Does the Marshall Dsl Sound Good for Metal
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Does the Marshall Dsl Sound Good for Metal
Today let's find out if the Marshall Dsl sounds good for metal or not. Spoilers, it is! This amp has all of the gain you would ever need. Combine that with Marshall's classic mid range friendly classic voicing and you have a recipe for success. This amp sounds great on all channels, and is extremely flexible. Every channel sounds like a different generation of Marshall with a flip of the switch. It is has a shared EQ section as well as resonance, presence, a tone shift knob, and reverb for those who like to have a nice splash of moderate coloring to your tone. This amp can growl, scream, cry, and rejoice with heavenly echos. Does the Marshall Dsl sound good for metal? You bet! It's totally worth the money!
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Tryin out the ol Dsl today. Let's see how metal we can make this.
@@michaelbarber590 Thanks for the info. All 4 channels are really great one this amp, especially the green distortion channel, very thrashy.
This should be how all amps are demod. Realistically if you get one you're probably going to be spending over half an hour diling in a tone instead of having every setting at noon and calling it a day.
Thank you, I try to make my demos ones that I would personally watch if I were a viewer. The DSL is great though because it just sound great out of the box, you barely have to tweak it. The worst products I find are the ones that you have to endlessly play with.
Thanks for your video! I’m italian, so i watched it with subtitles on, and while you were playing, the subs went “so” (a lot), and then for some reason, they appeared as if you were saying “night”. Pretty cool 😂
6 button footswitch makes it a 4 channel amp. The DSL100HR and the JCM2000 are the best sounding of all DSL amps (suggestive, of course). I use a Victory V4 Kraken peamp with the 4 cable method and the Marshall pedl-91016 and it is now a true 6 channel tube amp with everything from vintage to modern. KT77 power tubes and experimentation with the preamp tubes can turn this amp into a legend. I'm about to add a Hammond choke to mine and kick it up another notch.
Nice sounding set up man, and thanks for the info. I was thinking of putting in some 6CA7's into this amp because I tend to like the tight 6l6 power amp feel more and I hear they are close. Do you have any experience with these tubes? Do the KT77's have a tighter feel then EL34's?
@@DustinAlford Yes. KT77's are a "kinkless tetrode" tube (as are KT66 and KT88) and are actually a type of beam tetrode like 6L6 tubes, whike EL34 tubes are of the pentode type. The KT77's sound more like 6L6 tubes than EL34's, except that they have a slightly beefier bottom end than 6L6's. I have the JJ variety in my amp, which sound pretty amazing, though I've heard that the Genalex are even better sounding than the JJ's.
@@michaelbarber590 Thanks for your insight, you really know your tubes! Those tubes sound right up my ally!
@@michaelbarber590 i am putting KT 120 in mine although it requires extensive modification, using mercury magnetics transformers etc. replacing perfectly good parts maybe i can sell to a smaller marshall amp owner looking to upgrade theirs. Like extensively modding an origin or other smaller amp to DSL parts wiring and tubes. So two amps modding the small one to sell and keeping the 'big one'.
I put a Hammond 194G choke in mine (on a switch so i can go back to the stock 220 ohm resistor for comparisons sake) about a year ago. I absolutely prefer the amp with the choke. Its more immediate and fuller (for lack of a better way to describe the change). But seeing as thats what you expect with a more stable power supply id say its doing exactly what its supposed to. Its too bad they dont come stock with a choke cause it makes and INCREDIBLE amp even better. Its only a $20 part so it could easily be done and it would seriously step up the perceived quality of the amp. If youre handy with a soldering iron its a great modification. I had my girlfriend switch the DPDT i installed on the chassis from stock resistor to choke while i was across the room were i couldnt see and every time i was able to identify the choke (sometimes it took her going back and forth a few times but when i finally guessed i was always right). I wasn't expecting it to be a massive difference so i was surprised that i was able to feel when the choke was active vs when its not. Now its not such a major change that anyone should feel like their DSL is missing something without it but in my opinion its absolutely an improvement. And I want to be clear, if it wasn't i would want people to know so they wouldn't waste the time but thats just not the case in my opinion. I mounted the 194G in between the P.T. and the tubes. I think its the perfect spot. I posted about the mod with pictures on Marshall amp forum if your interested.
