Marshall DSL 20 combo

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lespaul4life

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sup guys, I recently have gone to try out a Marshall origin 20 and DSL 20 (both combo amps). I have two main questions will they take an SD-1 overdrive well and will they both do low bedroom volumes well (I would prefer to not have my neighbours at my door with pitchforks and torches).
also just to say I'm fairly new to tube/valve amps so I apologise in advance if I don't get any of the terminologies!

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just remembered my third question, can I get a good 60s-70s British hard rock tone out of this say like led zeppelin, thin Lizzy or deep purple. the guitars I use are a tele, strat, and Epiphone les paul
thank you all in advance.
 
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20 watts will have the neighbours up in arms if cranked. You can drop it to 10w, but my Vox AC10C will blow the windows out if cranked.

The Origin does not get a lot of love online - the Studio Vintage may be better, or a DSL.

My Marshall DSL5C can get to about 2-3 o'clock.

The SD-1 works with most amps, definately the DSL5C.
 
The thing about the 20w DSL is that they only have 2 modes (out of the 4 on the bigger amps) and they're not the 2 best modes of the amp.
Green channel is clean only (no crunch mode, which sounds great) and Red channel has only the Lead 2 mode (Lead 1 is the better sounding one, less saturated).

If you can, I'd suggest you get the 40w combo and flip the 1/2 power switch. That way you get the green crunch and red1, which is where the best DSL tones are. The master volume is great so you shouldn't have trouble getting good tones at low volumes.

As for the SD-1 it works great with the DSL.
 
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