
>the best sounding amps I've ever heard, only you've got to crank it up
>to get it to really sing. It only has one sound, the tone
>controls don't do much but it doesn't matter because it sounds good no
>matter how it's set. On the negative side, it's allways blowing up, and
>it's extremely loud - this is good or bad depending on the
>situation. One doesn't think of Marshalls for surf, however early Marshalls
>are patterned almost exactly like the Fender Bassman. I'm lucky
>enough to own vintage amps from both fender and Marshall, in my
>opinion the sound difference isn't that drastic, as a matter of fact
>my tweed Champ sounds very similar to my Marshall. BEWARE:
>Marshalls made after 1973 are crap!! They engineered all the good tone
>out of them in an effort to make the amp more reliable. Fender amps
>declined drastically in quality after 1967, but being under
>new ownership they seem to have come back a bit. The hot rod Deluxe and
>so forth seem pretty solid, and they sound good. What about Vox
>amps such as the ac30, are they available in your part of the world?
>Generally you should forget about the name brand and just find
>something that sounds good for your needs. I've seen plenty of
>wacky brands of amps that sound really good.
> --- In SurfGuitar101@y..., "tikitakitikitakitak"
><icedkimo@h...> wrote:
> > Hey everyone! Thanx for suggesting Slacktone and
>some othe cool bands > i didnt know about earlier. > I've been thinking for
>a while which amp i should
>get. I read loads > about current fender products like Twin Reverb,
>reissue Bassman, Hot > Rods and other tube amps. It seems like many
>people say things > like 'Wish Leo was back to get things back to
>normal with Fender'. > They talk about plastic input jacks on fenders,
>rattling tubes, > unreliable reverbs, purely decorative 'ground'
>switches which are > simply for nostalgic purposes, cheap tubes and all
>so on. Custom shop > amps like Vibro-King seem to be overly expensive.
> > I am not able to get all those wonderful vintage
>Showman heads off > ebay as I am not in America.
> > I've heard an alternative may be Sovtek amps
>(which use old marhsall > and fender schematics, sound good, but are very
>affordable), or > Kustom Tuck 'n' Roll tube amps. I have seen
>neither of those.
> > > But Marshalls are readily available. I dont know
>much about them, but > I think they've got Vintage Series Tube amps which
>are like 100 > watts, and basically only have tone and volume
>controls. No reverb. > Some have built in Tremolo effect. > > So I was just
>wondering if any of you played
>marshalls, what you > think about the quality and their sound. Do they
>sound nice clean, or > are they supposed to be cranked up?
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