For acive pickups i definitely use emg 85 in bridge, or 707, or especially an angled dino cazares retribution 8 string pickup extreme angled in a low tuned 6 string. This amplifier creates metal like modded and extreme amplifiers. and like the jcm 800 2203 design modded. Since it is a marshall variant.
It definitely has a ton of gain on tap. You can actually dime too much in which is a nice feature.
I love mine. its a DOOM MACHINE! I can also use it to play leads that you can understand instead of a bunch of bassed out fuzz lol.
Its like I can drone a chord (with a good fuzz and a bass driver ) for infinite sustain, the clean channel is just sweet. or play some AC/DC lol. my only issue is I figured the verb would have head room to turn it down , but for it to be heard, ...its all the way up all the time. other than that , I love this amp.
Awesome brother!! 🙌🏻🎶
Thanks man, glad you liked it.
I boght a dls100hr resondly along side with the 4x12" 16ohm celestial v30 cab from harley benton and love the sound
And yes.. it sounds metal as **** 😎🤟
What do u mean by a master volume in the effects loop? Like a boss eq7 with its volume on full or? Or do u mean uuse an attenuator
Yo dude nice video. But one thing i did not understand: you put a volume pedal in the fx loop? What did you do with it and How did you set your preamp volume/master volume and gain? Oh and whats that pedal on top of the youre pushing on/off a couplw times? Boost/od?
Thank you, I probably should have made this stuff clearer in the video. The pedal on top is a tuner and a tubescreamer that I use occasionally to boost the amp. The volume pedal in the fx loop is there simply to keep the amp's volume down to bedroom levels while I crank the amps power section by diming it's master volumes to get full power tube saturation.
@@DustinAlford ok, but isn't that kind of counter productive to crank the preamp, then lower its volume and then crank the poweramp again? to really play at bedroom levels i always use an attenuator between amp and cab.
@@jamesfindice2871 This video will explain everything I'm doing with this amp. ruclips.net/video/te-Z6oC8HiM/видео.html
@@jamesfindice2871 an expression pedal will always suck tone, but you can still make it sound good if you know how to play. Actuive attenuation, EQ's and cab and mic IR's can make anything sound world class
Love the DSL Metal tone for leads. Now, you need a 24 frets Metal guitar to go with it...Loll! Check Conan from Exmortus. He's the best ad for the Marshall DSL100W that I've ever heard.
There's nothing better for leads then a Marshall. I do love those 24 fret guitars, might get another one later down the road.
so how many would keep this amp, or trade it for a used Orange crush 120, or a green meta? I agree about the verb. its pretty weak. but I bought a cheap analog tone verb pedal, and its like it boosted the amp verb so thats not a big issue. I think it does pretty well with a good fuzz pedal, with a bass driver to boost the sustain. I have mine set if I want to drone a single chord for 10 min I can, but if I play somthing that has more chords or a lead I have to back off the vol of the effects. but they are made for "slow and destructive". no fx ...the amp stands on its own for clarity on leads and chords even up about 7 or 8 .
Hi Man, how did you use the JHS pedal to control de volume? Is it usable to bedroom practice level?
I put it through the FX loop in the back and it brings the amp down to bedroom levels without compromising the tone.
Nice amp bro
Thanks man!
What year make and model is this DSL and is it modded ? DSL100HR .
It's not modded and it's a 2021 DSL 100 model. I bought it this year off of Sweetwater.
@@DustinAlford So DSL100HR which doesn't have a tone shift when put on the 50W switch, right?
@@Juicexlx The tone shift works on 50 watt mode. I pretty much use 50 watt mode 90% of the time.
hi, great video! does this head have crunchy gain? hard to tell...
