New ‘Modded’ Marshalls

[LCW]

 

[EOengineer]

Love it.

One critique - given that 99.99999% of the mods people do to a 1959 are aimed at getting more overdrive through one means or another, they really should have put a good buffered fx loop on there. IMO that’s a pretty big oversight but I love the general direction.

 

[LCW]

 

[norminal]

Someone tell him to take a solo.

 

[EOengineer]

That 800 sounds KILLER too.

Seriously though - a 55 minute Marshall demo and the guy doesn’t pick up a Les Paul once?

He makes the amps sound great though.

 

[Desertdweller]

Steve Smith from Marshall is the real deal. The modified 800 does sound really good. The 900 is still not my cup of tea, but they do a good job going into it in the view of why some players just don't take to the 'narrower' sound of 20 watt heads. Excellent description IMO.

 

[EOengineer]

Steve Smith from Marshall is the real deal. The modified 800 does sound really good. The 900 is still not my cup of tea, but they do a good job going into it in the view of why some players just don't take to the 'narrower' sound of 20 watt heads. Excellent description IMO.

I suppose the 900 may make sense for the folks who need channel switching or reverb but it seems like the DSL stuff covers that ground and maybe even sounds better.

They probably could have left the 900 out.

 

[[Nathan]]

Sounds killer from a Marshall

 

[paisleywookiee]

The 900 sounds really good, with that dude playing.

 

[la szum]

Holy shit those amps sound killer!

 

[HomespunEffects]

OK, I'm actually excited about this one.

 

[HomespunEffects]

Hey, this is a pretty good deal:

Cheap!

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I can get a modded Plexi for $2799 from Friedman. Marshall 1959 at $3699 is a HARDest of hard passes.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I can get a modded Plexi for $2799 from Friedman. Marshall 1959 at $3699 is a HARDest of hard passes.

But the JCM800 at $150 makes up for it all.

 

[EOengineer]

Would Marshall ever kill the DSL?

 

[Frodebro]

Sounds like my Stiletto, which I'm happy about. Now I don't need to buy the Marshall...

 

[[Nathan]]

I can get a modded Plexi for $2799 from Friedman. Marshall 1959 at $3699 is a HARDest of hard passes.

Thats the price of the Mesa DR 90s reissue... by the time it gets to Australia its around 4200usd. I looked here the other day and the ENGL SE Founders Edition was the same price as the DR Reissue. I respect that business aint cheap these days but thats a lot of $$$ for a consumer to put down, pretty much all options available at that price. You gotta really want a marshall or mesa reissue for that kinda bread.

 

[EOengineer]

Sounds like my Stiletto, which I'm happy about. Now I don't need to buy the Marshall...

I’m going off very stale decade+ memory but I recall finding very cool stock and modded 1959 and 2203 style tones in the Stiletto I played. Totally underrated amps.

 

[norminal]

$1200 markup from the regular 1959 is kinda crazy...
Hopefully a better price here in Europe!

Are these “mods” really worth $1,200? What are we talking about here? An extra tube gain stage or just a handful of caps, resistors, diodes, a potentiometer, a knob, and some extra silkscreening?

 

[Sirloin]

Are these “mods” really worth $1,200? What are we talking about here? An extra tube gain stage or just a handful of caps, resistors, diodes, a potentiometer, a knob, and some extra silkscreening?

No extra tubes. Extra gain in both amps is either diode or transistor. I’ll stick with a stock 2203x and a pedal or a hot mod.