I bought one new in ‘78. Enjoyed it for several years. Thought of it more as a novelty than a workhorse of a giging amp. It was marketed as a premium model with all the best components Marshall had to offer. In my experience the reverb was the best part. I never seemed to be able to dial in a tone I liked. Always had a thin splatty tone to me. Traded it before pedal boards became the have to have gear. I’d be curious to see how it would respond with a Nova System. The one thing I never understood is why Marshall chose the red framed McKenzie speakers for this.
Heh. Good spot. It was meant to be a cheap way of getting fretboard driven midi into the sequencer. It's a little unpredictable. Not least because it got sent through the post in a cardboard box after being won in an Ebay auction.
IIRC Alex Lifeosn used one of these on Moving Pictures
I bought one new in ‘78. Enjoyed it for several years. Thought of it more as a novelty than a workhorse of a giging amp. It was marketed as a premium model with all the best components Marshall had to offer. In my experience the reverb was the best part. I never seemed to be able to dial in a tone I liked. Always had a thin splatty tone to me. Traded it before pedal boards became the have to have gear. I’d be curious to see how it would respond with a Nova System.
The one thing I never understood is why Marshall chose the red framed McKenzie speakers for this.
play some RUSH on it
Great sounding amp. Thanks for demo
Heh. Good spot. It was meant to be a cheap way of getting fretboard driven midi into the sequencer. It's a little unpredictable. Not least because it got sent through the post in a cardboard box after being won in an Ebay auction.
I own one :) and in my opinion it's the best sounding marshall ever build. Why? because it doesn't sound like a Marshall :)
Part of a little test suite I wrote for comparing guitar pickups. Arpeggios, single notes, strums etc. See the video description for the link.
what's the song at 0:54?
Yup - red frames and silvered dustcaps.
Great tone...what are the speakers? The orig red frame jobbies?
Thanks
Is that a DG-20 on the right?
Hand wired? 6l6 power tubes?
9 valves, with 4 EL34s in the power stage. Built in 1978. No idea if it was hand-wired or not.