Any tried a Mashall DSL15C?

[treyhaislip]

Anyone tried a Marshall DSL15C? Looking for a small 1x12 Marshall all tube combo. Thoughts on the amp? I mainly play blues and rock–any thoughts/suggestions for a good 1x12 Marshall tube amp?

 

[JeffB]

Re: Any tried a Mashall DSL15C?

Power wise, I would have preferred it.

However, they messed up the 15 significantly for 2 reasons

1 ) classic gain side does not have the crunch mode. It has just the clean mode and barely crunches up without volumes dimed and a high output pickup. There is no classic marshall sound here really. Great clean tone, but no marshall crunch.

2) Ultra mode is a gain mess. The gain structure is flubby, farty, fizzy, and damn near unusable past 9 o'clock on the dial.

Tube rolling helps a bit, but by trying to tame ultra, classic will get even cleaner.

Some guys over on the Marshall Forum have some mods to help out the ultra channel if you like to tinker.

I have played the combo and head and been super disappointed. Its why I bought my OR15. I now own a dsl40c which even in 20w triode shames the dsl15. In fact, the Dsl5 is voiced much better than the 15 on both channels, especially the Ultra.

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Any tried a Mashall DSL15C?

Power wise, I would have preferred it.

However, they messed up the 15 significantly for 2 reasons

1 ) classic gain side does not have the crunch mode. It has just the clean mode and barely crunches up without volumes dimed and a high output pickup. There is no classic marshall sound here really. Great clean tone, but no marshall crunch.

2) Ultra mode is a gain mess. The gain structure is flubby, farty, fizzy, and damn near unusable past 9 o'clock on the dial.

Tube rolling helps a bit, but by trying to tame ultra, classic will get even cleaner.

Some guys over on the Marshall Forum have some mods to help out the ultra channel if you like to tinker.

I have played the combo and head and been super disappointed. Its why I bought my OR15. I now own a dsl40c which even in 20w triode shames the dsl15. In fact, the Dsl5 is voiced much better than the 15 on both channels, especially the Ultra.

Thank you very much for the information–I really appreciate the input! I really love the tone of my Hot Rod Deluxe and was looking at a Blues Jr. but thought about a Marshall Tube Amp around 20 Watts.

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Any tried a Mashall DSL15C?

Try a Class 5 combo, if you can spell it. :nana:

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: Any tried a Mashall DSL15C?

Try a Class 5 combo, if you can spell it. :nana:

Ha! I was saying it with a Boston Accent I'll look into the Class 5 Combo, saw one at a local Guitar Store and wanted to try it out but didn't for some reason. Thanks!