Guitarist on a Budget - Marshall MA50 vs. JCM 2000

[TSE]

Re: Guitarist on a Budget - Marshall MA50 vs. JCM 2000

Our rhythm guitarist has a DSL 100watt and it keeps up well with my 6505+. To be aspergeringly specific, our music can be best generalized by blackened melodic deathcore, lol

My point is that this amp can hang with teh metalz!

 

[mwalluk]

Re: Guitarist on a Budget - Marshall MA50 vs. JCM 2000

Our rhythm guitarist has a DSL 100watt and it keeps up well with my 6505+. To be aspergeringly specific, our music can be best generalized by blackened melodic deathcore, lol

My point is that this amp can hang with teh metalz!

It can, but there's a lot of better amps to do the brutz.

 

[eschoendorff]

Re: Guitarist on a Budget - Marshall MA50 vs. JCM 2000

It can, but there's a lot of better amps to do the brutz.

In your opinion. We get it. :fing2:

 

[mwalluk]

Re: Guitarist on a Budget - Marshall MA50 vs. JCM 2000

Regardless, get the amp.

 

[flangermann]

Re: Guitarist on a Budget - Marshall MA50 vs. JCM 2000

+1 on the dsl 50. get some good pre amp tubes and your off!

 

[Jazzfiend101]

Re: Guitarist on a Budget - Marshall MA50 vs. JCM 2000

Wanted to touch base here again and say that I have been using this same amp for years on it. One of the sturdier amps I've ever played with. I eventually got an Orange Dark Terror model that really suits my low volume, high gain needs and sounds great mixed onstage in the PA. I use the Marshall when I'm playing bigger rooms and I still really love it's sound. I love the clean channel, and the red channel really sounds great when I roll off the volume a bit. Gets a very warm sound that isn't as bright on the green channel. I love the amp and came very close to selling it recently. Very glad I decided to keep it.

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[Chickenwings]

Re: Guitarist on a Budget - Marshall MA50 vs. JCM 2000

DSL beats MA
but if you are on a budget and considering the tones you are after there is another lesser known marshall option.
Everyone bashes JCM900s right?
Well they are actually pretty good .... and there is an almost unknown version of the 900 that is killer.
Have a look around for a JCM900 MKIII Dual Master. Not to be confused with the JCM900 Dual Reverb.
It is essentially a jcm 800 master volume, but with an extra gain stage that you can either dial in or leave out, and with the benefit of two master volume controls for a boost in volume if and when you want it. It is a very harmonically rich, very responsive amp with classic rock tones in spades.
They were never the flagship of the line because in the 90s people were all about high gain, channel switching and all the modern stuff, but if you can find one, they are a killer amp. Doesn't hurt that they are becoming vintage now and are one of the last Marshalls made in England.