Yes it totally does, either you can use the Green distortion chanel which is similar to the JCM 800 or the Clean channel which has grit very similar to a plexi.
Was this really at max volume? I would have though it would sound terrible literally all the way up! I know this amp sounds best really loud. For years I was playing bass in a band and both guitar players had loud DSL's and my hearing was destroyed forever.
I used the JHS little black box, where you can crank the amp but keep it at low volumes to save your ears. Sorry to hear about your ears.
@@DustinAlford Oooh an effects loop attenuator now it all makes sense because I wasn't hearing any power tube saturation. The amp sounded clean until you cranked the bass knob which caused the effects loop out to clip. I watched this video like 4 times trying to solve the mystery! At max volume this amp sounds bad, but master around 4 to 7 or maybe 8 tops is the range of sweet power saturation (if youre not using the JHS.) I want to get a DSL and a reacive loud box the power amp distortion on this amp is half of it's tone.
@@MichaelDespairsget an 800 and an sd1 with a 4x12 full of greenbacks… and a Gibson 🍺😎👍
... look, you could've just said 'yes'.
Shaboozle
Good word lol
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No no no.... oh.... Nobuo Uematsu, the composer for Final Fantasy. He's great. Big fan!
All that sage yak yak yak to find out dudes about as big of an amateur and beginner player as they come! 🙄
I was born two days ago and I just started lesson yesterday didn't you know that? lol
One of the many great things about this brand new DSL is how much it's opens up when master volume is cracked it up like you said! I am in love with mine I bought this head and a 4x12 loaded with celestion G12's which is the one that comes on the DSL 40 combo is a single 12" celestion G12... I love it so much that I sold my Mark V 90 Head to purchase this half stack
It rules. I don't know if I'd sell a Mark V for one though, I'd like to get one of those babies in the future. The G12's do a great job giving you all of the past and present Marshall Vibes you'd like in one speaker. The DSL is awesome, it's like a time machine of Marshall's best sounds.
some other celestions sound great with this also. Very metal.
@@DustinAlford unfortunately I couldn't affordable both and I trade and buy and sells all the time, is something you definitely regret from time to time but is very exiting.
@@zAvAvAz v30's should sound amazing, I wish I had a 1962 B with V 30's
@@dedespedida4515 i had a 1960 B cab with celestion g12T75 (stock speakers) sounded metal mic'd but not in the room like the V30's do. i like my sound in the room i get. v30 sound great i would try some DV77 or some creamy jensen C12K-2 speakers in there. Although i am using different speakers now.
Sounds alot like my old Marshall 900 but much better Low End, which is important to me, Thumgs Up
The DSL's are underrated.
They are sweet. Great tone, great saturation.
nothing against ur playing but that sounds like mud just like the last 2 i tried. i dont get it about these amps.. some people have crushing tone with no effects but then theres others with total mud dsls. its like i wanna buy one again but dont wanna take a chance. i have the father jcm2000 and its pretty good. has the same prob if u dont eq properly
I don't think the DSLs are meant to be cranked on full. They get very flubby and loose definition. Somewhere around 5-6 is the ideal spot, in my opinion, although they do sound very good at lower volumes (say, between 1 and 2).
I have that amp, with right cab it sounds great.
It totally rocks. I recently just got the cab that Marshall made for it and you can get some pretty tasty tones out of it.
MX 4x12?
I have mx4x12 but i didnt like it, I picked up JCM800 lead series 4x12 from 1982 for £135 it great condition and now amp rocks man.
@@Ramo_Baramia Nice man I've got to try one of those one of these days. Congrats on finding a cab you like. 👍
I run it through a Mesa 4x12 oversized. Sounds sooooo much better than any other cab I've pumped it through.
@@stevemorris8545 Nice! I want to get one of those cabs one of these days. I'll have to try it when I do.
Got the same amp, can't beat it especially at its price point. What configuration do you have on that Fender? EMGs?
I'd spend more time practicing n less time tweaking rigs
Dude are you related to M Shadows? You look and sound like him lol
Yeah we're Identical twins separated at birth lol.